Got Brains? My Top 30-Plus Zombie Movies

This unorthodox zombie film features a small town inhabited by undead citizens who seem normal -- talking, working, taking pictures, using opposable thumbs -- except for the desire to brutally murder any and all visitors. At least you get a souvenir photo of your death.

John Hughes meets George Romero in this entertaining low-budget horror-comedy about a group of high school outcasts who vow to save their prom from zombies spawned by pollution from the nearby nuclear power plant. Funny, fast-paced and screaming for a sequel.

Wes Craven's visual stunner returns to the traditional zombie origin, Haitian voodoo, to present a more "realistic" portrayal of the undead. They aren't, in fact, dead at all, but rather are paralyzed by a powder and then buried alive -- a prospect as chilling as the living dead themselves.

This Norwegian flick about undead Nazi soldiers attacking a group of skiiers more than makes up for a slow start by delivering non-stop, bloody action and a twisted sense of humor that makes its second half perhaps the greatest cinematic achievement of the 21st century. OK, maybe not, but it's close.

This dark, simple Spanish production doesn't need much dialogue to creep you out. The prolonged silence, broken by the shuffling of skeletal zombies (and the occasional zombie horse), is enough to give you nightmares. The added dimension of the zombies' blindness makes the action more intriguing, although really, all you have to do is kick their canes out from under them.

Night of the Living Dead co-writer John Russo is generally acknowledged as the Andrew Ridgeley to George Romero's George Michael, but at least he did help create the great Return of the Living Dead. Its campy, lighthearted approach differs drastically from Romero's films, but it proves to be just as entertaining and introduces the classic zombie call: "Braaaaaiiins..."

Got alien slugs on the brain? You're not the only one. The corpses in this fun, freewheeling cult film are reanimated by extraterrestrial mollusks who direct the zombies to, ironically, one of places you're least likely to find brains: a sorority house.

This campy early film from The Lord of the Rings' Peter Jackson delivers the most fun you'll ever have watching a zombie flick. If the thought of a zombie baby, a kung-fu priest and a lawnmower massacre don't get a rise out of you, maybe you should pop a purple pill.

This Italian classic delivers all the goods you can ask for in a zombie movie. Gut munching? Check. Grave rising? Check. Eye piercing? Check. Desperate last stand in an isolated shack? Check. Hot zombie-on-shark action? Oh, you better believe it!