10 Zombie Horror Movies That Have No Right Being This Good

The Dead Don't Die lays its scene in the sleepy town of Centerville, where the moon hangs low in the sky, daylight hours are falling out of sequence, and both human beings and animals are beginning to exhibit unusual behaviours. Against all laws of nature the dead are rising from their graves to feast on the living, and so the town's citizens must take up arms in order to survive.

So far, so good, so typical zombie horror movie; until you discover this is the plot of a Jim Jarmusch joint. Zombies seem an odd subject for a director so concerned with the human condition, and at the same time that is what makes them so perfect; nothing offsets the intricacies and everyday concerns of people's lives quite like the undead.

Starring an all-star collection of the director's regular collaborators, including Adam Driver, Bill Murray, Iggy Pop, RZA, Tilda Swinton and Tom Waits, the Dead Don't Die is a drama auteur's zombie horror, with a few other large-scale sci-fi elements thrown in for good measure. In typical Jarmusch fashion, the scares are quirky and strange, the action is embedded in offbeat dialogue, and the plot is not so much resolved as left balancing on a key thematic beat. But all's the more to love.