Zombie movies are one of the most popular subgenres of horror and rarely seem to have survivors, unlike slasher flicks that have the famed final girls, or paranormal movies that usually have at least one surviving protagonist. In zombie films, the heroes almost always die in a crazed, cannibalistic apocalypse
On the rare occasion that there are survivors in zombie films, they are almost always average everymen who wouldn't seem capable of surviving such ordeals in real life. For example, in Train to Busan, the entire plot of the film revolves around a father trying to survive and protect his daughter during the initial outbreak. Many survivors in zombie films go through extreme lengths to survive, such as hiding in shopping malls, escaping by boat, or killing any other human who may cause them harm.
Dawn Of The Dead
The 2004 remake of George A. Romero, the Father of zombies himself.
Both iterations of the film are about the mass-hysteria that follows the start of the zombie apocalypse and a group of survivors trying to survive in a shopping mall. In the original film, two of the characters survive and are taken away by helicopter, but, in the remake, an entire group escapes on a yacht, though some footage is later found on a camcorder that reveals the surviving group runs out of supplies and arrives at an island infested with zombies who attack them just before the recording shuts off, leaving their fate ambiguous.
Scooby-Doo On Zombie Island
Ruh-roh, this zombie film will be perfect for anyone who just is the first Scooby-Doo movie, and it came out in 1998.
The film follows Scooby and the gang as they reunite to film a new special for Daphne's television program that was originally based on her adventures with Mystery Inc. The gang finds themselves on a cat and zombie-pirate-infested island in Louisiana.
Zombieland
Zombieland is an iconic zombie comedy flick that seems to have become a cult classic over the years, granting itself a sequel an entire decade after the first film. Zombieland takes place several years after the initial outbreak of the zombie apocalypse when everything has seemed to settle down a bit.
Survivors have figured out how to travel and survive in their own ways and have made their own rule sets for surviving the Zombieland, especially the main character, Columbus. This film establishes a number of iconic zombie survival rules, such as Always Double-Tap and Cardio.
Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalpyse is another comedy zombie flick that has to do with the zombie apocalypse outbreak occurring while three best friends decide to the boy scouts. The boys must figure out how to defend their once-peaceful town from the undead ghouls, with the help of an extremely tough cocktail waitress, in order to get their zombie-killing badges and save all that they know and love.
Resident Evil
The Resident Evil film series is based on the popular horror games of the same name, though they have been very loose adaptations of the original. The film series follows Alice, who isn't a character in the games and was made for the films, but interacts with popular game characters throughout the movies.
Alice becomes vastly more powerful as the films go on, the more popular video game characters survive to fight another day.
Warm Bodies
Warm Bodies is much more of a romance film than it is a horrific zombie flick, and it is actually a twist on the Shakespearean tragedy Romeo and Juliet. The zombie apocalypse has been going on for a while now, and R, the zombie, finds himself living in an abandoned airport with a bunch of other zombies, bored and hoping for something more to life than just eating people and grunting to his neighbors.
That is when Julie, the very alive girl, wanders across his path and gets attacked by other zombies around him. R saves Julie, and the two begin to develop a pretty odd relationship, one that may become the cure to the outbreak.
World War Z
World War Z is incredibly intense, so much so that the intensity of the world devolving into chaos at the zombie outbreak is actually even more terrifying than the zombie outbreak itself. To make it worse, this film follows a family as they race around the world to find a cure and to stay safe from the zombies.
One of the most iconic scenes in this movie is the scene of all the zombies piling on top of each other to overcome a massive wall around a city in order to breakthrough. The zombies may not be intelligent by human standards, but they start adapting and learning how to adapt to new things.
#Alive
#Alive is a newer South Korean Netflix Original zombie film that aired on the streaming platform on September 8th. This film kicks off and almost immediately jumps into the action within the first five minutes of the film. By the 10-minute mark, fans will already see their first human turning into a zombie.
#Alive is super intense, as it takes place in Seoul, a major population center. The main character lives and hides out in his apartment for the majority of the time until he must leave to escape to help the girl he has come to know who lives across the street.
White Zombie
White Zombie is often considered to be the first zombie film and came out way back in 1932. This film stars Bela Lugosi, best known for his role as the iconic Dracula, as a voodoo master, Murder Legendre, who has a number of zombies that work for him and protect him from harm.
Murder's zombies are all his old enemies that he changed using a potion that killed them and then reanimated their corpses. The damsel in this film, Madeleine Short, is turned into a zombie after a bargain was made between Murder and Charles, a man who loves her though she is soon to be married to Neil Parker. Neil rushes to save his wife once he discovers she has been turned by Charles and Murder, who lose their grip on the zombies they control.
Train To Busan
TheThis movie has a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes and is emotional, horrifying, and utterly enjoyable. The zombies in this movie are terrifying as they are able to run at great speeds and have an insatiable hunger for human flesh.
Once bitten, the humans also turn into zombies within a matter of minutes, leaving way for characters who get turned to quickly off each other. Not too many characters survive in this horror flick and the ending is sure to have you in a pool of tears.
