THE MOST BONE-CRUNCHING, GUT-MUNCHING ZOMBIE FLICKS EVER!
September 29th 2009 22:41
The Bizarre list is in no particular order (always the safe option, but a bit of an opinionated cop-out if you ask me), and it’s only half as visceral as a top ten list should be; basically it simply isn’t hardcore enough. Call me old-fashioned, but zombie movies should kick fucking ass, and rip bloody shreds. Here's their selection:
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Dead Snow (2008)
Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
Re-Animator (1985)
Versus (2000)
[REC] (2007)
The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
White Zombie (1932)
Pontypool (2008)
You can view a clip and read a brief splurge from each movie on Bizarre’s list here. I Walked with a Zombie and White Zombie are more dusty boogeyman flicks, atmospheric, but hardly intense. Versus is more martial arts hybrid than anything else, and Pontypool is novel, but too intellectual for its own damn good. And, arguably, Romero should really have more than one entry, don’t you think? Okay. So now here’s my greatest zombie flicks ever: soaked in atmosphere, drenched in gore. Curiously I included more comedies than I thought I would (five in fact!), but none quite as plain ridiculous as Dead Snow. Just quietly, but I couldn’t constrict my selection to ten; I had to go with my Horrorphile rule of 13, hey, my prerogative. So, in no particular order … well, actually …
Still the last word; an ominous, apocalyptic tour-de-force, and the darkest day of horror the world has ever known.
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
The first “modern” horror movie and it eats most others for breakfast … even in black and white.
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Probably the cleverest and funniest horror comedy ever made.
A claustrophobic and inventive Spanish shocker coupled with a rarely superb Hollywood remake (made less than a year later) that takes the severed limb and runs with it.
Braindead (1992)
I worked on this piece of splat-stick low-budget brilliance so I’m a little biased, but hey, its claim of being the most over-the-top zombie flick is fair call.
Re-Animator (1985)
Back in the days when the MPAA weren’t quite sure what the hell was going on, Stuart Gordon was indeed raising hell.
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
The first seriously good Hollywood remake since John Carpenter blew the roof off with his take on The Thing (1982).
Planet Terror (2006)
Robert Rodriguez’s passionate tribute to the grime-infested glory days of the grindhouse cinema sessions is an oozing, chuck(le)-fest.
28 Weeks Later (2007)
This sequel’s Rage ravaged the original in terms of ferocity and nightmare scope.
As pure date stamp this relatively tame, but still wildly entertaining new wave is zombie gold. “Send more paramedics …”
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)
A rarely seen, but exceptionally creepy, Spanish invasion of the undead, set in the English countryside.
The Beyond (1981)
Lucio Fulci’s surreal “masterpiece” yarn of the seven doors of hell being opened, unleashing the shuffling, putrid flesh-eaters upon the unsuspecting; a fitting oneiric end.
Here's the original and genuinely unnerving trailer for Day of the Dead, from zombie master George Romero:
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Comment by JohnDoe
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Great List as always.
Personally i really enjoyed Cemetery Man (1994) when it was released but maybe time hasn't been kind to it.
Does Coscareli's Phantasm or Craven's Serpent and the Rainbow count?
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But if we are talking about eating brain parts, how about the pineal gland in From Beyond
Or was it the pituitary. Some times I get my edible brain glands mixed up.
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