I love zombie movies. Give me a movie with the dead crawling from their graves and taking over the world and I’m a happy man. Rotting corpses, guns blazing, lotting stores, what more could you want? I also love how the survivors have to be clever and out smart the zombies to survive.
There are several thing one can learn from zombie movies. First, when all chaos breaks loose you find out who your friends really are. Your friends will have your back, while your enemies will throw you to the zombies to save themselves. Next, divisions arise between the generous and the selfish. It always happens, there’s a division between the people who pull together for the good of the group and the one or two people who are only looking out for themselves. It never works out well for the selfish ones, they end up with their possessions, but no one to share them with or protect them from the zombies. Finally you find out what type of person you really are on the inside. People seem to either rise to the challenge of dispatching the undead, or they break down and freak out-ultimately becoming zombie food.
My Favorite Zombie Movies (in no particular order)
- (Original 1968) Night of the Living Dead – It can come across as a little slow and cheesey, but this film is responsible for creating the modern zombie we know and love.
- (Original 1978) Dawn of the Dead – This is the follow up to Night of the Living Dead. A group of people hold up in a shopping mall fighting off an endless waves of zombies.
- 28 Days Later – The premise is the same as most zombie films, but the zombies are fast and crazy aggressive. The pace of the film will keep you on the edge of your seat.
- The Crazies – This isn’t nessasaraly a typical zombie film, but it has many zombie elements.
- Zombieland – Usually I don’t care for horror comedies, but Zombieland pulls it off perfecly. The opening sequence is amazing.
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