10 Zombie Horror Movies That Have No Right Being This Good
You've seen 'em. You love 'em. Maybe you don't even know why...
There are few things better than getting cosy with a loved one and popcorn on a winter's evening and watching the bodies of innocent victims be torn asunder. Maimed, chewed or mutilated -- it's heart-warming stuff.
With plenty of choice in today's new horror golden age, zombie flicks are ten a penny and, while we all have our favourites, it can often be hard to know which are the pick of the pack, and which are better left to decompose in the bargain bin -- or whatever they call that algorithm-free corner of Netflix no-one knows about.
Sometimes you're expecting bloody rose-gold and you get hooked on a stinker, but sometimes you take a chance on an unlikely candidate and reap the rewards forevermore. That is precisely the sweet spot in which each of these zombie horrors live, having clawed their way out of an early grave and onto our screens, ready to show us the meaning of mutilation and silence critics forever.
These 10 films have inventive kills, prescient themes, and bloody mayhem galore, all of which make them way better than they have any right to be. Thank Satan they survived.
10. Dead Snow (2009)
Norwegian horror Dead Snow sees a group of eight medical students travel to a remote cabin for a carefree weekend of skiing and relaxation, where local folklore is rife with tales of a Nazi battalion who went missing there during WWII. The students begin disappearing and soon the survivors find themselves fighting for their lives against the zombified corpses of the missing soldiers.
Featuring chainsaws, heavy weaponry and Nazi zombies, Dead Snow is exactly what the people ordered. At a time when the Nazi zombies of the Call Of Duty series were as popular as ever, this was a shrewd move on the part of writer-director Tommy Wirkola. But, far from being a shameless cash-in on a current trend, Dead Snow offers the satisfaction of a straightforward premise, a well-judged balance of comedy and horror, and an awful lot of bang for your buck.
It may not be Shakespeare -- nor Dawn Of The Dead, for that matter -- but what Dead Snow lacks in substance it makes up for in pure, cacophonous fun, all wrapped in the B-movie thrills of blood, guts and ultraviolence.