Michael A. Appel 
Having just survived our own apocalypse, now seems like the perfect time to see if we really have what it takes to be successful in a world gone wrong. And we’re not just talking about having to make some extra cash with new casinos in Canada, like the ones found at Casino pilot, while we were in confinement.
From full-blown zombie attacks to treating your loved ones, some epic zombie movies have graced screens over the years. Here’s our pick, not the best of the best, but rather the best of the rest, as movies with a little more twist in the genre are more down our lane.
While he might have made a lot of emphasis that this is the most expensive screenplay cover of all time, the zombie style is so creepy in this movie that we just couldn’t not leave it out.
Brad Pitt is a former UN employee who has a lot of experience with certain difficult situations and finds himself right in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. In order to save his family, he must help the government save the world and is taken from one corner of the globe to another, piecing the zombie trail back together and solving life’s biggest concerns. like how to kill all zombies.
But, as mentioned, depicting hundreds of thousands of zombies, forming a tower of bloodthirsty bodies frantically jostling each other in a wave of flesh-eating madness, is cinematography magic at its finest. Sure, Mr. Pitt brought the necessary caliber to the movie, but it’s a great movie on its own.
Not since Evil Dead in the 80s Zombies and slapstick humor have been so well linked for our entertainment. With Zombieland, you get a movie where zombies have become just another part of life, like a goofy social etiquette and new friends, with the hero being a young nerd with a penchant for rule-making and IBS.
Four survivors from diverse backgrounds come together to form a kind of “family”, driven by the need to survive and social interaction. Zombies are killed in very interesting and new ways, there is a lot of fun and much needed blood to wrap it all around.
The random cast of Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin, with King of Comedy’s greatest cameo, Bill Murray, may not make sense on paper but is a sheer genius on screen. If you love your zombie with a good side of humor, this is for you.
Before Peter Jackson put New Zealand on the map as Middle-earth, he made some excellent B-quality movies, and Braindead is the choice of the group. If you’ve ever wondered what to do if your mom gets bitten by an infected monkey, causing a huge zombie outbreak in your small country town, here’s the answer.
While the underlying tones of a strict upbringing, loss of a father, and a new love may go unnoticed, beheadings, meals, and oh-my-word-all-that-blood don’t. But you can still convince your girlfriend that this is some kind of romantic comedy if that’s what it takes.
With the majority of the budget spent on fake blood, Jackson portrays a world where it may be the survivors who become more bloodthirsty than the real zombies, finding crazy ways to dispel their threats. From a lawnmower to a mixer, this movie never performed very well back then, but it’s a well-deserved cult status tag as one of the bloodiest movies ever made means it luckily is on our list.
It must have made a lot of noise when the producers asked for a small fortune to make a zombie movie inspired by Romeo and Juliet, but this is Hollywood for you. What sets this movie apart is that it is from a zombie perspective, zombie “R†to be exact.
While yes, R is a zombie and follows his instinct to eat people for survival, he also enjoys friendship and wonders what he’s doing with his life. Conflict, he feels like he’s just not living up to his potential.
That all changes when he meets Julie, who tries to kill him (he’s a zombie after all), and it’s love at first sight. Not only does he not feel the urge to consume her, but his love for her creates a new feeling within him, which works to slowly but steadily eradicate the human zombie.
You’re not going to go wrong with Leo and Claire (thankfully), but R’s portrayal as a budding human with conflicting emotions of love, lust, and lunch is worth watching. Oh, and there’s John Malkovich, so it can’t be bad.
When you hear that for the first time Arnie schwarzenegger is finally in a zombie movie, the images you get in your head may not be exactly how this plot unfolds. But the story of a father grappling with an infected daughter who gradually becomes more and more zombie every day is again something that doesn’t come off the standard zombie shelf.
Far from the horror genre, this incredibly moving and dark film has the Terminator struggling to come to terms with the fact that his daughter will be filming in the next few months and the ripple effects that go with it. He must struggle with his fatherly desires for protection and his social obligation not to allow a zombie to destroy the world.
Abigail Breslin as Maggie does magic, but Schwarzenegger’s performance will really put you on the edge of your seat. Not a funny bone in sight, but drama at its best.
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