The Best 5 Zombie Movies Of All Time
A zombie is a fictional character which is depicted in movies as being a reanimated or undead corpse. Early films featuring them were classified as being a part of the horror genre originally but eventually the creatures became popular devices and garnered their very own sub genre. Zombies in fiction is popular because it includes elements such as plot twists, an apocalypse or break down of society, and, of course, flesh eating corpses. The best 5 zombie movies of all time contain science fiction and comedy.
The film that ultimately started it all, “Night of the Living Dead”, is a black and white thriller that was directed by the legendary George A. Romero in 1968. The film depicts zombies as slow moving and mindless ghouls who emerge from their graves with an unquenchable hunger for human flesh. The plot follows a group of seven Pennsylvanians as they take shelter in a small farmhouse and attempt to survive the night. George A. Romero has been hailed the ‘Grandfather of the Zombie” as a result of the film which essentially defined the zombie genre and spawned a plethora of others.
The director’s second movie in his “Of the Dead” series was called “Dawn of the Dead” and it was made roughly ten years after the original. “Dawn” thought of as a sequel by Romero and his fans but only because it has the same slow walking undead, the location and actors are all different. The story picks up some time after the events of the first film and portrays America as a crazed shell of itself which is overridden with bloodthirsty zombies and without in any actual authority. The movie follows a small band of desperate survivors who steal a news chopper escape city and end up seeking shelter in an abandoned shopping mall.
In it, a small group of refugees steal a helicopter and take shelter in a mall. They live in moderate comfort among the building’s material goods as, outside, society collapses. In a scene that most fans state is the best in the genre, the mall becomes overrun with zombies and all but two of the survivors make it out alive.
Pet Sematary is another great example. It follows a young doctor named Louis Creed and his family who have just moved to Maine. Their new home is located next door to an ancient burial ground and Louis learns of its mysterious powers firsthand after he buries his dead cat there only to have it come back from the dead. Haunted by the area’s power, Louis does the same thing to his young son after he dies and brings back something sinister and evil.
After the tragic death of his young son, the grief stricken doctor turns, once again, to Pet Sematary and ends up bringing back something evil and sinister.
“28 Days Later” is a hit film and offers a more updated take on classic zombies. In it, they are agile and fast as opposed to George Romero’s stiff and slow creatures. It is sometimes, like Pet Sematary, excluded from being included in the sub genre as its zombies are not technically dead but infected with a rare, behavior altering virus. The film is, however, a refreshing and powerful take on the undead genre.
This list’s final movie is one that helped to prove that comedy and zombies could exist peacefully together. It’s called “Zombieland” and it is about four loners who try to find sanctuary in a world that is filled with murderous undead. It also features antagonists that are more ferocious and faster and it manages to weave these elements into a story that’s both funny and dark.
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