Best Zombie Movie

[Oberon]

There are plenty of Zed Movies most of them are Trash but there are some masterpieces who are definitely worth to view them..

Post your favourite zombie movie if it isn't contained in the poll ..
btw. the name zombie has his roots in the haitian culture..

my favourite is "Shaun of the Dead" :kosta: .. because it's so friggin funny :[img]http://www.abandonia.com/forum/html/emoticons/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /> :roflol: :[img]http://www.abandonia.com/forum/html/emoticons/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /> ... i love it.

[TheGiantMidgit]

Army of Darkness for me, a study in hilarity.

[TheVoid]

Haven't seen any of those, so I guess mine is a null vote.

[Chuck the plant]

Where's "DAY of the Dead"? Easily the best one as far as "serious" Zombie-movies go.
But the "Evil Dead"-series has its moments, too.

Most of the other suff is pure crap (INCLUDING "Braindead" and "Shaun")...

[Oberon]

Originally posted by TheGiantMidgit@Nov 25 2005, 11:51 PM
Army of Darkness for me, a study in hilarity.
Yeah AOD is also one of my favourites.. i've just watching it on TV... but i have to say that Evil Dead 1&2 was much more scary then Army of Darkness..

Chuck the plant: sorry but i've never heard from that movie.. but i'll add it to the list
:bleh:
:Edit: damnit no poll edit funtion :ranting:

[A. J. Raffles]

27 voting options, huh? Isn't that a bit much?:blink:

Well, I've never seen a zombie film in my life, I'm afraid. Null vote.:)

[Oberon]

Man you killing me, it's my first poll here and there are already more null votes than pick votes...

27 voting options, huh? Isn't that a bit much?
maybe a bit to much but there are still zed movies who aren't contained in my list..
some rare ones like "Day of Dead" :bleh:

[BeefontheBone]

Shaun every time - absolutely hilarious yet still a proper zombie movie. Other than that, I quite enjoyed 28 Days Later, but Dawn probably wins out.

[moogle]

I don't know what to vote, are we voting on the best zombie film as in horror, or as in comedy Horror?
:blink:

[Chuck the plant]

Originally posted by Oberon@Nov 26 2005, 12:55 AM
some rare ones like "Day of Dead"* :bleh:
Actually, it's the third part of Romero's original "Dead"-trilogy, so one SHOULD've at least heard about it when making a "zombie-movie"-poll... :whistle:

EDIT: obviously, the other Romero-movies (except for "Land") weren't meant by my "crap"-comment... :angel:

[Eva02Soul]

it's also the most butchered. Has anyone read the Original script by Romero? so different to the finished product

[Chuck the plant]

Yep. The final movie was way better than the script. More tension, less stupid ideas like "soldier zombies". In fact, "Land" borrowed heavily from that script and look ehat happened...

@ Oberon: And why did you include "Dead Alive" AND "Braindead"? It's the same movie, only different titles. :blink:

[Sean]

Original DOD was all I remember seeing and it *dirty word* owned my socks.

[allyfaucet]

Re-Animator LOL

So old and stupid, it was funny! Kinda sick, though :ph34r:

[Oberon]

Originally posted by Chuck the plant+Nov 26 2005, 02:15 AM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Chuck the plant @ Nov 26 2005, 02:15 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ******QuoteBegin-Oberon@Nov 26 2005, 12:55 AM
some rare ones like "Day of Dead"* :bleh:
Actually, it's the third part of Romero's original "Dead"-trilogy, so one SHOULD've at least heard about it when making a "zombie-movie"-poll... :whistle:

EDIT: obviously, the other Romero-movies (except for "Land") weren't meant by my "crap"-comment... :angel: [/b][/quote]
you don't mean "Dawn of the death" don't you? well if that's the case than i have to say no i've never heard from this movie.. the romero zombie movie chronology seems to be a bit confusing.. they differ from country to country. here in germany the chronology appears in the following order: Notld - DotD/Zombie 1 - Zombie 2 - Lotd ..

Originally posted by Chuck the plant

@ Oberon: And why did you include "Dead Alive" AND "Braindead"? It's the same movie, only different titles.
hmm? thats new to me.. well i have to confess that i've never watched "Dead alive"
so i couldn't know that both are one and the same movie..

[Chuck the plant]

THAT clears it... didn't know you were german as well, so I thought by "Zombie 2" you meant the sequal to that Lucio Fulci-movie! :<!--emo&LOL:-->http://www.abandonia.com/forum/html/emoticons/laugh.gif<!--endemo-->

In that case, "Zombie 2" was the german title for "Day"... :ok: but I think you should've chosen the original/international titles instead, because NOW it can get REALLY confusing! :<!--emo&LOL:-->http://www.abandonia.com/forum/html/emoticons/laugh.gif<!--endemo-->

[Oberon]

:[img]http://www.abandonia.com/forum/html/emoticons/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /> lucio yeah i saw this one too.. but i'll better don't come with my opinion
about that movie here.. &/%$*
ok looks like the myst about the lost romero movie is revealed now.. i don't know why there always have to be different movie titles..

[Shunk Eat Enemy]

I'd say amry of darkness its a definite. It's a ''funny'' zombie movie + Ash is just awsome :kosta:

[Bobbin Threadbare]

This site has the most info on zombie movies...


That site's dimwitted, please stop posting it - Havell

[Chuck the plant]

Go away. This topic is about ZOMBIES, not trolls! :bleh: :sneaky:

[Eva02Soul]

What about the movie Virus? Would those biomechanical humans be considered as zombies?

[Schabernakel-anbeter]

High

I thing evil dead 1+2 were the scariest and bloodiest.
evil dead 3 the funniest

and braindead was sth between so i voted for it.

nevertheless I didnt see any of the others cause of the german censureship and all this crap

[Toxik]

The best is of course Choking hazard!
Or where else you can see jehovist porn actor and blind zombie philosopher?

[Xikarita]

My fav. zombie movie is not even listed here (not that I pay much attention to those :bleh: )

It's named I'll see you in my dreams , made in Portugal...with soundtrack by Moonspell! :evil:

[moogle]

I'm watching Evil Dead 1 tonight....for Bruce Campell is the king of all "B grade" movies 9Although as I hear its hardly "a B movie" ;) )

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Shawn of the Dead. Talk about hilarious.

EDIt Now I remember, the Shawn of the Dead guy was the crazy owner of the book shop Goliath books in Black Books.

LOL

Classic

[amazoness girl]

How could you make me choose between resident evil and 28 days later?!

[Blood-Pigggy]

None mentioned here compare with "I Walked with a Zombie (1943) or even "White Zombie (1932)".

@Moogle: Who told you it's hardly a "B" movie? Evil Dead is the throne of "B" movies, in the days when films cost up to 10 million dollars, a couple of hardly adult people use one hundred thousand dollars saved from a student film and a bunch of dubious investors, to create a movie that is now a cult classic, :ok:

[SupSuper]

Army of Darkness. Only one I've seen.

[amazoness girl]

I just thought Michael Jacksons 'Thriller' for some reason... of course the zombies are all dancing in that so I don't really think it counts???

[Blood-Pigggy]

It counts, it's a miniature movie, it has a zombies, they are dancing, who cares!
Dead Alive is the best on the list, but there really should be a "Other" option.

P.S. - Wait a second, Braindead and Dead Alive are the same exact film! Why put them up there twice?

[Oberon]

Originally posted by Blood-Pigggy+Nov 27 2005, 07:24 PM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Blood-Pigggy @ Nov 27 2005, 07:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>P.S. - Wait a second, Braindead and Dead Alive are the same exact film! Why put them up there twice?[/b]
yeah i already noticed that:

Originally posted by Oberon @ Nov 26 2005@ 03:11 AM

******QuoteBegin-Chuck the plant


@ Oberon: And why did you include "Dead Alive" AND "Braindead"? It's the same movie, only different titles.

hmm? thats new to me.. well i have to confess that i've never watched "Dead alive"
so i couldn't know that both are one and the same movie.. [/quote]

sadly, that i can't edit polls ..

@moogle
Evil Dead is the king of all B-Movies.. as pigggy already said.. Hail to the King :kosta: :king: :butcher:

[moogle]

Originally posted by Blood-Pigggy@Nov 27 2005, 06:20 PM
@Moogle: Who told you it's hardly a "B" movie? Evil Dead is the throne of "B" movies, in the days when films cost up to 10 million dollars, a couple of hardly adult people use one hundred thousand dollars saved from a student film and a bunch of dubious investors, to create a movie that is now a cult classic, :ok:
No No, I meant that its hardly just a B movie, I like Bruce Campbell, I've only seen Army of Darkness (yay for campy humor! :w00t: ) But tons of other people say Evil Dead 1 and 2 is good, and it will be interesting to see him in a less comedic role (the first one is supposed to be more horrorish right?)

[Havell]

I removed "Dead Alive" (since "Braindead" had got a vote).

I voted for Shaun, btw. As it's funny and the only film of those which I I've seen (apart from Evil Dead II, but I wasn't paying any attention to it).

[moogle]

...THAT WAS DISSAPOINTING!!!
Just started to watch Evil Dead, got 27 minutes into it unil the one girl got tied down with the vines...stopped it...
wtf, some vines tie her down and strip here, whts the point of that, retarded.

As for Shaun of the dead, must be a british thing :P

[Oberon]

thats b-movie humour and it doesnt bothered me.. maybe a bit obscure for nowadays movie standard. But thats an Old school Z-Slasher movie and one of the best old school horror movies of all time..

yeah shaun of the dead is an english movie thats why the movie is called shaun and not shawn .. of the dead.. black english humour as it's best..

[Blood-Pigggy]

Originally posted by moogle@Nov 27 2005, 07:37 PM
...THAT WAS DISSAPOINTING!!!
Just started to watch Evil Dead, got 27 minutes into it unil the one girl got tied down with the vines...stopped it...
wtf, some vines tie her down and strip here, whts the point of that, retarded.

As for Shaun of the dead, must be a british thing :P
Er, it didn't even get to the good parts.
Perhaps this is why movies seem bad to you, you never finish them.

Oh, and don't complain about the tree scene, people have been whining about it far too many times. I didn't like it myself, but it's pointless to dub the whole movie dissapointing when you only didn't enjoy one scene.

[moogle]

Ya I know but.....errr....ya, and for the record, I did watch ALL of Alien, so hah ;)

But I'l definitely try and watch the second some times, people say its funny, so ya.

Edit: whats the Re-animator about? I've heard that one is good too...

[Dark Piedone]

Land of the dead it's pretty scary... Now i have seconds thougths when i go to the cemetary at 1 AM

[Chuck the plant]

Originally posted by Blood-Pigggy@Nov 27 2005, 07:20 PM
None mentioned here compare with "I Walked with a Zombie (1943) or even "White Zombie (1932)".
Because there are no "we've come back from the dead to eat your flesh"-zombies in them... which are the ones we are talking about here. ;)

@ moogle:

Edit: whats the Re-animator about? I've heard that one is good too...
Well, just take a wild guess... :D

[Sapper8]

Only seen dawn of the dead remake... It wasn't exactly scary, it was more of a thriller or an action movie... but it had zombies and brains flying so it qualifies as a zombie movie.
Way 2 go, Romero :ok:

[Chuck the plant]

Romero had not much to do with the remake (besides being the creator of the original and therefore paragon). And while the remake was not bad at all, it pales in comparision to the original (and "Night" and "Day" as well). ;)

[Flop]

I'm with Chuck; while the remake of Dawn is pretty good, it's nothing compared to the original (which, incidentally, I voted for). But I must admit that I didn't like Day of the Dead at all. In my opinion Dawn of the Dead was Romero's last good movie. :)

[Blood-Pigggy]

Originally posted by Chuck the plant+Nov 28 2005, 11:41 AM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Chuck the plant @ Nov 28 2005, 11:41 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ******QuoteBegin-Blood-Pigggy@Nov 27 2005, 07:20 PM
None mentioned here compare with "I Walked with a Zombie (1943) or even "White Zombie (1932)".
Because there are no "we've come back from the dead to eat your flesh"-zombies in them... which are the ones we are talking about here. ;)
[/b][/quote]
We didn't seem to have that limitation, it just looks like the topic creator put them in the poll.

It's "Zombie" movies, so I assume that anything with zombies in it is a zombie movie.

[Chuck the plant]

I'd say the limitation is obvious when looking at the movies up to vote. ;)

"Real" Voodoo-Zombies and flesh-eating undead aren't the same thing, for the "genre-specifications" are totally different. The "Romero-like Zombie"-films are a subgenre of their own in any regard, and neither "White Zombie" nor "I walked with a Zombie" really abide to the same "rules". Not even "Carnival of souls" does.

@ flop: Maybe give it a few more tries, I also thought it to be the weakest part of the series for a long time (that was before "Land", obviously ;) ), but it grew more and more on me over the time and today I like it even better than "Dawn" for the most part... too bad I was still thinking it was missing from the poll when I voted :wall:

[Blood-Pigggy]

I actually enjoyed the "concious zombie" in Day Of The Dead, Bubs was his name or something? It didn't actually seem to give him a "Soul" as other human beings seem to have possesed in the movie, but it really made the connection that zombies were actually people once before.

Many others don't seem to like that aspect though, but at least it didn't go as far as Land. Although I found Land quite enjoyable (fun to watch) the acting was poor, dialouge was laughable at times, and the plot was just plain wacky. Otherwise, it was quite a fun ride.

[moogle]

I'm so glad that AoD has almost the same votes as Shaun, Shaun was good, but I just like Bruce Campbell and campy humor, LOL.

Just out of curiousity, but why is Evil Dead 2 rated R? Is it for gore like the hand scene, or is it language, or more scenes like the...vine....scene... :blink: I plan on seeing that one, more of a comedy, which is Bruce's specialty...LOL plus, Sam Raimi=Spiderman!!!=AWESOME!

[Blood-Pigggy]

Er, Evil Dead 2 doesn't have the vine scene.
Despite what many think, it's not a remake, and it's supposed to be funny.
It's mostly rated R for gore, language, and a few sexual themes (so says IMDB) but I own the unrated version, so I wouldn't be able to tell you exactly.

[moogle]

ah, ok then, yes I know Evil Dead 2 is supposed to be funny ^_^

AH!!!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!
EVIL DEAD REMAKE!!!!! (http://movies.go.com/movies/movie?name=evil-dead_2005)
AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!! :Brain:

EDIT: Looking at a website, this is pretty interesting...
Watch the clock in the movie, it serves as the gauge for evil. When evil is in control, the clock stops and begins to moves backwards. That's why the night seems to last forever.
(Evil Dead 1)

A glove belonging to Freddy Krueger can be seen hanging near the steps in one of the cellar scenes. This was done reciprocally, in response to Wes Craven’s having used "Evil Dead" on the TV screen in "Nightmare on Elm Street."
(Evil Dead 2)

Evil Dead is NC-17???
Rated NC-17 for substantial graphic horror violence and gore.

Huh...

[Blood-Pigggy]

No, it has been discussed several times, and Evil Dead is not NC-17, it is unrated period.
Don't believe any other sources, it was unrated in theatres, and it's unrated in any format you can find it.
The remake is kinda old news now.

[moogle]

Oh, :wall: I see, ya I wasn't sure, I mean, it was R type stuff, but not NC-17 stuff...
So, is Evil 2 like AoD where its more of a commedy, or is it more horror like the first?

[Blood-Pigggy]

Comedy mostly, but it has horror elements.
And you might not think it funny, unless you have a open sense of humor.

[moogle]

I have a pretty open sense, as long as its not like racism jokes...
AoD was really good, my friend thinks its corny as heck though, LOL but he hasn't gotten to the CAR part.... :angel:

[RedHeadSebbe]

I´m a bigger fan of the "Resident Evil" games, witch the movies are based on.....

[Oberon]

i'm also a huge fan of the games series.. (specially 1 - 1R - 2 - CV - CVX)
but the movies are a poor adaption, the lack of authenticity, a cheap script, bad acting all this makes the movie more or less boring. The newest part "After life" is no exception, from what i heard about it.

[Eva02Soul]

You know what might make a good horror series? System shock. Think about it, most of the enemies are mechanical or bioroids so you don't need a lot of crappy CG, just costumes and makeup.


Either that, or Hideo Kojima's Snatcher.

[Blood-Pigggy]

Without CG, how will they create Rumblers or SHODAN?

I posted it once before, System Shock has no character interaction in it really, so if they want to make a accurate film, it'd be very, very, lonely.

[Eva02Soul]

The rumblers would need to be CG, but they don't have to be abundant. As for SHODAN,she communicates through email for the most part, so you don't really need to see a computer terminal with her image until much later in the game, and Xerxes will be CG. I'm just saying that you don't need to drown it in Computer graphics for it to be good.

As for the subject of loneliness, loneliness is a big part of the atmosphere of SS, but whether it can be made good viewing material depends on how they go about it. They are movies with a dismal amount of characters that can still be considered enjoyable. (I like cube, for example)

[Chuck the plant]

Originally posted by Eva02Soul@Nov 29 2005, 01:26 PM
Either that, or Hideo Kojima's Snatcher.
Since that game is "heavily influenced" by "Blade Runner" and "Body (surprise, surprise!) Snatchers", I don't think it would make for SUCH an original movie ;)

[Blood-Pigggy]

Originally posted by Eva02Soul@Nov 29 2005, 07:50 AM
The rumblers would need to be CG, but they don't have to be abundant. As for SHODAN,she communicates through email for the most part, so you don't really need to see a computer terminal with her image until much later in the game, and Xerxes will be CG. I'm just saying that you don't need to drown it in Computer graphics for it to be good.

As for the subject of loneliness, loneliness is a big part of the atmosphere of SS, but whether it can be made good viewing material depends on how they go about it. They are movies with a dismal amount of characters that can still be considered enjoyable. (I like cube, for example)
You don't ever meet ANYONE in person in System Shock 2.
You can't have a movie with only the main character himself, even if there are evil creatures with personalities.
It can't really work at all.

[Playbahnosh]

Absolutely Braindead! that movie has the most disgusting and funny humour of all times. What a twisted bastard that makes such a film :D
"Come to the mama Lionell!" :D

[Sebatianos]

Originally posted by Oberon@Nov 26 2005, 12:49 AM
There are plenty of Zed Movies most of them are Trash but there are some masterpieces who are definitely worth to view them..


Funny :roflol: - just which of the Zombie moves is a masterpiece? At best it's watchable...

my favourite is "Shaun of the Dead" :kosta: .. because it's so friggin funny.
I agree with you there :ok:

[Oberon]

Dawn of the Dead is a masterpiece for me, as well as NolD.. maybe you and others disagree with me but u must admit that both movies have set new standards for horror movies and especially Night of the living Dead, wich created a whole new movie genre.

[Blood-Pigggy]

They never did really set a standard for horror movies...
They didn't do anything like Pyscho did, or even Halloween, but they definetly popularized the zombie sub-genre.

[moogle]

meh, NoTD brought back the zombie genre, I mean, have you seen any movie have as many ripoff copycats as NoTD does?

[Blood-Pigggy]

Star Wars?
Indiana Jones?

Those spawned so many clones it's unbelievable.

[Ioncannon]

Shawn of the Daed pwned all. it was so hilarious.

[Eva02Soul]

Originally posted by Blood-Pigggy@Nov 29 2005, 05:50 PM

You don't ever meet ANYONE in person in System Shock 2.
You can't have a movie with only the main character himself, even if there are evil creatures with personalities.
It can't really work at all.
wrong. You meet Siddons and Rebecca through a laser shield, Cortez through an indestructable window and just barely miss Delacroix and Diego. I'm saying that if there was a movie of it, there are run-ins with other survivors on the ship. For film the encounters can be made longer, like instead of finding Willian when he's just died, Goggles can find him as he's dying.


Plus there are ghost sightings up the wazoo.

[moogle]

Originally posted by Blood-Pigggy@Nov 30 2005, 12:30 AM
Star Wars?
Indiana Jones?

Those spawned so many clones it's unbelievable.
Good point.

[Flop]

Originally posted by Blood-Pigggy@Nov 29 2005, 10:14 PM
They never did really set a standard for horror movies...
They didn't do anything like Pyscho did, or even Halloween, but they definetly popularized the zombie sub-genre.
I disagree. As far as I know, NotLD was the first movie to feature the kind of zombies that we all know and love today (that is the undead, mindless, flesh-eating sort). Zombies before NotLD usually appeared in a voodoo context, and didn't eat human flesh.

Also there is the thing about casting a black man as the hero, although admittedly, Romero has commented that they did that only because Duane Jones was the best actor around.

[Blood-Pigggy]

Not really, I mean, if you look at Starwars or 2001, they redefined genres.
NOTD was just a good movie that created a cult following and made zombie flicks popular.

[Flop]

Originally posted by Blood-Pigggy@Nov 30 2005, 03:29 PM
Not really, I mean, if you look at Starwars or 2001, they redefined genres.
NOTD was just a good movie that created a cult following and made zombie flicks popular.
Well, you may be right that both Star Wars and 2001 have had more of an impact on movies in general than NotLD, but I fail to see the relevance. Apart from the fact that 2001 cost $10,500,000 to make and Star Wars cost $13,000,000 as opposed to $114,000 for NotLD (according to IMDB), neither Star Wars nor 2001 can be considered zombie movies, which this topic is really about.

When it comes to zombie movies, I believe that NotLD is the most influential one made to this day.