Zombieland (2009) Review
Zombieland (2009) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A road movie with four people, a list of survival rules rendered on screen, and Woody Harrelson looking for a Twinkie. It is very funny for eighty minutes and…
Genre: Zombie
The dead walk and the living reveal themselves. Zombie film reviews covering Romero’s blueprint and everything that shambled after it.
HorrorZombie (1979) / Flesh Eaters Review
Zombie (1979) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Lucio Fulci was hired to make an unauthorized sequel to Dawn of the Dead and made something older instead, closer to Caribbean voodoo horror than to Romero. It contains…
ComedyWarm Bodies (2013) Review
Warm Bodies (2013) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A zombie romance narrated by the zombie, which is a better idea than it sounds and is executed with more wit than the premise deserves. It is also…
ComedyThe Return of the Living Dead (1985) Review
The Return of the Living Dead (1985) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Dan O'Bannon invented the brain-eating zombie, the running zombie and the talking zombie in one film, and every one of those is now so…
ComedyShaun of the Dead (2004) Review
Shaun of the Dead (2004) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A comedy that works as an actual zombie film, which almost no parody manages, because Edgar Wright shot the horror straight and let the jokes come…
Found Footage[REC] (2007) Review
[REC] (2007) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Seventy-eight minutes, one apartment building, a television reporter and a cameraman who never stops filming. The last five minutes in the penthouse are the most frightening sequence in any…
HorrorPontypool (2008) Review
Pontypool (2008) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A radio DJ in a church basement in rural Ontario reports an outbreak he never sees, and the infection turns out to be carried by the English language. Almost…
ComedyOne Cut of the Dead (2017) Review
One Cut of the Dead (2017) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The first thirty-seven minutes are a bad zombie film shot in one take, and the remaining hour explains every mistake in it. Made for about…
ActionLand of the Dead (2005) Review
Land of the Dead (2005) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Romero finally got a studio budget after twenty years and used it to make a film about a walled city where the rich live in a…
DramaKingdom (2019-2020) Review
Kingdom (2019-2020) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A zombie series set in the Joseon dynasty where the outbreak begins because a court faction resurrected a dead king to hold power, and spreads because the starving ate…
HorrorDead Set (2008) Review
Dead Set (2008) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Charlie Brooker locked the Big Brother house against a zombie apocalypse, cast the real presenter as herself, shot it in the actual studio, and then refused to let…
ComedyDead Alive / Braindead (1992) Review
Dead Alive (1992) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Peter Jackson made the bloodiest film ever produced, reportedly using around three hundred litres of fake blood in the last twenty minutes alone, and underneath the lawnmower it…