What Does Every Movie Need? Zombies Obviously Symper Top 5 - Zombie Flicks

#5- Night of the Living Dead

Now this movie is probably on every zombie movie countdown list known to man, several known to monkeys, and a few known to fish.  If you haven't seen the movie, or aren't up on your zombie movie lore then you probably don't understand why this is, and out of the goodness of my heart I shall edumicate you.  This recognized basically as the first zombie movie ever made, plain and simple as that.  It is the movie that now defines what the modern individual thinks of when they think "zombie." For the first time ever the "enemy" in a horror movie was your friends and family that you had been hunky dory with just a few hours before.  So this has to be in the top 5 just because without this movie we would have no other movies in this countdown.  All Hail Origins!  And the best part is this movie is available to watch for free on IMDB! So you don't have to download it or bootleg it.  Because we all know you do.

#4- Dawn of the Dead (2004)

This is the original zombie movie for me.  Dawn of the Dead turned me onto this style of movie and now has become an all time classic of mine.  A remake of the 1978 movie of the same name, this is chock full of plenty o' guts, blood, and injuries a zombie lover will want.  It's directed by Zach Snyder, who would later go on to direct 300 and Watchmen.  Dawn of the Dead is way better then those other films.  One of the best scenes in this movie is when the survivors of the zombie apocalypse try to escape the mall they are in,  and when they drive out in their super shuttles there is what only can be described as a sea of zombies.  And the remaining people have the same natural reaction anyone would have in their situation, start blowing zombies up with propane tanks.

#3- 28 Days Later

I have been in so many debates about this movie my head will explode.  This is technically not a zombie movie. But so many people think it is a zombie flick, I decided to put it on the list to please these people cause I love you guys (Also I don't want to get into this argument for the bajillionth time today).  This is not a zombie movie for 1 reason, a zombie is a person who has died and then comes back to life and starts munching away at everything it sees.  The ...infected... I will call them, are people who simply get blood/spit/bodily fluids of some sort from another infected into their bodies somehow.  There is no death involved.  The infected just become very VERY angry at the world.  And if you haven't seen this movie and you're a guy, your first thought is probably, "This sounds familiar... kinda like (insert girl's name of your choosing here) acts at that time of the month where I curl up in a fetal position and hide away like she is the boogey man," Well to be honest yeah it is kinda like that (That was a joke ladies).  The infected basically start acting like zombies and start attacking pretty much anything they can find.  So it is an understandable mistake, but never make it again.  Either way this is a great movie to check out.

#2- Shaun of the Dead

This movie is hilarious, enough said.  Okay okay I'll tell you more about it. But don't say I never did anything for you.  This is a British film written by Simon Pegg (Shaun) and the Director Edgar Wright.  This was an original of its own because it was the first movie really to put comedy into a zombie movie.  And you know what it... works great!  Shaun is a mild mannered salesman who has the same problems anyone else has.  But when a zombie outbreak is unleashed he uses his trusty Cricket bat to bash zombies in the head.  And if you don't know why they decide to bash them in the head, then you obviously have never seen any zombie movie ever. Now I will admit not all the jokes are for everyone, some a more geared towards people who are up on British humor (me not being one of them).  So some jokes kinda went over my head but I still found myself holding my sides from laughing so hard.  His Co-star, Nick Frost, I found at the heart of many of the better jokes. 

#1- Dead Snow (Dod Sno)

And now we reach the end of our journey drum roll please! Okay it doesn't work as well when you are just reading, actually that just seems dumb, I apologize.  My #1 zombie movie of all time is another foreign film called Dead Snow.  A Norwegian film about none other then Nazi Freakin Zombies! Why am I excited you ask? Because I may not like Call of Duty that much, but when I played the Nazi Zombies mode, my first thought was this would be an awesome movie.  Apparently Director Tommy Virtola had the same idea.  This movie's story isn't really that original.  College kids go on vacation, find cursed object, things come to kill them.  How many times has that been done in a horror movie? Well let us answer this.  How many horror movies you have seen? There's your answer.  But how many movies can you honestly say have nazi zombies? I'm betting pretty close to 0.  And that's a big chunk of the appeal to this movie.  But also as stereotypical as this movie's story is, I found myself interested in the lore of it.  If you have read some of my reviews you know I like when movies and shows integrate historical facts and put a twist on them.  The cursed objects in this movie are treasures stolen by the not so nice nazi brigade.  But you also find out the area was a testing sight for torture methods and things of that nature.  There is one scene that is quite awesome.  2 of the guys try to take on an entire group and actually succeed (but you know of course more show up).  But what really bugs me about this movie is something I find in a lot of zombie movies.  A character always ends up with this big ridiculous gun or a whole butt load of them for no reason at all.  And in this movie, one of the college kids (who are all studying to be doctors I might add) randomly has a huge machine gun hidden under the seat of his snowmobile.  And to add insult to injury what does he do?  He attaches it to the front of his snowmobile! I mean come on somethings are just dumb.  But besides this one random flaw, I really have nothing that bad to say about the movie and I suggest to everyone to check it out. Happy Hunting Sympers!

So here's my top 5 Zombie movies, what are yours? Comment and tell me Sympers