Shaun of the Dead
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost decide to ride out the zombie apocalypse in the booze-filled, if hard to defend, environs of a London pub in director Edgar Wright’s delightful, and delightfully unpleasant, rom-zom-com. Watch out for cameos from half of Coldplay and all of Martin Freeman.
Evil Dead II
Like a few other films on this list, Sam Raimi’s cabin-in-the-woods tale is not a zombie movie in the strict, as framed by George A. Romero, definition of the genre and we could spend a couple of hours arguing as to whether it should be featured here. Or we could spend the time watching Bruce Campbell hilariously battle possessed corpses.
The Cabin in the Woods
A bunch of college kids — including Chris Hemsworth, Fran Kranz, and Kristen Connolly — face off against a family of undead redneck crazies during a weekend away in the woods. Although, as fans of Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard’s genre-subverting comedy-horror movie will be aware, that’s really just the tip of the monster-berg.
The Return of the Living Dead
The first and best, of the Return… movies began life as a novel penned by Night of the Living Dead cocreator John Russo but the result is a world away from that film’s grim nightmares thanks to writer-director Dan O’Bannon’s dementedly hilarious helming. A Return of the Living Dead documentary.
