Chronic Listaholic

1. Dawn Of The Dead. The 2004 remake. Absolutely my most-loved favorite. Zombie childbirth! A zombie newborn!! Zombies that can RUN!!! Truly excellent cinematography. Hellaciously fun soundtrack, including the hysterical version of Disturbed’s “Down With The Sickness” done in smarmy lounge-lizard style by Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine. And the story’s not over till the credits end.
2. Resident Evil. The incomparable ultimate in zombie flicks. Damn, even freaking awesome zombie dogs! Mind-blowing special effects — could you believe that slice-and-dice chamber?!?! But Michelle Rodriguez’s perpetually rolled-back eyes give me a headache.
3. Resident Evil: Apocalypse. Alice is back and kicking zombie ass bigtime. Relentlessly violent, not that I’m complaining! More zombie dogs, and this time, flesh-eating zombie KIDS! I loved every moment — except why did the old corpses in the cemetary reanimate? They didn’t have the T-virus!
4. 28 Days Later. Chilling, gripping, fascinating. Probably the most plausible plot ever for a zombie flick. Similar to Resident Evil in some ways, but without the kickass heroics. Just a desperate struggle to survive by ordinary folks in extraordinary circumstances.
5. Night Of The Creeps. A low-budget, virtually-unknown little gem that’s much more funny than scary. Giant slug things incubate in people’s heads, making them zombies until the critters hatch and split open the host’s head. This movie made “Thrill me” a catchphrase around our house.
6. Return Of The Living Dead 3. The most romantic zombie movie I’ve ever seen. Curt loves Julie so much that, when she is killed, he deliberately makes her into a zombie to keep from losing her. Lucky for him, she loves him too much to eat him! A much better film than you’d expect.
7. Day Of The Dead. The final installment of George Romero’s Dead Trilogy. Not only do the dead walk, one of them actually TALKS! I love the scene where a misbehaving zombie is given a time-out. But mostly, this movie is fun for all its “inside jokes” to fans of the genre.
8. Night Of The Comet. Don’t laugh! I DO like this one, even if it’s corny. Besides, a girl I went to high school with plays one of the nurses. And wasn’t Chakotay from Star Trek: Voyager (Robert Beltran) a cutie in the ’80s?
9. Plan 9 From Outer Space. The most wonderful awful movie ever made! Almost starred Bela Lugosi, but he inconveniently died during filming. Unintentionally hilarious. Not much in the way of zombies, but ahh! if Plan 9 had worked . . . !
10. Night Of The Living Dead. The original, a classic that’s still creepy after all these years. Scared the living-dead bejabbers out of me when I was a kid — and spawned many a sequel.

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