Top Zombie Movies of All Time!

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Recently, in response to the overwhelmingly positive response to AMC’s The Walking Dead, Boston.com posted their choices for the Top 25 Zombie Movies of All Time.  Using just their selections, here is my top ten:

  1. Night of the Living Dead (1968): This is the movie that redefined zombies, kick-started a genre and made George Romero a living legend.
  2. Dawn of the Dead (2004): Just as Night of the Living Dead changed the way we look at zombies and launched the career of George Romero, this movie did the same for both zombies and Zack Snyder.
  3. 28 days later (2002]: Although the argument can be made that the creatures in 28 days later aren’t zombies, they made the list and I agree with the selection.
  4. Zombieland (2009) Perfectly walked the line between horror and humor.
  5. Dawn of the Dead (1978) I walked out on the first viewing because it was just too gory for my girlfriend.  Romero had definitely kicked it up a notch.
  6. Day of the Dead (1985) Romero has said that this is his personal favorite of his zombie movies.  Who are we to argue?
  7. Night of the Living Dead (1990, remake)  I haven’t seen this in a while, but the memory was that I liked it a lot.  Perhaps because it stayed true to the original with just a coupe of twists.  I’ll have to check it out again and see if it holds up.
  8. Land of the Dead (2006) Life goes on and things aren’t bad until…
  9. Planet Terror (2007) I’ve only seen this one once, and it had a lot of stuff I liked, but the cheese factor was a bit much to allow me to place it higher on the list.
  10. Shaun of the Dead (2004) More comedy than zombie, but it still made the list!