31 Days of Halloween: Day #18… My Top Zombie Flicks
Hello Friends and welcome to Day #18 in my 31 Days of Halloween series!
This is a later start for me today (in posting). This morning I was under the weather and then I had rental car issues, and just life…ya know it happens. But I’m here as I don’t want to miss a day but I also want to take time to tend to the needs of my body. No me…no post, right.
Today I’m sharing my top zombie flicks to watch. With only a few new entries this list is almost the same as last years, but always good fun every Halloween.
My Take on Zombie Movies
Zombie movies border on the real-life threat of contagion (of some sort), and the horde of the dead. (Huh…imagine that) From the funny side of these movies, with slow-moving zombies, to track-race zombies, and zombies that talk … there is no way to avoid the apocalypse. (According to the movies below)
There are hundreds of fringe zombie movies bordering on the strange, to the cult-classic and if you like the gore, there’s plenty to go around. To make it more fun I’ve included the trailers for each movie, and the streaming link. These are fmy fav’s so I’ve watched each one at least once or more like 10 times.
Zombie Quote
Disclaimer … disclaimer
Zombie movies (animated ones being the exeption like Paranorman) are not for young audiences. There is sex, language, gore, nudity and graphic scenes…and you get it.
1. Return of the Living Dead, 1985When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies. TRAILER |
2. Night of the Living Dead, 1968A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricades themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a bloodthirsty, flesh-eating breed of monsters who are ravaging the East Coast of the United States. TRAILER “They’re coming to get you Barbara!” |
3. Shaun of the Dead, 2004There comes a day in every man’s life when he has to get off the couch – and kill some zombies. When flesh-eating zombies are on the hunt for a bite to eat, it’s up to slacker Shaun (Simon Pegg) and his best pal (Nick Frost) to save their friends and family from becoming the next entree. TRAILER |
4. Train to Buscan, 2016A man (Gong Yoo), his estranged daughter and other passengers become trapped on a speeding train during a zombie outbreak in South Korea. TRAILER |
5. 28 Days Later, 2002A group of misguided animal rights activists frees a caged chimp infected with the “Rage” virus from a medical research lab. When London bike courier wakes up from a coma a month after, he finds his city all but deserted. On the run from the zombie-like victims of the Rage. TRAILER |
6. Resident Evil, 2002A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident. TRAILER |
7. The Dead Don’t Die, 2019In the sleepy small town of Centerville, something is not quite right. The moon hangs large and low in the sky, the hours of daylight are becoming unpredictable, and animals are beginning to exhibit unusual behaviours. News reports are scary, and scientists are concerned, but no one foresees the strangest and most dangerous repercussion that will soon start plaguing Centerville: the dead rise from their graves and feast on the living, and the citizens must battle to survive. TRAILER |
8. Night of the Creeps, 1986In this campy chiller, a college couple, in 1959, see an object plummet to Earth like a meteor. The boy accidentally swallows a space-slug that shoots out. In 1986, two freshmen roam the campus and stumble across the corpse of the boy who swallowed the space-slug. Once thawed out, the corpse comes to life. TRAILER |
9. ParaNorman, 2012From the makers of Coraline comes the magically thrilling story of Norman, a boy who must use his ability to see and speak with the dead to save his town from a centuries-old curse. TRAILER |
10. Zombieland, 2009A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America. TRAILER |
My list is in no particular order and rounds out the early beginnings to the mid-2000s. So … What’s your favorite zombie movie? or … Are you NOT a fan. Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments.
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