Subgenre Sampler
Walking Dead: 141 Films to Buy & Rent
- Evil Dead, The (1981)
- Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Bruce Campbell
- Made on a budget of less than $100,000, this explosive splatter movie takes gore to the very limits. Colossal amounts of tomato sauce fill the screen…
- Burial Ground - Nights of Terror (Le Notti del terrore) (1980)
- Dir. Andrea Bianchi
- A low–rent, bloodily awful Italian zombie–fest with a scientist accidentally awakening corpses in a desecrated graveyard. As one critic…
- City of the Living Dead (The Gates of Hell) (1980)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Christopher George, Katriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo…
- Gory, maggot–infested Italian zombie movie from one of the erratic masters of the form, Lucio Fulci.
Set in Dunwich, USA, a priest's suicide…
- 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…
- Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier
- Fleshy and bloody companion piece to BLOOD FOR DRACULA. Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro and others Warhol troupsters re–animate the well–worn…
- 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…