10. Fido

The film takes place in a 1950s-esque alternate universe where radiation from space has turned the dead into zombies. This radiation still plagues humanity, as all those who die after the original contamination turn into the undead. In order to continue living normal lives, communities are fenced with the help of a governing corporation named Zomcon. Zomcon provides collars with accompanying remote controls to control the zombies’ hunger for flesh so as to use them as slaves or servants.
In the town of Willard, whose name is a reference to the town in the original 1968 Night of the Living Dead, housewife Helen Robinson buys a zombie in spite of her husband Bill’s zombie phobia. Their son, Timmy, befriends the zombie, naming him “Fido”. One day Fido’s collar malfunctions and he kills their next door neighbor, who turns into a zombie. Timmy “kills” the zombified neighbor.

9.  Planet terror

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In a rural town in Texas, go-go dancer ‘Cherry Darling’ (Rose McGowan) decides to quit her low-paying job and find another use for her numerous ‘useless’ talents. She runs into her mysterious ex-boyfriend ‘El Wray’ (Freddy Rodriguez) at the Bone Shack, a BBQ restaurant owned by JT Hague (Jeff Fahey) and his sheriff brother (Michael Biehn). Meanwhile, a group of military officials at a nearby US military base, led by the demented Lt. Muldoon (Bruce Willis), are making a business transaction with a scientist named Abby (Naveen Andrews) for mass quantities of a deadly biochemical agent known as DC2 (codename “Project Terror”). When Muldoon learns that Abby has an extra supply on hand, he attempts to take Abby hostage, and Abby intentionally releases the gas into the air. The gas reaches the town and turns most of its residents into deformed bloodthirsty psychopaths, mockingly referred to as “sickos” by the surviving humans. The infected townspeople are treated by the sinister Dr. William Block (Josh Brolin) and his possibly abused, unfaithful bi anesthesiologist wife Dakota (Marley Shelton) at a local hospital.

8. Night of the living dead 1968

Siblings Barbra (Judith O’Dea) and Johnny (Russell Streiner) drive to a rural Pennsylvania cemetery to place a cross with flowers on their father’s grave. Johnny teases his sister, who is afraid of cemeteries, taunting, “They’re coming to get you, Barbra!” A hideous looking zombie (S. William Hinzman) suddenly grabs Barbra and Johnny rushes to save her. A gruesome fight is the result, but Johnny is killed when he falls and  his head into a tombstone. Barbra flees into the car, but the zombie chases her. Barbra attempts to flee in the car as the zombie attempts to break in, but she doesn’t have the key. She releases the emergency brake, and the car rolls away from the zombie. Barbra soon crashes into a tree, still chased by the zombie. She abandons the car and escapes into a nearby farmhouse to hide, still chased by the zombie. She soon finds, however, that others like the man are outside. While exploring the empty house, Barbra discovers a hideously mutilated corpse at the top of the stairs.8.night of the living dead 1968

7. Dawn of the dead 1978

Following the scenario set up in Night of the Living Dead, the film depicts the United States of America (and possibly the entire world) struck by a plague which reanimates recently deceased human beings whose new primary goal is to feast on the flesh of the living. The cause of this plague remains adamantly unexplained. Despite desperate efforts by the US Government and local civil authorities to control the situation, society has effectively collapsed and the remaining survivors seek refuge. Although several scenes show rural citizens and military fighting the zombies effectively, cities, with their high populations and close quarters, are essentially deathtraps. The chaos is eventually implied to have spread throughout the country, evident by infrequent television and radio broadcasts.

6. Braindead

The first scene of the movie sets up the danger of the Sumatran Rat-Monkey, a hybrid that (according to legend) resulted from the r*** of tree monkeys on Skull Island by plague rats: Stewart (Bill Ralston), an explorer returning from the depths of the island with a rat-monkey in a cage, is stopped by his native guides. Seeing the mark of the monkey’s bite on his right hand, they immediately hold down the infected explorer and amputate the appendage. A bite mark is then seen on his left arm, which swiftly results in the removal of that limb. Finally, they see a set of bloody scratches on Stewart’s forehead and kill him. The title screen follows the man’s dying scream, and as the opening credits roll the captured rat-monkey is shipped to Wellington Zoo in New Zealand.

5. Dawn of the dead

Ana (Polley), a nurse, finishes a long shift at her Milwaukee hospital, then returns to her peaceful suburban home and waiting husband Luis. The two jump in the shower and miss emergency television broadcasts about a mysterious epidemic. The next morning their neighbor’s zombified daughter enters their bedroom and kills Luis, who immediately reanimates as a zombie and attacks Ana, who barely escapes. Ana flees in her car, but crashes into a tree after a bus driver attempts to hijack her car. Accompanying the opening credits is a bleak news-video montage depicting swarms of zombies overwhelming human civilization.
Upon waking, Ana meets Kenneth Hall (Rhames), a police sergeant. They and three others–jack-of-all-trades Michael (Weber), petty criminal Andre (Phifer) and his pregnant Russian wife Luda (Korobkina)–break into the nearby Crossroads Shopping Mall. Inside, a zombified mall security guard attacks the group and just barely bites Luda.

4. Resident evil series

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The film begins in The Hive, a top-secret genetic research facility owned by the Umbrella Corporation located deep beneath Raccoon City. A technician loads vials of blue and green liquid into a secured case, then tosses one blue vial onto the floor inside a lab, exits and seals the room. The vial breaks and the facility’s security system, the Red Queen, detects possible infection, and in response, seals the Hive and kills everyone inside.
Elsewhere, a woman known only as “Alice” (Milla Jovovich) (though she is not named onscreen) awakens in an empty mansion with amnesia. She finds a picture showing that she is married; other clues, like concealed automatic weapons, suggest she is not a simple housewife. After she steps outside the mansion door, a man yanks her back inside; the two are immediately seized by a group of commandos. The man, Matthew “Matt” Addison, identifies himself as a police officer, but the commandos handcuff him regardless.

3. 28 days later/ 28 months later

Late one night, British animal rights activists break into the Cambridge Primate Research Facility to free chimpanzees being used for medical research. The local scientist warns the activists that the chimps are infected with something he only calls “Rage”, but the activists disregard him and set a chimp free. It immediately attacks and infects the activists and scientist.Twenty-eight days later, a bicycle courier named Jim awakens from a coma in the deserted St Thomas’ Hospital. As he leaves the hospital, he discovers London is completely deserted and rife with signs of catastrophe. Jim is soon discovered and chased through the streets by infected people before being rescued by two survivors, Selena and Mark, who rush him to their hideout at the Canary Wharf Station in the London Underground. They reveal that while Jim was comatose, the virus spread uncontrollably among the populace, turning most people into mindless, vicious killers (“the Infected”) and resulting in societal collapse, possibly worldwide. Also, i highly recommend 28 Month Later.

2. Shaun of the dead

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Shaun (Simon Pegg) is an appliance salesman whose life is without direction; his girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield) is dissatisfied with their social life, primarily because it consists of spending nearly every evening in The Winchester, Shaun’s favorite pub. He has issues with his stepfather Phillip (Bill Nighy), his increasingly unhappy housemate Pete (Peter Serafinowicz), and a dissatisfying job where his younger co-workers show him no respect. His best friend Ed (Nick Frost) is the third housemate, and Pete demands Shaun evict Ed, because of his laziness. That same evening, Liz dumps Shaun for not fulfilling his promise of doing something special for their anniversary. He drowns his sorrows at the Winchester with Ed. After Pete berates him and tells him to “sort [his] life out,” he has an epiphany and resolves to sort his life out and win Liz back. Also, this movies is full of comedy.

1. I am legend

In September 2012, U.S. Army virologist, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Neville (Will Smith) is left as the last healthy human in New York City. Three years earlier Doctor Alice Krippin (Emma Thompson) altered the measles virus to create a cure for cancer with a 100% success rate. However, the virus mutated into a lethal airborne strain that spread worldwide and killed 5.4 billion people (90% of humanity). Of the 600 million survivors, only 12 million people possessed a natural immunity to the virus. The rest degenerated into bald, pale, aggressive beings referred to as “Darkseekers”, who killed the remaining immune human population. The “Darkseekers”, so called for hiding in buildings and dark places during the day due to a painful intolerance to UV radiation, exhibit increased speed, agility, aggression, and strength, as well as higher pulse, metabolism and respiration rates, and increased body temperature. Despite their primal behavior, the Darkseekers seem to retain some basic problem-solving intelligence, animalistic cunning and the capacity to organize themselves.

Is there anyone out there that doesn’t enjoy a good zombie movie? The recent success of Zombieland, the popularity of the cinema of the undead suggests that there isn’t. Zombie Cinema is a genre that owes its beginning to the seminal Night of the Living Dead in the late 1960s. But, it’s also one that has shown remarkable growth over the last few years as renewed interest in the genre has produced films like 28 Days Later, Dead Snow, Pontypool, and even remakes of some of the genres more enduring titles.

So, that got us to thinking what exactly the best zombie movies were, which subsequently led to the problem of establishing the inclusion criteria for such a list. Do you include something like Frankenstein, which is essentially the creation of the first cinematic zombie or stick with the traditional view of the undead as flesh-crazed hordes that can only be killed by destroying their own lifeless brains? This piece opts for the later, which seems more elegant (in a sick sort of way).

So, settle in with a nice bowl of fresh brains and enjoy in  list of the Ten Greatest Zombie Movies Ever Made (So Far).