 Hello and welcome to another episode of Fredfully Forgotten's Halloween Special. Before we get started, what are we drinking? Fittingly, we are drinking Mad Mad Mars in Oktoberfest. Alright, perfect for the time. Today we're going to bring to you 15 of some of our favorite zombie movies that aren't the obvious Romero movies, right? Everybody knows Night, Dawn, Day. We're also not mentioning other ones like The Evil Dead. You can argue Evil Dead is not a zombie movie because they're more possessed. Number 15 on our list is 2009's Dead Snow, a Nazi zombie movie. And it's actually like a lot of fun. It starts off really serious. But then it kind of takes a comedic turn, but not in a horrible way. Not in a bad way, not in an overtop way. I was laughing in a good way. The fun homage to movies like Evil Dead is that this time it's in the snow. If you're going to run out of the cabin, you're going to freeze to death. Number 14 on our list, 1979's Zombie. We had done a full episode of this one. Click the link above. Italy's answer to Dawn of the Dead. Dawn of the Dead. There's an isolated island, Matul Island. Scientists is trying to cure the disease. Zombies end up waking up on the island. It's probably one of the best Italian zombie movies by far. Yeah, yeah. Number 13 on our list is 28 Days Later. This movie is probably one of the better mainstream zombie movies. It made Running Zombies kind of famous. Even though they were running zombies before this movie, this one kind of really brought it to the forefront. It's legitimately creepy. And how quickly it spreads, like rabies, right? Number 12 on our list, 1980's Nightmare City. This one is another Italian flick. Really poorly dubbed, mind you. Yeah, but it's a lot of fun though, right? There are running zombies in this, actually. And they wield weapons. They're like stabbing, slashing zombies. Right out of the gate, the shit hits the fan, right? There's like no time to catch your breath. They suck blood, though, rather than eating flesh, it seems. So they're kind of like vampire zombies in a way. And there is a cool twist at the end, too. Number 11 on our list is Let Sleeping Corpses Live from 1974. It's centered around a hospital. Reviving corpses is like this insecticide. They're using radar and beams and shit to kill bugs, but that ends up reviving corpses. There's a lot of cool things about it. A lot of redeeming things about it. Pacing is a tad off, I think. But all in all, it's a pretty fun movie. 1989's Dead Pit. Yeah! And this movie is probably most famously known for the VHS cover that had that 3D. I used to have it. And I gave it away a long time ago. Now I'm regretting that. Acting isn't the best in it. It mostly from the lead female. It's pretty piss poor. But besides that, it's a really fun movie. I really enjoy it. It looks cool. I love the colors and the shots and all the lighting and stuff. It's very good. Yeah, yeah. There's a one cool shot that actually reminds me a lot of like Romero movies where it's backlit and you see the whole crowd of zombies with their arms and shit. It looks so awesome. And it takes place in like a mental hospital. So you also have all the crazy people too walking around. The movie starts off with a scream. A guy trashing his room. So if you want some late 80's camp fun check out Dead Pit. Number 9 on our list, this one is 3 of them actually. And this one is Last Man on Earth the Omega Man and I am Legend. All the same story all based off the same book. But interestingly enough all different takes right? Last Man on Earth has Vincent Price the master in it and this one is a tad more to the Romero zombie, right? They're like they surround his house and they're kind of boarding up the house. Omega Man was made next that has Charlton Heston in it of course so that seems all sped up. They're like mutants. I don't know it's weird because they speak and everything and they get together and they have like these weird gatherings and it's a weird movie. They're kind of like zombie slash mutant slash sort of normal people at the same time. But it's a fun movie and you know it's super 70's you get to see Charlton Heston get with the young woman with the big afro and the apocalypse. How does she get her hair into an afro like that? I don't know. That's number one priority you know afro then survive. And Charlton Heston's all old to at this point. Can you dig it baby? He gets on with some young guy in a mask. Like that wig? Then of course there's the I Am Legend which came up with Will Smith which I really enjoyed besides the really bad CGI of the zombies. It didn't spoil the movie but it took it down a big notch. I loved the atmosphere. I loved the way the movie played out. Also the character development of just him was really good. And the end with the stakes you know when time is running out. Number eight on our list is Night of the Comet. This has to be the most 80's movie I've ever seen in my life. They do a very good job of it too right? There's a little bit of camp. It's super enjoyable. Fun movie with a lot of fun characters you know it doesn't take itself too seriously but you know you shouldn't. The sky is always red and everything I love that. Mutant slash zombies. They're actually pretty creepy. Number seven on our list this one's a comedy Dead Alive 1992. Regular moviegoers who not into horror you know they all know Peter Jackson is of course Lord of the Rings. A lot of people don't know that he directed this massively gory blood splattered zombie comedy in 1992. At that point I would say probably the goriest zombie movie really. The ending the amount of blood that is just insane. Take a lawn more and add like decaying flesh and everything to it right? What do you think is going to happen? The comedy's really well done too right? Rides the line between stupid and smart. And over the top characters. Every character in this is super over the top. Except for the main characters like ultra lame. Number six on our list is Night of the Creeps which we have covered click the link above if you want to see our full review on that one. This one kind of pays a little homage to the old fifties movies right? The old fifties monster movies. Even with the flashbacks and the black and white flashbacks. Aliens are involved in this right? And they kind of release a canister, lands on earth and it starts to you know turn people into like zombies. Mindless yeah mindless idiots. Production on this movie is great. Super 80s but it's fun and it's funny and it has you know Tom Atkins in it. Oh fuck. How can you go wrong? The unforgettable classic line. Ladies got good news and bad news. The good news your dates are here. Bad news is they're dead. Number five on our list here. Now this one is not your typical zombie movie that we all know of. This one is a voodoo zombie movie. 1988 Serpent in the Rainbow. This one West Craven did. It's one of his better movies. Yeah, I was just going to say one of his better movies. A corporation that's trying to get a hold of a zombie drug so they go to Haiti to get it. Probably the only movie on this list which is based on a true story. Right. You know vaguely I might add but it is based on Skye who was seen roaming around on the streets after they knew he was dead. The voodoo mafia. Give him a drug that fakes their death and they could bury it alive basically. And that's one of the coolest things about this movie is like that they do that in this. It deals with the whole voodoo aspect. But it also deals with the real life corrupt government. Yeah. And you don't want to fuck with them and if you do you guys are in the voodoo. They can control you from a distance and all that. Number four on our list is one of the newer movies we'll be mentioning and that's 2016's Train to Busan. I'll admit I put this movie off for a long time because I'm always skeptical of new movies. Yeah. Especially new zombie movies because it's such a trend. Really I was really super impressed with you know the character building is so good in it. Pacing it just you're always like intrigued and always paying attention to entertain. One of the good things that I like about this movie is the train. Yeah. Because they managed to use the train effectively for the movie right. So they have the cars that block off the zombies from the you know from the humans. Yeah. The train is pretty deadly here and it's pretty dangerous yet that salvation as opposed to like out in the open right. Number three on our list dead and buried 1981. This one we did a full review. Click the link above. This one deserves to be on the list just for so many reasons. And the fact that it's a zombie movie really gets overlooked because it is you know there's reanimated dead corpses. It's technically a zombie movie but it's not your typical it's you know a horde of undead people surrounding a house. The story the score everything is sort of hauntingly beautiful about it right. The effects in this movie are just outstanding. There's that scene with the needle Yeah. Oh that guy you just see his teeth because he's all burned up and just like oh hahaha. Next one on our list is 1972's children shouldn't play with the dead things. This is like a really really underrated zombie film. We did a full review on this one as well. Kind of bridges the gap between like the night of the living dead style zombie movie and evil dead style. It's so low budget too right. So low. But it kind of doesn't feel like like it's this setting it just takes place in a graveyard kind of thing with this one house right. But they managed to draw so much out of what they had. Funny movie it's funny and it's fun. It's not that scary but I really like the way the zombies look. You watch a movie like this and see how much love and effort is put into it on a low budget and really appreciate oh these guys pulled it off. It's got a main character villain that you just love to hate. With that book that kind of raises everything up right. It's supposed to be a joke and it ends up really working you know. When does that ever happen right. Number one top spot on our list deservedly so this one is 1985's Return of the Living Dead our favorite zombie movie of all time or at least depending on what day it is and how I'm feeling it's either the best or tied at the best with Dawn of the Dead. But it's a completely different movie than Dawn of the Dead. Where do you start with this movie? This movie just is almost non-stop mayhem from start to finish. It's got the perfect amount of comedy and fun and action and core and characters that well you'll never forget lines in a movie that you'll never forget moments that you'll never forget like the split dog. Everyone remembers the split dog. Oh shit! What's a crotch? Everyone remembers you open the door and the cadaver comes out. Yeah fuck like every scene is so poignant. Let's not forget the score. You know a lot of times when movies use contemporary music it doesn't go very well. Or it dates it. Yeah. But with this movie for some reason it's timeless. The only song written for the movie is the opening credits and everything else is just from bands and it's got to be the most perfectly picked songs that were already recorded by somebody else put into a movie. It matches every scene so well. This is the most perfectly picked soundtrack ever. The actors themselves put a lot of themselves into it. The cremation scene those James Karen's idea. You can see the love and passion that was put into this movie by everybody involved. You can tell everybody was so invested in it. The movie's timeless. It is timeless. Even though it's reeks of the 80s and it's punk rock and big hair it is timeless. Things about this movie that should date it is what makes it cool. And what makes it special. Yeah, exactly. We can talk forever about Return of Living Dead. We can hit record and talk for two hours. That's it. That's our top 15 non-Romero zombie movies and I'm sure we've missed a gazillion. That's just our personal opinion. We're reading the list and we just realized we didn't put reanimator on here. Well, you can't win them all. And just a couple of honorable mentions more TV The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror. The zombie one is like fucking classic. Everyone knows that one. Everyone knows. Who's the zombie? He killed the zombie flandered. Barney with that arm. Barney, not you too. I'm not a zombie homer but hey when in Rome. The Avengers Episode called The Living Dead. Man, for being TV obviously the Avengers they had wicked sets. This is better than some movies even back then. So check those out. And until next time, keep drinking.