No matter what they're like, I have a plan mapped out. Going to the Winchester, having a pint, and waiting for all of it to blow over.

Zombies, my favourite horror genre.

Walking dead, Zombieland, Of the Dead. These are propper Zombies, driven by the need to feed, easy to kill one on one but unstoppable on mass.

What is your weapon of choice when combatting the Zombie hordes, I suspect flinging Vinyl LP's will have a limited degree of effectiveness....

Who said that Zombies are driven by the need to feed?

Zombie Strippers is an awful, awful movie :lol:

Top 10 Zombie Movies

by Brian Linder & Scott Collura

IGN picks its favorites in the undead genre.
US, February 11, 2008

by Brian Linder & Scott Collura

With legendary zombie filmmaker George A. Romero resurrecting the living dead for his new film, Diary of the Dead, which hits theaters this weekend, we're counting down our choices for the top 10 zombie movies of all time.

But before we get to the list... When discussing any grouping of zombie films, the question of what exactly defines a zombie is sure to come up. For our purposes here, we've opted to use a rather rigid definition. These are only undead films. Non-reanimated corpses need not apply! For example, you'll note that we've left out films from Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series on the technicality that they're more about demon possession than zombies. (Had we used more liberal criteria, Army of Darkness would certainly have made the list, as well as Evil Dead II.) We've also excluded movies like 28 Days Later due to the fact that the baddies there are merely virus-infected living humans. And voodoo-related stuff is right out, so that takes care of any of the pre-Romero business. Furthermore, we've opted to be total purist geeks and exclude any "HMO zombies," such as the pharmaceutically-enhanced dead in Re-Animator and Serpent and the Rainbow.

And, yeah, we know there are some very worthy films that didn't make the list, but we had to choose 10.

10. Braindead (Dead Alive)

Peter Jackon's 1992 film Braindead, retitled Dead Alive for North American release, is a gore-filled, slapsticky affair that follows a young man, Lionel, whose mother is bitten by a "rat monkey." She dies and comes back to life as a ravenous reanimated corpse with a rather indiscriminate palate -- she even eats dogs! The movie culminates with a sensational battle between Lionel and his friends, and a horde of ruthless zombies (including their reanimated body parts), as well as a memorable final showdown with his now-grotesquely transformed mother.

9. Land of the Dead

The fourth installment in George A. Romero's Dead series, 2005's Land of the Dead marked the legendary zombie helmer's return to the franchise after a 20-year break. The epic-feeling flick stars Dennis Hopper, Asia Argento and John Leguizamo as survivors in a world overrun by the living dead. The wealthy are holed up in well-secured skyscrapers, while others must fend for themselves in the streets. Can a group of hardened mercenaries save the living from the dead? Or will the ever-evolving army of dead wipe out the last remnants of humankind?

8. The Return of the Living Dead

After the release of the original Night of the Living Dead, director Romero and his then-partner and co-writer John Russo went their separate ways to make their own follow-ups to the hugely successful film. Russo reportedly got the rights to the term "Living Dead," and that's how the Return series was born -- a group of films of greatly diminishing returns, so to speak, that bears some similarities to Romero's oeuvre but plenty of differences as well.

The original Return remains a classic, albeit a dated one, because of writer-director Dan O'Bannon's (Alien) comedic take on the material, as well as the now de rigueur zombie hunger for "braaaiiinnnnss!!!!!" that was first established here. O'Bannon's undead also distinguish themselves with their ability to run, and run fast, rather than simply stagger along, as well as with their inability to be "killed" (beyond incineration or having an A-bomb dropped on them, that is). And the un-winnable scenario that the director places his characters in is dark, dark, dark, despite the humor of the film. Also, Linnea Quigley -- as the hot, naked, redheaded punk-rocker zombie Trash -- merits Return's inclusion on this list alone.

7. Plan 9 from Outer Space

Writer-director-producer-editor-actor Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s Plan 9 from Outer Space may be regarded by many as being the worst movie in the long and storied history of bad cinema, but that's something of a misnomer for, in fact, Plan 9 is so bad that it's actually good, an enjoyable piece of crap that one can't take their eyes off of once it's started unspooling in glorious muted and grainy black & white. And though it is not commonly remembered among film fans, the "Plan 9" of the title is actually the film's hostile aliens' scenario for invading the Earth via, and we quote here, "long-distance electrodes shot into the pineal and pituitary gland of the recently dead." We're talking zombies, baby!

Originally called Grave Robbers from Outer Space, the film's most noteworthy recipients of this electrode-zombifying process are Tor Johnson, Vampira, and a stand-in for a recently deceased (and, alas, not resurrected in real life) Bela Lugosi. No flesh-eating takes place in the film, though plenty of standard-issue undead walking about goes on, with Johnson proving that his getting voted in high school as "Most Likely to Play a Zombie" was no fluke.
126. Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Before he made 300, director Zack Snyder helmed a successful reimagining of Romero's 1978 genre classic Dawn of the Dead (more on that film below). Starring Ving Rhames, Sarah Polley and Jake Weber in a "Mall of the Living Dead" scenario in which a motley crew of survivors join forces to fight the undead (just where you would expect them to be) inside a Wisconsin shopping center. And while it doesn't best the original, in many ways it's a technically superior film with the advantage of modern-day make-up and visual effects.


5. Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetery Man)

Any zombie movie that includes "that dude from My Best Friend's Wedding" will automatically be included on our list. But it's not just the presence of a young Rupert Everett that makes this 1994 Italian film worthy of inclusion. From Dario Argento protégé Michele Soavi, Dellamorte Dellamore (you may know it as Cemetery Man if you're in the U.S.) has become a genre favorite. Filmmaker Martin Scorsese even called the film one of the best movies of the 1990s, so you know it ain't no joke. Everett plays the caretaker of a graveyard in the small town of Buffalora, Italy where the dead have been coming back to life. By day he tends the grounds and repairs tombstones, but by night he dispenses with the undead. "This is my business," he says before wearily doing away with a zombie motorcyclist. "They pay me for it."

4. Zombi 2 (Zombie)

While the movie doesn't actually have any connection to the original Zombi (a recut-for-Europe version of Romero's Dawn of the Dead), this film sparked a zombie movie craze across Europe and made Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci a horror icon. The flick follows a group of people searching for a missing man on a tropical island where a doctor is desperately searching for the cause of a recent epidemic of the undead. Zombi 2 is known for its sensational zombie antics such as the notorious eye-gouging, and jugular-biting moments, as well as (wait for it...) zombie vs. shark wrestling! The 1979 movie was released in the U.S. as Zombie.

3. Shaun of the Dead

Following in the social satire tradition of George Romero's zombie flicks, but played much more as a comedy than a straight-up horror film, Shaun of the Dead ranks as one of the most all-around entertaining zombie movies ever made. Telling the story of unambitious electronics salesman Shaun (Simon Pegg) as he races across town to save his girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield), who recently dumped him, from the undead. Shaun boasts some great characters (including Shaun's best friend, Ed, played by Nick Frost), hilarious scenes, and very funny lines, all mixed in with some real scares that elevate it above stock zombie films.


2. Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Launching into its sordid story with only the slightest of explanations, this film is at once a thrill ride and a mood piece: Ken Foree exudes calming authority as Peter, the S.W.A.T. team leader who anchors a foursome of refugees who hole up in a shopping mall after humanity discovers "there's no more room in hell." While much has been made in subsequent years of the film's running anti-consumerist commentary, the film proves to be much more interesting as a character study than a treatise on the dangers of too much shopping; but a healthy dose of gore, combined with some wicked humor and considerable invention on the part of the filmmakers make Dawn a genre classic.

1. Night of the Living Dead

The granddaddy of the modern zombie genre, Romero's Night of the Living Dead rethought what a zombie movie could be, removing the shambling creatures from the realm of voodoo and black magic and Haitian jungles and placing them squarely in the backyard of middle-class America, with no clear explanation of the ghouls' origins but plenty of sociological and political subtext surrounding the undead things. A low budget indie that was, according to Romero, heavily influenced by Richard Matheson's vampire novel I Am Legend and the subsequent Vincent Price film version of Legend called The Last Man on Earth, Night would prove to be immensely influential itself on everything from modern, high-profile "zombie" pictures like 28 Days Later to countless low-budget cheapie rip-offs to, decades after its initial release, videogame franchises such as Resident Evil.

That several of Romero's sequels to Night also made this list speaks to the enduring appeal of the basic premise of the original film: The zombies outside are frightful, but the siege mentality indoors is delightful as a handful of presumably smart survivors hunker down in a shelter. Should be enough to stay alive, right? Well, not when man-versus-man conflicts prove to be the real threat! They're coming to get you, Barbara, is right. And they apparently always will be…

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Re speed of movement, etc., I was always of the opinion that as they are undead and unable to take in nutrients no matter how much they eat, etc., movement would be somewhat limited as time went on and the muscles decomposed. A certain amount of atrophy and rigor would also be in effect.

What is your weapon of choice when combatting the Zombie hordes, I suspect flinging Vinyl LP's will have a limited degree of effectiveness....

Really enjoying the Walking Dead comics at the moment.