A Few Great Zombie Movies You Must See

A Few Great Zombie Movies You Must See

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Zombies may be dead and have little expression, but that has certainly not stopped them from being loved in films. Zombie movies, which became incredibly popular in the Seventies thanks to the work of directors like George Romero, are amongst the most popular of all horror-survivalist films and these are a few for everyone to enjoy.

Perhaps the ultimate of all films about zombies has to belong the aforementioned George Romero. While his first zombie film, Night of the Living Dead in 1968, was the start of his historical run as king of the Zombies, it was the sequel, Dawn of the Dead, that might just be the ultimate film of this genre.

Made in 1978, it has no big stars in the cast, unlike many of the remakes in the past decade, but as far as zombie movies go, it is the ultimate film. Four characters try to escape from the an epidemic, as the dead rise around them, and seek refuge in a big shopping mall.

For those of you who have played video games like Dead Rising and its sequel, you will immediately see where the inspiration for that game came. It is a horror masterpiece, and continues to inspire many artists to this day. Romero has since made four more "Dead" movies, the last, Survival of the Dead, was released in 2009.

Romero of course is not the only director to make "Living Dead" films, and in the eighties Dan O'Bannon's The Return of the Living Dead introduced faster zombies that wanted to eat brains. It was also more of a comedy than Romero's films, and while its sequel, not directed by O'Bannon, was not as good, the first one remains a classic.

He may be most famous for Lord of the Rings, but director Peter Jackson also began his career with one of the all time classic zombie movies, the incredibly gory yet comedic, Braindead, also known as Dead Alive. For film buffs and fans of the walking dead genre, this is a great movie to have in your collection.

One of the interesting novelties about this film, was when it was released on video, it was released with barf bags, in case the goriness made your stomach turn, and it still considered to be the bloodiest movie of all time, that is to say it used 300 liters of fake blood, more film blood than any other movie ever.

Comedy and Zombies have always worked quite well together, and no more so than in Shaun of the Dead, one of the few zombie movies that the whole family can enjoy. This British made film, starring the comedy duo of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, and directed by Edgar Wright, is a modern day classic and pays homage to the original George Romero films.

One thing you can be sure of is that Hollywood is far from finished with this theme. And as long as audiences, eat up these brain-eating living dead characters, zombie movies will continue to be part of our cinematic diet.

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