Zombies

 

“When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth”

Zombie films are rarely cinematic masterpieces, but they can be a lot of fun, with a few having meaning beyond blood and brains.  Zombies have changed over the years.  In early films, starting with 1932's White Zombie, they were connected to voodoo or mesmerism.  They did not have to be dead, and never ate the living.  That changed in 1968 with George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead.  Since then, the zombies have been mindless rotting corpses that hunger for the flesh of the living.  The  standard zombie film plot has a group of mismatched survivors, fortified in a building, fighting the ever growing horde that wants to eat their brains and spread the "disease."  They are generally apocalyptic and seldom see the future of mankind as bright.     

My Zombie Film reviews: 

28 Days Later Attack of the Blind Dead The Beyond Beyond Re-Animator Bride of Re-Animator Cemetery Man C.H.U.D. II—Bud the Chud Corpse Bride Creepshow Dawn of the Dead '78 Dawn of the Dead '04 Day of the Dead Doom Flight of the Living Dead The Ghost Breakers The Haunted Mansion House of the Dead

I Walked With a Zombie I was a Teenage Zombie The Incredibly Strange Creatures... Land of the Dead Lifeforce Night of the Creeps Night of the Living Dead '68 Night of the Living Dead '90 La Noche del Terror Ciego Pet Sematary Planet Terror Re-Animator Resident Evil Resident Evil: Apocalypse Return of the Evil Dead Return of the Living Dead

Return of the Living Dead II Return of the Living Dead III Revolt of the Zombies Ring of Darkness Shaun of the Dead Tales from the Crypt Teenage Zombies Tombs of the Blind Dead Trancers Versus Voodoo Island The Walking Dead Waxwork Zombi 2 Zombie Nightmare Zombies on Broadway

 

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