Zombie Movies To Die For (50 titles)

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Night Of The Living Dead

George Romero's original flesh eating zombie movie that set the template for a thousand rip-offs. The sequel Dawn Of The Dead generally get's more critical acclaim, but I preferred this. If you're new to the zombie genre watch this before anything else. This version is fine, though there are others with slightly better picture quality and more extras. However avoid the 30th Anniversary edition, it has a different (massively inferior) score and extra scenes shot 30 years later by a different director that just don't fit in.

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• Night Of The Living Dead on DVD (1968)
  Starring: Judith Reilly,  Duane Jones,  Marilyn Eastman
  Director: George A Romero
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  George A. Romero's low-budget horror classic. One quiet morning, Barbara (Judith O'Dea) and Johnny's (Russell Streiner) visit to their father's grave is interrupted when Johnny is killed by a flesh-eating stranger. Barbara escapes to a nearby farmhouse, meets up with a few other desperate ..read more »
  
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Dawn Of The Dead

aka Zombi. George Romero's sequel to Night Of The Living Dead. It's not as grim and nihilistic as the first film and therefore I think slightly inferior. Personally I also think that the whole satire-on-modern-consumerism thing is taken a little too far, but its still a fantastic fun movie and one of the best in the whole zombie genre. This version is the extended cut (not really the director's cut because Romero has stated that he prefers the shorter theatrical cut) and it's still been cut by 0m6s by the BBFC. The UK version of the theatrical cut from Anchor Bay is also cut by the same six seconds and there's apparently a newer UK version of the extended cut that has the missing six seconds reinstated, but neither of these versions are available here. If you intend buying this movie, the best version is the US Anchor Bay 4-disc SE that contains the theatrical cut, the extended cut and a European cut made by Dario Argento, all fully uncut and with plenty of extras.

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• Dawn Of The Dead on DVD (1978)
  Starring: David Emge,  Richard France,  Gaylen Ross
  Director: George A. Romero
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  George A. Romero's sequel to 'Night of the Living Dead' is regarded as one of the great zombie movies. The flesh-eating undead roam the Earth, leaving the living searching for refuge wherever they can. Media types Ross and Emge team up with two burnt-out cops to seek sanctuary in a disused shopping ..read more »
  
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Day of the Dead

The third film in George Romero's living dead series and an excellent follow up to Dawn Of The Dead. I still preferred Night Of The Living Dead, but this is just as good as Dawn Of The Dead. Unfortunately this version is cut by 0m34s. There is a newer version that has been released in the UK which is uncut, so try to see that instead.

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• Day of the Dead on DVD (1985)
  Starring: John Amplas,  Joseph Pilato,  Jarlath Conroy
  Director: George A. Romero
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  Day of the Dead, the third and concluding chapter in George Romero's zombie trilogy is the most distinctly 1950s-style science fiction version of the lot. Set in Florida, as the film begins the dead have taken over the world, outnumbering humans 400,000 to one. The handful of surviving humans have ..read more »
  
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Land of the Dead

The fourth and latest film in George Romero's living dead series. Not the sell-out that some people seem to think it is, but quite a disappointment after the first three films.

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• Land of the Dead on DVD (2005)
  Starring: Simon Baker,  John Leguizamo,  Dennis Hopper
  Director: George A. Romero
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  Zombie movies slip in and out of fashion, but it's always a special occasion when the man who helped turn the undead into a worldwide phenomenon decides to add an instalment to his ongoing saga of flesh-eating films. George A. Romero's zombie movies have all appeared in different decades, beginning ..read more »
  
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The Beyond

aka The Seven Doors Of Death. Lucio Fulci's masterpiece. The non-linear and sometimes illogical plot may put off a lot of people, but this is all about atmosphere and violent set pieces. Let the movie wash over you rather than try to understand it and it becomes one of the most effective pieces of horror ever committed to film. Unfortunately although this version is uncut, it's from Vipco and therefore very poor quality. If you want to own a copy, the US Anchor Bay import is the best option.

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• The Beyond on DVD (1981)
  Starring: Al Cliver,  Katherine MacColl,  David Warbeck
  Director: Lucio Fulci
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  In 1927, a band of angry townsfolk travel deep into the Louisiana Bayou to destroy an Satanic painter named Schweik. In an isolated Gothic hotel basement, they chain-whip, crucify, and shower the warlock in a flesh-emulsifying liquid. But they are too late. Schweik had already opened one of the ..read more »
  
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City of the Living Dead

aka The Gates Of Hell. Similar in feel to Lucio Fulci's The Beyond but with a more linear plot, though the ending is open to interpretation. Like The Beyond this version is uncut but is another poor quality Vipco offering, so the US Anchor Bay import is the way to go.

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• City of the Living Dead on DVD (1980)
  Starring: Christopher George,  Katherine MacColl,  John Morghen
  Director: Lucio Fulci
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  A priest commits suicide in a cemetery; a young New York girl goes into a trance; and somehow these two seemingly unrelated events cause the dead to rise up and terrorise the living in a small Massachusetts town. Directed by prolific gore-meister Lucio Fulci, this cult shocker is set in horror ..read more »
  
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The House By The Cemetery

aka The House Outside The Cemetery aka Zombie Hell House. Another excellent zombie movie from Lucio Fulci, although this time there's only one real zombie. This version is cut by 0m33s and it's also a poor quality Vipco release, so go for an uncut import.

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• The House By The Cemetery on DVD (1981)
  Starring: Lucio Fulci,  Paolo Malco,  Dagmar Lassander
  Director: Lucio Fulci
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  A middle-class family move to a house in New England and find that the previous tenant, a mad scientist who's supposed to be dead, is still on the premises. Gore aplently and not for the faint hearted.
  
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Zombie Flesh Eaters

aka Zombi 2 aka Zombie. An unofficial sequel to Dawn Of The Dead (released as Zombi in Italy) by Lucio Fulci and in my opinion a better movie. This version is cut by around 3 minutes with the eye gouging scene the most significant omission and is of fairly poor quality. However it has also been re-released uncut in the UK by Anchor Bay in their Box Of The Banned 1 box set, but this version isn't available here despite me requesting that it's made available. So if you're going to buy a copy get that one.

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• Zombie Flesh Eaters (1980)
  Starring: Richard Johnson,  Tisa Farrow,  Ian McCulloch
  Director: Lucio Fulci
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  After a sailing boat drifts into Hudson Bay, a blood-covered man emerges from the craft and has to be shot repeatedly before tumbling into the sea. It transpires that the boat belongs to a missing scientist whose daughter, Ann, now sets off to find out what has become of him. Accompanied by ..read more »
  
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Zombie Flesh Eaters 2

aka Zombi 3. Sold as a film by Lucio Fulci, but he had very little to do with this movie due to ill health and it shows. This version is a poor quality Vipco release and although it's not cut, the opening scene is missing, however it's not good enough to go to the trouble of importing a better version unless you are a Fulci completist.

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• Zombie Flesh Eaters 2 on DVD (1988)
  Starring: Ulli Reinthaler,  Beatrice Ring,  Deran Serafian
  Director: Lucio Fulci
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  When an accident at a nuclear power plant unleashes a cloud of deadly toxins, the local inhabitants begin dropping dead then returning as flesh-eating zombies. The army steps in to take charge of the situation, but the growing hoards of the walking dead might be more than they can handle. Meanwhile,..read more »
  
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The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue

aka Let Sleeping Corpses Lie aka Zombi 3. An excellent zombie movie by Jorge Grau that predates Dawn Of The Dead and Zombie Flesh Eaters, even though it one point it was sold as an unofficial sequel to both of them. Highly recommended.

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• The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue (1974)
  Starring: Giorgio Trestini,  Ray Lovelock,  Cristina Galbo
  Director: Jorge Grau
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  George and Edna are out driving in the English countryside, on their way to visit Edna's sister, when they run into some awful trouble with a murderous zombie. It seems that experiments with a new pesticide on local farmland have had the unfortunate effect of awakening the dead and turning them ..read more »
  
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