10 Zombie Movies You Must See Before You Die

10. City Of The Living Dead (1980)

Lucio Fulci is the Italian King of Zombies, and City of the Living Dead is his masterpiece. An over the top gore fest of vomiting guts and brain ripping, the film has taken on a life of it’s own becoming a must-watch for both its quality and insane sequences. Fulci is a director known for his epic dedication to filming the unfilmable and pushing things further than before (AKA the zombie vs shark scene in Zombi 2) and City of the Living Dead features boundary pushing to the extreme.

Maddening and full of excess, the film focusses on a mismatched group of characters battling against a zombie outbreak in their town. Like many of the great zombie films, it was made on a shoestring budget and doesn’t overstay its welcome however it manages to pack in loads of entertainment and a genuine commentary on the hopelessness of humanity.

Fulci treats City of the Living Dead like a nightmare you will never be allowed to wake up from, delighting and terrifying to equal effect. He may have made films as satires, sequels and in homage to George A. Romero’s zombies, but he’s also created a style of filmmaking uniquely him, and it’s gruesomely brilliant.