Whats your favorite zombie FILM and why?

[Noname215]

Originally Posted by ozzmann

How about The Serpent and The Rainbow?

Corny, yet a decent movie. Worth watching.

Here’s another great one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N5-UzUxBss

[WarDragon989]

Where Dawn of the Dead remake? :O

[Noname215]

The zombies ate it already.

[Miaou50]

Originally Posted by WarDragon989

Where Dawn of the Dead remake? :O

It is a really really good "modern" zombie movie

[ItsMeArmani]

Originally Posted by Miaou50

It is a really really good "modern" zombie movie

Yeah it was. Should have made it an option.

[Noname215]

I’ve been working on a script for a zombie movie called Calypse. So far, the guys who want to do it seem to be liking it (they are young guys right out of film school. They’re paying me $5,000).

[itwasmoi]

Not a Movie but a great tv series - Dead Set http://youtu.be/Pz7Kuud2Dgg

[WD40]

My favorite isn't on the list... EVIL DEAD!

I can't really pick my favorite, but if I had to choose, Evil Dead 2 is the best of the trilogy, with the first being retconned away (understandably) and the third, despite having the most memorable lines, trying way too hard to be funny and not all too scary.

Evil Dead 2 was the perfect blend of dark humor and scariness. Also, the part where everything is laughing is the only time something has ever been scary and funny at the same time with such success.

In conclusion, Evil Dead should be in the poll. It isn't traditional zombies, but neither is 28 Days Later.

[HiggsBoson2142]

Shaun of the Dead of course!

[JordyLicht]

It's still Shaun of the Dead for me. I love the British humour combined with zombies and just the general sillyness of it all.
The cast, story, effects, they're all awesome.

[Chuck Daly]

Evil Dead is far from a zombie movie. It is a classic demon possession movie. The only people come back are those possessed by the demon of the book. Loved the movie though.

[distortion]

28 Days Later. I don't know why people don't consider it to be a zombie flick. Just because they're not shuffling along on broken ankles with their arms outstretched doesn't mean they aren't the undead. It's even scarier thinking they can run just as fast as you can.

[watertommyz]

Originally Posted by Cyreen

What? Where's Shaun of the Dead?

This.

For a serious answer though, I think I'd have to go with the original Dawn of the Dead. It flows nicely from The Night of the Living Dead with how they handled the opening.

Originally Posted by Chuck Daly

Evil Dead is far from a zombie movie. It is a classic demon possession movie. The only people come back are those possessed by the demon of the book. Loved the movie though.

There are zombies in Army of Darkness. Sure, it may not be the traditional undead soldier, but they're still there.

Anyway, I find Day of the Dead to be an underrated Romero film, and it's nowhere as bad as people make it out to be. Plus, Bub! Who can hate a lovable zombie?

[HiggsBoson2142]

Originally Posted by watertommyz

There are zombies in Army of Darkness. Sure, it may not be the traditional undead soldier, but they're still there.

Groovy...

[thestalkinghead]

Originally Posted by distortion

28 Days Later. I don't know why people don't consider it to be a zombie flick. Just because they're not shuffling along on broken ankles with their arms outstretched doesn't mean they aren't the undead. It's even scarier thinking they can run just as fast as you can.

I'm not 100% sure but i think the infected in 28 days later aren't dead just insanely angry

[Woodsyblue]

Originally Posted by distortion

28 Days Later. I don't know why people don't consider it to be a zombie flick.

Some people don't consider it to be a zombie flick because before the film was released director Danny Boyle specifically said that it wasn't a zombie film. He later retracted those comments.

[distortion]

Originally Posted by thestalkinghead

I'm not 100% sure but i think the infected in 28 days later aren't dead just insanely angry

Infected with Rage, yeah. Though it could just be a different understanding of the same thing, maybe. They still do all the same things as zombies. The argument could also be made that they die and come back to life too, just far faster than in any other movie.

Originally Posted by Woodsyblue

Some people don't consider it to be a zombie flick because before the film was released director Danny Boyle specifically said that it wasn't a zombie film. He later retracted those comments.

There's something I didn't know. Though if he retracted them, maybe he changed his mind and thought it should be considered among the zombie genre.

[trd84]

People don't consider 28 days later zombies because they're not dead. It's why they starved out. And why they were fast because their muscles weren't deteriorating. But I still think of them as zombies. They're mindless aggressive people who's goal it seems is to attack uninfected people.

[thestalkinghead]

Originally Posted by trd84

People don't consider 28 days later zombies because they're not dead. It's why they starved out. And why they were fast because their muscles weren't deteriorating. But I still think of them as zombies. They're mindless aggressive people who's goal it seems is to attack uninfected people.

yeah i think its the mindless and relentless aspect of them that puts them in the zombie genre even though they aren't really zombies

[watertommyz]

Originally Posted by thestalkinghead

yeah i think its the mindless and relentless aspect of them that puts them in the zombie genre even though they aren't really zombies

I would consider it a special case, kind of like Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, which created the entire apocalyptic survivor story antagonized by the undead genre, which vampires were the culprit. That story would later on inspire George A. Romero to write his own short story, and ultimately lead to The Night of the Living Dead.

So, it's not terribly hard to accept it as a zombie film. It's just alternative.

Originally Posted by HiggsBoson2142

Groovy...

I seriously need to rewatch that film. It's been awhile.