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Zombie movie recommendations!

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Ecrofirt

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Yes, I'm looking for more good zombie movies!

Here's what I've got:

Night Of The Living Dead
Dawn Of The Dead (divamax)
Day Of The Dead

Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Army Of Darkness

Brain Dead

I Zombie: A Chronicle Of Pain

Shaun Of The Dead

The Dead Next Door (somewhere in this damn house! UGH)

Dellamorte Dellamore
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And that's all she wrote. I'm loking for other good ones, and I know there are good ones out there.


Note - Movies I've seen, so don't recommend them:
Zombie
The Beyond
All Souls Day (What a terrible fuckin movie)

LotD (Yes, I enjoyed it.)

DoTD '04
 
The last zombie movies I've seen were Zombie (which you've also seen), Zombie Lake (which is a worthless d-grade movie, avoid it), Land of the Dead (meh) and the horrible Undead... so I don't actually have anything useful to say since I'm looking for good zombie flicks too, but don't bother with Undead. It's a horrible, horrible movie.

I haven't seen I Zombie: A Chronicle Of Pain, The Dead Next Door and The Beyond, how are they?
 
Night of the Creeps - great movie - great character names *wink* - Tom Atkins' line near the end of the movie is a classic.

The Beyond rox if your into Itallian horror.
 
I Zombie is a B movie following the life of a man who was bitten by, and is slowly becomming, a zombie. Some people like it, some people hate it.

Dead Next Door is a b-movie which pays tribute to Romero films. It's worth a watch, and I'm pretty sure there's a few DVD releases of it (I've got it on VHS)

The Beyond is another Fulci zombie movie. I'm pretty sure it's his third zombie movie, but to tell you honestly, his stuff confuses me a bit. Some other guys here are far more knowledgeable about that. The movie itself is adequate, but the zombies don't even really appear until the last 15 minutes or so.
 
Actually, if you're into really goofy zombie movies, you may want to check out these two Asian flicks:

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Trash and Chaosssssssss!

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Zombie new human!!!

The Beyond rox if your into Itallian horror.
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I think Zombie/Zombi 2 is the only Itallian horror movie I've seen so far, and I loved that. The Beyond is actually Zombi 3 isn't it?

I've had my eye on this for a few days now:
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Anyone know if it's any good and if the movies are uncut? You can't beat the price.
 
I Zombie is a B movie following the life of a man who was bitten by, and is slowly becomming, a zombie. Some people like it, some people hate it.
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That sounds interesting. I'm going to keep an eye out for that one, thanks.
 
ThirstyFly said:
The Beyond is actually Zombi 3 isn't it?
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Nah, The Beyond is more of a followup to City of the Living Dead/The Gates of Hell and that saga.

I second Biozombie for good comedy zombie fun.

As for the zombi3,4,5 box set. 4 and 5 are pretty awful but 3, while still being awful, was pretty enjoyable.
 
Tedesco! said:
Don't forget the Return of the Living Dead series if you like sucky zombie movies. That and Night of the Comet.
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Night of the Comet. So 80s. So cheeseball. And, while later entries in the series suck, the original Return of the Living Dead is fantastic.

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It's the first day of our hapless hero's new job at the medical supply house. There, one of the workers shares a secret with him: Remember that old Night of the Living Dead movie? It's real, and they've got one of the zombies on hand to prove it. Then everything goes to hell. Return is a fantastic black comedy zombie flick and a must watch if you're a fan of the genre. "Send more cops!" Punks and zombies!

Speaking of punks and zombies, I second the Wild Zero recommendation, which pits Guitar Wolf (a band that takes the Ramones to their logical conclusion) against zombies and completely rocks out. Biozombie is also a hoot and a half, and is delightfully dorky to boot; seeing our heroes playing House of the Dead with Saturn lightguns just plain rocks.

Meanwhile, these aren't exactly zombie flicks in the Romero vein, but they're close enough to merit mention:

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Cemetary Man (Dellamorte Dellamore) stars Rupert Everett as a gravedigger for a cursed cemetary where the dead rise seven days after burial. And, hey, no big deal - he just kills 'em again and puts them back where he belongs. However, his routine is interrupted when he falls in love with a beautiful woman, at which point we have a romantic comedy...with zombies. Black humor a go-go with a terrific ending. Alas, a R1 DVD isn't available, but you should be able to rent it on VHS without much difficulty.

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Demons may as well be called zombies, as the effect is the same - if you're infected, you become a demon and then go on to infect others. The catch is that all this is happening inside a theatre that's showing a movie about the very demons who are starting to appear. It's all terrifically in-jokey and provides for a great setting for a seige film when things start to degenerate. Okay, so you can't think about the plot too hard, but it's still a helluva ride and has a lot of laughs. They're gore-soaked laughs, but good gags nonetheless.

FnordChan
 
FnordChan said:
And, while later entries in the series suck, the original Return of the Living Dead is fantastic.
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I just can't abide talking zombies. I still fail to see why a lot of fans get upset over running zombies and learning zombie, but no one says anything about talking zombies. Stupid.
 
Tedesco! said:
I just can't abide talking zombies. I still fail to see why a lot of fans get upset over running zombies and learning zombie, but no one says anything about talking zombies. Stupid.
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I saw an old zombie movie once where a group of prisoners tried to make a prison break, only to die.I cen't remember how or why, but they end up coming back as zombies who drink formaldahyde to live. These zombies are smart, they run around, and they talk. At one point, they've got everyone hiding in a house, and they should "Send out the girl!"

I wish I could remember the name of that terrible movie.


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Found it!
Garden of the Dead. Director: John Hayes, 1972. Prisoners on a chain gang sniff the fumes of an experimental ether and return from the dead when they are killed after attempting a prison break.
 
Ecrofirt said:
I wish I could remember the name of that terrible movie.
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There was on old film I remember seeing in class, where the zombies would walk around saying.."I'm a zombie, I'm a zombie!" That was pretty funny, but I can't remember the danmed film name.
 
Dawn of the Mummy
Zombie Creeping Flesh
The Beyond
Cannibal Ferox
City Of The Living Dead
Anthropophagus The Beast
Cannibal Apocalypse
Eaten Alive!
Cannibal Holocaust

Hang on, I'm getting off the subject

The Serpent and the Rainbow
 
Go to a theatre and see Land of the Dead. It's good, gory fun with some awesome makeup work and Dennis Hopper acting badly! Sure, the ending is shit, but the movie's still an entertaining package.
 
Alucard said:
Go to a theatre and see Land of the Dead. It's good, gory fun with some awesome makeup work and Dennis Hopper acting badly! Sure, the ending is shit, but the movie's still an entertaining package.
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I listed LoTD in my first post, and I said that I enjoyed it :)
 
Tedesco! said:
I don't think I have seen it mentioned, so I'll also suggest Re-Animator.
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I would argue that if 28 days later is not a zombie movie, then Re-Animator isn't. It's like saying Frankenstein is a zombie movie.
 
While we're at it, should the Evil Dead series be taken as zombies? Normally we seem to toss those out right away.


*still secretly supports 28 days later*
 
I don't think the deadites count. Like the infected in 28 Days Later, they may exhibit zombie-like characteristics, but aren't zombies.
 
Tedesco! said:
I don't think the deadites count. Like the infected in 28 Days Later, they may exhibit zombie-like characteristics, but aren't zombies.
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But the movies have Bruce Campbell, so that overcomes it.
 
Whether its technically a zombie film or not, 28 Days Later reinvented the genre and I'd say should be on anyone's recommendations list.

RE5 is happy to borrow from it after all ;)
 
Nash said:
Whether its technically a zombie film or not, 28 Days Later reinvented the genre and I'd say should be on anyone's recommendations list.

RE5 is happy to borrow from it after all ;)
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It didn't reinvent shit.

It made running fucking *things* populer.
 
Ecrofirt said:
It didn't reinvent shit.

It made running fucking *things* populer.
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Yep, let's forget everything else the film did.

The opening scenes of being alone in a deserted London, the use of shadows, and the way it's filmed in general is great. It reinvented zombie films in that it actually introduced fear back into a genre that had in general become more about comedy.
 
Nash said:
Whether its technically a zombie film or not, 28 Days Later reinvented the genre and I'd say should be on anyone's recommendations list.

RE5 is happy to borrow from it after all ;)
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28 Days Later belongs in the same group as Outbreak and the Andromeda Strain, not zombie movies.
 
Tedesco! said:
28 Days Later belongs in the same group as Outbreak and the Andromeda Strain, not zombie movies.
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Well personally I think this 'its not a zombie film' thing is being overly pedantic. 28 Days Later has nothing in common with the Andromeda Strain for instance apart from a virus being involved. Andromeda Strain is a claustrophobic thriller in a bunker focussed around how the lead characters deal with a intense situation. Not a film about being pursued by a population intent on finding and killing you.

As far as 28 Days Later is concerned, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck ...
 
It influenced what new zombies are going to become, but it is NOT a zombie movie.

Personally, I enjoyed the film. It was nice.

What I don't enjoy is how there's now DoTD '04, and future zombie movies are now going to have running zombies.
 
Zombies eat people. Zombies can live even when missing most of their body. Zombies don't die due to hunger. The infected don't eat people, they can't survive mass trauma, and they die after a prolonged period of not eating.

28 Days Later is a virus movie, and while it has shades of a zombie movie (something I am sure Boyle was banking on in selling the pic) it is not a zombie movie. Too many differences....
 
Ecrofirt said:
It influenced what new zombies are going to become, but it is NOT a zombie movie.

Personally, I enjoyed the film. It was nice.

What I don't enjoy is how there's now DoTD '04, and future zombie movies are now going to have running zombies.
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You know, I didn't mind the running zombies as much, though it would have been cooler if they progressed into the slower, lumbering kind we've grown to love. After all, rigormortis doesn't happen immediately after death.
 
My dad and I were talking recently, and about the closest he thinks we'll ever come to real-life zombies would be a mutation of the rabies virus. Something that would give you all the symptoms of rabies without killing you.

How scary would something like that be?
 
28 Days later is a movie about masses of mindless people attacking the few survivors. That's a zombie movie.


Not to mention that fact that the whole stucture of the movie is a homage to Romero's trilogy, in order.
 
Ignatz Mouse said:
28 Days later is a movie about masses of mindless people attacking the few survivors. That's a zombie movie.


Not to mention that fact that the whole stucture of the movie is a homage to Romero's trilogy, in order.
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Except it's not actually about anything like zombies.

I've never seen zombies die after a month of not eating. Have you?

Homage or not, this movie is NOT a zombie film.
 
Ecrofirt said:
It influenced what new zombies are going to become, but it is NOT a zombie movie.

Personally, I enjoyed the film. It was nice.

What I don't enjoy is how there's now DoTD '04, and future zombie movies are now going to have running zombies.
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But the zombie genre *needed* reinventing though, it had become played out a long time ago from far too many similar films, a lot of amateurish shit, and an all-too-willingness to fall-back on comedy. Which is far easier to pull-off than effective horror.

The genre had become self-parodying, I'm glad 28 Days Later shook things up a bit.
 
Ecrofirt said:
Except it's not actually about anything like zombies.

I've never seen zombies die after a month of not eating. Have you?

Homage or not, this movie is NOT a zombie film.
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Wood / trees.
 
Ignatz Mouse said:
28 Days later is a movie about masses of mindless people attacking the few survivors. That's a zombie movie.
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No. zombies aren't people. The people in 28 Day Later aren't even DEAD! Last time I looked, that was a pre-requisite for being a zombie.

Not to mention that fact that the whole stucture of the movie is a homage to Romero's trilogy, in order.
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Homage does not mean it is...... You could say Spaceballs, while a spoof, is still an homage to Star Wars. That doesn't mean it is a Star Wars film.
 
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