Looking for exciting stories about the living dead? We have prepared for you the best zombie movies – from cult classics that have retained their relevance, to sharp horror films, sci-fi apocalypses and comedies. Get scared and enjoy!
Kingdom: Ashinjeon
- IMDB Rating – 7.0
- Genre: Drama, Horror, Action
- Production: Korea South / 2021
- Director: Kim Sung-hoon
- Starring: Jung Ji-hyun, Kim Shi-ah, Kim Rwe-ha, Park Byung-eun, Ji Hyun-joon, Koo Kyo-hwan, Jeon Sog-won, Choi Dong-gu, Kwon Bom-taek, Jeon Soo-ji
Before you – a story about the reanimated dead in ancient Korea from Netflix, a spin-off and origins of the series “Zombie Kingdom”. The village where the movie’s heroine Ashin lives in the late 16th century is located in Joseon and inhabited by the Jurchen tribe.
Due to the mysterious deaths of a bunch of people from Ashin village, an inter-tribal feud breaks out in which the protagonist’s father is killed. She is forced to spend her childhood among the Joseon people, vowing to avenge the deaths of her tribesmen. The girl diligently trains in archery, and only when she grows up does she realize that the circumstances of her father’s death are more complicated than she imagined.
Busanhaeng
- IMDB Rating – 7.6
- Genre: Horror, Action, Thriller
- Production: Korea South / 2016
- Budget: $8,500,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $96,660,013
- Director: Young Sang-ho
- Starring: Gun Yoo, Ma Dong-seok, Jung Yoo-mi, Kim Soo-an, Kim I-seong, Choi Woo-shik, Ahn So-hee, Choi Gwi-hwa, Jung Sog-yong, Ye Soo-jong
When zombies made their way to South Korea, they spawned a new genre of movies, with standardized plots, but in a sleek Asian wrapper. Before us is a unique and spectacular movie from director and screenwriter Sang-Ho Yeon, which will tell about the unusual journey of several survivors after the outbreak of zombie virus in Seoul.
The main character of the picture, Seok-Woo, goes to Busan for his daughter’s birthday, and just at that time there is a disaster. The city is practically destroyed, on the remains of civilization starving zombies are feasting, groups of looters are walking around. A few survivors, united, take refuge inside the Seoul-Pusan express train, which will be their last hope to get out of the epidemic-ridden city.
The movie became the highest-grossing movie of 2016.
The animated film “Seoul Station”, released the same year, is a prequel to the film.
Resident Evil
- IMDB Rating – 6.7
- Genre: Horror, action, fantasy
- Production: USA, Germany / 2002
- Budget: $33,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $102,984,862
- Director: Paul W. S. Anderson
- Starring: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabias, James Purefoy, Martin Crews, Colin Salmon, Ryan McCluskey, Oscar Pierce, Indra Ove, Anna Bolt.
Umbrella is one of the largest pharmaceutical corporations on the planet, in its numerous laboratories it creates bacteriological weapons capable of destroying all living things in a short time. And of course, all developments are strictly classified.
At one of these facilities there is an emergency, and a dangerous virus breaks free, turning people into zombies. Alice is a biorobot created by the corporation, and she can not be afraid of infection. Cybergirl begins her long battle against the hordes of monsters spawned by Umbrella’s experiments to save humanity. The permanent star of the franchise is Milla Jovovich, who had to interrupt filming for two years to give birth to a child.
The plot is based on the Resident Evil series of computer games.
Zombie movies require special skills from the actors. Therefore, in the picture the roles of the dead played by professional dancers, gymnasts and circus performers.
Overlord
- IMDB Rating – 6.6
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Action, Military
- Production: USA, Canada / 2018
- Budget: $38,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $41,657,844
- Director: Julius Avery
- Starring: Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier, Pilu Asbeck, John Magaro, Ian de Kestecker, Jacob Anderson, Dominic Applewhite, Gianni Topher, Joseph Quinn
Director Julius Avery and screenwriters Billy Ray and Mark L. Smith tell a story of panic and survival during World War II in the sci-fi alternative history genre.
An American sabotage team must destroy a Nazi transmitter in a French church. But the plane the group was flying is shot down, and few survive. Corporal Ford and Trooper Boyce try to complete the mission.
They get acquainted with a nice woman Chloe, who lives near the right church, and thanks to her help they penetrate into the underground Nazi laboratory, where creepy monsters are produced. However, Chloe herself begins to inspire Ford with vague suspicions….
The actors who played the dead men spent 5 hours a day on makeup.
Some of the scenes were filmed on different sections of the historic Bluebell Railway, which was only opened to the public in 1960.
The swastika is not used anywhere in the film, but is replaced by the rune “Wendehorn”, symbolizing life and death.
Army of the Dead
- IMDB Rating – 5.7
- Genre: Horror, Drama, Action
- Production: USA / 2021
- Budget: $90,000,000
- Director: Zack Snyder
- Starring: Dave Batista, Ella Pernell, Ana de la Reguera, Matthias Schweighöfer, Nora Arnezeder, Hiroyuki Sanada, Raul Castillo, Michael Cassidy, Garrett Dillahunt, Omari Hardwick.
The U.S. military was transporting cargo from the famous Area 51 (near Las Vegas), and got into an accident due to the fault of inattentive car owners. As a result there was a very strong, bloodthirsty zombie at liberty, which immediately bit the surrounding people, and they cheerfully departed to the city of casinos and debauchery.
Las Vegas was immediately fenced off with shipping containers, and a little later a difficult decision was made to destroy the city with a nuclear strike.
At this time, Bly Tanaka and his assistant offer mercenary Scott Ward to take out of the city’s vault 200 million dollars, of course, for a very generous reward. And it must be done before the city is completely destroyed.
Work on the opening scene of the military and alpha zombie clash lasted over 5 weeks as it was shot at dusk without filters.
This is the first digital and second most expensive movie of Zack Snyder’s career.
The Girl with All the Gifts
- IMDB Rating – 6.6
- Genre: Horror, sci-fi, drama
- Production: UK / 2016
- Budget: £4,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $4,086,096
- Director: Colm McCarthy
- Starring: Sennia Nanua, Fisayo Akinade, Dominic Tepper, Paddy Considine, Anamaria Marinka, Gemma Arterton, Anthony Wales, Glenn Close, Grace McGee
New Age Z is a fantasy on the theme of survival of the remnants against the backdrop of the zombie apocalypse. So, everything has already happened. A viral infection is raging, turning people into zombies, spreading lightning fast across all continents. There is no vaccine yet, but there is a great desire to invent one.
Hopes are pinned on the children of the infected – they should develop immunity to the virus. They are placed in a special bunker and cared for in every possible way, because they are the key to saving everyone. Soon it turns out that the so-called “new children” have unique intellectual abilities. And they don’t really need saviors.
The main scenes were filmed in the destroyed and abandoned buildings of Great Britain, and filming from the air was carried out in Pripyat.
The author of the novel “Pandora’s Gift” Mike Carrey, on the basis of which the movie was based, starred in a cameo as a zombie (in a blue shirt) during the attack of the dead on the base.
28 Days Later…
- IMDB Rating – 7.6
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Thriller, Drama
- Production: UK / 2002
- Budget: $8,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $82,719,885
- Director: Danny Boyle
- Starring: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Megan Burns, Brendan Gleeson, Christopher Eccleston, Noah Huntley, Luke Mabley, Stuart McQuarrie, Junior Laniyan, Sanjay Rambaruth.
One of the laboratories in Cambridge is attacked by “green” extremists, and an aggressive ape is on the loose, whose bite turns a human into a zombie in 20 seconds. The epidemic quickly covers almost all of Britain.
Only one man, Jim, who accidentally and very timely came out of a long coma in a deserted hospital, managed to get out of the hotbed of infection. Trying to understand what is happening, he gets out of the city and on the way meets two girls.
Together they make their way to the military, believing they have found a safe haven, but quickly realize that humans are far more dangerous than simple bloodthirsty zombies.
The deserted streets of London were filmed for 10-15 minutes a day at dawn, as it was impossible to block the highways. Random passers-by were politely asked to go the other way and stay out of the frame.
The hospital where Jim regained consciousness is a real hospital, which is rented out to movie companies for the weekend. The money goes to the hospital.
28 Weeks Later
- IMDB Rating – 6.9
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama
- Production: UK, Spain / 2007
- Budget: $15,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $65,048,678
- Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
- Starring: Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Catherine McCormack, Idris Elba, Imogene Poots, McIntosh Muggleton, Amanda Walker, Shahid Ahmed.
Six months have passed since the events shown in the movie “28 Days Later”. A zombie epidemic is rampant throughout almost all of Britain, so NATO and U.S. military personnel enter London to straighten things out and put an end to the monsters.
The military finds Alice, a woman who survived a zombie bite and is an asymptomatic carrier of the dangerous virus. She has two children who may have inherited their mother’s immunity.
Alice soon dies, and her children are attempted to be saved by biologist Scarlett, who sees in them the hope of creating a vaccine.
It was filmed during the day using specially designed filters.
The boy at the beginning of the movie says he is from Sandford. This is the name of a real “fake” village where the British police conduct emergency drills.
#Alive
- IMDB Rating – 6.9
- Genre: Horror, Action
- Production: South Korea / 2020
- Worldwide Box Office: $14,437,812
- Director: Jo Il-hyun
- Starring: Yoo Ah-in, Park Shin-hee, Jung Bae-su, Lee Hyun-wook, Oh Hye-won, Kim Hak-sung, Seo Hee-jong, Chu Bo-bi, Jung Un-jong, Lee Chae-kyung
Jun Woo is a gamer, and on the day of the zombie invasion, he was going to play his favorite video games for a long time. Basically, this hobby saved his life.
Unlike their western “colleagues”, South Korean monsters are much more swift, inventive and resourceful in search of their victims. That’s why it will be very difficult for the guy to survive.
Jung Woo almost committed suicide, thinking that he was all alone. And at the very last moment, a girl from the house across the street gave him a laser pointer. Which means it’s worth the fight. Plus, he’s an advanced geek with all the power of modern gadgets at his fingertips!
It is the first South Korean movie to top the Netflix channel’s top spot, and was able to attract over a million viewers at the box office after restrictions were relaxed due to COVID-19.
This movie is one of the remakes of the 2011 Swedish film Lost, just like House of Z.
Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula
- IMDB Rating – 5.5
- Genre: Horror, Action
- Production: Korea South / 2020
- Budget: $17,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $43,468,684
- Director: Young Sang-ho
- Starring: Kang Dong-won, Lee Jong-hyun, Lee Rae, Kwon Hae-hyo, Kim Min-jae, Koo Kyo-hwan, Kim Do-young, Lee Ye-won, Kim Gyu-baek, Jang So-yeon
Four years have passed since the events shown in the movie “Train to Busan”. Zombies have spread throughout South Korea. Han Jong-seok is an ex-military man. He managed to leave the country before the epidemic became widespread. Four years later, he receives a mission from the Hong Kong people – he needs to return to his homeland, to the city of Incheon and find a truckload of money.
Han Jeong-seok gathered a group of four men, which besides him and his son-in-law, included two more mercenaries. They set off on a dangerous journey through the country, where, in addition to numerous zombies, in large numbers there are gangs of marauders of all colors and calibers.
Despite positioning the movie as a sequel to “Train to Busan,” it’s a stand-alone shooter story with stand-alone characters.
Zombieland: Double Tap
- IMDB Rating – 6.7
- Genre: Horror, Comedy, Action
- Production: USA / 2019
- Budget: $42,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $122,810,399
- Director: Ruben Fleischer
- Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Zoey Deutch, Evan Jogia, Rosario Dawson, Luke Wilson, Thomas Middleditch, Victoria Hall
“Zombieland: Double Tap” is a sequel to the decade-old movie “Zombieland” with the same actors. The director of the sequel was Ruben Fleischer.
So, ten years after the previous events, Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock move inland. They’re still encountering new species of the living dead, collecting food from abandoned houses and stores. Apparently, canned food has a much longer shelf life than meets the eye.
The friends arbitrarily occupy the White House, appreciating its comfort and security. The adventure continues, and soon Little Rock secretly leaves the company to go to Graceland with her new acquaintance. The rest of the company sets out to find her.
The Elvis story Tallahassee tells in the hotel is the true story of how Woody Harrelson began his acting career.
The famous Elvis Presley song is sung by Woody Harrelson in the credits.
The Dead Don’t Die
- IMDB Rating – 5.5
- Genre: Horror, sci-fi, fantasy, comedy
- Production: USA, Sweden, South Africa / 2019
- Worldwide Box Office: $15,325,468
- Director: Jim Jarmusch
- Starring: Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Chloë Sevigny, Tilda Swinton, Steve Buscemi, Selena Gomez, RZA, Tom Waits, Esther Balint, Danny Glover
“The Dead Don’t Die” is a zombie comedy horror film starring Tilda Swinson from independent director Jim Jarmusch. Having started mining at the North Pole, corporations did not calculate the risks and disturbed something in the biosphere of the Earth.
The consequences swept across the planet – first pets started to run away from people, then the birds went somewhere. Then it was the turn of natural cataclysm, and the cherry on the cake was the reanimated dead from local cemeteries.
In the American backwoods, police officers Ronald Peterson and Minerva Morrison, led by Sheriff Cliff Robertson, try to fight off the zombie invasion.
The idea of the plot was given to Jarmusch by Tilda Swinson, while working on the vampire movie “Only Lovers Survive”.
The scene with ants got into the tape by accident. The director came across giant anthills, which impressed him so much that it was decided to add them to the picture along with a couple of dialogues.
Little Monsters
- IMDB Rating – 6.3
- Genre: Horror, sci-fi, comedy
- Production: Australia, USA, UK / 2019
- Worldwide Box Office: $97,111
- Director: Abe Forsythe
- Starring: Lupita Nyong’o, Alexander Ingland, Josh Gad, Kat Stewart, Diesel La Torraca, Nadia Townsend, Marshall Napier, Glenn Hazeldine, Ava Karyofillis, Charlie Whitley
“Little Monsters” is an entertaining horror comedy from Australian director Abe Forsyth. The story, which begins as a rather banal life drama, unfolds into an incredible action movie in which blood, guts and childish joy are woven together.
Dave is a typical slacker. A last fight with his girlfriend ends in a breakup and Dave moves in with his sister. Here he surfs and is a bad influence on his little nephew Felix. One day Sarah instructs Dave to take the child to school, and there our hero meets the teacher Caroline.
Dave is charmed and does not step away from Carol, even when during an excursion to a military facility begins an outbreak of zombie virus. And she hurries to take the children away from the dangerous place, fighting for them like a lioness, and convincing her charges that all this – bloodshed, fights, murders – is just a game created especially for her students.
Taylor Swift’s song “Shake it Off” was included in the film after a personal request from Lupita Nyong’o to the artist and her label.
Director and screenwriter Abe Forsythe came up with the story inspired by his son Spike’s first day of school.
Dawn of the Dead
- IMDB Rating – 7.3
- Genre: Horror, Action
- Production: USA, Canada, Japan, France / 2004
- Budget: $26,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $102,278,712
- Director: Zack Snyder
- Starring: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhai Phifer, Ty Burrell, Michael Kelly, Kevin Zegers, Michael Barry, Lindy Booth, Jane Eastwood.
The movie is set in Milwaukee, where people are trying to escape the zombie invasion in a local supermarket. The store, which at first seemed to be a safe haven, quickly turns into a besieged fortress. A virus gets inside, causing irreparable damage to the survivors, and the men devise a new plan.
Now they must break through the dock to sail to an isolated island in Lake Michigan. A desperate battle with zombies turns into more deaths, joining the ranks of a ruthless enemy… This movie is director Zack Snyder’s feature film debut and a remake of the 1978 horror film of the same name.
Several actors who took part in the original 1978 film played cameo roles in the 2004 remake.
The director of the film, Zack Snyder, personally chose the musical accompaniment for his brainchild.
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
- IMDB Rating – 6.3
- Genre: Horror, Action, Comedy
- Production: USA / 2015
- Budget: $15,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $16,137,046
- Director: Christopher Landon
- Starring: Tye Sheridan, Logan Miller, Joey Morgan, Sarah Dumont, David Cockner, Halston Sage, Cloris Leachman, Nicky Koss, Hiram A. Murray, Lucas Gage
Who hasn’t fought the unfortunate brain-eaters in the zombie movie universe! It was the turn of the brave scouts. And it all started out so ordinary. Teenagers went out of town, broke into two camps and decided to organize a fun competition. And then they found a cute abandoned cat that turned out to be a ferocious zombie cat.
Turns out their town has been invaded by hungry monsters. The guys courageously stomp into the empty supermarket and try to find there for themselves suitable ammunition and tools that can become weapons. And then they have to make a plan to save the town… The movie has a lot of references to other genre horror movies. Can you find them all? 🙂
The police station scene was filmed in a real California State Police station.
If you look closely at the road sign, the action takes place near the town of Haddonfield, which appears in the 1978 film Halloween.
The Night Eats the World
- IMDB Rating – 6.0
- Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
- Production: France / 2017
- Worldwide box office receipts: $95,208
- Director: Dominique Roche
- Starring: Anders Danielsen Lieu, Golshifteh Farahani, Denis Lavan, Sigrid Boissy, David Kammenos, Jean-Yves Silli, Nancy Murillo, Lina-Rose Djedje, Victor Van Der Werde, Leo Poulet
Paris! The city of romance, fashion and delicious food. Paris often becomes a beautiful backdrop for numerous movies, and this time it will appear before us in an unusual light. Dominique Rocher’s horror movie is dedicated to the fiftieth anniversary of the history of “The Living Dead”. The director fantasizes on the theme of zombies on the Champs Elysees.
The plot centers on a young man named Sam who goes to a party thrown by his ex-girlfriend. Sam wants nothing more than to have a good time and does not yet realize that this is his last night among the living. After getting drunk, Sam falls asleep in a small cubbyhole among cardboard boxes.
That’s what saved him – waking up in the morning, the guy discovers that all the people around him have become bloodthirsty monsters, dreaming of Sam as the best treat.
The plot is based on the novel “Night Swallowed the World” by Piet Agarman.
Filming took place in different parts of Paris and lasted 40 days.
Shaun of the Dead
- IMDB Rating – 7.9
- Genre: Horror, comedy
- Production: USA, Japan, UK, France, USA / 2004
- Budget: £4,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $30,039,392
- Director: Edgar Wright
- Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran, Penelope Wilton, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nye, Jessica Hynes, Horton Jupiter.
A Zombie Named Shaun is a parody British black comedy that features references to many popular films of the genre. Starring a couple of famous British comedians, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.
Sean is 29 years old. He works as a consultant in an electronics store, and in the evenings hangs out in the pub “Winchester” with his friend Ed.
Sean is a typical loser, life flies by him, filled with pain and misunderstandings. And when his girlfriend Liz leaves him, Sean decides to take fate into his own hands and get his beloved back! And it’s no problem that he has to do it right in the middle of the zombie apocalypse.
Genre master George Romero was impressed with the work of actors and invited Frost and Pegg to play zombies in his movie “Land of the Dead”.
In the masses were involved fans of the series “Fucked Up”, which was previously filmed by the director of the film Edgar Wright.
The actors received for each shooting day of 1 pound.
World War Z
- IMDB Rating – 7.0
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2013
- Budget: $190,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $540,007,876
- Director: Marc Forster
- Starring: Brad Pitt, Mireille Inos, Sterling Jerins, Abigail Hargrove, Daniela Cartes, Fana Mokoena, Pierfrancesco Favino, Peter Capaldi, Moritz Bleibtroi, Ruth Negga
War of the Worlds Z is an American action film about a zombie invasion starring Brad Pitt, based on the best-selling novel of the same name. His character is former UN employee Jerry Lane. An epidemic of an unknown virus spreads lightning fast from the West Coast.
Between the bite of a man and his transformation into a bloodthirsty monster takes only 12 seconds, after which the newfound monster is already looking for a victim. The situation is so that much, if not everything, depends on Jerry. But before saving the world, he must get his family to safety.
The first minutes of the movie show the fall of the Chelyabinsk meteorite, filmed on a DVR in February 2013.
Brad Pitt starred in this project only for the sake of his sons, fans of the zombie genre. And at that time, the movie became the highest-grossing movie of the actor’s career.
Rampant
- IMDB Rating – 6.3
- Genre: Horror, Action
- Production: Korea South / 2018
- Budget: $15,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $12,359,573
- Director: Kim Sung-hoon
- Starring: Hyun-bin, Jang Dong-gon, Jo Woo-jin, Jung Man-shik, Lee Seong-bin, Kim I-sung, Jo Dal-hwan, Park Jin-woo, Seo Ji-hee, Han Ji-eun
Joseon is under the yoke of the Qing dynasty rulers, which displeases many of the inhabitants, among whom a revolt is brewing. The conspirators buy weapons from Western traders and accidentally, along with the purchased goods, import a virus that turns people into flesh-eating monsters.
Mad chaos reigns in the country. The Crown Prince, Lee Young, the leader of the conspirators, commits suicide in public, but before that he sent a letter to his younger brother Lee Cheon, who lived in China without interfering in anything. And now Lee Cheon must return, if only to take his brother’s pregnant wife back to China and keep his heir alive.
Filming took place in China and South Korea for 6 months.
The movie was released at the same time as the famous TV series Kingdom.
Warm Bodies
- IMDB Rating – 6.8
- Genre: Horror, Melodrama, Comedy
- Production: USA, Canada / 2013
- Budget: $35,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $116,980,662
- Director: Jonathan Levine
- Starring: Nicholas Holt, Teresa Palmer, Analie Tipton, Rob Corddry, Dave Franco, John Malkovich, Corey Hardrict, Daniel Rindress-Kaye, Vincent Leclaire, Clifford LeDuc-Viancourt.
“Warm Bodies” is a melodrama about the love between the dead and the living. The movie brings up the classic theme of romance between a predator and its food.
R is a zombie. He feeds on living human brains, and along with eating them, he briefly acquires the memories of his food. Once a teenager got in his way and was successfully eaten by this zombie, but this time something went wrong.
R, who can’t really speak, still devoid of feelings and emotions, suddenly fell in love with a living girl named Julia. He didn’t eat her brain when he met her. What’s more, he saved her from other zombies. And it may well be that this unexpected and timid feeling is the key to restoring civilization, beaten down by a terrible zombie apocalypse.
Nowhere in the movie is there a scene from the poster where the zombie gives the girl a flower. But this situation is described in the book on which the movie is based.
Romantic comedy movie about zombies is partially based on the tragedy “Romeo and Juliet” by W. Shakespeare. This is hinted at by the first letters of the names of the main characters and minor characters.
The Crazies
- IMDB Rating – 6.5
- Genre: Horror, Thriller, Detective
- Production: USA, UAE / 2010
- Budget: $20,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $54,806,823
- Director: Breck Eisner
- Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Anderson, Daniel Panabaker, Christy Lynn Smith, Brett Rickaby, Preston Bailey, John Aylward, Joe Regan, Glenn Morshauer.
Ogden Marsh is a small town in the state of Iowa, where people lived a quiet and measured life until a military plane carrying a new generation of biological weapons crashed nearby.
The virus got into the river, from there into the water supply, and quickly spread through the neighborhood. The infected people began to show unprecedented cruelty and aggression, to the point of burning down homes with once beloved family members.
The military surrounded the township and got busy shooting anyone trying to get out. And inside the cordon, Sheriff David, along with his wife Julia and deputy Russell, try to rescue the survivors.
This picture is another remake of a classic of the genre, Romero’s 1973 film “The Crazies.”
When David spots the plane, a satellite records coordinates pointing to farmland in Iowa.
The Ravenous
- IMDB Rating – 5.8
- Genre: Horror, sci-fi, action, thriller, drama, adventure
- Production: Canada / 2017
- Budget: CA$3,700,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $41,026
- Director: Robin Aubert
- Starring: Marc-André Grondin, Monya Chokri, Charlotte St. Martin, Michelin Lanctot, Marie-Ginette Guay, Brigitte Poupard, Edouard Tremblay-Grenier, Luc Proux, Didier Lucien, Robert Brouillette
The letter “Z” in the title of any movie is already a hint of the content. Yes, it’s about zombies again, this time from Canadian director Robin Ober. It’s an original story about rural zombies who are quite vigorously un-living in a village near Quebec.
So, the rural idyll of Quebec was shattered by a disease that caused people to start decomposing alive, but not dying. On the contrary, they felt a heightened thirst for life and a terrible hunger that made them lash out at their neighbors. At the same time, the newfound zombies try to maintain the former life of ordinary peasants.
A few people, unaffected by the dangerous virus, gather in a group and flee into the forests, from where they decide to fight against the creepy and uncool new neighbors.
Actress Brigitte Poupard received an invitation to star in the film via Facebook.
The movie won a number of awards at international film festivals.
Zombieland
- IMDB Rating – 7.6
- Genre: Horror, Comedy, Action
- Production: USA / 2009
- Budget: $23,600,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $102,392,080
- Director: Ruben Fleischer
- Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Bill Murray, Amber Heard, Derek Graf, Caesar Aguirre, Jacob J. Eakins, Hunter Eldridge.
It probably doesn’t matter so much anymore how the first zombies appeared in America. They spread so quickly across the country that they became a big problem for everyone who still managed not to become their lunch or dinner.
Columbus is a teenager, he has developed for himself a certain list of rules of survival, and he is saved by them. One day he meets and befriends the rugged Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), who loves shooting monsters. They are later joined by two fun-loving sisters. The quartet headed to an amusement park, hoping there would be no zombies, not realizing that their adventures were just beginning.
Filming took place in Atlanta. It took 42 days to produce.
There is a bonus extra scene in the movie after the credits.
Wyrmwood
- IMDB Rating – 6.2
- Genre: Horror, Action, Comedy
- Production: Australia / 2014
- Worldwide box office receipts: $96,372
- Director: Kia Roach-Turner
- Starring: Jay Gallagher, Bianca Brady, Leon Burchill, Keith Agius, Berinn Schwerdt, Luke McKenzie, Kane Thompson, Damien Dyke, Jure Kovic, Catherine Terracini
This time Australia was hit by a zombie invasion. And, as always, everything happened suddenly and very quickly.
On the eve of the beginning of the epidemic, a meteor shower passed over the mainland. Later it turned out that gasoline and similar liquids lost their valuable properties. Now vehicles can move when connected to it zombies, inside of which instead of blood circulates something flammable.
A fragile girl Brooke is kept in a military laboratory, conducting experiments on her, as she is able to control the rising dead. But the girl categorically does not agree to be a guinea pig and escapes, taking with her a loyal team of subordinate zombies.
Unlike other zombie movies, the creators did not introduce an unknown virus into the plot, but presented the appearance of the dead through a cosmic invasion.
This is the debut movie of director Kiya Rouse-Turner, known under the second title “The Forest Serpent”.
The End
- IMDB Rating – 5.4
- Genre: Horror, Thriller
- Production: Italy / 2017
- Worldwide box office receipts: $185,469
- Director: Daniele Misischia
- Starring: Alessandro Roia, Benedetta Cimatti, Evridice Axen, Claudio Camilli, Carolina Crescentini, Massimo Trigiani, Marco Manetti
“The End” is an Italian-style zombie horror from director Daniele Misischia. The main character of the film, a young businessman Claudio Verona, gets stuck in the elevator of a high-rise business center before an important meeting.
While he is nervous, arguing and trying to find a way out, it is in this building that the zombie apocalypse begins, which our hero watches with horror through the ajar elevator doors and through his cell phone, horrified to realize that an unfortunate misunderstanding was the salvation of his life.
The picture received mixed reviews from critics, although the audience noted the excellent performance of Alessandro Roia.
This movie is the directorial debut of actor Daniele Misischia.
Daylight’s End
- IMDB Rating – 5.4
- Genre: Horror, sci-fi, fantasy, action movie
- Production: USA / 2016
- Budget: $2,000,000
- Director: William Kaufman
- Starring: Johnny Strong, Lance Henriksen, Louis Mandylor, Hakim Kae-Kazim, Krzysztof Soszynski, Chris Kerson, Chelsea Edmundson, Gary Cairns II, Mark Hanson, Heather Kafka
After a worldwide zombie apocalypse, most of the humans have turned into vicious and insatiable vampire-like night creatures that feed on humanity. The survivors form communes, their main concern now is not to be eaten.
Some are trying to survive and support each other, others are ready to fight the monsters, even if the opposition will not be on their side. The third took advantage of the common misfortune, and took to the roads to kill and pillage.
Loner Thomas Roark, who has a personal grudge against both the marauders and the infected, agrees to take a group of survivors to a safe Sanctuary.
The performer of the lead role Johnny Strong himself wrote the music for the movie and acted as its producer.
The Battery
- IMDB Rating – 6.4
- Genre: Drama, Thriller
- Production: USA / 2012
- Budget: $6,000
- Director: Jeremy Gardner
- Starring: Jeremy Gardner, Adam Cronheim, Nils Bolle, Alana O’Brien, Jamie Pantanella, Larry Fessenden, Kelly McQuaid, Eric Simon, Ben Prizby, Sarah Allen.
“The Battery” is a low-budget but quite cute indie road movie about zombies. The movie won several audience awards at international competitions, is filled with good music and a well thought out story.
Two basketball player buddies, Mickey and Ben, are traveling the roads of a New England zombie apocalypse. Mickey doesn’t try to learn how to survive at all, relying on Ben for everything, and doesn’t want to be a killer, even when it comes to zombies.
Ben tries to change his friend’s mind, and this he eventually succeeds, but with great difficulty. They search for other survivors, but soon realize how little hope humanity has left.
The film was shot and edited with the help of friends and sympathizers in just 15 days.
The names of the four main characters (Ben, Mickey, Jerry, Annie) are the same as the famous mouse characters.
Yummy
- IMDB Rating – 5.9
- Genre: Horror, comedy, action movie
- Production: Belgium / 2019
- Russian box office: $24,645
- Director: Lars Damuaso
- Starring: Maike Neuville, Bart Hollanders, Benjamin Ramon, Clara Kleimans, Annick Christiens, Eric Godon, Joshua Rubin, Taekke Nicolai, Tom Audenart, Noureddine Farihi
“Yummy” is a Belgian horror comedy that weaves together glamor, medical drama, human experimentation, romance and zombies.
Alison is a gorgeous blonde pampered under the weight of her luxurious breasts. She travels to the middle of Europe to reduce her wealth without being seen, bringing along her octogenarian boyfriend Mikael and her mom, an enthusiastic fan of plastic surgery.
The hospital, as you’d expect from the backwoods, is filthy and incompetent. It’s also the site of illegal stem cell experiments. Mikael, wandering around the institution, frees a woman tied to a gurney for some reason, who turns out to be an aggressive carrier of a zombie virus.
The Eastern European language spoken in the clinic was invented by the director’s wife Lana Makanovic especially for the movie.
The Cured
- IMDB Rating – 5.6
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama
- Production: Ireland, France / 2017
- Worldwide box office receipts: $323,776
- Director: David Frayn
- Starring: Elliot Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughn-Lolor, Stuart Graham, Paula Malcomson, Natalia Kostrtseva, Peter Campion, Hilda Faye, David Herlihy
In the Irish movie The Cured, the nightmare is over, a vaccine has been found, and people are returning to their normal state. And then there is the problem – what to do with the cured? They remember perfectly well who they ate, being monsters, and suffer from it, but even sincere repentance does not get rid of the fear of the people in front of them.
The movie tells the fate of some former zombies rejected by society. They are outraged and want to live their lives the same way, but “normal” people desperately fight for the involuntary killers to be punished and isolated. A real revolution is brewing in Ireland over a society now split in two.
Some scenes of the movie were filmed at a historic site – an old Victorian prison in Belfast.
Devil’s Playground
- IMDB Rating – 5.1
- Genre: Horror, Action
- Production: UK / 2010
- Budget: $2,400,000
- Director: Mark McQueen
- Starring: Craig Fairbrass, Danny Dyer, MayAnna Boehring, Jamie Murray, Shane Taylor, Bart Raspoli, Craig Conway, Lisa McAllister, Alistair Petrie, Jack Healy.
In the not-too-distant future, a large pharmaceutical corporation has developed a stunning drug that increases a person’s abilities. Inspired by the success and anticipating big money, the management launches the drug into the market without waiting for the end of the proper tests.
And, of course, everything goes wrong. First the patients get sick, and then they turn into biting bloodthirsty monsters with a burning vitality, and do not want to die or be tamed. The corporation hires Cole to find Angela, the only one who has shown complete immunity to the drug. Perhaps she can be used to create a vaccine.
The film was shot in London. It was especially difficult for the team to shoot scenes in the deserted streets of the city, as it was problematic to block the highways and sidewalks.
Quarantine
- IMDB Rating – 5.9
- Genre: Horror, Thriller, Fantasy
- Production: USA, Spain / 2008
- Budget: $12,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $41,319,906
- Director: John Eric Dowdle
- Starring: Jennifer Carpenter, Steve Harris, Jay Hernandez, Jonathon Scheck, Columbus Short, Andrew Fiscella, Rade Sherbegia, Greg Germann, Bernard White, Dania Ramirez.
“Quarantine” is an American remake of the acclaimed Spanish horror film “The Report,” and it follows the plot of the original exactly.
Reporter Angela Vidal, along with her cameraman, is filming a story about the Los Angeles Fire Department, traveling with them on a call. The firefighters are confronted with an unexplained epidemic in an isolated house. Sick people lash out at those around them, trying to bite them, and the rescuers have to shoot a couple of particularly loopy people.
The CDC employees assume an outbreak of rabies, cordon off the building and start checking, not realizing they’ve encountered real zombies.
Actress Jennifer Carpenter deliberately did not go into the attic, so that her reaction during the filming of the first scenes was as vivid as possible.
The creators of the movie meticulously reproduced the symptoms of real rabies in the “infected” characters.
There is no musical accompaniment in the movie, which makes the picture ominously gloomy.
Outpost
- IMDB Rating – 5.8
- Genre: Horror, sci-fi, action film
- Production: UK / 2007
- Worldwide box office receipts: $463,377
- Director: Steve Barker
- Starring: Ray Stevenson, Julian Wadham, Richard Brake, Paul Blair, Brett Fancy, Enoch Frost, Julian Rivett, Michael Smiley, Johnny Meres, Xuki Robel.
“Outpost ” is a British horror film about Nazi experiments on humans to create bloodthirsty super-soldiers.
Movie one “Outpost”: exploring a World War II bunker, scientist Hunt and his accompanying soldiers encounter the survivors of the zombies inside, swift and deadly SS guinea pigs.
Film Two “Black Sun”: NATO soldiers encounter a quality Nazi zombie assault squad, and try to figure out the organizer of this outrage.
Movie Three “Rise of the Spetsnaz”: Russian veteran Dolokhov indulges in nostalgic memories of how he and his comrades tried to destroy a Nazi bunker with a secret laboratory, but only miraculously got out of the place.
The budgets for each of the films did not exceed $3 million.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- IMDB Rating – 5.8
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Action, Melodrama, Comedy
- Production: USA, UK / 2015
- Budget: $28,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $16,457,494
- Director: Burr Steers
- Starring: Lily James, Sam Riley, Bella Heathcote, Ellie Bamber, Millie Brady, Sukey Waterhouse, Douglas Booth, Sallie Phillips, Charles Dance, Jack Huston
The movie Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a parody of Jane Austen’s near bestseller of the same name.
The events take place, of course, in 19th century England. In the country there is an epidemic of zombie virus, and Derbyshire, Hertfordshire, Essex are most affected. Ground troops are brought in to protect the civilians.
A certain Mr. Bennet sent his daughters to China to learn martial arts. The martial arts skills of the young ladies come in handy during the zombie invasion, although their father wished them a slightly different fate, like embroidering in the parlor under the strict supervision of a wealthy husband. Despite the bloodthirsty monsters roaming around, some prospective suitors do show up at the estate, but the girls do not want to leave the “way of the warrior”.
For filming, the actresses who played the sisters, practiced 5 times a week to gain the appropriate form.
Dead Snow
- IMDB Rating – 6.3
- Genre: Horror, comedy, action movie
- Production: Norway / 2007
- Budget: $800,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $1,984,662
- Director: Tommy Wirkola
- Starring: Vegar Hul, Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner, Lass Valdal, Evie Kasset Rosten, Eppe Beck Leursen, Jenny Skavlan, Ane Dahl Torp, Bjorn Sundqvist, Orhan Gamst.
“Dead Snow” is a black comedy from Norway, and after the success of the first movie, director Tommy Wirkola decided to make a sequel. In general, it turned out to be a pretty good dilogy about zombie Nazis, who are opposed by a modern student.
In the first film, Martin and his friends come to a remote cabin on vacation to have fun in a break from civilization. Wandering from World War II, zombie Nazis guarding looted treasure from the locals for their Fuhrer provide them with deadly fun.
In the second movie, Martin wakes up in a hospital, where he has been mistakenly sewn back on the arm of Herzog, the zombie he nearly defeated at the end of Part 1, and charged with killing his friends. The arm turns out to be superpowered, and Martin escapes to finish what he started – tackle Herzog.
Zombie Nazis, in addition to the classic attributes of the dead, have supernatural powers. So the director of the film decided to pay tribute to the Scandinavian myths about the undead guarding the treasures of the nobility.
Land of the Dead
- IMDB Rating – 6.2
- Genre: Horror, sci-fi, action, thriller
- Production: France, Canada, USA / 2005
- Budget: $15,000,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $46,770,602
- Director: George A. Romero
- Starring: Simon Baker, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Asia Argento, Robert Joy, Eugene Clark, Joanne Boland, Tony Nappo, Jennifer Baxter, Boyd Banks.
The planet is overrun with zombies, and only a few cities have become strongholds for the pitiful remnants of humanity. Pittsburgh is one such city, safely protected by walls, guards, barbed wire and a river.
But even here, people have managed to create social tensions. A bunch of elites live in the well-appointed skyscraper Fiddler’s Green, while the rest of the city is a slum filled with beggars.
Occasionally, the slum people go on expeditions to forage the medicine and food left in the abandoned settlements. And one day an army of the living dead, led by a clever and cunning unique zombie nicknamed “Big Daddy”, follows them towards Pittsburgh, guided by the lights of a skyscraper.
This is the first George Romero picture from his zombie series to utilize computer-generated special effects.
I Am a Hero
- IMDB Rating – 6.8
- Genre: Horror, Action
- Production: Japan / 2015
- Worldwide Box Office: $13,640,067
- Director: Shinsuke Sato
- Starring: Yo Oizumi, Kasumi Arimura, Masami Nagasawa, Hisashi Yoshizawa, Yoshinori Okada, Nana Katase, Jin Katagiri, Makita Supotsu, Muga Tsukaji, Yu Tokui
“I Am a Hero” is a Japanese zombie-themed zombie stereotype from director Shinsuke Sato. The central character is a guy named Hideo. His name is spelled in hieroglyphics just like the word “hero”, which he boasts about relentlessly, as well as his personal gun, for which he has a permit!
But otherwise he’s a dull individual, suffering from hallucinations, unable to realize his dreams and living off his pathetic girlfriend.
However, everything changes dramatically when the world around him is filled with zombies, who, unlike their American counterparts, are fast, talking and slightly intelligent. Hideo becomes a hero by choice, and to the amazement of those who know him, a pretty good hero.
The film was directed by Shinsuke Sato, who successfully mixes Japanese culture, action scenes and Western humor in his films.
The movie is based on the manga by Kengo Hanazawa, who has three sequels of the story, taking place with similar “heroes” in different cities of Japan.
Carriers
- IMDB Rating – 6.0
- Genre: Fantasy, Thriller, Drama, Adventure
- Production: USA / 2008
- Worldwide box office receipts: $5,802,422
- Directed by: David Pastor, Alex Pastor
- Starring: Lou Taylor Pucci, Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, Emily VanCamp, Christopher Meloni, Kiernan Shipka, Ron McClary, Mark Moses, Josh Berry, Tim Janis.
“Carriers” is one of the few zombie movies on the list where the plot is thought out quite thoroughly, as is the psychology of the main characters. The zombie virus is spreading through the world like the common cold – if you get sick, you’ll soon die and get up already in an alternate life form with a heightened thirst for brain-eating brains.
Brothers Danny and Brian, grabbing girlfriends Kate and Bobby, travel to their childhood home to sit out the zombie cold. They have a rigid set of rules for not getting infected, devised by Brian. Along the way, the company meets Frank, who is taking his infected daughter to a facility that is rumored to have already come up with a vaccine. The brothers have to change their plans…
The movie was actually made back in 2006, but Paramount only gave it a premiere after Chris Pine, who played Brian, became famous for his work in Star Trek.
It Stains the Sands Red
- IMDB Rating – 5.5
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama
- Production: USA, Canada / 2016
- Worldwide box office receipts: $3,599
- Director: Colin Minihan
- Starring: Brittany Allen, Juan Ridinger, Mervyn Mondeser, Christopher Higgins, Andrew Sapans, Nico David, Michael Filippovic, Dylan Playfair, Warren Thomas, Steve Judkins
This thriller is another fantasy of American filmmakers on the inexhaustible theme of zombie invasion, seasoned with a touch of black humor. So, the zombie apocalypse has already happened. People are becoming fewer and fewer, and bloodthirsty monsters – more and more.
The main character of this story is Molly, a stripper from Las Vegas, hardened in squabbles. To survive, she and her friend Nick need to drive a car through the hot sands of the desert, at the edge of which they are somewhere waiting for an airplane. But it is not an easy task, if you take into account that the beauty in heels and her boyfriend – the only prey for bloodthirsty predatory zombies for miles around, and from the provisions in her purse cocaine and chocolate.
The airfield scenes were filmed at the former military base that served to drop the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima during World War II.
Rec
- IMDB Rating – 7.4
- Genre: Horror, sci-fi, fantasy, action, thriller, detective, adventure
- Production: Spain / 2007
- Budget: €1,500,000
- Worldwide Box Office: $30,448,914
- Director: Jaume Balaguero, Paco Plaza
- Starring: Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Jorge-Yamam Serrano, Pablo Rosso, David Werth, Vicente Gil, Marta Carbonell, Carlos Vicente, Maria Teresa Ortega, Manuel Bronchud.
Spanish horror movie “Rec” became one of the best representatives of the genre. Incredible box office success and a collection of awards inspired the creators to shoot 3 sequels! And let not all of them became so popular as the first picture, fans of the genre should definitely see them.
The series consists of four films: “Report”, “Report from the Underworld”, “Report from a Wedding” and “Report: Apocalypse”. In three films the main character is a TV reporter Angela Vidal, who for the sake of sensation calmly goes into the epicenter of the zombie epidemic, blows off the heads of the most dangerous of them and tells its viewers about what is happening. “Report from the wedding” – a small spin-off without Angela, the events of which unfold at a family celebration, where the film crew is invited.
The actors were not given scripts until the last minute in order to heat up the situation and create tension.
The building in which all the scenes were filmed is located in one of the neighborhoods of Barcelona. After the success of the tape, fans of the picture began to come to him.
Rabid
- IMDB Rating – 5.2
- Genre: Horror, Fantasy
- Production: Canada / 2019
- Budget: $5,000,000
- Director: Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska
- Starring: Laura Vandervoort, Henneke Talbot, Stephen Husar, Ted Atherton, Ben Hollingsworth, MacKenzie Gray, Stephen McHattie, Kevin Hanchard, Heidi von Palleske, Joelle Labelle
Rose Miller is a shy and ugly woman. She dreams of becoming a famous fashion designer, but she is destined to always play second fiddle to others. Then one day she gets into a car accident and is left disfigured.
In desperation, she turns to the clinic of Dr. Keloid, who offers an experimental treatment, and soon becomes a beauty for whom all doors easily open. And the terrible price becomes known a little later, when Rose can no longer change anything, having become a carrier of a terrible virus that turns people into monsters obsessed with the lust for killing.
This movie is a remake of one of David Cronenberg’s best creations, the 1977 thriller Rabid.