Thursday, April 29, 2010

What are the five greatest zombie movies?

17 comments:

Sean said...

OOH!
1. Night of the Living Dead.
2. Dead Alive.
3. Shaun of the Dead.
4. Return of the Living Dead.
5. Reanimator.
Honorable mentions:
-Zombi (best soundtrack)
-28 Days Later (revival - no pun intended)
-Plan 9 from Outer Space (sheer brilliance)

(If anyone EVER wants to watch Zombie movies, call me: 774-437-1698)
- Sean

Leslie said...

I only have three:
Zombieland
Shaun of the Dead
Planet Terror

But I'd like to see:
28 Days later and Fido

Sean, let's have a zombie watching party. I nominate Rob's place as the location. It's awesome.

Sean said...

OOH-OOH! Almost forgot!

Wild Zero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_D9OjDoQ0

Starring my favorite Japanese Rock band of all time, Guitar Wolf. You won't be sorry for checking this clip.

John said...

This is actually a question I should bump to a non QOTD coworker who loves these movies.

Not really a zombie movie fan, so if I ranked 5 it would just really be the ones I remember watching.

I will say, if the point of a zombie movie is to be 50% laughs and 50% WTF...it doesn't get any better than Dead Alive (or Braindead). I'll say it, easily Peter Jackson's most enjoyable film. Fuck Frodo.

John W said...

Tim Morris is going to spend all day composing and recomposing his answer. Leslie, you realize asking Tim this question is like asking Brodie from Mallrats which comic book character he would be.

Sean said...

Holy Crap, Leslie! If you give me the go-ahead. I'll lock-and-load my Netflix with decapitation and cannibal scenes, burn Zombie-Party mix CDs, make finger-food (heh), and dress for the occassion.

erin said...

Zombieland is my favorite of the very recent ones. Love 28 days and 28 weeks (months?) later. Shaun of the Dead is fantastic as well. I rather enjoyed Dawn of the Dead too. I consider Night of the Living Dead a given.

I have this movie in my queue right now "Dead Snow" or something. It is about Nazi zombies.

Mike said...

Shaun of the Dead was awesome. Can't imagine any zombie movie being better. 28 days later was good also. Haven't seen too many zombie movies.

Unknown said...

i don't like scary/zombie movies, so i'm gonna have to go with the music video for Thriller.

Dan said...

1) 28 Days Later
2) Shaun of the Dead
3) Zombieland
4) Army of Darkness
5) Dead Alive

"What no pudding?!"

Andrew said...

I cannot believe no one has mentioned Leprechaun 5 "In Da Hood." One of the best, nay, THE BEST movie to feature zombie fly girls.

Unknown said...

John, you are correct! (also, nice Mallrats reference)

but, I have settled on ...

Planet Terror
Shaun of the Dead
Dawn of the Dead (both versions)
Return of the Living Dead
Reanimator

Sean said...

Dan, Army of Darkness was a great action/horror movie, but I don't think it counts as a "zombie movie". The army of mobilized corpses were POSESSED, which is different from being REANIMATED in the strictest sense. You might be able to argue that it's a "hell-spawn movie", or even a "mummy movie", but them ain't zombies. Zombie only work fo' they stomach, kna' mean? (With all due respect to Sam Raimi and the greatest chin in Hollywood.)

beenu said...

leprechaun and sean of the dead. zombieland was only awesome thanks to bill murray.

Unknown said...

Shaun of the Dead
Dead Alive

Only two I've ever seen, and I LOVE them.

K8 said...

i knew sean would be first to post. what he said.

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