Top 25 Zombie Movies of All Time
Those funny little undead flesh eaters! They rise from the dead to eat your guts. They need to eat you in order to live. After having seen hundreds, these are my favorite zombie films of all time.
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- DirectorLucio FulciStarsTisa FarrowIan McCullochRichard JohnsonStrangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.Fulci hit the nail on the head with this unofficial prequel to "Dawn." Several memorable gut-munching scenes, there is something special about this one!
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDavid EmgeKen ForeeScott H. ReinigerDuring an escalating zombie epidemic, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter and his TV executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.George Romero, Argento and Savini did it right in this original. A huge statement about consumerism in America. Also a great film.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsChristopher GeorgeCatriona MacCollCarlo De MejoA reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.Another Fulci splatter classic. Eerie, amibient and subversively scary...like a nightmare. With plenty of head drilling, brain ripping insanity.
- DirectorMichele SoaviStarsRupert EverettFrançois Hadji-LazaroAnna FalchiA cemetery man must kill the dead a second time when they become zombies.Probably the BEST film on this list with several levels of meaning. An excellent Italian horror movie.
- DirectorAndrea BianchiStarsKarin WellGianluigi ChirizziSimone MattioliAn archaeology professor discovers an ancient crypt which contains living dead corpses. The zombies go on a rampage and attack a group of people which the professor had invited to celebrate his discovery.A lot more perverse than some other zombie flicks from '81, this one features a strange 'man child' who really digs his mommy....
- DirectorJean RollinStarsMarina PierroFrançoise BlanchardMike MarshallA toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood.Jean Rollin's real classic sickie. Is it a vampire movie? I guess technically it could be considered either or, but either way this one kicks a lot of euro trash ass right in your face. Rob Zombie digs it.
- DirectorJorge GrauStarsCristina GalbóRay LovelockArthur KennedyA cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknownst to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a hunger for human flesh by ultrasonic radiation being used for pest control.British setting, Spanish direction, lots of early blood and gore. Cool enviro-nasty story.
- DirectorEdgar WrightStarsSimon PeggNick FrostKate AshfieldThe uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.Hilarious and clever tribute to all of the best zombie movies. Awesome flick, with some gore too.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsHugo StiglitzLaura TrotterMaria Rosaria OmaggioAn airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.Without Lenzi's trash classic, there would have never been a single 'fast moving' zombie flick. He started it right here.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsDuane JonesJudith O'DeaKarl HardmanA ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States.How can this one be left off? Even as it has fallen into the horrid hands of public domain, it still remains the one and only.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsCatriona MacCollDavid WarbeckCinzia MonrealeA young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.Fucli's lurid, lucid cajun romp takes place in Louisiana and there is just something sick about zombies in New Orleans. Plenty of gross out moments.
- DirectorJean RollinStarsMarie-Georges PascalFélix MartenSerge MarquandA young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into killer zombies.Another Jean Rollin enviro-nasty classic. Takes place in a small French country town. Lots of great cinematography and euro-trash greatness to be had here.
- DirectorJohn GillingStarsAndré MorellDiane ClareBrook WilliamsDuring a mysterious epidemic in a small Cornish village, the local doctor summons his professor friend for help.Britian's Hammer House of Horror made a great zombie flick, before NOTLD. Pretty impressive.
- DirectorPeter JacksonStarsTimothy BalmeDiana PeñalverElizabeth MoodyA young man's mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey. She gets sick and dies, at which time she comes back to life, killing and eating dogs, nurses, friends, and neighbors.The goriest zombie flick of all time and definitely one of the most hilarious. See also Peter Jackson's "Bad Taste" for another kiwi zombie classick from NZ.
- DirectorDan O'BannonStarsClu GulagerJames KarenDon CalfaWhen two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.An 80's classic, complete with punk rock strippers and a zombie dog. How can you not dig this one??? BRAAAIIIINNNNSSSS....
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsKeith Van HovenJoe BaloghSonia CurtisThree college students, another couple, and their housekeeper are besieged at a remote Brazilian plantation by a group of zombies raised from the grave by a voodoo curse.The title just says it all. Amazing jungle zombie flick, hilarious plot, bad acting, the whole thing just rocks my world.
- DirectorClaudio FragassoStarsJeff StrykerCandice DalyMassimo VanniA woman goes back to the island where her parents were killed. They had been working on a cure for cancer and accidentally raised the dead by angering a voodoo priest. With the woman is a group of mercenaries and they meet up with some other researchers. They raise the dead again and all hell breaks loose.A lot better than you'd think having been directed by the one and only Claudio Fragasso, of "Troll 2" fame. Good jungle sickie.
- DirectorJohn SaxonStarsDennis ColeAnthony FranciosaDino PaskasA renegade federal agent uses a new drug to create an army of unbeatable warriors.Jailhouse zombies, directed by John Saxon! What is there not to love. DVD is out of print and now quite collectible.
- DirectorStuart GordonStarsJeffrey CombsBruce AbbottBarbara CramptonAfter an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.Stuart Gordon does a wonderful job turning this story into one of the best chemo-zombie rides ever. Lots of moisture.
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsCillian MurphyNaomie HarrisChristopher EcclestonFour weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the United Kingdom, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.My favorite zombie movie of the new millenium. By a long shot.
- DirectorThom EberhardtStarsCatherine Mary StewartKelli MaroneyRobert BeltranA comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.Amazing movie that not many have seen. Cheerleader and cool chick sister take on the living dead.
- DirectorSam RaimiStarsBruce CampbellSarah BerryDan HicksAsh Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.Another notoriously damp and silly zombie film. Definitely more comedy, but cool nonetheless. Sam Raimi outdid himself here.
- DirectorKen WiederhornStarsClarence ThomasBrooke AdamsLuke HalpinVisitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of Zombie soldiers.Nothing like the national socialist undead rising from the ocean!
- DirectorAmando de OssorioStarsLone FlemingCésar BurnerMaría Elena ArpónMedieval knights executed for their black magic rituals come back as zombies to torment a group of vacationing college kids.The Knight Templar stalk a lonely, lost woman as she camps out in the Spanish countryside. Good thing they can't see...
- DirectorJean RollinJulian de LasernaStarsHoward VernonPierre-Marie EscourrouAnouchkaIn a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WW II, come back.The best WORST zombie flick out there. More nazis coming out of the water to 'feast' on local Frenchies. Sounds a lot cooler than it is. Should have been way better...but there's just something to be said for the silly nihilism that went into this one. I love the green face paint.