Zombies

[Puskas]

Given the evident popularity of zombies on this board, I thought they deserved their own thread.
So - what's everyone's favourite zombie movie? Mine would be a close call between Evil Dead and Dawn Of The Dead (The original, obviously, although the remake was suprisingly good - the first 5-10 minutes in particular, just before the Johnny Cash song starts, are brilliantly tense).
If pushed, I suppose I'd pick Sam Raimi's splatterfest over the more sedate Romero/Argento consumer-culture satire.
Hopefully, having a thread of its own will stop Da Bishop from tempting me into talking about zombies when I'm trying to be serious...

[enfieldwhite]

Given the evident popularity of zombies on this board, I thought they deserved their own thread.
So - what's everyone's favourite zombie movie? Mine would be a close call between Evil Dead and Dawn Of The Dead (The original, obviously, although the remake was suprisingly good - the first 5-10 minutes in particular, just before the Johnny Cash song starts, are brilliantly tense).
If pushed, I suppose I'd pick Sam Raimi's splatterfest over the more sedate Romero/Argento consumer-culture satire.
Hopefully, having a thread of its own will stop Da Bishop from tempting me into talking about zombies when I'm trying to be serious...

Is 28 days later a Zombie film? Or are they something else? I'd go for that. Or Shaun of the Dead.

[CrazyHorse]

Yeah, if enfield is saying 28 days, then I nominate I am Legend.

Or, what about resident Evil?

[thebish]

Given the evident popularity of zombies on this board, I thought they deserved their own thread.
So - what's everyone's favourite zombie movie? Mine would be a close call between Evil Dead and Dawn Of The Dead (The original, obviously, although the remake was suprisingly good - the first 5-10 minutes in particular, just before the Johnny Cash song starts, are brilliantly tense).
If pushed, I suppose I'd pick Sam Raimi's splatterfest over the more sedate Romero/Argento consumer-culture satire.
Hopefully, having a thread of its own will stop Da Bishop from tempting me into talking about zombies when I'm trying to be serious...

has to be Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D

[Puskas]

Is 28 days later a Zombie film? Or are they something else? I'd go for that. Or Shaun of the Dead.

I think 28 Days Later is a zombie film. They certainly look like zombies to me, shambling round, eating people and turning infected victims into zombies.

[David Lee's Hair]

All the way.

I don't even mind Evil Dead 2 and embarrasingly Evil Dead 3

edit: Saying that this could take over as no 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_Strippers

[enfieldwhite]

All the way.

I don't even mind Evil Dead 2 and embarrasingly Evil Dead 3

edit: Saying that this could take over as no 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_Strippers

Are they Zombie films or Possession/ Curse jobs?

[thebish]

Is 28 days later a Zombie film? Or are they something else? I'd go for that. Or Shaun of the Dead.

I think 28 Days Later is a zombie film. They certainly look like zombies to me, shambling round, eating people and turning infected victims into zombies.

they're not zombies - they're INFECTED!

[superjohnmcginlay]

Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Dawn of the Dead, Demons are my personal favourites.

[David Lee's Hair]

Depends on the definition of zombie I guess.

Are we going with the Romero vision of a zombie as spreaders of a zombie infection, or the correct vision as a reanimation of a human corpse?

If its the latter then are there that many zombie flicks? Most are the Romero - a la Night of the Living Dead - bite you you become a zombie plague stuff.

Evil Dead has re-animated human corpses so I'd say that's a zombie film

[americantrotter]

I have to go with Romero on this one. I love his movies.


Dawn of the dead. (original)
Night of the living dead. (original)
Diary of the Dead. (Great flick, saw it in the theatres for Valentines)
28 Days later. ( I know n ot a Romero, but it impressed me)


The remake of Dawn is good, but Zombies can't move that fast. They're dead!!!!

[TANGODANCER]

James Bond's "Live and let Die" probably has more voodoo and zombies in it than all the ones mentioned.

[superjohnmcginlay]

Depends on the definition of zombie I guess.

Are we going with the Romero vision of a zombie as spreaders of a zombie infection, or the correct vision as a reanimation of a human corpse?

If its the latter then are there that many zombie flicks? Most are the Romero - a la Night of the Living Dead - bite you you become a zombie plague stuff.

Evil Dead has re-animated human corpses so I'd say that's a zombie film

No theyre taken over by evil dead. The bird with the cards who gets done first just becomes evil dead.

[Puskas]

Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Dawn of the Dead, Demons are my personal favourites.

Now, that's contraversial - particularly given the debate as to whether 28 Days Later is a zombie film...
However, I'm with you on it - they may be called "demons", but they look and act like zombies to me.
Still, a fine film.

[Worthy4England]

I think the zombie films, pretty much like a lot of the vampire films have some real problems. You watch the Hammer/1960's versions and they're so unscary it makes them fun. The ones that try to be serious/scary are still funny because they try and take themselves too seriously - which imo makes them pretty poor...

[TANGODANCER]

I think the zombie films, pretty much like a lot of the vampire films have some real problems. You watch the Hammer/1960's versions and they're so unscary it makes them fun. The ones that try to be serious/scary are still funny because they try and take themselves too seriously - which imo makes them pretty poor...

I actually thought the original Peter Cushing/Christoper Lee versio of Dracula was way better then anything since.

[Puskas]

Depends on the definition of zombie I guess.

Are we going with the Romero vision of a zombie as spreaders of a zombie infection, or the correct vision as a reanimation of a human corpse?
If its the latter then are there that many zombie flicks? Most are the Romero - a la Night of the Living Dead - bite you you become a zombie plague stuff.

Evil Dead has re-animated human corpses so I'd say that's a zombie film

I think you may be trying to create an artificial division here - in Romero's films, people die of the infection, then come back as zombies - so they are, in effect, reanimated corpses. Just not reanimated by voodoo. Or, indeed, those mysterious Dark Powers We Don't Understand.

[superjohnmcginlay]

Whoa almost forgot. Return of the Living Dead from the eighties was a classic. The 2nd one wasnt too bad either.

[ratbert]

I actually thought the original Peter Cushing/Christoper Lee versio of Dracula was way better then anything since.

Agree totally. It's incredibly well scripted, in the way it truncates the novel and loses nothing. The final showdown where Cushing crosses the candlesticks then rips the curtains down to defeat the Count is tops.

As far as zombie films go, then for a straight take Zombie Flesh Eaters is what you need. For a sick riot of a zombie film, look no further than Braindead.

[communistworkethic]

Is 28 days later a Zombie film? Or are they something else? I'd go for that. Or Shaun of the Dead.

I think 28 Days Later is a zombie film. They certainly look like zombies to me, shambling round, eating people and turning infected victims into zombies.

not zombies as they're not dead. They're just infected with the Rage virus.

I am legend - same scenario, different virus