10 Zombie Movies You Must See Before You Die

Of course, this three are here. It was these films that started it all, created the imitators and set the bar so high it’s never to be topped. 50 years later and George A Romero’s zombie visions are still the greatest of all time.

Night of the Living Dead started the franchise with a terrifying depiction of societal collapse. It’s a film born in the wake of the Vietnam War and echoes the surrealism of the situation: America is falling apart and Romero shows it with incredible creativity. Tom Savini directs the joint with restraint but unsettling realism at times.

Following this was the classic, Dawn of the Dead, a film that took from its predecessor and still sits as the finest standard of both zombie movies and horror in general. It’s sickening and awful as Romero sets out to go that one step too far; but, nightmarishly this comes both in the film’s depiction of horror and the writer’s own sharp political voice on society.

Rounding off the trilogy is Day of the Dead but many will tell you that the less said about this one, the better. It has its iconic moments but nowhere near the bite and importance of the two films that came before it.

Everything on this list owes some sort of debt to George A Romero, and so will every zombie film forever.