"Horror" about the zombies. List of the best films

The revived dead men, who left their graves and went out hunting people, are very scared. Just imagine, there is nothing human in sight, mechanical movements and dangling flesh from the bones. And if this person has known you before? Agree, the sight is creepy. That's why zombies are the heroes of many films made in the horror genre. Post-apocalyptic scenarios are also often built on the return of the dead from the other world. What "horrors" about zombies are the most terrible? In this article we will list the best films about the living dead and offer short descriptions of their subjects. Let's start, perhaps, with the very first films. This movie is for real connoisseurs of the genre, dreaming to learn everything about it.

The first films about zombies

When did the first film about the revived dead come out? It happened in 1932, when the director Victor Galperin presented to the public his work called "The White Zombie". According to the plot of the film, the beautiful Madeline turns into a submissive, weak-willed victim the mysterious Legendre, who lives alone in his castle. For this insidious purpose, he uses the magic of Voodoo. Legendre's undertaking could be crowned with success, but Madeline has a young man who decides to take revenge and goes to the last.

The film was a huge success for the audience. With a budget of just over $ 50,000, he raised as many as 8 million at the box office. In the role of Legendre, the unbeaten Bela Lugosi was shot.

Sounds like the creation of Halperin the film of the war years "The King of Zombies", filmed by Jean Yarbrough. According to the plot of the tape over the small island, the plane crashes. In a catastrophe, the pilot and two passengers survive. On the island, they get to know Dr. Sangre, who is fond of voodoo and has an army of dead men, who himself creates himself in the basement. "The King of Zombies" is not only a horror film. It is also a comedy, whose subtle humor will be appreciated by discerning connoisseurs of good cinema.

50-60s: horror movies about zombies

The list of frightening films about the living dead continues with "Plan 9: Out of the Open Space." This tape was released in 1959. It is interesting because it clearly shows the views and fantasies of filmmakers of the time about the future and about the possible invasion of aliens onto our Earth. The aliens want to turn everyone into obedient robots, but for training they decide first to revive the dead in a small cemetery in America. What came of this? Nothing good. By the way, the same can be said about the film. She won the Golden Turkey award as the worst film of all time. Well, then in the rental just did not come out such "masterpieces" of the film industry, as "Beaver-zombies" (2014) and the Russian tape "Zombie-vacation" (2013).

In the list of films published in the 60s of the last century, the work of Ubaldo Ragon and Sidney Salcou, entitled "The Last Man on Earth", is noteworthy. Dr. Morgan accidentally acquired immunity to the virus that destroyed all people on the planet. During the day, he is completely alone, and at night he is hunted by infected people. A classic story that viewers saw in the movie "I'm a Legend." The secret is that these are two screen versions of the same book by Richard Matheson. It's called - "I'm a legend".

"Night of the Living Dead" (1968)

This is a classic tape filmed by George Romero. Perhaps, every fan of the horror genre in the film industry knows about it. Well, those who are only planning to see the picture, should briefly familiarize themselves with the plot.

Barbara and her brother Johnny visit the grave of his father. In the cemetery, a strange man attacks a young man, who himself seemed to have just risen from the dead. Johnny enters into a fight with a stranger and dies, stumbling and breaking his head on the tombstone. In a panic, Barbara hides in the nearest house. There, the girl is not alone, but in the company of other people who want to survive. Outside - crowds of zombies. On the radio, the heroes learn that the attack takes place on a national scale, and the blame for everything is the radioactivity of the spacecraft that recently returned from Venus.

The meaning of the picture for the cinema and an interesting fact

George Romero made a film that was radically different from everything that had been before. Zombies were no longer associated with voodoo sorcery. They became what they are shown in modern films - bloodthirsty dead, killing and eating everyone on their way. Agree, the most terrible "horrors" about zombies are theirs and they show the audience.

Interesting fact: all the actors of the crowd, depicting the rebels from the graves of the dead, were paid $ 1 each and presented with a T-shirt with the inscription "I was a zombie in the Night of the Living Dead".

Other works by Romero

Perhaps the best horror films about zombies shot in the last millennium are the work of George Romero.

"Dawn of the Dead" (1978) - a story about four people trying to survive the apocalypse, hiding in the office premises of the hypermarket. The heroes manage to establish their own way of life, and it seems that even out of such a mess as the invasion of corpses, one can get out. But then another group of people enters the game. And they are much more terrible than zombies.

"Day of the Dead" (1985) tells of a group of scientists and military men trying to survive a pandemic. In the film there is one bright and interesting character - a "manual" zombie named Bob. It is he who finally manages to break the story line of the narrative.

Later, all the pictures described above Romero were reshooted. Remakes are different from the originals, and in general they deserve good reviews from viewers and critics. Certainly, fans of the genre, these paintings are worth a look.

New millennium. "28 days later"

This is, perhaps, one of the first high-quality films about zombies, shot already in the XXI century. According to the plot, the uprising of the dead from their graves was not: the population of the planet was infected with the "virus of rage". These "zombies" were alive, and they did not move slowly and mechanically, like the recovered corpses from the movies of the eighties, but were quick and able to deliver accurate shots. Escape from the attack of the infected in the film will try the four brave ones.

The tape has several alternative endings, and in 2007 came out a sequel to the picture called "28 Weeks Later."

"Resident Evil"

In 2002, the first film, entitled "Resident Evil" with Mila Jovovich in the title role, was released. The creation of the picture of director Paul Anderson inspired the popular Japanese computer game Resident Evil.

The plot of the film is based on the confrontation of the brave girl Alice and the squad commandos zols of zombies - people infected with the T-virus strain. The action takes place in the "Anthill" - laboratories of the corporation Umbrella.

The film was spectacular, dynamic, but the critics' feedback was not the best. Many noted a weak acting and poorly written dialogue, but the audience liked the picture. To date, there are five films called "Resident Evil", and the release of the sixth part is scheduled for 2016.

"Horror" about zombies: the list of the best

In the new millennium, a huge number of films about the revived dead were filmed. Which of them deserve the viewer's attention? The list of films worth watching is as follows:

• "War of the Worlds Z" (2013).
• "З / Л / О 2" (2013).
• "Quarantine" (2008).
• "The Open Grave" (2013).
• "Reporting" (2007).
• "Heat of our bodies" (2013).
• "The hut in the forest" (2012).
• "I am a legend" (2007).

As you can see, 2013 pleased spectators with a lot of quality films about zombies. Here it is, the magic of the number "13".

Series about zombies

The most famous and, perhaps, the best series about zombies is "Walking Dead". It is based on the comic books of Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard, and the author was Frank Darabont.

Since 2010, "Walking" pleases fans of the genre and fans of high-quality serials with an excellent acting and unpredictable storyline. A group of people led by Rick Grimes survive in the inhabited "walking world". Now the masters on earth are not people, but these beings. But is there a future for humanity? The audience has been looking for this answer for six seasons already.

It is interesting that the word "zombie" does not appear in the series. Dead men are called simply "walking." By the way, the creators of the project have worked on the glory, and makeup extras are amazing.

The reason for the spread of the virus, which turns people into "walking people," is not reported to the viewer. Heroes themselves do not know what triggered the beginning of the apocalypse, but they are looking for an answer to this question.

The creators of "Walking" released a prequel to the audience that loved the audience. This is the series "Be afraid of walking dead", which, as the director promises, will answer all the questions.

What to watch is not worth it

Along with high-quality films and serials about zombies there are also not quite good works of scriptwriters and directors on the given theme. To list them all is impossible, because there are a lot of such tapes. Advise viewers can only pay attention to the ratings of films and their names. "Masterpieces" like "Dead man and breakfast" or "Virgin among the living dead" is unlikely to give you the pleasure of viewing. So look only the best "horror" about zombies and do not waste your time on a bad movie.