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i've never really been into Zombie movies, i think i really only seen three or four my whole life so for a project im going to be working on i need to see more so here is what i was wondering for the people that like them can help me out with

what are some of the best Zombie movies and why its good other then it was 'bloody and gross' i need to know why it stands out from the bad, and also what are some of the bad ones and list of reasons it was bad other then 'really fake looking.'

Big zombie movie fan here. See this thread for previous discussion of zombie movies!

Watch Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland.

Agreed on those 2. Also:

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1990 remake)

DAWN OF THE DEAD (remake from 2000something)

Well, obviously, the original Night of the Living Dead is not only a great Zombie movie, but a pretty fantastic movie regardless of genre (and it pretty much invented the modern Zombie genre!). It got tons of great social commentary, featuring a black protagonist in the late 60s!

In general, what makes for a good zombie movie is how it depicts human beings surviving under extreme circumstances, and how it deals with the moral issues of zombiedom (at what point do you blow away what used to be your daughter?).

so my fallow up question here is what type of surviving under extreme is better in general? no idea what to do and figure it out as you go or they kinda have an idea or some one is just good at it?

Lots of great suggestions but like Eryk I can't recommend the original Night of the Living Dead enough. It's one of the best films ever, let alone the very best zombie film.

okay now some really bad ones please

I know you requested bad ones, but I feel I must add Lucio Fulci's "Zombi 2", better known in the States as "Zombie", to the list of the best ones. It's an Italian B-Movie from the late 70s, set mostly on a Caribbean island, and it created a whole new look for zombies, emphasizing rotting flesh, and upped the gore considerably. But that's just window dressing. What makes it a great zombie movie is Fulci's misanthropic worldview, in which the dominant humans are fools at best and oppressors at worst, and the oppressed symbolically rising up as zombies makes them just as bad as those they are trying to overthrow.

Diary of the Dead was enjoyable too
and i eagerly await Survival of the Dead

Bad ones: THE ZOMBIE DIARIES sucked. Avoid at all costs.

NOT to be confused with DIARY OF THE DEAD, which Lab mentioned above. That movie is very good!

FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is so bad that it is actually good.

QUARANTINE suffers from the whole Blair-Witch "shaky camera" nonsense but is actually a good premise... the main chick character is VERY ANNOYING in that she is gets more and more hysterical as the movie goes on, but I find this an interesting contrast, when usually in movies we see our "last chick standing" characters get braver and braver.

Main chick from Mllash forementioned movie Quarantine is the chick from Dexter, Debra.
And yes the movei sucks, i also watched
REC
Which is basically the same movie, except italian(?)

What's that movie with Dean Cain as a half-zombie soldier? That was pretty bad.

Somebody want to try to answer this question?

Plans don't seem to usually work out in zombie movies, so you got to be flexible generally.

Its post apocalyptic, a new world order, and they Its post apocalyptic, a new world order, and like all those types of movies, you have people who rise to the occasion and people who hide and people who unravel.

Any zombie movie (and ESPECIALLY zombie movie/comics) fan who doesn't have AMC in their cable lineup needs to get that over the summer.

Kirkman's IMAGE COMICS post-zombie apocolypse ongoing masterpeice THE WALKING DEAD comes to AMC in October.

Officially October?

yep.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=25459

I have never read the series, but EAGERLY AWAIT this show, hope it gets picked up for a full series.

Lab, I bet you would love the comic series.

i downloaded the series and i am on issue 12
Awesome!
needs colour though
maybe the tv series should be in black and white.

It will always be B&W, the comic anyway. Per Kirkman.

It would be awesome if they could do the show in B&W, but I highly doubt it.

One cool feature the DVD set of TWD should have is a B&W option!