Subgenre Sampler
Walking Dead: 141 Films to Buy & Rent
Evil Dead, The (1981)
- Dir. Sam Raimi
Feat. Bruce Campbell
- Made on a budget of less than $100,000, this explosive splatter movie takes gore to the very limits. Colossal amounts of tomato sauce fill the screen…
Burial Ground - Nights of Terror (Le Notti del terrore) (1980)
- Dir. Andrea Bianchi
- A low–rent, bloodily awful Italian zombie–fest with a scientist accidentally awakening corpses in a desecrated graveyard. As one critic…
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…
Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier
- Fleshy and bloody companion piece to BLOOD FOR DRACULA. Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro and others Warhol troupsters re–animate the well–worn…
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…