Planet Terror was fantastic.
Nth the Evil Dead Trilogy.
When I saw Dawn of the Dead in the theater, it was probably the most disturbing movie I’d ever watched. Had a couple nightmares. I saw it a few years ago and the special effects didn’t hold up to the test of time, for me.
Land of the Dead…that was pretty good.
imdb.com’s info on George Romero’s filmography etc.:
Check out Zombie Honeymoon. It’s a bit more than just camp.
Seconding Slither – good flick, incidentally written and directed by James Gunn, who wrote the screenplay for the Dawn of the Dead remake. And who was formerly married to The Office’s Jenna Fischer, who has a bit part in Slither.
If you want to go really superbly gross and Asian, try Junk. It’s a Japanese zombie movie that grossed me out, and I’ve got a pretty strong stomach for this stuff. I’ve also read a few good things about Zombie Honeymoon, which I haven’t actually seen yet but have noticed on cable as well if that’s an option.
I second that.
Anything by Georga A Romero, Shaun of the Dead, Braindead and Planet Terror are DEFINITELY seconded…
Also I’d suggest…
Fido - Awesomely funny post-zombie apocalpse movie.
Dawn of the Dead (2004 remake) - Normally I avoid remakes like the plague (like the zombie plague in fact 
) but this one I’ll make an exception to.
Some more esoteric ones:
Tombs of the Blind Dead (first and best in a series)
Tokyo Zombie (fun J-zombie action)
Horror Hospital (offbeat Brit zombies)
They Came Back (French twist on zombies)
Plague of the Zombies (zombies ala Hammer)
It’s worth it just for Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine’s version of Disturbed’s Down With The Sickness.
I’ll throw in a vote for Slither as well. Loved it in the theater, but apparently nobody else did.
Fast zombies! Bah! Of course they’re more dangerous than slow zombies – but they’re not half as scary! (Fear does not have to be rational.)
It all depends. With slow zombies, if everyone is on guard and stays sharp and works together and doesn’t succumb to human weaknesses like greed, your chance of survival is pretty decent. Fast zombies are far more of an immediate threat.
Well, sort of. They couldn’t get the rights to show scenes from the first movie to set up the sequel, so they just reshot portions of it and wrote it into the second movie.
Fast zombies reflect our fears in a post 9/11 world. We’re not afraid of slowing being taken over or killed we’re more afraid of sudden and savage violence. Although I admit that I like my zombies both fast and slow.
Marc
Exactly. They “retold” ED1 in about the first 6-7 minutes of ED2. If you chopped off the part of ED2 before Ash got hit by the evil, ED1 and ED2 would run together nearly perfectly as 1 continuous story.
I love horror movies, and the ED movies are my absolute favorite. It’s a pet peeve of mine when people say ED2 is a remake. It’s not.
“28 Days Later” is f-ing fantastic. “28 Weeks Later” I found to be decidely -meh.
Fast zombies in themselves, I agree aren’t as scary as slow zombies. But the brilliant thing about “28 Days Later” is that the zombies are fast, and the virus is extremely fast as well. What this means is that a situation that looks totally fine, absolutely okay, can go to hell so fast that nobody - no one in the audience, and none of the characters - can even figure out what the hell is going on. That is terrifying.
If you doubt me, check out the first scene in 28 Weeks Later:
About a half-dozen people are hiding in a blacked-out farmhouse. They have food, water, and so on. Then the Infected pound the wall in, bite someone - and they’re all off to the races. The situation goes totally out of control in maybe five seconds. That is awesome.
As I recall, Ash ends up in the same situations as he did in the first movie, and he manages to repeat all of the mistakes he made in the first movie. Technically, it’s a sequel, but it might as well be a remake. (I will grant you, however, the special effects are better, and the jokes are funnier.)
For purists, it helps to think of the original Dawn of the Dead and DotD 2004 as two seperate movies.
I also enjoyed the recent Diary of the Dead, though it does have a bit of a heavy hand on the whole “social commentary” thing. I still liked it though.
Zombie is noted for a rather awesome Zombie vs. Shark battle scene.
The worst? Redneck Zombies, the first Troma film of them all.
Give me the shambler’s every time. I like the fact that everything seems easy to overcome and then before you know it you are completely screwed by the sheer numbers of the dead. Sure you can walk by them but sooner or later you have to rest… they don’t ever rest… ever!
How long can you survive knowing that any moment you stop for a breather they’ll grow in numbers?
However I do like Return of the Living dead and the remake of Dawn of the Dead.
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