You wouldn’t guess it from the title, but director Jacques Tourneur’s hauntingly beautiful follow-up to his 1942 surprise hit Cat People borrows heavily from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Regardless of what the filmmakers call it, if it looks like a zombie and acts like a zombie, it’s fair game. In the following entries you’ll find flesh-eating ghouls, Deadites, and “conversationalists” rubbing elbows with victims of demonic possession, black magic, and the rage virus. Note: For the purposes of this list, we’ve decided to be liberal in our interpretation of the word zombie. From grim anti-war allegories to lighthearted comedies, here are 25 of our favorite zombie movies from around the world. There are hundreds of zombie movies to choose from, and they’re not necessarily confined to the horror genre.
Thanks to constant reinvention, zombies have given form to our fears of other cultures, loss of agency, communism, atomic warfare, race relations and the civil rights movement, capitalism, mass contagions, the space race, and, most importantly, our bone-deep fear of one another.
But maybe their mutability is the secret of their appeal. They’ve changed dramatically since Bela Lugosi zombified his victims in 1932’s White Zombie, which was largely inspired by a 1929 book about Haitian folklore. It’s been 89 years since zombies first shambled onto the big screen, and our fascination with them is still going strong.
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