zombies

• Dawn of the Dead directed by George A. Romero (1979)

  [4/10]

  "Romero could have easily left over 30 minutes of this film on the cutting room floor. Where Night of the Living Dead had some scary scenes, Dawn turns the zombies into an ineffective comic force. Sure, the humans need to avoid the zombies, but the zombies never pose a formidable threat."

• Night of the Living Dead directed by George A. Romero (1968)

  [7/10]

  "Of all the movies ever made, only a few actually start an entire genre. Romero's Night of the Living Dead sets the stage for zombie movies in the same way that Bram Stoker's novel set the pattern for all vampire stories."

• Shaun of the Dead directed by Edgar Wright (2004)

  [8/10]

  "If you like British comedy, than you should find Shaun of the Dead riotously funny, and the humor comes from the characters' interactions and not just from bashing zombies with a cricket bat or trying to decapitate zombies with flying vinyl LPs -- and we get some of that too, but not overly much."

  Average score: 6.33