Your favorite zombie movies / series?

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[Higgs]

Gotta still be The Walking Dead, Had a few rocky seasons, but a new showrunner helped it get back on its feet. The first two seasons are outstanding, especially though. Great characters, casting, acting and storylines between them all. Rick and Shane dynamic is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ classic. Seeing Rick evolve into such a beast in S5 from everything he went through was so satisfying. Very disappointed none of them won any award for their performances, especially Andrew Lincoln. So many bathshit insane moments, speeches of trying to make people who haven't been on 'the road' understand how brutal it is. Never a dull moment once the pilot establishes itself, honestly.

I know people always complain about human focus, but I point to S8 'All Out War' which shows just because it's all action, doesn't make it nonsensical, boring and dragged out.

Outside of that, I really liked the remake of The Crazies (2010), also liked Pontypool quite a lot, Train to Busan is brilliant. Y'know, even the TV show iZombie for how awful the title is, was surprisingly good. Though that's not a show trying to take itself seriously.

[Kurogo]

My 3 favorite movies: Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, & Fido. I like zomcoms

[Animalman]

I see why u like pontypool but was a let down for me because there wasn’t really any zombies until the end.

I liked Rec if you’ve seen it, there was a trilogy it’s a Spanish zombie type supernatural movie. It was done really well but sort of turned stupid towards the end of the trilogy. First movie was very much Zombie.

I’ve watched those old black and white voodoo zombie films and they are pretty fun to watch.


This is to avoid suggesting the obvious like 28 days later dawn of dead etc

[Cold_Spartan]

Dead Set is really good, set in the UK. 90% of the horror is the effing sky.

[Greb]

I only like zombies because of video games, really. Resident Evil and Dead Rising specifically, but also a little bit of Red Dead Redemption's Undead Nightmare DLC. I've never really watched any TV or movie stuff, at least not enough to really take it in. Walking Dead was one of those shows I didn't like, although I can't really remember why. I used to laugh about the grass not being overgrown and the weapons not functioning properly though.

I remember one TV show with zombies in it that was almost B-tier but I was interested in it for a while, I don't know what it was called but it had some prisoner guy who was being experimented on for a zombie virus cure, but ended up getting attacked by zombies halfway through...and he ended up becoming "cured" of sort, he started looking like a zombie himself but was still alive / human, and other zombies would ignore him. Was also some nerd dude living in Antarctica or something too. Very cheesy overall if I recall, but still kinda neat.

Dead Snow was a cool movie, but they weren't really zombies, more like ghouls or something, or just cursed humans or something. Zombies will most of their intelligence and mobility intact, can hardly be called zombies lol. And another movie with some badass black zombie that was smart enough to figure stuff out, where the zombies were scared of water and commonly tricked by fireworks into not attacking the human survivors, but this black zombie dude wasn't afraid of the water or tricked by the fireworks, and managed to rally the other zombies into not falling for it either. Again...don't remember the name lol, but I remember the movie being kinda cool?

[Eekhoorn]

Despite horror being my favorite genre, the only zombie movie I ever "liked" was Braindead (the old one from Jackson... is there a remake?) and that was for all the wrong reasons. It's called suspension of disbelief... and I don't have it. Couldn't stop laughing... it's so ridiculous.

And it's not I haven't tried a few. When horror is your favorite genre and the eighties is your favorite time period for it, zombie movies are inevitable. But I just can't get into them.

After playing this game (which I never thought I would like), naturally I popped in a zombie movie... tried "Dawn of the Dead from 2007". Same result, again... since I'd already seen it.

Apparently zombie aren't my thing. That's why I am so surprised this game completely absorbs me.

[Kurogo]

Escrito originalmente por Greb:

I only like zombies because of video games, really. Resident Evil and Dead Rising specifically, but also a little bit of Red Dead Redemption's Undead Nightmare DLC. I've never really watched any TV or movie stuff, at least not enough to really take it in. Walking Dead was one of those shows I didn't like, although I can't really remember why. I used to laugh about the grass not being overgrown and the weapons not functioning properly though.

I remember one TV show with zombies in it that was almost B-tier but I was interested in it for a while, I don't know what it was called but it had some prisoner guy who was being experimented on for a zombie virus cure, but ended up getting attacked by zombies halfway through...and he ended up becoming "cured" of sort, he started looking like a zombie himself but was still alive / human, and other zombies would ignore him. Was also some nerd dude living in Antarctica or something too. Very cheesy overall if I recall, but still kinda neat.

Dead Snow was a cool movie, but they weren't really zombies, more like ghouls or something, or just cursed humans or something. Zombies will most of their intelligence and mobility intact, can hardly be called zombies lol. And another movie with some badass black zombie that was smart enough to figure stuff out, where the zombies were scared of water and commonly tricked by fireworks into not attacking the human survivors, but this black zombie dude wasn't afraid of the water or tricked by the fireworks, and managed to rally the other zombies into not falling for it either. Again...don't remember the name lol, but I remember the movie being kinda cool?

That show you can’t remember was Z Nation and the last movie was Land of the Dead.

[Greb]

Thank you! I'll try to remember but I know I'll just forget again, but still, thank you

[alden.monzon]

Train to Busan and Kingdom are already pretty good.

[Commander_Black]

- Dawn of the dead (realistic)
- Shawn of the dead (hilarious)
- Zombieland 1 (funny)
- The Walking Dead Series (realistic)

There surely are better zombie movies out there but these are my favourite of all time.

[Kaldrak]

I still really enjoy the slower pacing, themes, and atmosphere of the original Romero trilogy (Night/Dawn/Day of the Dead). Really like Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, and the first two seasons of TWD, (plus all of Telltales TWD games).

Train to Busan is quite good, but if we're talking foreign zombie movies, few are as relentlessly violent and tense as La Horde. Definitely worth a watch if you've never heard of it.

Course I also really enjoy 28 Days later, for what was a bunch of genre breaking stuff at the time (and I despise 28 Weeks Later for Reversing almost everything that made 28 Days later great). And if we're including 'infected' type movies in this, I actually stopped watching Quarantine about 20 minutes to the end of the movie as it was too intense for me. It was based off of the foreign title REC, if anyone is curious. I've never really felt the need to go back.

I thoroughly enjoy most bad zombie movies, but even I was unable to enjoy the second Resident Evil movie. The rest of them have been hilariously bad cheese, however, except the first one which was a decent enough standalone zombie movie, especially if you like Milla Jovovich.

What else what else....Oh, there's this crazy series I forget the name of where the zombies are intelligent and are caused by some kind of chemical compound. Anyone know the name of it? I'm blanking on it right now. Enjoyable popcorn flicks, imo.

[Kurogo]

Escrito originalmente por Kaldrak:

I still really enjoy the slower pacing, themes, and atmosphere of the original Romero trilogy (Night/Dawn/Day of the Dead). Really like Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, and the first two seasons of TWD, (plus all of Telltales TWD games).

Train to Busan is quite good, but if we're talking foreign zombie movies, few are as relentlessly violent and tense as La Horde. Definitely worth a watch if you've never heard of it.

Course I also really enjoy 28 Days later, for what was a bunch of genre breaking stuff at the time (and I despise 28 Weeks Later for Reversing almost everything that made 28 Days later great). And if we're including 'infected' type movies in this, I actually stopped watching Quarantine about 20 minutes to the end of the movie as it was too intense for me. It was based off of the foreign title REC, if anyone is curious. I've never really felt the need to go back.

I thoroughly enjoy most bad zombie movies, but even I was unable to enjoy the second Resident Evil movie. The rest of them have been hilariously bad cheese, however, except the first one which was a decent enough standalone zombie movie, especially if you like Milla Jovovich.

What else what else....Oh, there's this crazy series I forget the name of where the zombies are intelligent and are caused by some kind of chemical compound. Anyone know the name of it? I'm blanking on it right now. Enjoyable popcorn flicks, imo.

Was that series movies? First thing that comes to mind is the “…of the Living Dead” movies.

[Kaldrak]

Escrito originalmente por Kurogo:

Was that series movies? First thing that comes to mind is the “…of the Living Dead” movies.

It's the "Return of the Living Dead" series.

Man...naming conventions for zombie stuff is kinda similar, lol. Looks like the director worked with Romero on the original Night of the Living Dead though. Interesting.

Anyone else like anime zombie series? There aren't that many of them, but High School of the Dead does the zombie part right (gratuitously ridiculous fanservice abounds if you like/dislike that sort of thing).

Oh and School Live is really good. (Just revealing it as a zombie series spoils the first episode though. Oh well.)

[Xenologer]

i was just reading through this topic hoping to find a new title i didn't see yet.... i couldn't find any, it seems i am watching way too much zombie flicks.

one more worth mentioning is the netflix series 'Black Summer'
it gets a lot of bashing for annoyingly stupid characters, but i think it shows surprisingly 'realistic' behavior of very average people. people without any knowledge of the genre would be expected to fail miserably in stressful situation during a zombie outbreak.

and of course the original 'dawn of the dead' from 1978 is still worth watching for every fan of the genre.

[Animalman]

Nobody put resident evil movie series as their fav lol


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