Subgenre Sampler
Horror > Walking Dead: 123 Films to Buy & Rent
- Dawn of the Dead (Zombies, Dawn of the Dead) (1979)
- Dir. George Romero
Feat. David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger
- One of the most effectively violent films ever produced, this classic gorefest has the walking dead run amok in a shopping mall. The comic–book…
- Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson
- The Italian goremeister's answer to DAWN OF THE DEAD (and originally marketed as a sequel to it) sees zombies making grisly mincemeat of various poor…
- Zombie Holocaust (1979)
- Dir. Marino Girolami
Feat. Donald O'Brien, Ian McCulloch
- One of the more successful Italian gore–films, this strange blend of NYC policier, DAWN OF THE DEAD and ISLAND OF LOST SOULS is entertaining in…
- Grapes of Death, The (Les Raisins de la Mort) (1978)
- Dir. Jean Rollin
- Eco–thriller set in the French countryside where a dangerous pesticide used in a local vineyard has turned residents into the walking dead.…
- Shock Waves (Almost Human, Death Corps) (1977)
- Dir. Ken Wiederhorn
Feat. Brooke Adams, Peter Cushing, John Carradine
- Cushing plays a Nazi scientist wrecked in the Florida Keys since WWII, where he has remained hidden with his special squad of underwater zombie…
- Frankenstein (1973)
- Dir. Glenn Jordan
Feat. Robert Foxworth, Susan Strasberg, Bo Svenson
- Little–known TV dramatisation of the Mary Shelley classic is perhaps the most faithful of all versions in concentrating mostly on the monster's…
- Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972)
- Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. Alan Ormsby
- This grisly cult horror concerns a film director (Ormsby) and his would–be crew who take off to a spooky island and play scary games with each…
- Deathdream (Dead of Night) (1972)
- Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. John Marley, Richard Backus, Lynn Carlin
- A presumed–dead Vietnam vet returns to avenge the family (Marley and Carlin, the couple in John Cassavetes' Faces, playing much the same roles)…
- Fright (1972)
- Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Honor Blackman, Susan George, Dennis Waterman…
- A 'babysitter in peril' suspenser set around the menacing of Blackman by an escaped mental patient. Not bad as a precursor to the 'slasher' genre.
- Tombs of the Blind Dead (1971)
- Dir. Amando De Ossorio
Feat. Lone Fleming, Cesar Burner, Maria Elena Arpon
- Savage 13th Century Templars are resurrected in modern times to exact revenge on young nymphs. The Redemption label redeems another trashy bloodlust…