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Horror > Walking Dead: 124 Films to Buy & Rent
City of the Living Dead (The Gates of Hell) (1980)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Christopher George, Katriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo…
- Gory, maggot–infested Italian zombie movie from one of the erratic masters of the form, Lucio Fulci.
Set in Dunwich, USA, a priest's suicide…
Dawn of the Dead (Zombies, Dawn of the Dead) (1979)
- Dir. George Romero
Feat. David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H. Reiniger
- One of the most effectively violent films ever produced, this classic gorefest has the walking dead run amok in a shopping mall. The comic–book…
Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson
- The Italian goremeister's answer to DAWN OF THE DEAD (and originally marketed as a sequel to it) sees zombies making grisly mincemeat of various poor…
Zombie Holocaust (1979)
- Dir. Marino Girolami
Feat. Donald O'Brien, Ian McCulloch
- One of the more successful Italian gore–films, this strange blend of NYC policier, DAWN OF THE DEAD and ISLAND OF LOST SOULS is entertaining in…
Grapes of Death, The (Les Raisins de la Mort) (1978)
- Dir. Jean Rollin
- Eco–thriller set in the French countryside where a dangerous pesticide used in a local vineyard has turned residents into the walking dead.…
Shock Waves (Almost Human, Death Corps) (1977)
- Dir. Ken Wiederhorn
Feat. Brooke Adams, Peter Cushing, John Carradine
- Cushing plays a Nazi scientist wrecked in the Florida Keys since WWII, where he has remained hidden with his special squad of underwater zombie…
Frankenstein (1973)
- Dir. Glenn Jordan
Feat. Robert Foxworth, Susan Strasberg, Bo Svenson
- Little–known TV dramatisation of the Mary Shelley classic is perhaps the most faithful of all versions in concentrating mostly on the monster's…
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (1972)
- Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. Alan Ormsby
- This grisly cult horror concerns a film director (Ormsby) and his would–be crew who take off to a spooky island and play scary games with each…
Deathdream (Dead of Night) (1972)
- Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. John Marley, Richard Backus, Lynn Carlin
- A presumed–dead Vietnam vet returns to avenge the family (Marley and Carlin, the couple in John Cassavetes' Faces, playing much the same roles)…
Fright (1972)
- Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Honor Blackman, Susan George, Dennis Waterman…
- A 'babysitter in peril' suspenser set around the menacing of Blackman by an escaped mental patient. Not bad as a precursor to the 'slasher' genre.