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There's nothing like a bunch of
zombies wandering the streets on Halloween night or watching
a favorite zombie flick to get in the mood. Below are our favorite thirteen Zombie
movies for Halloween viewing.
World War Z
Ex-U.N. investigator Gerry Lane and his family are sitting
in what appears to be a typical Philadelphia traffic jam
when helicopters began to circle ominously overhead, and an
explosion throws the city into panic. In the blink of an
eye, the streets are consumed by chaos. When Gerry learns
that the catalyst for the turmoil is a highly contagious
virus that transforms those who contract it into rampaging
maniacs, and that legions of the infected are growing on all
continents, he agrees to join his former colleagues in
discovering the source of the rampant plague so that his
wife and two daughters will be guaranteed safety aboard a UN
fleet in the Atlantic Ocean.
Night
of the Living Dead
George Romero's low-budget, classic that had great
difficulty finding a distributor at the time of its release
in 1968, and has since become one of the most influential
horror films of all time. Seven people secluded in a
Pennsylvania farmhouse face relentless attacks by reanimated
corpses seeking to eat their flesh. The group, which
includes a married couple and their daughter, a pair of
young lovers, and an African-American man, try to keep their
sanity as the living dead keep trying to enter the house.
Radio news reports tell of the plague taking over the
eastern United States, while the ever-decreasing band of
survivors rapidly loses ground in the battle to both keep
peace with one another and stay alive. (1968)
Zombieland
In this comedy, Columbus and
Tallahassee are two of the last
survivors of the mad cow disease-fueled zombie plague. These
two meet Wichita and Little Rock in a grocery store when the duo
stops for Twinkies and the foursome makes plans to go to
Hollywood to the Pacific Playland amusement park,
affectionately named Zombieland after this invasion. The
group uses lights and sounds to attract zombies and weapons
to wage war on the seemingly endless zombie invasion. The
ultimate goal of the Zombieland attack is to save the United
States from being controlled by zombies and to fight for
freedom from mad cow disease.
Night of the Living Dead
In this re-make of the original movie, seven people are
trapped in an isolated farmhouse and living an unspeakable
nightmare. Cannibalistic zombies have been awakened from the
dead and are on a relentless killing and eating binge. One
of the biggest departures from the original, is that the
main female character, Barbara, becomes the strongest of the
group.
My wife and I actually saw this
in the theater on Halloween night 1990 when it was first
released and had a great time.
Cemetery Man
Rupert Everett stars in this Italian horror film as
Francesco Dellamorte, a watchman at a cemetery. Being a
watchman means being ready with a hatchet as the undead
emerge from their graves each night. Funny, smart, and scary
all at the same time.
Dawn of the Dead
Superior remake of the 1978 movie by the same name, this
movie centers around Ana, a nurse
who's husband is attacked in their bedroom and becomes a
zombie by a neighboring kid. As she tries to escape, she realizes that the whole town is in a similar
state of ghoulishness, until she runs into still-alive cop
Kenneth, the levelheaded Michael and Andre, a rebel with a
pregnant wife. The group heads for the local mall where they
barricade themselves inside. More survivors surface, while
in the outside world the zombies go about their day by
slowly taking over the planet. Undeterred by the odds
against them, the survivors plot, scheme, and enjoy their
mall paradise.
Return of the Living Dead
What has certainly before a cult classic, this horror-comedy
tells the tale of two employees of a medical supply company
who unwittingly releasing several zombies from top secret
military containers where they have been kept for many years. The nasty
brain-eating creatures are as hungry as ever, and eager to
make up for lost time. Soon, the local citizenry are forced
to deal with a large-scale zombie epidemic.
Day of the Dead
A small American town has been infected with a deadly virus,
and the military is determined to contain the sickness by
establishing quarantine. When the situation spirals out of
control and the infected residents develop a taste for human
flesh, the military and surviving residents must band
together to battle an enemy whose goal is not simply to
kill, but to consume as well.
Dead Season
When a worldwide viral outbreak leads to a plague of zombies
scouring the earth for the living, two survivors, Elvis and
Twitter, flee the chaos of America to a remote island,
hoping for a chance to start a new life. What they find is
unrelenting horror. Beyond the hordes of the flesh-hungry
undead, the other people already on the island force the
pair into a fight-or-die battle amongst themselves. Armed
only with crude weapons, they must descend to savagery and
cutthroat tactics just to make it through each day. 2012
Night of the Comet
After a brilliant comet passes overhead, most people die
instantly while others who were indirectly exposed to its
rays are turned into flesh-eating zombies. Escaping injury,
two "valley-girl" sisters team up with other survivors to
combat the zombies in this campy sci-fi romp.
Dance of the Dead
A horror-comedy from Sam Raimi's Ghost House Underground.
It's up to the dateless nerds at suburban high school to
save prom night when the dead rise from the earth to feast
on the living.
Shawn of the Dead
Also listed in our Dark Comedies list, Superior remake of
the 1978 movie by the same name.
Juan of the Dead
Juan is a slacker trying to reconnect with his daughter, who
plans to rejoin her mother in Miami. Lazaro, Juan's friend,
is trying to connect with his own son. These two friends
from Cuba hatch a plan to launch a zombie extermination
service after their native Cuba is overrun by the living
dead. As the Cuban government attempts to maintain public
order by blaming American, Juan and his group see profits
from their zombie killing enterprise, but soon find their
own lives at risk.
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Interestingly, in
the original zombie movie, "Night of the Living
Dead", the undead creatures were never called
"Zombies", but " Flesh Eating Ghouls". |
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