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28 Days Later
28 Days Later (2002) is a British post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Alex Garland, and starring Cillian Murphy, about the fast-moving infected of the rage virus; it earned $84.6 million on an $8 million budget and spawned 28 Weeks Later and 28 Years Later.
Alive (2020 film)
Alive (2020 film), or 살아있다, is a South Korean survival thriller directed by Cho Il-hyeong. It stars Yoo Ah-in and Park Shin-hye during a zombie outbreak.
Blood Quantum (film)
Blood Quantum is Jeff Barnaby's 2019 Canadian Mi'kmaq zombie horror film, also called a decolonial zombie movie, in which Indigenous residents of the Red Crow reserve are immune to a zombie plague; it premiered at TIFF 2019 and streams on Shudder and AMC+.
Braindead (film)
Braindead (Dead Alive, 1992) is Peter Jackson's New Zealand zombie splatter comedy in which Lionel Cosgrove's mother, bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey in 1957 Wellington, becomes a zombie; a 4K restoration screened at TIFF 2025 and Sitges 2026.
Cargo (2017 film)
Cargo (2017) is an Australian post-apocalyptic zombie drama directed by Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke, starring Martin Freeman as an infected father with 48 hours to find a guardian for his baby daughter; a Netflix original released in 2018.
City of the Living Dead
City of the Living Dead (Paura nella città dei morti viventi), also released as The Gates of Hell, is Lucio Fulci's 1980 Italian zombie horror: a priest's suicide opens the gates of Hell in Dunwich, first of his Gates of Hell trilogy.
Dawn of the Dead (1978 film)
Dawn of the Dead (1978), George A. Romero's zombie sequel to Night of the Living Dead, set in Monroeville Mall, an Italian co-production with Dario Argento's Zombi cut, a consumerism satire and independent film landmark.
Dead & Buried
Dead & Buried (1981) is a horror film directed by Gary Sherman, written by Ronald Shusett and Dan O'Bannon, starring James Farentino, Jack Albertson, and Robert Englund, about a coastal town whose murdered tourists return as living residents.
Dead Rising: Watchtower
Dead Rising: Watchtower is a 2015 live-action zombie film based on Capcom's Dead Rising, directed by Zach Lipovsky, premiering on Crackle and set canonically between Dead Rising 2 and 3.
Die Alone
Die Alone is a 2024 Canadian-US apocalyptic horror film written and directed by Lowell Dean, starring Carrie-Anne Moss, Douglas Smith, and Frank Grillo; an amnesiac searches for his girlfriend among zombie-like 'Reclaimed' hybrids, with a twist ending.
Festival of the Living Dead
Festival of the Living Dead is a 2024 Tubi original zombie horror film directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska, starring Ashley Moore and Camren Bicondova, set 55 years after the 1968 zombie attack.
Handling the Undead (film)
Handling the Undead (Håndtering av udøde) is a 2024 Norwegian horror drama, Thea Hvistendahl's debut, adapted from John Ajvide Lindqvist's 2005 novel, about three Oslo families whose dead return; Sundance premiere, Méliès d'Or winner.
I Am a Hero (アイアムアヒーロー) (2016 film)
I Am a Hero (アイアムアヒーロー) is a 2016 Japanese zombie film directed by Shinsuke Sato, adapted from Kengo Hanazawa's manga, starring Yo Oizumi, Kasumi Arimura, and Masami Nagasawa; it earned 1.6 billion yen and five fantastic-festival awards.
I Walked with a Zombie
I Walked with a Zombie is a 1943 RKO horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by Val Lewton, a Jane Eyre-inspired voodoo tale starring Frances Dee and Tom Conway on a Caribbean plantation.
Land of the Dead
Land of the Dead (2005), George A. Romero's fourth Living Dead film, released by Universal June 24, 2005; zombies led by Big Daddy attack Dennis Hopper's walled city Fiddler's Green; $20.4M US gross, 75% Tomatometer.
Life After Beth
Life After Beth is a 2014 A24 zombie comedy, Jeff Baena's directorial debut, starring Aubrey Plaza and Dane DeHaan; a dead girlfriend returns as a decaying zombie, premiering at Sundance 2014.
Little Monsters (2019 film)
Little Monsters (2019) is a zombie comedy film written and directed by Abe Forsythe, starring Lupita Nyong'o, Josh Gad, and Alexander England. It premiered at Sundance on January 27, 2019, streamed on Hulu from October 11, 2019, and holds 79% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Maggie (film)
Maggie is a 2015 American post-apocalyptic drama directed by Henry Hobson, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger's farmer cares for his daughter (Abigail Breslin) as a zombie virus slowly transforms her.
Messiah of Evil
Messiah of Evil, also released as Dead People, is a 1973 American independent horror film by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz about an undead cult in a California coastal town, later restored by Radiance Films.
New Life (2023 film)
New Life (2023) is John Rosman's American horror-thriller debut starring Sonya Walger and Hayley Erin: a fugitive carrying a mysterious infection is chased by a fixer with ALS. Released May 3, 2024; 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. Distinct from the Italian 2023 film of the same name.
Night of the Living Dead
Night of the Living Dead (1968) is George A. Romero's independent black-and-white horror film about ghouls besieging a Pennsylvania farmhouse, the genre-defining flesh-eating zombie movie, now in the public domain.
Night of the Living Dead (1990 film)
Night of the Living Dead (1990), Tom Savini's remake, is a color horror film remaking Romero's 1968 classic, with Romero's revised script, Tony Todd as Ben, a reimagined action-heroine Barbara, a $4.2M budget, and a 2025 uncut 4K release.
Outside (2024 film)
Outside (2024) is a Filipino psychological horror film, Netflix Philippines' first zombie feature, directed by Carlo Ledesma and starring Sid Lucero and Beauty Gonzalez; released on Netflix October 17, 2024, it follows a family sheltering in an ancestral Negros Occidental farmhouse during a zombie outbreak.
Planet Terror
Planet Terror (2007) is Robert Rodriguez's zombie action-horror film, the first half of the Grindhouse double feature with Tarantino's Death Proof, starring Rose McGowan as Cherry Darling with a machine-gun leg.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (film)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016), stylized Pride + Prejudice + Zombies, is Burr Steers's action comedy horror film adapting Seth Grahame-Smith's 2009 mash-up novel, starring Lily James and Sam Riley; it earned mixed reviews (RT 47%, Metacritic 45) and $10.9 million US gross.
Queens of the Dead
Queens of the Dead is a 2025 queer zombie horror-comedy, the feature directorial debut of Tina Romero, daughter of George A. Romero, about drag queens and club kids fighting an undead outbreak at a Brooklyn drag show; premiered at Tribeca 2025, released October 24, 2025.
Rampant (창궐) (film)
Rampant (창궐) is a 2018 South Korean period action-horror film directed by Kim Sung-hoon. It stars Hyun Bin as a prince fighting Night Demons in the Joseon dynasty.
Resident Evil (2026 film)
Resident Evil (2026), the Zach Cregger reboot of the Resident Evil film series, is a survival horror film starring Austin Abrams as courier Bryan in Raccoon City; released September 18, 2026 by Sony, it earned a franchise-record $60.2M opening, $362M worldwide, and 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is a 2015 American horror comedy film directed by Christopher Landon. It follows three teenage Boy Scouts and a cocktail waitress fighting a zombie outbreak.
The Beyond
The Beyond (...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà) is Lucio Fulci's 1981 Italian horror film about a New Orleans hotel built over one of the seven gateways to Hell; middle film of the Gates of Hell trilogy, cut as 7 Doors of Death in the US, later a cult classic, with a remake announced in 2026.