Top 100 zombie films & series

A timid New Zealander struggles to manage a domestic disaster after an animal bite transforms his domineering mother and the problem begins spreading. Peter Jackson escalates an awkward family comedy into an extraordinarily elaborate practical-effects spectacle. Released as Dead Alive in the United States, it is a major reference point for zombie splatter comedy and for the possibilities of handmade physical horror.

Medical student Herbert West arrives with a serum that can restore movement to dead tissue, turning academic ambition into increasingly unruly experiments. Stuart Gordon combines an H. P. Lovecraft premise with physical comedy, rivalry and practical-effects horror. Its revived bodies belong to laboratory reanimation rather than a contagious apocalypse, giving the catalog an important branch of scientific undead fiction.

A young woman's arrival in Haiti leads her into a plantation owner's plans and the power of a sinister controller of the dead. Victor Halperin's early sound film belongs to the Hollywood tradition of enslavement and occult zombification that predates Romero's flesh-eating apocalypse. Its Gothic atmosphere and colonial fantasies make it useful historical context for understanding how screen zombies changed.

A nurse travels to a Caribbean plantation to care for a woman whose condition resists an easy explanation. Jacques Tourneur and producer Val Lewton build an ambiguous Gothic drama around family history, desire and the possibility of supernatural control. The result offers a quieter strand of zombie cinema, where shadows, ritual and uncertainty carry more weight than an expanding outbreak.

A mysterious boat in New York leads investigators toward a Caribbean island where illness and the dead have become difficult to separate. Lucio Fulci turns the investigation into a series of vivid encounters built around oppressive heat, isolated settlements and elaborate practical effects. Also distributed as Zombie Flesh Eaters and Zombi 2, this is a central entry in Italian zombie horror.

Kieren Walker returns to his Lancashire village after treatment restores his awareness, leaving him to face both his memories and his neighbors' response. Dominic Mitchell's BBC drama uses the aftermath of a rising to explore reintegration, grief, identity and community hostility. The series moves the central question away from escaping the dead and toward whether people can live together after their return.

A woman restoring a Louisiana hotel discovers that the property conceals a connection to a hostile supernatural world. Fulci's film moves through uncanny rooms, violent apparitions and the returning dead with the logic of a nightmare. Its place in this catalog comes from that undead imagery and its influence on surreal horror, rather than from an attempt to explain a coherent biological outbreak.

Medical resident Liv Moore becomes a zombie and takes work in a morgue, where the brains she consumes create an unexpected route into criminal investigations. The series combines a case-of-the-week structure with identity problems, friendships and a growing undead society. It offers a sustained comic and procedural version of zombie life, treating the condition as an ongoing complication within a functioning city.

Tom Savini revisits Romero's farmhouse siege with a new cast, color photography and a more physically assertive version of Barbara. The central situation remains a group of strangers struggling to cooperate while the dead gather outside. Treat this as a distinct interpretation of the 1968 film: its changed character dynamics and practical-effects perspective offer a useful comparison with the original.

The residents of the fictional Mi'gmaq reserve of Red Crow discover that they appear immune to the plague devastating the people around them. Their community becomes both a place of refuge and a site of difficult decisions about protection and responsibility. Jeff Barnaby's film brings an Indigenous perspective to zombie horror, connecting family tensions and survival choices with the pressures of borders, power and belonging.

A reporter and a psychic become involved in supernatural events threatening the New England town of Dunwich. Fulci treats the undead as part of a wider disturbance in the boundary between ordinary life and the afterlife. The emphasis falls on atmosphere, startling effects and accumulating signs of corruption, offering a markedly different explanation for zombie danger from a straightforward infectious disease.

Two travelers cross an English countryside where experimental technology appears linked to the dead returning. Suspicious police and scattered rural locations complicate their attempts to understand the attacks. Also known as Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, Jorge Grau's film combines environmental anxiety, institutional hostility and detailed undead horror, making its agricultural landscape feel as unsafe as the urban settings of later outbreak films.

A campus courtship story collides with an alien-parasite problem left unresolved by an earlier generation. Students and a troubled detective confront bodies that no longer behave as their owners once did. Fred Dekker combines 1950s science-fiction imagery, college comedy and zombie attacks, making the film particularly useful for viewers interested in how several familiar horror traditions can share one energetic story.

After a biological contaminant reaches a small Pennsylvania town, residents face both erratic human behavior and an imposed military response. George A. Romero directs attention toward confusion, failed communication and the difficulty of identifying who is dangerous. The afflicted are living people, so this is an infected-adjacent selection whose links to zombie cinema lie in quarantine, social breakdown and contested authority.

A doctor investigating illness in a Cornish village encounters a community whose deaths and labor practices conceal something disturbing. Hammer places zombie horror inside its familiar Victorian world of suspicious estates, graveyards and contested authority. The film connects the walking dead with exploitation and power, providing an effective bridge between older occult zombies and the later idea of a population overtaken by catastrophe.

Survivors move through rural Quebec after familiar neighbors begin attacking the people closest to them. The forests and quiet settlements create an unsettling landscape in which companionship offers comfort but little certainty. Robin Aubert combines sudden danger with dark humor and stranger details of infected behavior, giving this French-language zombie film an atmosphere of displacement that extends beyond the immediate pursuit of food or shelter.

A sheriff and other residents of an Iowa town confront a contaminant that changes human behavior while a containment operation closes around them. Breck Eisner's remake turns the premise into a focused escape thriller, continually undermining the group's confidence in apparent safety. Its attackers are living infected people; the zombie connection comes through quarantine, mistrust and the collapse of ordinary civic relationships.

Residents of a newly occupied apartment complex become trapped by a spreading illness that can drive infected people into dangerous behavior. The setting turns shared spaces, access rules and differences in status into sources of conflict. This Korean series combines an infected thriller with social observation, following people whose ability to cooperate is tested by uncertainty about both their neighbors and the outside response.

A coastal sheriff investigates attacks on visitors while the town around him becomes increasingly difficult to read. Gary Sherman builds a mystery in which medical expertise, local relationships and the treatment of the dead acquire unsettling meanings. The film belongs to supernatural undead horror, using investigation and a carefully sustained atmosphere to make an apparently ordinary community feel fundamentally unreliable.

American paratroopers approaching D-Day discover that a mission behind enemy lines involves more than destroying a communications target. A hidden laboratory introduces experiments that push bodies beyond ordinary human limits. Julius Avery combines a fictional wartime operation with creature horror, placing the film alongside undead cinema through its altered soldiers and resurrection imagery while keeping its main structure rooted in a tightly directed military mission.

A holiday group reaches an isolated Norwegian cabin and encounters a threat rooted in the area's wartime past: reanimated Nazi soldiers. Snow, distance and a steadily worsening situation turn the mountain setting into a trap. Tommy Wirkola combines familiar cabin-horror mechanics with broad comedy and elaborate practical effects, making the first Dead Snow a forceful example of the zombie holiday gone wrong.

An American researcher travels to Haiti to investigate an account of apparent death and return, entering a situation shaped by repression and supernatural fear. Wes Craven adapts the premise into a highly fictionalized political and occult horror story. This belongs to the zombie-folklore side of the catalog, with attention to control and the terror of losing one's agency instead of a modern infection siege.

An outbreak spreads through the streets around Seoul's central railway station, catching vulnerable people between infected crowds and institutional barriers. Yeon Sang-ho's adult animated feature approaches the world associated with Train to Busan from a different social position and visual form. The focus stays close to people trying to find shelter, family and reliable help while the city's responses make movement increasingly difficult.

Christmas preparations and final-year school worries collide with the arrival of the undead in a Scottish town. Anna and her friends must navigate the outbreak while the film gives their hopes, frustrations and relationships the form of musical numbers. The unusual combination of seasonal comedy, teen drama and zombie survival makes this a distinctive choice for viewers who enjoy horror expressed through song.

A group transports a survivor whose unusual response to a zombie bite may be useful to researchers trying to develop a cure. The journey gives the series a changing geography and an assortment of temporary communities, rivals and strange outbreak conditions. Its tone can move from tense survival to broad absurdity, making it a useful counterpoint to more consistently solemn apocalypse television.

A specialist team enters the apartment building soon after the events of the first film, with helmet-mounted cameras changing the available viewpoints. The investigation expands the nature of the threat while preserving the tight corridors and unreliable information that made the original effective. Watch after [REC]; this direct continuation moves further into possession horror as it develops its apparently infectious crisis.

Two sisters find Los Angeles largely emptied after a spectacular comet passes overhead. Their search for supplies and other survivors brings encounters with altered humans and people pursuing their own plans for the aftermath. This colorful 1980s feature combines teen comedy with science-fiction danger; its mutant attackers place it alongside zombie stories without making it a conventional resurrection-of-the-dead film.

The conflict with reanimated Nazi troops expands beyond the first film's cabin setting into a larger, deliberately extravagant battle. A survivor finds unexpected allies as supernatural complications change the balance between the living and the dead. Watch Dead Snow first for the background, then expect a sequel that emphasizes outrageous physical comedy, undead armies and increasingly elaborate action over the original's contained mountain ordeal.

Juan and his friend respond to an outbreak in Havana by offering a practical service: removing the undead for paying customers. Their business idea creates room for social satire as well as improvised action. Alejandro Brugués gives the zombie comedy a specifically Cuban setting and voice, using friendship, everyday survival habits and official explanations of the crisis to shape the film's humor.

Escaped prisoners, gangsters and other armed strangers collide in a forest where death does not reliably end a confrontation. Ryuhei Kitamura blends supernatural resurrection with martial arts, gunplay and a deliberately exaggerated sense of style. This is undead action rather than an infection narrative, using the forest's unusual rules to keep rivals, loyalties and physical battles in constant motion.

A treatment allows some people infected by a cannibalistic virus to rejoin society, but recovery does not erase memory, grief or public fear. One returning man attempts to rebuild family connections in an Ireland divided over what acceptance should mean. David Freyne uses the aftermath of an outbreak to examine responsibility and stigma, with the prospect of renewed violence keeping the social drama under pressure.

A kindergarten excursion becomes an outbreak emergency, leaving a teacher, a visiting uncle and a children's entertainer responsible for a group of frightened pupils. Miss Caroline tries to preserve a sense of normality while the adults improvise defenses around them. This Australian feature combines zombie peril with romantic and workplace comedy; its language and humor are aimed at adults despite the young characters.

A family running a struggling rural business encounters an unusual undead visitor and begins looking for ways to turn the situation to its advantage. This Korean comedy lets domestic rivalries and entrepreneurial enthusiasm complicate an already unstable discovery. Also known as The Odd Family: Zombie on Sale, it approaches the outbreak through a family ensemble before allowing the consequences to spread more widely.

A young couple becomes entangled with a military project experimenting on the dead, turning a relationship into an increasingly painful test of loyalty. Brian Yuzna moves the franchise toward romantic tragedy and body horror. The appeal lies in that change of emphasis: the revived person is someone the protagonist loves, and the emotional problem cannot be solved merely by escaping a crowded building.

A viral outbreak transforms everyday life in Taiwan into a crisis of deliberate aggression, leaving a separated couple trying to reach one another. The infected remain living and capable of intention, giving the film a particularly disturbing focus on human cruelty. Rob Jabbaz emphasizes extreme body horror and rapid escalation, placing this at the harsher end of infection cinema rather than treating its attackers as conventional resurrected corpses.

A team enters a quarantined Las Vegas to recover money left inside a casino vault before the city is destroyed. The heist structure gives the outbreak a defined objective, specialist roles and a narrowing time window, while the infected city complicates every planned route. Zack Snyder combines ensemble action, family tensions and large-scale zombie spectacle in a story driven by the risks of going back inside.

Stranded outside Las Vegas during an apocalypse, Molly is followed across the desert by a lone zombie that never needs to stop and rest. The scale is deliberately small, making distance, heat and exhaustion central to the suspense. Colin Minihan builds an adult survival story around the unequal endurance of pursuer and pursued, allowing one persistent creature to become a serious threat without a vast surrounding horde.

Two young men working in a Hong Kong shopping center become involved in an outbreak that traps shoppers and staff among familiar shops and corridors. Wilson Yip mixes rude comedy, friendship and abrupt danger in a crowded commercial setting. The film gives the catalog a distinctly local take on mall-based zombie horror, with the characters' impulsive choices shaping much of the trouble.

An American survivor of a failed evacuation travels through West Africa with a local soldier searching for his family. The zombies move slowly, but distance, limited supplies and constant exposure make their presence difficult to escape. Howard J. Ford and Jon Ford concentrate on the pressure of crossing an open landscape where an apparently manageable threat becomes exhausting through persistence and numbers.

Rock fan Ace encounters an alien-driven disaster in which the dead are returning, while the band Guitar Wolf becomes part of his improbable route through the chaos. The film combines loud music, romance and deliberately excessive zombie action. Its unusual appeal comes from an openhearted rock fantasy that treats fighting monsters and believing in love as parts of the same adventure.

Leon S. Kennedy enters an Eastern European conflict where biological weapons complicate an already dangerous political situation. This computer-animated feature belongs to the game-connected branch of Resident Evil screen stories, with familiar characters operating amid infected combatants and engineered creatures. It broadens the catalog's animated selections while keeping a clear distinction from both the live-action films and episodic television.

A convoy crosses the American desert after the T-virus has devastated familiar settlements, while Alice remains entangled with Umbrella's plans. Russell Mulcahy changes the series' visual scale from enclosed facilities and city streets to open, depleted landscapes. The result combines mutant and zombie action with a traveling-survivor structure, making resources and movement central to this chapter's version of the aftermath.

A returning prince encounters an outbreak of violent Night Demons in Joseon-era Korea, where political rivalries complicate the attempt to contain them. The historical setting changes the practical terms of survival: swords, gates, palace corridors and personal loyalties matter as much as the creatures themselves. Rampant combines court intrigue with large-scale zombie action, offering a period counterpart to contemporary urban outbreak stories.

Zach sees the unexpected return of his girlfriend Beth as a chance to repair a relationship interrupted by death. Her increasingly unfamiliar behavior turns that hope into a problem neither family is equipped to handle. Jeff Baena's film uses the zombie premise for an awkward, intimate comedy about attachment, disappointment and the difficulty of accepting that somebody has changed.

Alice reaches a Raccoon City overtaken by Umbrella's disaster and joins other survivors seeking a way through the containment zone. The sequel expands the first film's enclosed laboratory crisis into urban action and brings more recognizable game characters into the screen series. Watch after the 2002 film for its continuity, expecting engineered monsters and running battles alongside the infected crowds.

A television reporter accompanies firefighters on a routine call and ends up inside an apartment building sealed by the authorities. The camera becomes the surviving record of a rapidly spreading infection and the residents' struggle to understand their confinement. This American remake of [REC] builds its tension through limited information, blocked exits and the changing meaning of a supposedly ordinary emergency response.

A police raid on a criminal stronghold in a Paris tower block is interrupted by a zombie outbreak. People who entered the building as enemies must consider cooperation while the surrounding city becomes increasingly dangerous. This French film concentrates on physical confrontations, confined routes and unstable alliances, using the undead siege to place a familiar crime-film conflict under a different and relentless kind of pressure.

A group of revived young women is assembled into an idol act intended to promote Japan's Saga Prefecture. Their different backgrounds and the practical challenges of performing while undead create an unusual blend of music, character comedy and zombie imagery. This animated series belongs at the playful edge of the catalog, showing how reanimation can support stories about identity, teamwork and entertainment rather than an apocalypse.

Three teenage scouts find that the skills associated with their unfashionable hobby become unexpectedly useful when a zombie outbreak disrupts their town. Their strained friendship has to survive alongside the practical challenge of protecting people and finding a route through the chaos. Christopher Landon's film combines improvised survival action with an adult teen-comedy sensibility, treating preparation and cooperation as opportunities for both jokes and resourcefulness.

An East London bank robbery and the threatened future of a retirement home are interrupted by the arrival of the undead. The film links younger relatives with older residents, allowing both groups to improvise resistance from familiar surroundings. Matthias Hoene combines neighborhood affection, crime comedy and zombie action, with the older characters contributing directly to the attempts to survive rather than simply waiting for rescue.

A father brings his infected daughter home while authorities monitor a disease that gradually transforms its victims. The danger develops through waiting, family decisions and the knowledge that an ordinary household cannot remain protected forever. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Abigail Breslin anchor a restrained zombie drama whose central concern is caring for someone during an irreversible change, rather than following a large survivor expedition.

An escaped chemical creates another neighborhood outbreak, with children and an assortment of adults trying to understand the walking dead around them. This follow-up favors broad comedy and a suburban adventure structure, while familiar performers return in different roles. It provides a lighter, largely separate variation on the first film's chemical-zombie setup rather than simply repeating its original characters' experience.

Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy must navigate courtship, status and misunderstanding in an England where zombie attacks also demand martial training. Adapted from the Austen-and-undead mashup novel, the film treats weapons practice and social accomplishment as overlapping expectations. Lily James and Sam Riley lead a period action comedy whose distinctive appeal comes from seeing familiar romantic negotiations continue while the countryside faces an unrelenting supernatural emergency.

A soldier collecting subjects for a supposed cure program becomes involved with people whose survival exposes the machinery behind his mission. This continuation expands Wyrmwood's Australian landscape of improvised technology, unusual zombie rules and forceful action. Begin with Road of the Dead for the wider world, then expect a more elaborate collision between survivors, scientific exploitation and the systems built around the infected.

A couple travels to an Eastern European clinic for cosmetic surgery and becomes trapped when an outbreak overtakes the hospital. Doctors, patients and visitors share the same unsafe corridors as medical routines give way to panic. This Belgian feature uses vanity, clinical commerce and bodily vulnerability as material for an adult splatter comedy, pairing grotesque physical effects with the immediate problem of escaping a contaminated institution.

A wedding celebration becomes an outbreak, leaving the couple and their guests separated inside a transformed reception venue. Paco Plaza uses the familiar social rituals of the occasion as material for romance, dark comedy and violent disruption. The film changes the series' visual approach as it unfolds, offering a broader formal variation within the same possession-and-infection mythology rather than another apartment-building investigation.