Theme: Zombie splatter fest. Just like the idea of being stalked in the dead of night has only entered the collective imagination in recent decades, so too the idea that the dead might rise from the grave and feast on the living is a relatively recent source of our nightmares. The zombie movie genre might feel oversaturated in an age where even the zom-com subgenre has made an appearance, but there are some gory classics out there to choose from for a zombie splatter fest double bill. Renowned Italian horror director Lucio Fulci starts off this wonderfully bloody double bill with Zombie Flesh Eaters, released as Zombi 2 in his own country to capitalise on the success of George Romero's Dawn of the Dead. It's a disturbing tale of voodoo and zombies on a remote Caribbean island with some truly inventive gore effects - one of the stand out scenes unlikely to be forgotten in a hurry features an underwater zombie attacking - wait for it - a shark. Audacious horror at its best. George Romero might have been responsible for starting the zombie movie genre back in 1968 with his film Night of the Living Dead, but one of his greatest - and underappreciated - entries into his series of Dead films came out in 1985. Day of the Dead is by far the most relentlessly morbid and depressing vision of life after the zombie apocalypse. Romero's own personal favourite is also his goriest, with the final act a string of grisly, gut baring, head tearing carnage that no horror film has ever quite matched.
