MY MUST SEE TOP 7 ZOMBIE MOVIE'S TO DATE!

As every time someone mentions zombie we instantly think of The amazing Walking Dead I have come up with a list of my top zombie movies to date to change things up a little and gives us the flesh eating weapon wielding carnivorous cravings that we will be missing out on until February.

7) [Rec]

‘[Rec]’ softens us up with a gentle prologue in which the crew of a late-night ‘reality TV’ show called ‘While You’re Sleeping’ – invisible cameraman Pablo and presenter Angela (Manuela Velasco) – make a late-night visit to a fire station. Then comes a call about an old woman trapped in her apartment. When a policeman and two firemen, Manu (Ferran Terraza) and Alex (David Vert), break into the apartment, they are attacked by a shrieking, zombie-like woman in a blood-stained nightdress. Suddenly, the building is locked down by cops squawking something about a health threat. Trapped inside with the panicking neighbours, Angela keeps up a running commentary.

The less you know about what happens next the better. Suffice it to say that nothing in the previous work of joint directors Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza prepared us for the nerve-shredding intensity of the ensuing scenes. A brilliantly staged early scare signals that the safety rails are off and, despite an unexpected, last-minute swerve into the supernatural realm, the edge-of-the-seat tension is sustained to the very last second. 

6) Shaun of the Dead

A cult favorite, SHAUN OF THE DEAD pokes fun at zombie movie cliches, but it also honors these movies by following their rules. It balances laugh-out-loud funny scenes (such as when Shaun is so self-absorbed he doesn't see the zombies wandering around his neighborhood and then misses the news warnings because he is channel-surfing) with some intense, suspenseful, and yes, very gory and bloody scenes (for example, the zombies attack a man and pull various bloody organs out of his stomach). Great film everyone loves it.

5) Night of the living Dead

With its radical rewriting of a genre in which good had always triumphed over evil, Romero's first feature shattered the conventions of horror and paved the way for the subversive visions of directors like David Cronenberg, Tobe Hooper and Sam Raimi. The film's opening scene immediately signals its own subversiveness.

In broad daylight, a brother and sister visit their father's grave; seeing a tall man lumbering towards them, Johnny tries to frighten Barbara with a daft Boris Karloff impersonation; suddenly the figure lurches forward and kills him. With the presumed hero dead within the first few minutes, the inexorable logic of the modern 'nightmare movie' is set in motion, and from this moment on the terror never lets up. Together with a small group of fellow survivors, Barbara holes up in a nearby farmhouse, besieged by an ever-swelling tide of flesh-eating zombies. Trapped inside the house, they fight for their lives, but nothing works out as it should; whenever it seems there might be a glimmer of hope, Romero cruelly reverses our expectations. The nihilistic ending, in particular, has to be seen to be believed. Chuckle, if you can, during the first few minutes; because after that laughter catches in the throat as the clammy hand of terror tightens its grip.

4) 28 Days Later

In terms of plot, this postapocalyptic horror tale about an epidemic that decimates most of England is pretty familiar stuff, the most obvious referents being Richard Matheson's I Am Legend, its various movie spin-offs, and George Romero's zombie pictures. But Danny Boyle's purposeful direction and Mark Tildesley's imaginative and resourceful production design keep this fresh, edgy and one of my top favourite zombie film's; the images of a wasted London and the details of a paramilitary organization in the countryside are both creepy and persuasive, for me it was, is one of the most real feeling zombie apocalypse movies to date lead by Cillian Murphy (peaky Blinders) this is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat.

3) Zombieland 

While violent and crude, ZOMBIELAND is also great fun, who am I kidding that's one two of the reasons that make it so amazing, It's that rare horror-comedy that manages to have its overall senses of excitement and tension supported, not undercut, by the tension-releasing laughs. The cast is uniformly fine, with Harrelson as a real standout, and commercial director Reuben Fleischer jumps to the big screen with verve and intensity. The film's affection for prior zombie movies is clear, but Zombieland never breaks its own rules: The undead are almost always a real threat.

The jokes come as fast and furious as the body count (including a cameo by a celebrity survivor that's too good to spoil); the action is both goofy and exhilarating; it's ultimately a remarkably satisfying genre deconstruction that simultaneously celebrates and makes fun of zombie-film traditions. 

2) Dawn of the Dead (1978)

George A. Romero's sequel to the game changing mega-hit "Night of the Living Dead," this film has the same political undertones, and also subtle ruminations in consumer culture. Unlike the original, this film only deals with the exploits of four people, who trap themselves inside a mall and live off its resources. 

The original was much more about the epidemic, and the terror of ghouls rampaging through the wilderness. The urban setting shows the vacancy of man-made structures without human residency, and the ease with which we as Americans consume and find pleasure in spaces such as malls. Our heroes fall back into lives of luxury and convenience, though they are faced with horrors, because they are programmed to do so, as are the zombies who return to the mall based on their baser instincts. Riveting to watch because of how massive and impressive the film is, but also for the creativity of the story, "Dawn of the Dead" is a classic zombie film that tells a very human story.

1) Train to Busan 

Yeon Sang-ho’s “Train to Busan” is the most purely entertaining zombie film in some time if not ever,  finding echoes of George Romero’s and Danny Boyle’s work, but delivering something unique for an era in which kindness to others seems more essential than ever. For decades, movies about the undead have essentially been built on a foundation of fear of our fellow man—your neighbor may look and sound like you, but he wants to eat your brain—but “Train to Busan” takes that a step further by building on the idea that, even in our darkest days, we need to look out for each other, and it is those who climb over the weak to save themselves who will suffer. Social commentary aside, it’s also just a wildly fun action movie, beautifully paced and constructed, with just the right amount of character and horror. In many ways, it’s what “World War Z” should have been—a nightmarish vision of the end of the world, and a provocation to ask ourselves what it is that really makes us human in the first place. This is why Train to Busan takes top spot with a spectacular film, cast, cinematography, choreography, brilliant plot it has the lot. Must see.