An analysis of zombie movies that looks to answer what elements make the best of the best in the genre. This video includes 94 different movies, tv shows, and video games and discusses story, character, themes, zombies, special effects, and more, with a look at the greatest zombie movies in horror history. Including, in order of appearance:
Zombi 2
I Walked With a Zombie
White Zombie
Train to Busan
Night of the Living Dead
Army of the Dead
Resident Evil
The Return of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Paranorman
One Cut of the Dead
Zombieland: Double Tap
Colin
World War Z
Re-Animator
House of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead
Rabid
Quarantine
Night of the Comet
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Zombieland
I Am Legend
The Beyond
Fright Night
The Mummy (1999)
An American Werewolf in London
Halloween (2018)
The House By The Cemetery
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
REC
Cargo
Overlord
Diary of the Dead
Peninsula
The Horde
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
28 Days Later
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Demons
The Plague of the Zombies
Night of the Living Deb
Cemetery Man
28 Weeks Later
Resident Evil: Extinction
Land of the Dead
Return of the Living Dead III
The Walking Dead
The Dead Don’t Die
The Girl With All The Gifts
Night of the Creeps
Tombs of the Blind Dead
Doctor Blood’s Coffin
Cooties
The Frozen Dead
Dead Snow
Little Monsters
The Mandalorian
VHS 2
Messiah of Evil
The Simpsons
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Warm Bodies
Return of the Living Dead Part II
Dead Snow: Red vs Dead
Fido
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Anna and the Apocalypse
Slither
City of the Living Dead
Shock Waves
Frankenstein
The Evil Dead
Evil Dead II
Pet Sematary (1989)
The Omega Man
Supernatural
Carnival of Souls
The Crazies (1973)
Prince of Darkness
The Fog
Maniac Cop
The Cabin in the Woods
Doom
Dead and Buried
Creepshow
Pontypool
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island
The Battery
The Dead Next Door
Nightmare City
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead
Survival of the Dead
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0:00 Intro
1:13 The Story
4:37 The Characters
6:54 The Setting
9:50 The Zombies
13:53 The Genre Breakers
16:18 What's Not a Zombie Movie?
17:52 The Themes
19:47 The Special Effects
21:23 The Greats
25:30 Outro
Music:
"Neon Medusa" and "Vampires" by The Midnight
"Salem" by Dance With the Dead
"In the House - In a Heartbeat" by John Murphy
"The Return of the Living Dead" Theme by Francis Haines
"The Walking Dead" Theme by Bear McCreary
"Resident Evil Zero Remixed" by Mono Memory
"Zombi 2" Main Title by Fabio Frizzi
"This Means War" by Volkor X
"The Dead Walk" by John Harrison
Sources:
https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/the-zombies/the-50-best-zombie-movies-of-all-time
https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-zombie-films-all-time
https://collider.com/best-zombie-movies-of-all-time/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/zombie-movies-are-never-really-about-zombies-180965321/
https://books.openedition.org/obp/4271?lang=en
https://books.openedition.org/obp/4271?lang=en
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/31/13440402/zombie-political-history
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/12/13/250844800/zoinks-tracing-the-history-of-zombie-from-haiti-to-the-cdc