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Dali

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I think I've seen all the good ones or well known ones but i could be wrong. Looking for a good zombie or infected movie that can be streamed (whether purchased or free on a service doesn't matter).

A few that I feel like people will be inclined to recommend right away that I've seen:

Train to Busan
REC and Quarantine
28 days series
The modern Dawn of the Dead movies

Watching the strain (the series) right now and I would qualify it as what I'm looking for. Blade 2 counts as well. If you get infected and turn into an unthinking monster that's likely to attack your friends or beg you to shoot them before you turn, I'd count it.

Dead Girl was a gross little known (I think) zombie movie I saw a long time ago. That's my offering for everyone else who comes into this thread that feels like they've seen it all.

Sesrched for similar threads but they were years old.
 
OG Living Dead trilogy (Night, Dawn, Day)
Return of the Living Dead
City of the Living Dead
Zombi 2 (simply Zombie here in the U.S.)
Cemetery Man
Night of the Creeps
 
If you want something a bit more original, Pontypool. People are infected through certain English words. Not sure if it up on streaming though.
 
Dead Set is pretty dang good, as well. Not sure of its availability though.

Shaun of the Dead goes without saying.
 
Night of the Living Dead
Night of the Living Dead (90's REmake by Tom Savini)
Dawn of the Dead '78 (a masterpiece)
Day of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead
The Girl with all the Gifts (if it counts)
Re-animator (if it counts)
The Dead (very indie African zombie film that is very good)
Dead Set
Zombi 2
 
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apacolypse was good to get a couple laughs out of me. It's not a traditional Zombie flick, it's more of a comedy.
 
Anung said:
Night of the Living Dead
Night of the Living Dead (90's REmake by Tom Savini)
Dawn of the Dead '78 (a masterpiece)
Day of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead
The Girl with all the Gifts (if it counts)
Re-animator (if it counts)
The Dead (very indie African zombie film that is very good)
Dead Set
Zombi 2
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Ooh yeah, I enjoyed The Dead. Can't believe I forgot Savini's NOTLD remake, it's one of the few out there that I thought improved on the original.
 
Dawn of the Dead (I like the remake but you can choose whichever)

Shaun of the Dead

Return of the Living Dead

Return of the Living Dead III

Land of the Dead (It's not great but I think it's worth watching at least once)

28 Days Later (Zombies, rabies, whatever)

Zombieland

The first Resident Evil (maybe)
 
Night of the Living Dead (the original and still the GOAT zombie flicks)
Dawn of the Dead (the original)
Day of the Day
Land of the Dead (This is more philosophical, but still good. And it's got Dennis Hopper.)
 
Besides the usual well-known movies..... Slightly enjoyable to Good (for me):

Automaton Transfusion
The Dead Next Door
Hell of The Living Dead or Night of The Zombies
Rabid
Bio-Zombie
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things

But the op wanted them streamable and I don't know if my recommendations are even streamable. SyFy has a boatload of Zombie films that I don't really enjoy though.
 
Zombi 2 has possibly the greatest zombie make-up of all time. They actually looked like legitimate walking corpses.
 
The original Living Dead series. Especially Dawn of the Dead, that's arguably the greatest zombie movie.

Also Shaun of the Dead. Incredibly fun movie.

... And Scooby Doo on Zombie Island
 
I am a hero is my favorite zombie movie.

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be wary of Train to Busan, it startss good then the last half hour or so becomes in a check list of zombie movie stupid cliches, that made me hate the movie. Now that I think again, I am hero was interesting, I also liked dawn of the dead and zombieland, special mention to planet terror.
 
Fancy Clown said:
City of the Living Dead
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It's the best of the Fulci movies imo
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City of the Living Dead is way underrated. I think it was Fulci's best film aside from The Beyond.

Also check out Let Sleeping Corpses Lie. It was released in 1974, and is a bit of a slow burn at first, but when it ramps up it doesn't stop.

Planet Terror is awesome as well
 
Versus is a totally batshit rad zombie movie with balls to the wall action if you like that sort of thing. Also how did I forget Guitar Wolf's Wild Zero. Shit is insanity.
 
Imdb tells me Zombie is on Prime.

Script of the Bridge said:
Braindead.
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May check out later, but I was looking for movies even though I mentioned the strain.

More_Badass said:
I quite like The Horde
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This doesn't really look like what I was looking for. The trailer makes it seem like torture porn or just some regular stalker horror movie like the hills have eyes or Texas chainsaw massacre.

GK86 said:
If you want something a bit more original, Pontypool. People are infected through certain English words. Not sure if it up on streaming though.
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Once I saw ifc films in the trailer combined with the summary on imdb my urge to watch dropped to zero. Ifc films have the unspoken motto of "tell, don't show." I've always come away from those movies disappointed as hell because the movies (likely due to budget constraints) never actually show anything cool.

cr0w said:
Dead Set is pretty dang good, as well. Not sure of its availability though.

Shaun of the Dead goes without saying.
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Seen sotd and dead set is a series. May check it out some other time.
 
Land of the Dead is underrated. Aside from the "hero zombie" who has intelligence and emotions, everything else in the film is wonderful.
 
City of the Living Dead has one of the most WTF endings ever. I remember hearing someone spilled coffee or some shit on the original negative and they didn't have the budget to re-shoot it, so they just fucking ended it in mid-scene.
 
More_Badass said:
Probably saw the wrong movie. Look up La Horde, it's a French movie
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Lol yeah this is totally different. The movie that first came up was some Jan Michael Vincent action horror garbage. Still this carries the dreaded ifc films stink brand.
 
Daylight's End

Technically they're vampires, but it's very much in the zombie apocalypse style. Low budget gems like this are the reason I watch so much DTV trash. Every now and then you stumble across something decent.
 
Fancy Clown said:
City of the Living Dead
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It's the best of the Fulci movies imo
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Back in the 80's, and the early days of VHS I saw this movie at a week long Boys Club camp in the middle of the woods. It was called Gates of Hell when I saw it (unsure of why the name changed), and while my mother raised us from a very early age on horror movies (she tricked us into watching the Friday 13th by telling us it was a movie comedy about a summer camp) I was not ready for what I saw. The movie started around 9pm with around 50 people watching, by the time it was done there were only 6 of us left (my brother and I were 2 of them). The rest left, because they became too afraid to watch. I don't think is slept at all that night. Scared the hell out of me (I think I was in 7th grade at the time).

Edit: To be clear the Boys Club counselors had no idea how to pick movies for camp. Most of the movies we watched were hard Rs.
 
Yeah there's some gnarly shit in City of the Living Dead (and Fulci in general), so be forewarned lol. They are also generally incoherent movies but it kinda works to make them incredibly atmospheric nightmare voyages.
 
Fancy Clown said:
Yeah there's some gnarly shit in City of the Living Dead (and Fulci in general), so be forewarned lol. They are also generally incoherent movies but it kinda works to make them incredibly atmospheric nightmare voyages.
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I thought I read it on here or somewhere (possibly reddit) that City also has some Cosmic Horror drenched into the Zombie madness. Was that true? I need to dig up my DVD copy and give it a watch again. There's a channel that plays alot of horror movies from time to time, but I forgot what it was called..... El Rey Network! Yup, they tend to put on alot of old school horror movies, dedicated movie director nights, etc.
 
BLOODED_hands said:
I thought I read it on here or somewhere (possibly reddit) that City also has some Cosmic Horror drenched into the Zombie madness. Was that true? I need to dig up my DVD copy and give it a watch again. There's a channel that plays alot of horror movies from time to time, but I forgot what it was called..... El Rey Network! Yup, they tend to put on alot of old school horror movies, dedicated movie director nights, etc.
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Yeah it's got some other spooky cosmic horror-y shit in it that's not purely zombie oriented (same with The Beyond).
 
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