6. Return Of The Living Dead 4: Necropolis
The Movie: The fourth installment in the vaunted Return of the Living Dead series, Necropolis makes a point of getting back to basics in zombie terror. Somewhere in the line, this classic zombie series loses its way. Necropolis brings it back to the golden age of zombie killing in the biggest way possible. The plot is rather irrelevant. The important part is that a group of rag tag teenagers decide that the best course of action they have is to throw together a few Goonies style devices and invade a highly secured government Center for Disease Control quarantine facility with the intention of knowingly releasing and killing about a billion zombies. There ya go.You're welcome for that, the greatest movie premise ever.
Where it Gets Awful: Unfortunately for the makers of this one, they bit off a lot more than they could chew. As it turns out, billions of zombies are exactly easy or cheap to make. Also, an entire government facility that stretches for levels and levels underground wasn't available for on location shooting. So, instead, they decided to make a movie about several teenagers using weapons better suited to the cast of Hook to fight about ten zombies trapped in an obviously above ground assortment of cardboard boxes laid out to look like halls.
The Game: I certainly loved Left 4 Dead, but it was missing one thing: story. Necropolis would be the perfect solution for that problem. Well, considering the story of the movie, it would be more like the acceptable or passable solution. Anyway, in the game, rather than simply transitioning between different scenes in a series of levels, players could move through an elaborately fashioned story in while escaping a crudely fashioned underground bunker. Rather than just killing zombies and moving forward the interaction might actually create a reason for playing.