![]() ![]() Just as she gets up the zombies outside break in and the remaining group are slaughtered, each becoming a zombie and heading into the woods for more victims.Ī police car then turns up at Spencer's farm responding to the cut-short phone call. Upstairs the girl bitten on the shoulder dies and returns as a zombie. Meanwhile, the two kids who escaped from the barn have caught up with the group (who refuse to open the doors in case of an attack) so the two kids hide in the basement and lock the door. They manage to phone the police but the call is cut short when a zombie outside rips the phone line out. They proceed to nail up the windows and doors. The remaining kids retreat to the old "Spencers Farm" a dis-used farmhouse in the woods. ![]() It tears a chunk of shoulder away but the girl is saved by her boyfriend who hears her screams and tackles the flesh-eater. Inside the barn the kids who were attacked become zombies and head out of the barn for fresh victims back near the party and one of the girls is attacked in the woods by the zombies. As the flesh-eater is killing the kids, two of their friends walk in and see what's happening then they run outside to warn the group at the party. Two of the kids who retreated to the barn for some alone time are killed by the flesheaters. Both zombies head towards where the kids are. Inside is the Bill Heinzman "Flesheater" who proceeds to eat the farmer making him a zombie in the process. The farmer breaks the seal and opens the box. Under the stump is a large wooden box with an ancient seal telling not to break open the box. Meanwhile, the farmer has stumbled across a large tree stump which he proceeds to remove with the help of his tractor. As the party wears on the group separates to find their own little love nests. The kids arrive and begin drinking, telling the farmer to come back after dark to pick them up. They pay the local farmer to take them to a secluded area of the forest. The film starts with a group of kids taking a hayride in the country on Halloween. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968). ![]() An independent production, the film also stars Hinzman, best known for playing the cemetery ghoul in George A. They may not have gotten the highest critical marks, but offer just as much color, life, and odor to this list.Flesheater is 1988 horror film directed, written, produced, and co–edited by Bill Hinzman. Most featured here are Fresh and Certified Fresh, and of course we’re including a few Rotten movies. (Some have even figured out how to run.) TV show The Walking Dead is an obvious behemoth to point towards, but in the film world, zombies have made their way into found footage ( ), rom-com ( Warm Bodies), and grindhouse throwbacks ( Planet Terror).Īnd with this guide, we sought to capture those many moods, the various sensitivities that make up the zombie movie. Japanese kinetic action in Versus, and most recently the creative, micro-budget One Cut of the Dead.Įver since, zombies have shown no sign of slowing down. Cutting-edge, gritty filmmaking with 28 Days Later. The blockbuster theatrics of the Resident Evil adaptation. There was the loving spoofery of Shaun of the Dead. Now we got to see the true versatility of the zombie movie. The success of the Resident Evil video games revealed an audience appetite hitherto untapped, inspiring a gushing fount of zombie movies released between 20. Highlights from the pre-2000 era include splatter comedies like Return of the Living Dead and Dead Alive, Lucio Fulci’s eye-splitting and shark-wrestling Zombi 2, and H.P. Crowned the godfather of zombies, Romero made five more Dead movies, the best of which are featured in this guide, including Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead.ĭespite Romero’s efforts, it would still be a long shuffle into the early 2000s before zombies would break out of horror niche and crawl all over pop culture. An independent film with a budget barely above six figures, Night enthralled audiences with its mysterious plot, shocking gore, progressive casting and social commentary, and, natch, the unforgettable hordes of the gaunt, hungry undead. ![]() Romero unleashed Night of the Living Dead. While zombie movies have been for more than 80 years (in 1932 we got White Zombie, in 1943 I Walked With a Zombie), it’s commonly accepted the subgenre as we know it today didn’t rise until 1968, when George A. And since we’ve been in feast mode over the last decade-plus, we’re taking a big bite with our guide to the 30 Essential Zombie Movies that you need to watch! Then there are eras of the opposite, where you couldn’t stick your arm out in a multiplex without a shambling ghoul nearby, ready to chomp. There have been times since their introduction into movies in the 1930s where it felt like we’d never see a zombie movie again. The zombie: Without remorse and pity, driven by a single hunger, and damn near impossible to put down permanently. ![]()
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