Wicked Wednesday: Zombies

I like zombie movies. While as a whole, they aren’t my favorite type of horror movie (a slew of bad ones are out there – and bad zombie movies are boring and a waste of 90-120 minutes) there are many which I find truly entertaining. There have always been zombie movies, but with the success of The Walking Dead, which is wonderfully gory and fun, more seem on the horizon. I’m not crazy about the ones where the zombies are particularly sympathetic, or in love, or trying to be normal, or even humorously funny (although dark humor is appreciated) – give me the gut-eating, bloody shamblers every time. Some of the ones I love aren’t always billed as zombie movies, but they do feature reanimated corpses.

The first zombie movie I think I ever saw was Night of the Living Dead. It’s not my favorite of George Romero’s movies – I prefer Day of the Dead – but it was interesting, and it did frighten me. The fact that it was black and white didn’t bother me at all – many of the movies I saw when I was young were, and a lot of them scared the hell out of me.

Some of the best zombie movies are Italian, and from the 80s. Zombi 2, Lucio Fulci’s “sequel” to Night of the Living Dead, is a blast, and has some awesome scenes, including a slow-motion eye puncture

and a zombie fighting a shark.

Several movies in the 80s had Lovecraft-based themes with zombies, or at least referenced many Lovecraftian elements. The City of the Living Dead from 1981 is another Fulci movie, where a priest hangs himself in Dunwich and opens the gates of hell. This had some great moments, the best of which involved bleeding eyes and an “upset stomach.”

My favorite zombie movie from the 80s, though, is Re-Animator. It’s one of those weird story serials by H.P. Lovecraft written in the early 1920s, and the unrated version is rather awesome. It has some very dark humor as Herbert West tries to perfect his reanimation serum, and the doctor who’s head he cuts off with a shovel gives a little head to the heroine.

My guilty pleasure from the 90s is Peter Jackson’s Dead-Alive (yes, that Peter Jackson). It’s warped, it’s funny, and it’s one of the bloodiest movies I’ve ever seen, with an amazing array of zombies.

There are some notable newer zombie movies which I like as well, including [rec]

and Dead Snow.

Some monsters are sexy (vampires, for one), and while I don’t find zombies particularly sexy (but I do like the Zombie dildo), quite a few porn movies have taken up this theme (and there is something to be said for porn parodies in general). The titles are often great, and many of the zombie parodies feature a good amount of gore along with the sex. Some of the best titles in this porn genre include LA Zombie, Porn of the Dead, Walking Dead Orgy, Beyond Fucked: A Zombie Odyssey, The Fucking Dead, Monster Tit Sex Zombies, Night of the Giving Head, I Can’t Believe I Fucked a Zombie, and Re-Penetrator. The best one I’ve seen is Re-Penetrator, which I picked up because Re-Animator is one of my favorites, and what better movie to make a parody of?

Re-Penetrator by Mediafloh

Whether you like zombie movies or haven’t seen many, the movies above are ones I’d recommend. And if you want porn with your zombies, there are some interesting ones to check out as well.

 

“We have to come for them, before they come for us.”

–Rick, on the Walking Dead

 

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