10 Zombie Horror Movies That Have No Right Being This Good

There has always been hot debate over whether the Evil Dead films are zombie movies or not, but anything with reanimated corpses -- possessed or otherwise -- gets the zombie seal of approval in our book. And that includes 2013's soft-reboot, which everyone and their mother perhaps quite rightly expected to fail.

So intense was the backlash against a new instalment with a fresh cast and no Bruce Campbell, many fans forgot to put their film-watching glasses on when they went to see it, blindly decrying it as an abomination of the horror canon without stopping to appreciate just how damn good it actually is.

Fede Álvarez's legacy horror is a delight for sore eyes, following roughly the same plot as Sam Raimi's 1981 original, but with Jane Levy's Mia coming out on top. The film is terrifying from the get, leaning heavily into the kind of practical effects that pay homage to the original while offering us horrifying images that may never leave the brain again. Add to this that it still maintains a vaguely comedic sensibility to offset the fact that it is quite literally raining blood, and 2013's Evil Dead is a strong candidate for the best in the series.

Now to wait and see whether Evil Dead Rise can pull it out the bag again next year...