Top 10 Zombie Hordes



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The Ozombies make their premier in The Martian Invasion of Oz. While they are pretty gruesome bunch when they want to be, they have been preceded by some awesome undead cousins. Here are our picks for the ten best of them.





10. Night of the Living Dead - The undead ghouls of this 1968 classic directed by George Romero pretty much created the zombie genre. These creeps continue to be evolved by Romero in the (so far) 5 sequels/sidequels that he has put out over the last few decades.

9. Death Troopers - Most Star Wars spin-off material is pretty lame. I mean, we loooovvvvveeee Star Wars here but who wants to read a series of derivative novels about the adventures of Han Solo's kid and Lando Calrissian's great-nephew on spring break? But, novel about Han and Chewbacca battling their way through an Imperial prison ship filled with freaky, alien zombies!!!!! Well, that's pretty cool. What happens when a Wookie becomes a zombie? You've got to read it to find out, but it's pretty gross.





8. Zombi 2 - Created as a knock off of Romero's Dawn of the Dead (which was released in Italy as Zombi), Lucio Fulci's 1979 film is choked filled with memorable gross out moments. It is also contains the reason film exists - an underwater battle between a zombie and a shark! That's not even getting into the reanimated carcasses of centuries old Spanish Conquistadors.





7. Return of the Living Dead - Original Night of the Living Dead Screenwriter Joe Russo had a falling out with George Romero and the resulting legal settlement gave him the rights to the "Living Dead" title for any future work. He then wrote a script to the original film, that was heavily re-written by director/screenwriter Dan O'Bannon. The result is a punk rock infused, gory comedy that introduced the world to the first zombies with a hankering for brains.
 




6. Juan of the Dead - This 2010 horror comedy from Cuba features a petty criminal, Juan, and his pals making the best of a zombie holocaust in their communist island paradise. It's as much of a parody of contemporary Cuban life as it is a zombie film, but it is one great zombie flick.





5. Dead Snow  - Tommy Wirkola's 2009 Norwegian film combines Scandinavian folklore and zombies to tell a black comedy about Nazi zombies terrorizing attractive Nordic youth to protect their treasure.



4. Marvel Zombies - One of the best ideas Marvel Comics has had since having Peter Parker get bit by a radioactive spider was to create a parallel universe in which all of its heroes become zombies. Perfect. Really.
 


3. Army of Darkness - Sam Raimi's 1992 sequel to his legendary Evil Dead 2 features his hero, Ash Williams, lead a band of medieval warriors against an army of wise cracking undead soldiers. Great stuff.



2. Versus - This film released in 2000 by producer/director/co-writer Ryuhei Kitamura features the returned corpses of victims of a ruthless gangster and his crew brought to life in The Forest of Resurrection. Creepy, crazy, gory and always keeps you guessing.



1. Shaun of the Dead - The greatest of Zombie comedies. A loving tribute to the work of George Romero. A zombie Nick Frost. It can't be beat.