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Among the better recent zombie movies

by rmahaney4 • Created 9 years ago • Modified 9 years ago
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  • Nick Damici and Connor Paolo in Stake Land (2010)

    1. Stake Land

    20101h 38mR66Metascore
    6.4 (45K)
    In a world of vampires, an expert vampire hunter and his young protégé travel toward sanctuary.
    DirectorJim MickleStarsConnor PaoloNick DamiciKelly McGillis
    So, this is a vampire movie ... why is it at the top of this list? Essentially, this is a zombie movie with vampires in the role of the undead masses. Stake Land is an excellent coming of age story set in a novel post-apocalyptic America. Performances are strong, direction solid.
  • Pontypool (2008)

    2. Pontypool

    20081h 33mNot Rated54Metascore
    6.5 (37K)
    A radio host interprets the possible outbreak of a deadly virus which infects the small Ontario town he is stationed in.
    DirectorBruce McDonaldStarsStephen McHattieLisa HouleGeorgina Reilly
    Probably the most interesting take on the zombie film from the past few years. This is a smart film with great characters and incredible ending.
  • Extinction: The G.M.O. Chronicles (2011)

    3. Extinction: The G.M.O. Chronicles

    20111h 50mR
    4.5 (1.8K)
    The remaining survivors of pan-global epidemic face a race against time to find a cure before they succumb to its zombie-inducing effects. Holed up in an abandoned military base, Tom and his fellow survivors, their numbers dwindling with each successive day, desperately search for a way of stopping the outbreak and returning their lives to normal. Unfortunately for them, it soon becomes clear that the virus has mutated, turning those affected into rabid, cannibalistic creatures. Can Tom and his friends find a way to stop the seemingly inevitable, or are they doomed to a grisly fate?
    DirectorNiki DrozdowskiStarsDaniel BuderLuise BährJerry Coyle
    While this movie attempts to play on fears of GMOs and nuclear power, I found it to be an effective slow-burning movie about oppressive fear, survival, and the slouch toward extinction.
  • Jeremy Gardner and Adam Cronheim in The Battery (2012)

    4. The Battery

    20121h 41mNot Rated
    6.2 (11K)
    The personalities of two former baseball players clash as they traverse the rural back roads of a post-plague New England teeming with the undead.
    DirectorJeremy GardnerStarsJeremy GardnerAdam CronheimNiels Bolle
  • Open Grave (2013)

    5. Open Grave

    20131h 42mUnrated33Metascore
    6.1 (32K)
    A man wakes up with no memory in a pit full of dead bodies in the wilderness and must determine if the murderer is one of the strangers who rescued him, or if he himself is the killer.
    DirectorGonzalo López-GallegoStarsSharlto CopleyThomas KretschmannJosie Ho
  • Brigitte Kren in Rammbock: Berlin Undead (2010)

    6. Rammbock: Berlin Undead

    20101h 3mR
    6.3 (6.1K)
    Just when Michael arrives in Berlin to visit his ex-girlfriend Gabi, a terrible virus starts spreading across the city at a rapid pace, turning people into mindless homicidal maniacs. Much to Michael's concern, Gabi's not home; instead, he meets Harper, a teenage plumber's apprentice at work in her apartment block. Together, they manage to barricade themselves when raging hordes of infected people swarm the building. Surrounded by these thirsty zombies, Michael and Harper have their hands full to survive - and it will take all of their ingenuity to make their way out to try and find Gabi.
    DirectorMarvin KrenStarsMichael FuithTheo TrebsAnka Graczyk
    Good psychodrama that captures the oppressive feeling that defines the best zombie films. Interesting study of a society falling apart during a disaster -- and the importance of ties between individuals.
  • Hélène de Fougerolles and David Morley in Mutants (2009)

    7. Mutants

    20091h 35mR
    5.5 (4.4K)
    In the middle of a zombie apocalypse, a resourceful couple hides out in an isolated abandoned building. The woman is pregnant and the man is infected, slowly transforming into the kind of inhuman monster they are trying to escape.
    DirectorDavid MorleyStarsHélène de FougerollesFrancis RenaudDida Diafat
    Interesting French zombie film. Again, the world is doomed ... the zombies are nasty and atmosphere effective.
  • Dead Within (2014)

    8. Dead Within

    20141h 31mNot Rated
    3.8 (1.1K)
    Six months after the outbreak, a man and woman have survived by isolating themselves in a remote cabin. Starved for resources, they must confront the horrors that threaten them from outside and from within.
    DirectorBen WagnerStarsDean ChekvalaJ. Claude DeeringRick Federman
    People seem to hate this film, but it is about the classic theme of the zombie movie ... the oppressive constant presence of death, paranoia again survivors ... I thought it worked. Most people disagree, judging by the IMDB rating.
  • Land of the Dead (2005)

    9. Land of the Dead

    20051h 33mR71Metascore
    6.2 (104K)
    The living dead have taken over the world, and the last humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they come to grips with the situation.
    DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsJohn LeguizamoAsia ArgentoSimon Baker
  • City of Rott (2006)

    10. City of Rott

    20061h 18mNot RatedVideo
    4.9 (867)
    Desperately losing his mind while searching for a new pair of shoes, an old man and his trusty Walker wander the City of Rott, saturated with thousands of rotting zombies, driven to feed the blood-hungry worms residing in their skulls.
    DirectorFrank SudolStarFrank Sudol
  • The Returned (2013)

    11. The Returned

    20131h 38m47Metascore
    5.9 (9K)
    In a post-zombie world, where the infected live normal lives, their retroviral drug is running out.
    DirectorManuel CarballoStarsEmily HampshireKris Holden-RiedShawn Doyle
  • Najarra Townsend in Contracted (2013)

    12. Contracted

    20131h 24mNot Rated48Metascore
    5.3 (17K)
    After being drugged and raped at a party, a young woman contracts what she thinks is an STD; but, it's actually something much worse.
    DirectorEric EnglandStarsNajarra TownsendCaroline WilliamsAlice Macdonald
  • Kate Ashfield, Nick Frost, and Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead (2004)

    13. Shaun of the Dead

    20041h 39mR76Metascore
    7.9 (624K)
    The uneventful, aimless lives of a London electronics salesman and his layabout roommate are disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.
    DirectorEdgar WrightStarsSimon PeggNick FrostKate Ashfield
  • Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later (2002)

    14. 28 Days Later

    20021h 53mR73Metascore
    7.5 (507K)
    Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the United Kingdom, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
    DirectorDanny BoyleStarsCillian MurphyNaomie HarrisChristopher Eccleston
  • Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, and Emma Stone in Zombieland (2009)

    15. Zombieland

    20091h 28mR73Metascore
    7.5 (650K)
    A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting bruiser in search of the last Twinkie and a pair of sisters striving to get to an amusement park join forces in a trek across a zombie-filled America.
    DirectorRuben FleischerStarsJesse EisenbergEmma StoneWoody Harrelson

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