2000sSeptember 11, 2026
[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…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
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…
2000sSeptember 11, 2026
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…
2010sSeptember 11, 2026
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…
2000sSeptember 11, 2026
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…
1990sSeptember 11, 2026
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…
2000sSeptember 11, 2026
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…
1980sSeptember 11, 2026
Day of the Dead (1985) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Romero's budget was cut in half and he rewrote it into a chamber piece about twelve people in a bunker who hate each other. The zombies…
2000sSeptember 11, 2026
28 Weeks Later (2007) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The opening twelve minutes are as good as anything in the genre and the film never reaches them again. Robert Carlyle abandons his wife to save himself…
2020sSeptember 10, 2026
Agatha All Along (2024) rates 1 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A spin-off built from a supporting character on the assumption that being enjoyable in a small part means you can carry nine episodes. Kathryn Hahn is good…
1940sSeptember 10, 2026
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) rates 10 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Del Toro built two worlds with identical rules and let a child move between them, and the fascist captain is more frightening than anything in the labyrinth. It…
1970sSeptember 10, 2026
Jaws (1975) rates 10 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The mechanical shark did not work, the schedule ran three times over, and the failure produced the technique. Spielberg was twenty-seven and had to build suspense out of everything…
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