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Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula (2020): Dir. Sang-ho Yeon
Feat. Dong-won Gang, Jung-hyun Lee, Re Lee; A standalone sequel to the 2016 action–horror hit TRAIN TO BUSAN, with director Yeon Sang–ho returning for a less focused but no less…
Dead Don't Die, The (2019): Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton…; Zom–com from indie favourite Jim Jarmusch, assembling a stunning ensemble cast and following the police force of a small town as they struggle…
Little Monsters (2019): Dir. Abe Forsythe
Feat. Lupita Nyong'o, Alexander England, Kat Stewart; Horror comedy in which a zombie outbreak threatens the lives of some school children, and a school teacher forms a resistance team with the help of a…
Pet Sematary (2019): Dir. Dennis Widmyer, Kevin Kölsch
Feat. Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow; Nothing if not audacious, this updated screen adaptation of the terrifying Stephen King novel takes liberties with the plot to arguably increase the…
Zombieland: Double Tap (2019): Dir. Ruben Fleischer
Feat. Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone…; Satisfying sequel to the popular 2009 zombie comedy, bringing back the same likable makeshift family who face off against the walking dead.
Night Eats the World, The (La nuit a dévoré le monde) (2018): Dir. Dominique Rocher
Feat. Anders Danielsen Lie, Golshifteh Farahani, Denis Lavant; Powerful and existentially inflected French zombie horror, a showcase for the acting talents of Anders Danielsen Lie, who plays a man fighting to…
Overlord (2018): Dir. Julius Avery
Feat. Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier; A small group of American soldiers discover secret Nazi experiments after they are dropped behind enemy lines the day before D–day. A gleefully…
One Cut of the Dead (Kamera wo tomeruna!) (2017): Dir. Shinichiro Ueda
Feat. Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama; Ridiculously fun and gleefully inventive movie–within–a–movie where the crew of a low–budget zombie film are terrorised by…
Girl With All the Gifts, The (2016): Dir. Colm McCarthy
Feat. Sennia Nanua, Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine…; Aimed especially at young adults, this British take on the zombie thriller features the unique presence of an exceptional young girl who is…
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016): Dir. Burr Steers
Feat. Lily James, Sam Riley, Jack Huston…; The myriad charms of Jane Austen's classic novel are put to the test when zombies threaten the happiness of all who dwell on the Bennett estate.…
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016): Dir. Paul W.S. Anderson
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter…; Super soldier Alice is drawn back into the battle against the undead when she is the only survivor of the apocalypse at the end of Resident Evil:…
Wailing, The (Goksung) (2016): Dir. Hong-jin Na
Feat. Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jung-min, Chun Woo-hee; A bumbling police officer in a rural South Korean town investigates a series of horrific murders in this deeply immersive occultist thriller by the…
Ash vs Evil Dead (TV Series) (2015): Feat. Bruce Campbell, Ray Santiago, Lucy Lawless; Triumphant resurrection of Sam Raimi's horror franchise with Bruce Campbell rightfully returning as the undead slaying hero Ash. 10 episodes on 2…
Fear the Walking Dead (TV Series) (2015): Feat. Kim Dickens, Cliff Curtis, Frank Dillane; Grisly prequel to THE WALKING DEAD follows Cliff Curtis as he negotiates a world rapidly turning apocalyptic.
iZombie (TV Series) (2015): Feat. Rose McIver, David Anders, Malcolm Goodwin; The hunger for all things dead–but–still–living continues with his amusing twist on the genre, loosely adapted from a comic book…
Life in the Dead Zone (2015): Dir. Peter Tonks
Feat. Des Morgon, Gabe Page, Chester Dextar…; Shot in Christchurch following the 2011 earthquakes, this creative comedy–mockumentary presents a town overrun by zombies in the wave of a…
Maggie (2015): Dir. Henry Hobson
Feat. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson; A notable change of pace for Arnie in this mood piece in which a teenage girl becomes infected by an outbreak of a disease that slowly turns the…
Nina Forever (2015): Dir. Chris Blaine, Ben Blaine
Feat. Fiona OShaughnessy, Cian Barry, Abigail Hardingham; Darkly funny horror in which a man embarking on a new relationship is taunted by his dead ex–girlfriend whenever he has sex.
Victor Frankenstein (2015): Dir. Paul McGuigan
Feat. Daniel Radcliffe, James McAvoy, Jessica Brown Findlay…; Mary Shelley's classic is given an interesting twist, this time told from the perspective of Igor, the hunchbacked assistant who teams with Dr…
Cooties (2014): Dir. Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion
Feat. Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, Alison Pill…; Splatter comedy set in a primary school where a cafeteria food virus turns the kiddies into killer zombies, and a group of misfit teachers must band…
Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014): Dir. Tommy Wirkola
Feat. Vegar Hoel, Martin Starr; Direct sequel to the wintery zombie hit features more undead Nazis, Russkie POWs and other WWII foes.
I Survived A Zombie Holocaust (2014): Dir. Guy Pigden
Feat. Harley Neville, Jocelyn Christian; Kiwi zombie comedy set within the movie industry for that fashionably self–referential style of b–grade satire.
Life After Beth (2014): Dir. Jeff Baena
Feat. Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, John C. Reilly…; Grieving over the death of his girlfriend, a young man gets a second chance when she returns from the dead in this zany and inventive…
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014): Dir. Kiah Roache-Turner
Feat. Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey, Leon Burchill; Ocker shocker with a mechanic battling zombies as he hunts for his sister kidnapped by a psychotic doctor.
Z Nation (TV Series) (2014): Feat. Tom Everett Scott, DJ Qualls; The Syfy channel's answer to THE WALKING DEAD set three years into a viral zombie apocalypse where a team of everyday heroes travel from New York to…
Evil Dead (2013): Dir. Fede Alvarez
Feat. Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci…; Sam Raimi's undead classic is reboot for a new generation in this gory low–budget horror set in a cabin in the woods.
Frankenstein's Army (2013): Dir. Richard Raaphorst
Feat. Karel Roden, Robert Gwilym, Joshua Sasse; Ludicrous found footage horror movie with a descendent of Victor Frankenstein forming an undead army during World War II.
Warm Bodies (2013): Dir. Jonathan Levine
Feat. Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Rob Corddry…; A young, sensitive zombie falls for a human girl in this savvy romantic comedy which turns the walking dead genre on its head.
Kill Zombie! (Zombibi) (2012): Dir. Martijn Smits, Erwin van den Eshof
Feat. Uriah Arnhem; This low hanging zombie comedy by way of Amsterdam imagines the Dutch city as a zombie infested urban jungle, in the middle of which an office worker…
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Bingbing Li…; Further adventures in the undead, with Milla Jovovich continuing to kick zombie ass with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
[REC] Genesis (REC 3) (2012): Dir. Paco Plaza
Feat. Leticia Dolera, Diego Martin, Javier Botet; A young couples wedding day is tragically interrupted by demonic contagion in the third installment of the Spanish horror series. Abandoning the…
Devil's Rock, The (2011): Dir. Paul Campion
Feat. Craig Hall, Matthew Sunderland, Gina Varela…; Kiwi cinema's fondness for zombie–horror vehicles continues with this enterprising homespun production, centred on a pair of New Zealand…
Juan of the Dead (2011): Dir. Alejandro Brugués
Feat. Alexis Díaz de Villegas, Jorge Molina; A direct and surprisingly inspired Hispanic take on the SHAUN OF THE DEAD zom–com model that makes nifty use of its unique Cuban locale and…
Big Tits Zombie (The Big Tits Dragon) (2010): Dir. Takao Nakano
Feat. Saori Andô, Sola Aoi; Big, dumb fun born from Japan's recent spate of outrageous splatter comedies, centred on three air–headed strippers who unwittingly unleash an…
Dead, The (2010): Dir. Ford Brothers
Feat. Rob Freeman; A zombie movie to rescue the genre from mediocrity, this superbly executed survival horror begins with an American Air Force Lieutenant stranded on…
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates…; Bloody fourth installment has Jovovich join a group of survivors who want to relocate to the mysterious, but supposedly unharmed safe haven, known…
Walking Dead, The (TV Series) (2010): Dir. Frank Darabont
Feat. Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Jeffrey DeMunn…; The undying zombie genre reaches the long–form TV format in this riveting, expertly studied AMC series about the aftermath apocalyptic events,…
Dead Snow (Død Snø) (2009): Dir. Tommy Wirkola
Feat. Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner; Nordic splatter comedy pitches a group of fresh–faced medical students against a hoard of re–animated Nazis in the snowy highlands.…
Horde, The (La Horde) (2009): Dir. Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher
Feat. Aurelien Recoing, Eric Ebouaney, Doudou Masta; Fist–pumping zombie flick pits cops and criminals in a fight for their life against the walking dead amidst the slums of Paris. Bloody and…
Night Of The Living Dead: Reanimated (2009): Dir. Mike Schneider; Inventive homage to the Romero original brings together nearly 150 artists to animate their favourite scenes from the horror classic. Set against…
Revenant, The (2009): Dir. D. Kerry Prior
Feat. David Anders, Chris Wylde, Louise Griffiths; Gory buddy–comedy with an undead soldier and his best friend roaming the streets in a never–ending quest for blood. The darker brother of…
Survival of the Dead (George A. Romero's Survival Of The Dead) (2009): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh; On a small island off the coast of North America, two feuding families hold an undead world at bay in George Romero's latest zombie epic.
[REC 2] (REC 2) (2009): Dir. Jaume Balaguero, Paco Plaza
Feat. Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza; Sequel to the smash Spanish fright fest has a Special Ops team heading into the quarantined apartment at the same time three teenagers let their…
Colin (2008): Dir. Marc Price
Feat. Alastair Kirton, Daisy Aitkens, Kate Alderman; Inventive, micro–budget Brit horror follows a young Zombie as he wanders through an increasingly desolate suburbia. Pic's lack of dialogue and…
Dance of the Dead (2008): Dir. Gregg Bishop
Feat. Jared Kusnitz, Greyson Chadwick, Zoe Myers…; Lean and mean zombie comedy about a plague of living dead who crash the high school prom and the dateless losers who appear to be the only ones who…
Dead Set (TV Series) (2008): Dir. Yann Demange
Feat. Jaime Winstone, Riz Ahmed, Warren Brown…; A bleak send–up of reality TV culture in which a production studio is attacked by zombies during the filming of a fictional "Big Brother" style…
I Sell the Dead (2008): Dir. Glenn McQuaid
Feat. Dominic Monaghan, Larry Fessenden, Ron Perlman…; Bumptious horror–comedy of corpses with two beleaguered grave robbers having to contend with the troublesome undead and blood–lusting…
Make-Out With Violence (2008): Dir. Deagol Brothers
Feat. Eric Lehning, Cody DeVos; A genuinely odd zombie movie about twin brothers whose teenage girl crush mysteriously disappears one day, only to emerge in a vegetative state…
Pontypool (2008): Dir. Bruce McDonald
Feat. Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly; Highly intriguing and unconventional horror chamber piece – less a "zombie flick" than contagion drama on account of the fact that here the…
Trailer Park Of Terror (2008): Dir. Steven Goldmann
Feat. Nichole Hiltz, Matthew Del Negro, Trace Adkins; Yet another installment in the zombie–comedy genre sees a group of troubled high–school students get stranded in a trailer park occupied…
Zombie Strippers (2008): Dir. Jay Lee
Feat. Robert Englund, Jenna Jameson; No–brainer zombie comedy starring ex–porn star Jenna Jameson as a small–town stripper who catches a leaked government virus which…
Aaah Zombies! (Wasting Away) (2007): Dir. Matthew Kohnen
Feat. Matthew Davis, Julianna Robinson, MIchael Grant Terry…; After chowing down on experimental goo four friends find themselves zombiefied in this rather sweet horror–comedy. Latest entry in the…
Dead and Deader (2007): Dir. Patrick Dinhut
Feat. Dean Cain, Guy Torry, Susan Ward; A referential zombie comedy that is knowingly unoriginal, but serves its subgenre well by splatting the target more often than most in both laughs…
Diary of the Dead (2007): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Joshua Close; Genre–king Romero's latest sojourn puts the digital camera in the hands of a group of film–school wannabes who, while shooting their own…
Planet Terror (2007): Dir. Robert Rodriguez
Feat. Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodríguez, Josh Brolin…; Robert Rodriguez's half – and quite possibly, the better half – of the "Grindhouse" double bill (with Quentin Tarantino's DEATH PROOF),…
Resident Evil - Extinction (2007): Dir. Russell Mulcahy
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter; Milla Jovovich returns in the war against the undead in this third installment of the game–turned–film franchise. This time our…
[REC] (REC) (2007): Dir. Jaume Balaguero, Paco Plaza; Sinister Spanish horror, from European creepy movie maestro Jaume Balaguero, which follows a callout from a Barcelona fire station to an apartment…
Fido (2006): Dir. Andrew Currie
Feat. Billy Connolly, Carrie-Anne Moss, K'Sun Ray; Day–glo zombie comedy takes the increasingly dog–eared genre to a new meta–level with its premise of zombies being domesticated as…
Other Side, The (2006): Dir. Gregg Bishop
Feat. Nathan Mobley, Jaimie Alexander; Paced like a bat–out–of–hell, this action–packed yet intricate 'undead' thriller follows a murdered student to hell and back…
Slither (2006): Dir. James Gunn
Feat. Nathan Fillion, Michael Rooker; The small American town of Wheelsy is visited by a slithery space squid, which sends a variety of parasitic slugs out to invade the bodies of the…
Subject Two (2006): Dir. Phillip Chidel
Feat. Christian Oliver, Dean Stapleton; Indie 'mad science' thriller in which a doctor invents a resurrection formula and tests it by killing and reviving a 'volunteer' med student many…
Zombie Diaries, The (2006): Dir. Michael Bartlett, Kevin Gates; Taking cues from 28 DAYS LATER and the wellspring of Romero classics, this low–key indie zombie mockumentary has three separate…
Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005): Dir. Ana Clavell, James Glenn Dudelson
Feat. John Freedom Henry, Joseph Marino, Jackeline Olivier; Billed as a prequel to George Romero's DAY OF THE DEAD, this in fact is a B–movie knockoff in the time–honoured zombie tradition. Without…
Land of the Dead (2005): Dir. George Romero
Feat. John Leguizamo, Asia Argento, Robert Joy…; Fourth installment for dir. Romero's famed DEAD series, set around a future world overrun by shuffling, half–rotten 'zombies' who menace a…
Tokyo Zombie (2005): Dir. Sakichi Sato
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Tadanobu Asano, Arata Furuta…; An enormous garbage dump in Tokyo begins to spawl hoards of the walking dead, prompting two dumb–and–dumber garage workers to unleash…
Dawn of the Dead (2004): Dir. Zack Snyder
Feat. Jake Weber, Kevin Zegers, Mekhi Phifer…; Tight–edged remake of George Romero's original zombie–fest, again reprising a tense battle between a small posse of post–apocalypse…
Dead and Breakfast (2004): Dir. Matthew Leutwyler
Feat. Portia de Rossi, Jeremy Sisto, David Carradine; This reasonably hospitable reprise of zombie peril has six friends finding themselves trapped and hunted in and around a smalltown 'bed and…
Night of the Living Dorks (2004): Dir. Mathias Dinter
Feat. Tino Mewes, Manuel Cortez, Thomas Schmieder…; High school geek revenge flick meets living dead spoof when four geeky buddies accidentally become zombies – and reap the social benefts – in…
Resident Evil - Apocalypse (2004): Dir. Alexander Witt
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr…; Sequel to the adaptation of the Playstation video game, has Jovovich returning for another blood–drenched 90 minutes trying to fight her way…
Shaun of the Dead (2004): Dir. Edgar Wright
Feat. Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield…; The zombie movie genre collides with distinctively British "lad humour" in this playful and wildly entertaining parody. Centred around the…
They Came Back (Les Revenants) (2004): Dir. Robin Campillo
Feat. Géraldine Pailhas, Jonathan Zaccai, Frédéric Pierrot…; This disquieting, unconventional ‘zombie’ movie concerns a global phenomenon of returning dead, and their subsequent integration back into living…
28 Days Later (2003): Dir. Danny Boyle
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Christopher Eccleston, Brendan Gleeson; Effective 'end of the world' thriller, where a scientifically–engineered contagion escapes the lab, turning most of Britain's populace into…
Beyond Re-Animator (Re-Animator 3) (2003): Dir. Brian Yuzna
Feat. Jeffrey Combs; A further extension of the RE–ANIMATOR saga in which crazed Doctor West (Combs), in prison for his past misdeeds raising organisms from the…
Locals, The (2003): Dir. Greg Page
Feat. John Barker, Dwayne Cameron, Kate Elliot…; A local horror outing that follows a couple of surfie city kids into the Waikato bush, where they discover an undead netherworld of shady rural types…
Tutenstein (TV Series) (2003): Quirksome kids animation which begins when the Egyptian mummy of a 10–year old pharoah is struck by lightning in a museum and 'Tut' comes back…
Resident Evil (2002): Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez; Lifted from the Playstation computer–game, this action–horror concerns an off–limits scientific installation which has become…
Undead (2002): Dir. The Spierig Brothers
Feat. Felicity Mason, Mungo McKay, Rob Jenkins; This brash splatter effort from Australia makes impressive, exhaustive use of special effects on a very low budget as it turns into an almost…
Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des Loups) (2001): Dir. Christophe Gans
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Mark Dacascos; A ripping, action–packed 18th century detective story based on the true–life case of the Beast of Gevaudan – a killer or creature who…
Wild Zero (2000): Dir. Tetsuro Takeuchi
Feat. Guitar Wolf; Japanese punk tyrants Guitar Wolf shred up the screen in this appropriately chaotic zombie fest, gouged from the remnants of a meteor carrying…
Idle Hands (1999): Dir. Rodman Flender
Feat. Seth Green, Devon Sawa, Elden Henson; An evil spirit moves from person to person, afflicting only a single hand, which proceeds to wreak five–fingered carnage. High–school…
Trance (The Eternal) (1998): Dir. Michael Almereyda
Feat. Christopher Walken, Jared Harris, Alison Elliott…; Revision of Universal's horror classic THE MUMMY as a contemporary Gothic mood–piece set in coastal Ireland, an alcoholic American couple…
Uncle Sam (1997): Dir. William Lustig
Feat. Leslie Neale, David "Shark" Fralick, Isaac Hayes…; Solid cast of exploitation 'character actors' lifts this quasi–satirical slasherfest about a Gulf War casualty who rises from his resting place…
Mr. Stitch (1995): Dir. Roger Avary
Feat. Rutger Hauer; A pulpy Frankenstein variation from the director of KILLING ZOE. Everyone's favourite B–movie stalwart Rutger Hauer stars as a maverick doctor…
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994): Dir. Kenneth Branagh
Feat. Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Helena Bonham Carter…; Branagh swamps the gothic classic with theatricality and allows himself far too much screen time, impressing on us that his ego that is the real…
Frankenstein (1992): Dir. David Wickes
Feat. Patrick Bergin; Standard telling of the story with Patrick Bergin as Dr. Frank recounting his chilling experiences with his heinous creation, after being rescued…
Night of the Living Dead (1991): Dir. Tom Savini
Feat. Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman, Tom Towles; Intelligent remake with FX–whizz and long–time Romero collaborator Savini in the driver's seat, keen to flaunt his bag of gory tricks.
Buried Alive (1990): Dir. Frank Darabont
Feat. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Matheson; Accomplished Poe–influenced tele–movie about a man who seeks to avenge his wife who buried him alive.
Re-Animator 2 (Bride Of Re-Animator) (1990): Dir. Brian Yuzna
Feat. Jeffrey Combs; Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West and friends return for a gory homage to Bride of Frankenstein, but its a pale shadow of both films, with noticeably…
Night of the Demons (1988): Dir. Kevin S. Tenney
Feat. Linnea Quigley, William Gallo; Shlocky 80's horror based around a group of high school seniors partying inside an isolated funeral parlour where they unknowingly release a demon or…
Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988): Dir. Ken Wiederhorn
Feat. Michael Kenworthy, Thor Van Lingen, Jason Hogan; Yet another unnecessary sequel, this time to the popular spoof of Romero's Living Dead films.
Evil Dead 2 (1987): Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Bruce Campbell; Not so much a sequel as a big–budget remake, it's a tour–de–force of slapstick horror with camera theatrics that confirm a major…
Redneck Zombies (1987): Dir. Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz
Feat. Steve Sooy, Anthony M. Carr, Keith Johnson…; Troma–trash about zombies who happen to be rednecks.
Demons (1986): Dir. Lamberto Bava
Feat. Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny; Son of Mario Bava, aided by Dario Argento, takes a slash at the zombie genre, with the undead uprising in a picture theatre.
Night of the Creeps (1986): Dir. Fred Dekker
Feat. Jason Lively, Steve Marshall, Tom Atkins…; Good–humored horror about alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, and turning their hosts into rampaging zombies.
Zombiethon (1986): Dir. Ken Dixon; Excerpts from the most outrageous 'Zombie' movies ever made comprise this hysterical compilation film. Many obscure Italian delights are featured…
Day of the Dead (1985): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato; Apocalyptic paranoia looms in an underground shelter for a few survivors in a world overrun with zombies. Conclusion to the 'Dead' trilogy builds a…
Return of the Living Dead, The (1985): Dir. Dan O'Bannon
Feat. Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa; Pretty–good parody of Romero's Living Dead films, though not quite the same as the real thing. Great thrash–metal soundtrack, though.
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…
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…
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1970): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing; The fifth Hammer Frankenstein film focuses on Peter Cushing's Baron who tries brain surgery to save an associate who went mad. Followed in the series…
Horror of Frankenstein (1970): Dir. Jimmy Sangster
Feat. Ralph Bates; Camped–up, silly Hammer, in which Ralph Bates' Baron becomes murderously obsessive.
Night of the Living Dead (1968): Dir. George Romero
Feat. Duane Jones; Highly original and influential drive–in cheapie, distinguished by its realistic, documentary atmosphere and imaginative ending. Graphically…
Castle of the Walking Dead (The Torture Chamber Of Dr. Sadism) (1967): Dir. Harald Reinl
Feat. Christopher Lee, Lex Barker, Karin Dor; The blood runs thick for its vintage in this variation on Poe's Pit and the Pendulum in which a Count is drawn and quartered for killing twelve…
Plague of the Zombies, The (1966): Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Andre Morell; Reasonably classy Hammer offering about a Cornish mine–operator who uses zombies as a workforce in his tin mine. Good misty atmospherics, with…
Mask of Satan (Black Sunday) (1960): Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. Barbara Steele; Italian shock–merchant Mario Bava's finest hour – his graphic, gothic images are way beyond 1960 and still impress today. A stylish…
Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959): Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Henry Daniell; Beware–the–family–curse is the theme in this low–budget take on Orville H. Hampton's tale about a family whose members are…
Mummy, The (1959): Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee; Peter Cushing confronts Christopher Lee in bandages in this stylish early Hammer.
Teenage Zombies (1959): Dir. Jerry Warren; A group of teenagers fall prey to a mad female scientist whose island they happen upon. Here, other prisoners and a variety of creatures are being…
I Bury the Living (1958): Dir. Albert Band
Feat. Richard Boone; Weird, imaginatively designed graveyard chiller with Richard Boone as a cemetery curator who thinks he has power over life and death by shifting…
I Walked with a Zombie (1943): Dir. Jacques Tourneur
Feat. James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway; Incandescent spook story about a nurse who unleashes historical and spiritual demons when called out to a Caribbean island. Its scare value may have…
Bride of Frankenstein (1935): Dir. James Whale
Feat. Boris Karloff; Boris Karloff meets his match when mad Dr. Frank builds his forlorn monster a mate. Sequel to FRANKENSTEIN is possibly the best horror of the '30s…
White Zombie (1932): Dir. Victor Halperin
Feat. Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn; Creaky but effectively eerie chiller with Bela Lugosi as a voodoo king menacing naive newlyweds in Haiti. The trance–like direction and tiny…

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