6 Underrated ZOMBIE FILMS That You Should Watch!

well it's certainly been a while since I've done a horror film countdown last time we looked at some underrated slasher films not only was that video will receive despite all the corny jokes I made but I got a lot of really good suggestions for a follow-up video which I still plan on getting to but for now we're gonna be putting away our kitchen knives and loading our shotguns because today we're gonna be heading into zombie territory zombie films are historic within the horror genre many point to the 1968 George Romero film Night of the Living Dead as being the film that ultimately popularized zombie films and would serve as the framework for further installments into the sub-genre my first real exposure to what a zombie was was back in the early 2000s when I popped in a copy of Resident Evil 2 now keep in mind this was the first time I had ever played a Resident Evil game and I was maybe 10 11 years old back then so I didn't know what the hell I was doing and needless to say I watched Leon get devoured by the undead so that horrifying experience pretty much sparked my interest in zombies so whenever my family would take our weekly trip to the local Blockbuster I always ended up browsing to the horror section for a good zombie movie to watch man those were different times for this countdown I tried to pick some of the lesser-known zombie titles out there that I personally enjoy so hopefully I give you guys some good recommendations to check out and I would also like to hear what some of your favorite zombie films are leave your pics down below in the comments section and who knows maybe they'll end up in a future video so without any further delay here are 6 underrated zombie films that you should watch number 6 the beyond also known as seven doors of death the beyond is in 1981 Italian film directed by Lucio Fulci a name that will be appearing on this list more than once the beyond was shot in the New Orleans area in late 1980 and was released internationally in 1981 but didn't see a theatrical release in the United States until 1983 additionally renowned film director Quentin Tarantino would acquire the rights to this movie and when we release it in 1998 through grindhouse the Beyond supply is a bit hard to follow upon first viewing it centers around a young woman named Eliza who's in the process of renovating the seven doors hotel strange occurrences begin happening around the property and Liza eventually encounters a mysterious blind a woman named Emily who warns her that trying to reopen the hotel is a mistake a malevolent force awakens in the hotel which in turn reanimates the dead the zombies in this movie are a symptom of a supernatural anomaly meaning that this isn't your typical apocalyptic virus freak show nevertheless the zombies in this movie look great which is always important to get right for a zombie flick in fact the makeup and practical effects all around are spectacular especially for a low-budget film now I do enjoy this movie but there are a few things that did bother me the pacing seems to be all over the place some parts go by way too fast and others crawl at a snail's pace the acting is not the greatest but if you're familiar with some of these old Italian films you know that's par for the course what I found more distracting was the awful overdubbing job it usually doesn't bother me that much but in this film it's hard not to notice I'm sure you'll be okay on your own I'll be out till completely home now you have a happy lunch thank you see what I mean the last thing I'll point out needs a bit of a setup towards the end of this movie Liza and John are trying to escape a hospital that has been overrun by the undead John happens to have a revolver and you would think that he would have figured out by shooting them in the head is the only way to destroy them because he does manage it down a few of them with some headshots but he goes right back to shooting them in the chest in the next scene and it's annoying despite its flaws this movie is definitely worth checking out if you want to take a break from watching stuff on Netflix and are looking for a good trip egor infested zombie movie to sink her teeth into looking no further than the beyond number 5 Dead Snow dead snow is a 2009 Norwegian film directed by tommy wirkola and I'm sorry if I'm getting that last name wrong a group of medical students on vacation arrive at a small cabin near Oxford in Norway the group begins to drink and party until a mysterious hiker shows up and asks them for a cup of coffee the man then tells a cryptic story about how Nazis used to occupy these mountains during the Second World War the hiker warns the group that there was an evil in these mountains that they do not want to awaken then takes his leave the next morning vegard's sets out to look for his girlfriend Sarah who still hasn't shown up the guard discovers the body of the hiker who visited them the night before and begins to worry that his girlfriend has met a similar fate meanwhile back in the cabin the group has discovered a box of Nazi treasure they decide not to mess with it until V guard returns however that plane doesn't last as later on they're seen messing around with the contents of the box while drinking the group is then attacked by a battalion of undead soldiers of the Third Reich now trapped and surrounded the group must gather any weapons that they can find and fight their way to freedom it's evident that the filmmakers were heavily inspired by other movies like Evil Dead and it definitely has that same kind of comedic vibe to it but I personally feel that this movie should have taken itself seriously from start to finish there are some genuinely suspenseful scenes in this picture but it all builds up to this goofy over-the-top blood-soaked showdown between the main characters in the Nazi Zombies but it's still fun to watch if you're looking for a fun cheesy over-the-top movie that doesn't take its own premise that seriously then I would recommend ed snow just don't expect a masterpiece number four zombie now this movie has a few alternate titles it's also known as zombie - zombie flesh eaters and island of the Living Dead it was originally released in 1979 and was directed by Lucio Fulci supposedly this movie was adapted from a screenplay that was meant to be a sequel to George a Romero's Dawn of the Dead the film begins with an abandoned boat selling adrift into the New York Harbor a chopper takes notice and informs a law enforcement to police officers board the seemingly deserted vessel and begin to investigate one of the cops heads down into the boats cabin and shortly after is attacked by a zombie the zombie emerges from the boats cabin and begins to make its way towards the other officer the other officer draws his gun and shouts for him to stop but is forced to shoot and the zombie plummets into the water the police questioned the boat's owner's daughter and Bowles who claims that she hasn't had contact with her father for months and hooks up with a reporter named Peter both figuratively and literally and together they decide to follow her father's footsteps to the Caribbean island of matul they were lucky enough to hitch a boat ride with an American couple who happen to be taking a tour of the islands on the island of matul the natives are dying of an unexplained illness and there have been rumors of people rising from the dead this movie is one of full chesse best liked with the beyond the make up in this movie looks amazing I'd even go as far as to say the zombies in this movie look better than what you'll see in most modern films the overdubbing is noticeable but I would say it's nowhere near as distracting as it was in the beyond the zombie ranks up there with the classics definitely check this one out if you're unfamiliar also keep in mind that this movie was made in the 1970s so you don't have to worry about any tacky CGI effects number three brain dead also known as dead alive brain dead is a 1992 horror comedy directed by Peter Jackson yes the st. Peter Jackson who directed the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies before he became a renowned film director with the backing of big studio he wrote and directed low-budget exploitation films such as bad taste and meet the Feebles the story begins in 1957 an explorer named Stuart McKeldin and his team have captured a Sumatran rat monkey a strange hybrid creature that resulted from plague carrying rats raping a monkey no I'm not making that up Stuart is bitten by the creature and it's quickly killed by his own crew the captured rat monkey is then shipped to the Wellington Zoo in New Zealand and Wellington Lionel cosgrove lives in a Victorian mansion with his overprotective mother Veera you get to know these characters a bit and learn that lion-o is controlled by his mommy and lacks any kind of self-confidence Lionel falls in love with a local shoe keepers daughter named puck WETA the to visit the Wellington Zoo together on a date and Veera follows them while spying on her son Veera is bitten by the rat monkey from earlier and though she appears to be fine at first the following day she grows to more and more decrepit and she eventually turns into the undead Lionel does his best to try to keep her locked away safely in the basement but her repeated escapes end up turning most of the neighbors into The Walking Dead Lionel's uncle les discovers the zombies in the basement which he mistaken for actual corpses he then blackmails his nephew into giving up the house and his inheritance he then invites a few of his friends over for a housewarming party but quita convinces Lionel to poison the zombies in the basement to put them out of their misery however the poison he gives them is actually an animal stimulant and ends up making them stronger than they were before the zombies then break free from the basement and begin to attack the partygoers this movie is a full-on balls-to-the-wall insane [ __ ] show full of blood and guts gross-out humor and is just [ __ ] crazy [Music] Peter Raynor of the Los Angeles Times pretty much sums up my thoughts of this movie it is the most hilariously disgusting movie ever made it makes something like the reanimate er seem like a documentary about Mother Teresa and that folks pretty much sums up this film in a nutshell if you decide to watch this movie I do not recommend that you eat while watching and even if you take my advice you usually keep a barf bag next to you anyway number two Night of the Living Dead as mentioned in the beginning of this video Night of the Living Dead is a classic zombie film and is definitely one that played a major role in pioneering the zombie film genre this film has been sequel and remade several times but you can go ahead and ignore all the remakes aside from this one trust me you're not missing out on any quality filmmaking however the first remake of the movie in 1990 directed by Tom Savini is a different story Barbara and her brother Johnny visit their mother's grave in a remote Cemetery in Pennsylvania during their visit Barbara is attacked by a deranged man her brother tries to defend her but it's killed when his head bashes against a gravestone Barbara wrecks her car while fleeing the cemetery and is chased to what appears to be an abandoned farmhouse she takes shelter there only to find that the house is also infested with the undead shortly after a man named Benton pulls up in a pickup truck the two team up and clear the house of zombies other survivors who have been hiding emerged from the cellar the group is divided over what their next course of action should be Harry Cooper who's a selfish argumentative [ __ ] along with his wife Helen and their sick daughter decided to stay locked up in the cellar the rest of the group decided to stay in the house and try to survive the night this film features one of my all-time favorite actors Tony ty it has the same plot as the original 1968 film for the most part but things play out slightly different this time around the most noticeable change is in the character of Barbara in the original film this character spends most of their time in a state of psychosis completely traumatized by the situation however in this version is refreshing to see her actually fight back against the dead and doesn't spend the entire movie sobbing in the fetal position I feel that this film is often overlooked it's well shot well executed it and stays true to its source material as much respect as I have for the original 1968 film I actually prefer this version number one shockwaves also known as almost human and deathcore shockwaves is a low-budget 1977 horror film written and directed by Ken Wiederhorn and features a legendary Peter Cushing the crew of a small commercial boat carrying a group of tourists are having trouble with the vessels engine the passengers on board since that something is wrong but are reassured by the boats a grumpy captain that everything is under control during the night a massive ship suddenly appears out of nowhere in sideswipes their boat the captain sends up a flare which momentarily reveals that the sight of a huge decaying vessel that has wrecked off the coast of a nearby tropical island it appears to have been there for decades the next morning everyone wakes up to find that the captain is missing realizing the boat is slowly taking on water the remaining crew evacuates everyone to the island the group is horrified to find the body of the captain who apparently drowned while he was checking the underside of the boat for damage now stranded on the island the group discovers a large rundown seemingly abandoned hotel however they discover a reclusive old man living there who becomes alarmed to hear that an old massive vessel the Pretorius has been spotted just outside the island the mysterious man is a former SS officer who once commanded a group of an elite Nazi squad known as the death Corps a group of pathological murderers and sadists who were modified to be the ultimate killing machines many years ago after the war was lost the officer st. the pataw hrus along with the onboard deaf corps to the bottom of the ocean and now after all these years the ship has returned bringing with it the squad of murderous undead Nazis I had somewhat low expectations going into this movie I asked myself how good could a low-budget zombie film from the 70s possibly be but I figured that Lucio full cheese zombie is exactly that so I decided to give it a shot and let me just say that this is one of the best zombie films I've ever seen it's cold haunting atmosphere helps make the story more compelling the undead nazi soldiers aren't your typical mindless zombies they are stealthy cold-blooded killing machines who stalk their prey and wait for the right moment to strike I was genuinely surprised of how good this film actually is and I highly recommend that you check out this underrated classic and you can thank me later hey guys I hope you enjoyed the video 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Published: Tue Jul 23 2019

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