You may not think you want that, but this movie could surprise you. Does it do anything different to what we’ve seen a hundred times already? Well, it’s Jurassic Park with zombies. Is The Rezort a good movie? Not particularly. It’s all downhill from that, featuring some terrible plot advancement and some very ropey sequences, but if you could bottle the first half an hour of Here Alone, you might have a small zombie movie gem on your hands. The tension is always bubbling and threatening to boil over in the post-apocalypse, leading to plenty of anticipation for the reveal of the zombies, who are… terrible.Īs soon as their weak designs appear on-screen for the first time, the whole thing bottoms out. Here Alone starts off strongly with plenty of intrigue as a lone woman makes a simple living for herself in the woods. Light on zombies themselves, stick with this one and you could be pleasantly surprised.
Perhaps too slow going for its own good, What We Become offers creeping tension as the family figure out what’s happening around them. Telling the story of a family in the middle of a zombie outbreak in their neighbourhood, it’s not what you would call a “chirpy” time. Scandinavian horror has a reputation for being oppressively dark, and that’s certainly the case with What We Become. They really could have been onto a straightforward winner here, but there’s still some fun kills and action to be had. Jesse Metcalfe is surprisingly inoffensive in the lead role, which somehow isn’t Frank West and just a guy called Chase Carter instead. Unfortunately, Watchtower tries to be less obvious and ends up being slightly generic as a result. Just make Dawn of the Dead but much less grim and a little silly and your job is done.
Still, if it’s Bill Murray and zombies you want, this is a decent alternative to the obvious that we’ll discuss much later.ĭead Rising is one of the most popular zombie game franchises around and one that should make an easy transition to the movies.
Struggling in its pace and tone, The Dead Don’t Die throws a few too random, meandering bits into the mix, making for an overall missed opportunity. Despite some good jokes, it’s perhaps too offbeat for its own good. Looking at the cast alone, which features the legendary Bill Murray along with Adam Driver, you’d expect The Dead Don’t Die to rank much higher. The Best Zombie Movies of the 21st Century Let’s take a look at some of the best zombie movies of the 21st century - whether they feature slow zombies, fast zombies, or something else entirely - so far. Replacing shuffling, sometimes laughable slow zombies with sprinting lunatics did a lot to revitalise the perception of the undead as legitimate monsters once again. Zombies almost completely disappeared from our media until 2004 when the both excellent Shaun of the Dead and Dawn of the Dead were released, with the latter doing a lot to introduce “fast” zombies to a new modern audience. When it comes to the best zombie movies of the 21st century, you’re almost spoilt for choice for scares. Once there were dancing zombies in Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’, being scared by them ever again seemed liked a hard task. In the 1980s, the zombie onslaught was everywhere: on our televisions, adverts and music videos, which led to an eventual lack of interest from the public and a whole lot of “meh”.
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