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Hollywood Gothique	Top Ten Zombie Movies	Lead	[-]
Feb 16 08 9:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Here is a deliberately eccentric list of All Time Top Ten Zombie Movies. I Walked with a Zombie White Zombie Serpent and the Rainbow The Ghost Breakers Plague of the Zombies Zombie Sugar Hill Dawn of the Dead (1978) Land of the Dead Chopper Chicks in Zombietown Some strange omissions, to be sure. But there is a method to the madness. Cinefantastique Online: The Review of Horror, Fantasy, & Science Fiction Films
MikeTheMook		#1	[-]
Feb 16 08 10:00 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well, based on their criteria, why is any Romero film on the list. DAWN was a continuation of NIGHT, and yes, they were not zombies in the traditional sense. So, if NIGHT doesn't belong, neither does DAWN, "zombie" reference or not. I mean, these were the same creatures from NIGHT. I could make a film about humanoid turnips that invade Cleveland, and call it "Zombies from Uranus". Will that make this list, simply because I call them zombies? Or maybe, as usual, I'm missing something.
Hollywood Gothique		#2	[-]
Feb 16 08 10:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think the article admits that the whole "zombie" rational is a bit of a stretch, a riff on a goofy idea. In regards to DAWN, the sequel does ignore the sci-fi (radiation) explanation of NIGHT and makes specific references to voodoo, through Peter's character, so there is at least a tenuous connection to the traditional zombie. Cinefantastique Online: The Review of Horror, Fantasy, & Science Fiction Films
Tumak		#3	[-]
Feb 16 08 10:44 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	MikeTheMook wrote: I could make a film about humanoid turnips that invade Cleveland, and call it "Zombies from Uranus". Will that make this list, simply because I call them zombies? Yeah! And where's my all-time favorite zombie movie with no zombies-- ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE??
Alias the Scarecrow		#4	[-]
Feb 17 08 8:04 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Interesting..if I had to choose my own list, it would probably read like this(in no particular order): White Zombie(1932) I Walked With A Zombie(1943) Zombies Of Mora Tau(1957) Plague Of the Zombies(1966) Night Of the Living Dead(1968) Shock Waves(1975) Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things(1972) Zombie(1979) Day Of the Dead(1985) Return Of the Living Dead(1985)
Hollywood Gothique		#5	[-]
Feb 17 08 2:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Nice list, although the only thing memorable about ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU was Allison Hayes. Cinefantastique Online: The Review of Horror, Fantasy, & Science Fiction Films
Koukol 5		#6	[-]
Feb 17 08 5:02 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Zombies and Ghouls are the same thing in my opinion. Every filmaker/screenwriter just adds there own twist on the genre.
oldmanster		#7	[-]
Feb 17 08 5:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Using Scarecrow's list as a base (and ignoring any definition controversy), my list: White Zombie(1932) King of the Zombies (1941; just because it's fun and full of zombies) I Walked With A Zombie(1943) Plague Of the Zombies(1966) Night Of the Living Dead(1968) Non si deve profanare il sonno dei (Let Sleeping Corpses Lie) Zeder (1983) Day Of the Dead(1985) Return Of the Living Dead(1985) Venom (2005; bad movie, great zombie-monster) 28 Days Later (2002) 28 Weeks Later (2007) If the list is limited to only ten films, erase King of the Zombies and Venom. ... Reed Last Edited By: oldmanster Feb 17 08 5:29 PM. Edited 1 times.
Hollywood Gothique		#8	[-]
Feb 17 08 6:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Koukol 5 wrote: Zombies and Ghouls are the same thing in my opinion. Every filmaker/screenwriter just adds there own twist on the genre. Strictly speaking, a ghoul is a demon that feeds off the bodies of the dead, leaving the graves disturbed. By extension, it came to mean grave-robbers. The 1930s Karloff movie THE GHOUL is, I think, the first to give the impresson that a ghoul is a walking dead man (though the character is ultimately revealed to be catalyptic, not a walking corpse). I think Romero is responsible for blurring the distinction between ghouls and zombies. Cinefantastique Online: The Review of Horror, Fantasy, & Science Fiction Films
Koukol 5		#9	[-]
Feb 17 08 7:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I first learned of ghouls, as a child, in a comic book... and they were the living dead.
Alias the Scarecrow		#10	[-]
Feb 17 08 7:41 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hollywood Gothique wrote: Nice list, although the only thing memorable about ZOMBIES OF MORA TAU was Allison Hayes. Agreed! Although, she's memorable in just about everything she appeared in..
Hollywood Gothique		#11	[-]
Feb 18 08 8:28 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I remembere watching THE UNDEAD on video with a bunch of friends years ago. As Alison Hayes walked across screen, one of the female viewers marvelled, "And this was in the days before silicone!" Cinefantastique Online: The Review of Horror, Fantasy, & Science Fiction Films
Alias the Scarecrow		#12	[-]
Feb 19 08 6:49 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hollywood Gothique wrote: I remembere watching THE UNDEAD on video with a bunch of friends years ago. As Alison Hayes walked across screen, one of the female viewers marvelled, "And this was in the days before silicone!" LOL, I can very well imagine! Allison was very "statuesque", shall we say? Especially in that film..
CAPTAINCOMPANY		#13	[-]
Feb 19 08 2:36 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hey guys! Maybe the lists should be broken down into A) Zombies that stem from Voodoo B) Zombies that stem from Science (gone awry) C) Zombies that stem from the Supernatural Based on these criteria, I can cheat and name more than 10 films!!!! In chronological order: Voodoo related: 1) White Zombie 2) The Ghost Breakers 3) King of the Zombies 4) I Walked with a Zombie 5) Plague of the Zombies 6) Sugar Hill 7) Zombie/Zombi 2 Science gone awry related: 1) Night of the Living Dead 2) Let Sleeping Corpses Lie 3) Dawn of the Dead 4) Return of the Living Dead 5) Day of the Dead 6) Night of the Living Dead (1990 remake) 7) Shaun of the Dead Supernatural related: 1) Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things 2) Deathdream 3) The Beyond 4) The Evil Dead 5) The Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn 6) Pet Semetary 7) Della Morte, Della More (Cemetery Man) I know a couple of these could be considered barely/borderline "zombie" movie, but hey, if the "dead walk", than its in (which is why I omitted "28 Days Later") Bryan
Hollywood Gothique		#14	[-]
Feb 19 08 3:04 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Three great lists! I will note, however, that DAWN OF THE DEAD ignores the scientific explanation of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. In its place, we have Peter quoting his grandmother, who was a voodoo priestess: "When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth." This is just one of the characters talking - not necessarily acting as a mouthpiece for Romero - but it does connect the zombie phenomenon to voodoo. Which raises an interesting question: When did people start using the word "zombie" to describe Romero's living dead? DAWN is the first time Romero uses the word "zombies" to describe them, and the film was retitled ZOMBIE in Italy, leading to ZOMBIE 2, which further blurred the lines between cannibalistic corpses and traditional zombies by combining DAWN with an I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE setting. Is this when it all started? Or had "zombie" been used previously in reference to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD? Maybe a topic for another thread? Cinefantastique Online: The Review of Horror, Fantasy, & Science Fiction Films
CAPTAINCOMPANY		#15	[-]
Feb 19 08 4:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Hey Hollywood! You've brought up an interesting point about when the term "zombie" became "en vogue" in the modern day "walking dead" films. Although I won't stake my life on it, I don't believe the re-animated corpses that populate the films of the earlier modern day cycle are ever referred to as "zombies" (not NOLD, Children Shouldn't Play, Let Sleeping Corpses, etc.) I think you pegged it by citing "Dawn" as being the first film since 1966's "Plague of the Zombies" (or by loosening the parameters of the genre, 1968's "The Astro-Zombies") to actively categorize the "walking dead" as "zombies" Oh, and I forgot a film in my earlier list (again, if you treat the zombie genre in a broader perspective): a nod to the dreaded Knights Templar from "Tombs of the Blind Dead" Bryan
MikeTheMook		#16	[-]
Feb 19 08 4:33 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I do remember a tv guide listing from the 70's (mid to late late 70's) for Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things. The brief description after the title said something like "subhuman zombies attack the living". But "zombies" was definitely in the listing. So, at least that early, the walking dead in some of these movies were being referred to as zombies, if only in the tv ads.
Hollywood Gothique		#17	[-]
Feb 19 08 9:56 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Since posing the question earlier in the thread, I looked up Alan Gibson's appraisal of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD in his book Horror Movies, which came out in 1974. Describing the plot, he uses the pharase "a world overrun by zombies." Curiously, the title of the chapter containing NOTLD is "Back From the Dead," which also includes Mummies, Ceaser from CALIGARI, "The Case of M. Valdemar" from TALES OF TERROR. It was as if Gibson were not making careful distinctions but just lumping in lots of vaguely similar things. As for the Knights Templars, I always thought of them as zombies, or at least a variation on the zombie; however, like Romero, Amando deOssorio never considered them as such. He felt the Templars were more like mummies, and they showed an intelligence and organization lacking in zombies. In any case, it seems that historians and critics were calling the flesh-eating living dead "zombies" before the on-screen characters started doing it. Cinefantastique Online: The Review of Horror, Fantasy, & Science Fiction Films
CAPTAINCOMPANY		#18	[-]
Feb 20 08 1:17 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Leave to those damn critics and historians... (seriously, thanks Mike & Hollywood for doing your homework...I get lazy when it comes to homework!) Bryan
Pulpmonster		#19	[-]
Feb 22 08 12:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	By my own definition (if it feels like a zombie movie it's included): 1) Dawn of the Dead (1978) 2) Night of the Living Dead 3) I Walked With a Zombie 4) 28 Weeks Later 5) Dawn of the Dead (2004) 6) Plague of the Zombies 7) 28 Days Later 8 ) Day of the Dead 9) Zombie 10) Shock Waves just off the list: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, Dead Alive, Cemetary Man, Shaun of the Dead, White Zombie, Dead and Buried, Burial Ground (so bad it's classic) john Last Edited By: Pulpmonster Feb 22 08 12:27 PM. Edited 2 times.
Hollywood Gothique		#20	[-]
Feb 22 08 3:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'll never buy into 28 DAYS LATER and its sequel as zombie movies, but by ignoring the voodoo definition, you do come up with more high-quality titles. Although I would have preferred it if you had nudged out the DAWN OF THE DEAD remake and SHOCK WAVES in favor of SLEEPING CORPSES and WHITE ZOMBIE. Cinefantastique Online: The Review of Horror, Fantasy, & Science Fiction Films

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