10 Zombie Horror Movies That Have No Right Being This Good

Alejandro Brugués' Spanish-Cuban zombie feature Juan Of The Dead is to Shaun Of The Dead what Shaun Of The Dead is to Dawn Of The Dead, and if that's not enough to tongue-tie the Cat in the Hat, we don't know what will.

But, never mind anthropomorphic cartoon felines, Juan Of The Dead has nothing to do with Shaun Of The Dead, merely piggybacking on the name and using its comedic forebear as a savvy promotional tactic, employing many of the images we associate with the British zombie horror classic in order to market its wares in the western world. But nothing about this suggests the straight-to-video flick would be any good; quite the opposite, in fact.

Juan Of The Dead sees the titular hero (Alexis Díaz de Villegas) embrace the true capitalist spirit and start a zombie-killing business in his neighbourhood, before it all goes to pot. It's bloody, it's bold, and it uses its genre premise as a way of sliding a bit of social and political commentary under the door, sneding up Cuba in a subtle yet well-judged fashion.