Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is a Troma film that claims to be filthy, violent, and devoid of morals or taste. In its social critique of commercial society, it's also a little bit intelligent.
A group of people who were sailing their boats wind themselves on an uncharted island where a submerged SS submarine has dumped its crew of zombies as part of an experiment being conducted by the Nazis. Peter Cushing makes an appearance as a severely miscast SS Commander who looks to be befuddled.
A number of tourists go into the deserted remains of a satanic Templar abbey, which results in the reawakening of the blind dead who are able to find you based on the sound of your heartbeat. They are being followed across a field by a group of zombie Templar knights riding zombie horses and holding swords as they make their way toward them.
Unintentionally raising a regiment of Nazi zombies by taking their Nazi valuables, a group of students hide out in a secluded cottage in Norway. The film is a very standard horror comedy, but the visual effects and action sequences are fantastic.
Slither, James Gunn's debut picture, was a B-movie tribute to zombies and aliens. It lacks originality due to similarities to another film on our list, Night of the Creeps, from 1986, but it's still a great movie in its own way.
The consequences of murdering insects are not completely as expected in this zombie flick, which is an intriguing combination of American zombie tropes and hard-to-place foreignness.
In Romero's second-to-last movie, Dennis Hopper portrays a nasty plutocrat who dominates a walled-off Pittsburgh. It's not as sophisticated as his earlier works, but it looks beautiful and has Romero's rebellious attitude.
In Rammbock, infectious diseases seldom induce zombie transformation, but strong emotions often do. The movie isn't that bloody.
28 Weeks Later is an exciting, terrifying, dramatic, and frustrating zombie/horror movie, but it breaches one of the unwritten laws of zombie movies by having a "main zombie" who escapes and prevents the other zombies from being perceived as actual dangers.
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead is a post-apocalyptic zombie movie with style. It is terrifying without being watch video sad, creative without being pretentious, and brutal without being like Peter Jackson's Dead Alive or Bad Taste.
The film is about a parasitic alien slug invasion that transforms its victims into superpowered zombies. It's a risqué, rather sleazy horror picture set in a college, and it frequently seems like Animal House with zombies.
Train to Busan is a movie from South Korea that is both a popcorn movie and a family story. At the end, there's action and make-up effects I've never seen before.
The Beyond is a zombie film directed by Lucio Fulci that blends a haunted home atmosphere with demonic possession, the living dead, and ghostly apparitions. It is one of the most stylish of the Italian horror films that include zombies and is considered to be one of the best in the genre.
Pontypool is an ethereal and cerebral reinterpretation of the phrase zombie. It's a picture that I appreciate for taking the risky road it did, and it's a criticism of 21st-century humanity's inability to connect and discuss current, genuinely critical issues.
A mysterious scheme orchestrates the showing of a horror film and the spread of zombies and demons among the crowd, ending in a practical effects slaughterhouse of savagery and survival.
28 Days Later and Shaun of the Dead set precedents for the "contemporary" zombie film, demonstrating that the cultural zeitgeist of zombie-dom could also be tapped for big laughs.
In 2002, 28 Days Later brought back the traditional zombie movie and made them a serious menace. It was the first zombie movie.
John Russo is not a well-known name in the history of zombie movies, but his follow-up to Night of the Living Dead is one of the best zombie movies of all time.