"Good/bad zombie films?" Topic

Recommendations on which ones to go for, and which to avoid?

The Zombie Diaries (2006) is without a doubt, the worst zombie film I've ever seen. It's the first DVD I ever tried to return for a refund.

The first three Romero films (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead) are ace, the fourth one (Land of the Dead) is ok, the fifth (Diary of the Dead) is rubbish.

The Dawn of the Dead remake is excellent, too.

28 days later and its sequel 28 weeks later are both well worth watching.

Shaun of the Dead – the romantic zombie comedy is ace.

The first two Resident Evil (Resident Evil and Resident Evil: Apocalypse) films are ok in my book. The third one, Extinction is awful.

The Spanish movie Rec is excellent and creepy.

Dead Meat is a bit silly, but a nice film nonetheless!

Peter Jackson's splatter comedy Braindead! is pretty fun, and Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror is much in the same vein.

This should get you started!

28 days later films are good.

Resident evil are good but IMO to get worse as they go along.

Shaun of the dead is amusing :)

The 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead is pretty good. The director Tom Savini really did a lot of work on making his Zeds look and act realistic (He got in a bit of trouble because he used concentration camp inmates as makeup reference).

I forget the name of the worst one I ever sw. It was so bad it almost made it to the "good" catagory. It had the black wheelchair ridden son of the President in it- which some rather moronic "special forces" types trying to get the Prez's family to some secret shelter. Which I think was some old WW2 era cement gun mounting in Hawaii.

Made by two brothers. Oh yeah the Knott brothers- so that their production company is "Knott Entertainment"

And let me tell you, it is Not!

I've altually decided that in an odd way the Day of the Triffids is the precurser to Zombie films and should not be overlooked. The Book is better that the 1st two films, second film is OK. 1st is alright but showing its age. But I am really excited about the new one coming out with Eddie Izzard.

My god friend loves Bad movies …there are sooo many I cannot name them all but B films ty C and D films …

Having seen both Rec and the American remake Quarantine….I actually liked the latter better. REC is more subtle in not showing the monsters as often but does not feel as genuine as Quarantine does. IMHO of course.

Nobody recommended Zombie Strippers?

The Australian movie "Undead" is worth a watch. It may not be worth a repeat, being something of a "gotcha" film, but one viewing is called for.

Zombie.

There's a shark vs zombie fight.

And an eyeball-piercing scene that still gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Good or bad? It's worth a watch.

The Return Of The Living Dead…is one of the Rare Zombie stories out there, it is almost the BEST EVER Made.

It is the first undead story EVER to to have Fast Zeds, and good hereos who act the way I think many people would, if they had to fight The Undead…for real.

1 to 10, IMO this is a 9.5
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The man that wrote ALIEN, Dan O Bannon, Directed this gore covered bit of Film Art.
How much better can you get than that?

I agree that GAR's first 3 films are also VERY Good…if you like Zombies then you must see them.
1 to 10, IMO these get a collective 8.5.
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Tom's 90 remake of NOTLD is Very Good.
1 to 10, IMO this is a 9.
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The 2004 remake of DOTD is Very Good.
1 to 10, IMO this is a 9.

28 Days Later is Good.
1 to 10, IMO this is a 8.

The Res Evil Series is Good.
1 to 10, IMO these get a collective 7.5.

There you go..have fun.

Michael

the one with Linnea Quigley dancing naked on a grave is pretty good.. ;-)

I wasn't impressed with 28 days later, although 28 weeks later was excellent.

I thought the 2003 Dawn of the Dead was great.

Shaun of the Dead is hilarious.

The first Resident Evil is also good.

Shockwave…SS zombies..can't be beat.

Undead was interesting…

House of the Dead--not so good

Michael

House of the Dead was lousy without question.

Return is the best zed flick ever!

Do you wanna party?!

Brian
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I would highly recommend Jorge Grau's "Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti" (Do Not Speak Ill of the Dead), known as "The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue" (UK) or "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie"(US). After the original Dawn of the Dead it is one of my favourite zombie films.

'28 Days Later' starts with an interesting premise but gets bogged down in an extended sci-fi cliche; I liked '28 Weeks Later' much better.

Unlike a lot of people, I enjoyed 'Diary of the Dead', possibly because it was unlike Romero's previous films, which I also enjoy.

Just last night I watched 'Dance of the Dead', which I had thought would be horrible enough to be funny but turned out to be better than I expected. Not a great flick, mind you, but fun. The dead rise from their graves, trash the town, and then go to the prom.

My candidate for hands-down worst zed film ever is 'Rome Against Rome'. Horrible script, execrable special effects, acting so ludicrous as to defy description, this cinematic fewmet makes the Italian 'Road Warrior' ripoffs of the '80s look like Oscar material.

LT

A bit unusual for a zombie movie, but 'Fido' is quite entertaining:

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Probably no good scenarios for games, though.

Bad zombie movie:
Attack Girls' Swim Team Versus the Undead

And yes, before you ask, it's a Japanese film:
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Regards, the Gorb

I think that Shaun of the Dead is the best zombie film ever, but it only works if you have seen other zombie films – so wouldn't be the "one zombie film you should see".

My favorites:
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead (I realy enjoy the remake, as well)
Shaun of the Dead
Zombie (zombie vs. tiger shark!)

Worst:
I don't have one, I've stayed away from movies like House of the Dead.

House of the Dead wasn't the greatest film…some of the action was good…wouldn't put on my top 10 movies but it was ok for the $5 USD I paid for it.

Now house of the dead 2…was a waste of my time…

But I have to agree Shaun of the dead was a hoot…

I think I've almost exhausted the watcheable selection of zombie flicks. Time to start over…

Go see "Zombieland" – one of the best zombie films ever made. Great fun from start to finish. I can't wait for it to come out on DVD, hopefully with loads of extras.

Some threadomancy at work here:

Another vote for Zombieland.

The small budget Australian movie Last of the Living is well worth a watch.

The British movie Doghouse is a good laugh.

The mini-series Dead Set is one of the best zombie things to come out in years.

Dead Snow is a modern classic.

Steer well clear of Dead and Deader. Awful.

Upcoming stuff here:

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Not quite a pure zombie movie, but I think fits the genre nicely…

SLITHER

Fantastic fun!

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Yakuza Kung-foo zombies!

Excellent

So far my favorite Zed flick is Sean of the Dead, hands down. I missed out on Zombieland and have to wait for it to release but I think from watching the tral=ilers it will be my kind of movie also. I always like a little humor mixed in with my gore.

Braindead is by far my favourite zombie movie, hilarious and gore filled YAY

Avoid Zombie Lake – it's horrid.

All the obvious ones have been covered, good and bad, but try Mulberry Street (or A Zombie Virus on Mulberry Street). Not a zombie film exactly, though the bad guys act pretty much like fast zombies, it's a great little low budget movie.
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Flight of the Living Dead is a laugh.
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