93 Studios: The 20 Weirdest Zombie Movies Ever Made
Steve
· 3 months ago
Points off for no Fido and no Special Dead...
Name
· 3 months ago
brain dead= dead alive...
Josh
· 3 months ago
What, no Zombie Strippers?
Trey
· 3 months ago
"Fido" should've been included in this list even if for no other reason than Billy Connolly plays a zombie pet that falls in love with Carrie-Anne Moss...brilliant film also :)
kenhthefilmscreener
· 3 months ago
Cemetary Man!!!!
Rupert Everett as a dillusional, lonely and amoral cemetary nightwatchman who's job it is to slay the walking undead once the sun goes down.
Along the way, his borderline retarded fat sidekick character falls in love with the undead head of a recently deceased teenager.
The surrealist imagery and dream sequences! The subtext of isolation and social disconnection! And ZOMBIES!!!
It's the horror film for Art House film students, and it's also wicked funny.
sbspalding
· 3 months ago
Ha! As I mentioned in the first section, I thought Cemetery Man was too legitimately good to be included on the same list with The Horror at Party Beach. Though I definitely agree, it is one weird piece of cinema.
kenhthefilmscreener
· 3 months ago
Some other ones you may have missed:
Fido - The Alt-Reality Zombie Comedy where in the 1950's Zombies are kept in captivity as public workers or pets. Billy Connelly plays a young boys Pet Zombie, and it also stars Tim Blake Nelson, Carrie Anne Moss and Dylan Baker as a dad who's not a pedophile.
Undead or Alive - Chris Kattan. Zombie Cowboys. The Imdb summary does it justice.
Versus - Zombies plus Kung Fu, Supercops, Cannibals, The Mafia, Highlander Swordfighting, Corrupt Cops, Gunfights, and Magic.
Route 666 - Lou Diamond Phillips fights highway-haunting Zombies due to their deaths at the hands of corrupt cops. A Sci-Fi Channel must watch for shitty cinema.
Grace - Jordan Ladd gives birth to a dead baby... and it comes back alive. I've heard this film is as great as it is brutal.
Outpost - Ray Stevenson and a gang of multicultural mercenaries vs. Zombie Nazi's. A great blockbuster night rental.
Lastly, I know Master's of Horror doesn't count...
but Homecoming is a great twisted piece of Zombie Entertainment. Joe Dante directing a political horror comedy about Dead Iraq War Soldiers coming back to destroy the republican party. As ridiculous as it is, it's decently written and well acted.
sbspalding
· 3 months ago
Another great set of additions to the list. I've never even heard of Grace, I need to check that one out.
Yea, MoH doesn't count but Homecoming was one of the better ones. Right up there with Deer Woman (which I found vastly entertaining).
kenhthefilmscreener
· 3 months ago
Deer Woman was Great, but I prefer Landis's second season outing, Family, with George Wendt playing a delusional and sexually perverse serial killer who argues with dead bodies.
MOH wasn't that great but did have some good entries, like Valerie on the Stairs, Fair Haired Child, Dreams in the Witch House, Sounds Like, We All Scream for Ice Cream, and of course, John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns.
Jack
· 3 months ago
I love you, Sarah Jane - By far the most innovative Zombie movie I've seen in a while.
I thought the Peter Jackson movie with the rat monkey was entitled "Dead Alive" - perhaps that's the American title...anyway - that's a great film. ....
Anyway - I'd just like to say that $38,000 in 1968 is a lot of money. Just to make the comparison, I'm working on a zombie movie right now (it's actually a music video, so production time is much shorter), and so far, the budget hasn't surpassed $2,000. I think modern technology has really helped indie filmmakers lower costs immensely.
jimmarch
· 3 months ago
How in God's name did you miss POULTRYGEIST!
Yes! Zombie CHICKENS! By far the weirdest ever. Troma again. Natch.
sbspalding
· 3 months ago
Poultrygeist -completely- slipped my mind and you know what, I'm a worse person for that. Good call!
Greg
· 3 months ago
Where are the nazi-zombies?
366weirdmovies
· 3 months ago
I agree that it's a shame that, despite being the weirdest zombie movie ever made, CEMETERY MAN [DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE] didn't make the list because it was too GOOD.... that's reverse discrimination!
No problems with the rest of the list, they are interesting movies. I would have listed EVIL DEAD II, but it might not be considered "zombie" enough.
The zomcom GRAVEYARD ALIVE: A ZOMBIE NURSE IN LOVE isn't that great, but it is a weird concept: a Guy Maddin-style nearly silent campy zombie movie with a couple of ERASERHEAD-style dream sequences.
Don't forget the great hallucination sequences in THE SERPENT & THE RAINBOW. And the Haitian-style (as opposed to Romero-style) classics WHITE ZOMBIE and I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE are both dreamlike and atmospheric.
thoughtninja
· 3 months ago
What no Tokyo Zombie?
Name
· 3 months ago
Really, without Fido, one wonders which others were left off the list.
However did you miss Death Curse of Tartu (1966) ??? Miami archaeology students have a beach party [in the Everglades] that is gatecrashed by the mummy/zombie of Tartu, a one-time Seminole chief, who sometimes comes back as a [freshwater?] shark so he can eat people.
darkmodem
· 3 months ago
You managed to find Battlefield Baseball but skipped on Japan's greatest zombie movie ever? Wild Zero is a movie with everything - zombies, UFOs, motorcycles, and Rock and Roll. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-401746...
You can find a DVD copy of it for around $10 online, and it's definitely a good addition to the movie collection.
billyhaynes
· 3 months ago
Wow nice list, only one I remember seeing is Planet Terror. I'll have to look into the others.
neuronphaser
· 3 months ago
I'm shocked that Vampires vs. Zombies wasn't mentioned. It's completely nonsensical, and happens to be the worst movie I have ever seen, hands down. And I've seen LOTS of bad movies. Check it out, because it'll be the bar by which you judge all other movies.
Dale
· 3 months ago
Vampires vs. Zombies is indeed bad, but 'Zombies Gone Wild' and 'Dorm of the Dead' are the worst I have ever seen.
Sounds like a challenge to me! I'll check 'em out.
Dale
· 3 months ago
Don't waste your money dude! :) They really are bad :{ - Buy Song of the Dead. It's bad, but excellent at the same time. You can get it direct from the Director
Dead & Breakfast was kind of strange, especially the musical interludes (one of which is quite catchy). Just flat out weird was Dead Clowns.. that movie had a nice intro but nothing else really made sense.
Dale
· 3 months ago
I guess we all can come up with alternatives. Here are some of my favorite oddities! In no particular order.
Zombie Honeymoon; My Boy Friend's Back; Song of the Dead; Choking Hazard; Living a Zombie Dream; Last of the Living; Fido; Black Sheep; Bubba Ho-Tep; Junk; Rec; Return of the Evil Dead; Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things; Mutant.
Les
· 3 months ago
These are all great movies. One I thought would be on here for sure was the Spierig brothers film Undead. Its Australian (wicked accents) and included zombie plague causing meteors and aliens that come out of nowhere and heal everyone with rain.....and yes it gets way better.
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Rupert Everett as a dillusional, lonely and amoral cemetary nightwatchman who's job it is to slay the walking undead once the sun goes down.
Along the way, his borderline retarded fat sidekick character falls in love with the undead head of a recently deceased teenager.
The surrealist imagery and dream sequences! The subtext of isolation and social disconnection! And ZOMBIES!!!
It's the horror film for Art House film students, and it's also wicked funny.
Fido - The Alt-Reality Zombie Comedy where in the 1950's Zombies are kept in captivity as public workers or pets. Billy Connelly plays a young boys Pet Zombie, and it also stars Tim Blake Nelson, Carrie Anne Moss and Dylan Baker as a dad who's not a pedophile.
Undead or Alive - Chris Kattan. Zombie Cowboys. The Imdb summary does it justice.
Versus - Zombies plus Kung Fu, Supercops, Cannibals, The Mafia, Highlander Swordfighting, Corrupt Cops, Gunfights, and Magic.
Route 666 - Lou Diamond Phillips fights highway-haunting Zombies due to their deaths at the hands of corrupt cops. A Sci-Fi Channel must watch for shitty cinema.
Grace - Jordan Ladd gives birth to a dead baby... and it comes back alive. I've heard this film is as great as it is brutal.
Outpost - Ray Stevenson and a gang of multicultural mercenaries vs. Zombie Nazi's. A great blockbuster night rental.
Lastly, I know Master's of Horror doesn't count...
but Homecoming is a great twisted piece of Zombie Entertainment. Joe Dante directing a political horror comedy about Dead Iraq War Soldiers coming back to destroy the republican party. As ridiculous as it is, it's decently written and well acted.
Yea, MoH doesn't count but Homecoming was one of the better ones. Right up there with Deer Woman (which I found vastly entertaining).
MOH wasn't that great but did have some good entries, like Valerie on the Stairs, Fair Haired Child, Dreams in the Witch House, Sounds Like, We All Scream for Ice Cream, and of course, John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns.
http://www.bowlofserial.com/2009/05/20/i-love-s...
http://www.zpmovies.com/index_files/zombieplane...
Anyway - I'd just like to say that $38,000 in 1968 is a lot of money. Just to make the comparison, I'm working on a zombie movie right now (it's actually a music video, so production time is much shorter), and so far, the budget hasn't surpassed $2,000. I think modern technology has really helped indie filmmakers lower costs immensely.
Yes! Zombie CHICKENS! By far the weirdest ever. Troma again. Natch.
person for that. Good call!
No problems with the rest of the list, they are interesting movies. I would have listed EVIL DEAD II, but it might not be considered "zombie" enough.
The zomcom GRAVEYARD ALIVE: A ZOMBIE NURSE IN LOVE isn't that great, but it is a weird concept: a Guy Maddin-style nearly silent campy zombie movie with a couple of ERASERHEAD-style dream sequences.
Don't forget the great hallucination sequences in THE SERPENT & THE RAINBOW. And the Haitian-style (as opposed to Romero-style) classics WHITE ZOMBIE and I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE are both dreamlike and atmospheric.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0779982/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267116/
See it, and play the drinking game
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-401746...
You can find a DVD copy of it for around $10 online, and it's definitely a good addition to the movie collection.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dorm-Dead-DVD-Region-NT...
http://www.songofthedead.com/
cheers
Zombie Honeymoon;
My Boy Friend's Back;
Song of the Dead;
Choking Hazard;
Living a Zombie Dream;
Last of the Living;
Fido;
Black Sheep;
Bubba Ho-Tep;
Junk;
Rec;
Return of the Evil Dead;
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things;
Mutant.