Zombie Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Year
Movie (Year)
Rating
S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
2013
World War Z (2013)
2009
Zombieland (2009)
2012
ParaNorman (2012)
2002
28 Days Later... (2002)
1978
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
2004
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
2013
Warm Bodies (2013)
2019
Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
1968
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
2004
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
2007
28 Weeks Later (2007)
1984
Night of the Comet (1984)
2016
Train To Busan (2016)
2005
Land of the Dead (2005)
1985
Re-Animator (1985)
1985
Day of the Dead (1985)
1990
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
2006
Fido (2006)
2016
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
2012
The Battery (2012)
2007
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
2004
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
1994
Cemetary Man (1996)
2002
Resident Evil (2002)
1986
Night of the Creeps (1986)
2016
The Girl With All The Gifts (2016)
1992
Dead Alive (1992)
2010
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
2011
Juan of the Dead (2011)
2012
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
2009
Dead Snow (2009)
2021
Army Of The Dead (2021)
2014
Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014)
1988
Return of the Living Dead II (1988)
1974
Deathdream/Dead of Night (1974)
2014
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014)
2020
Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula (2020)
2007
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)
2019
The Dead Don't Die (2019)
2015
Maggie (2015)
2016
Here Alone (2016)
2015
Freaks of Nature (2015)
2018
Cured (2018)
2016
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)
2014
Life After Beth (2014)
1988
Dead Heat (1988)
2009
ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (2009)
Film Festival Circuit Only
2003
Undead (2005)
2016
Range 15 (2016)
2013
A Zombie Invansion (2013)
2015
Dead Rising: Watchtower (2015)
Crackle
2007
American Zombie (2007)
2015
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)
2009
George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead (2010)
2005
Boy Eats Girl (2005)
2012
Detention of the Dead (2012)
2013
Midget Zombie Takeover (2013)
2012
Dead Before Dawn 3D (2012)
1987
Zombie High (1987)
2006
Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006)
2003
House of the Dead (2003)
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | S |
| 1 | World War Z (2013) | Brad Pitt | 202.40 | 268.3 | 716.00 | 13 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 95.2 | |
| 2 | Zombieland (2009) | Emma Stone & Woody Harrelson |
75.60 | 108.6 | 147.20 | 40 | 83 | 00 / 00 | 90.7 | |
| 3 | ParaNorman (2012) | Anna Kendrick & John Goodman |
56.00 | 75.8 | 145.10 | 58 | 81 | 01 / 00 | 86.4 | |
| 5 | 28 Days Later... (2002) | Cillian Murphy & Naomie Harris |
45.10 | 83.8 | 153.70 | 54 | 79 | 00 / 00 | 86.3 | |
| 4 | Dawn of the Dead (1978) | David Emge & Directed by George Romero |
11.30 | 52.2 | 52.20 | 53 | 88 | 00 / 00 | 85.9 | |
| 7 | Dawn of the Dead (2004) | Sarah Polley & Ving Rhames |
59.00 | 102.5 | 179.60 | 51 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 84.7 | |
| 6 | Warm Bodies (2013) | Nicholas Hoult & John Malkovich |
66.40 | 88.0 | 155.10 | 53 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 84.3 | |
| 9 | Zombieland: Double Tap (2019) | Woody Harrelson & Emma Stone |
73.10 | 86.0 | 143.30 | 39 | 72 | 00 / 00 | 83.4 | |
| 8 | Night of the Living Dead (1968) | Directed by George Romero | 3.50 | 28.8 | 28.80 | 83 | 89 | 00 / 00 | 82.5 | |
| 10 | Shaun of the Dead (2004) | Simon Pegg | 13.50 | 23.5 | 23.50 | 127 | 83 | 00 / 00 | 77.9 | |
| 11 | 28 Weeks Later (2007) | Jeremy Renner & Rose Byrne |
28.60 | 44.9 | 100.70 | 86 | 76 | 00 / 00 | 77.6 | |
| 14 | Night of the Comet (1984) | Catherine Mary Stewart | 14.40 | 46.3 | 46.30 | 63 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 70.8 | |
| 13 | Train To Busan (2016) | Yoo Gong | 2.10 | 2.7 | 109.10 | 199 | 82 | 00 / 00 | 70.5 | |
| 15 | Land of the Dead (2005) | John Leguizamo & Dennis Hopper |
20.70 | 34.9 | 78.80 | 116 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 70.0 | |
| 16 | Re-Animator (1985) | Jeffrey Combs | 2.00 | 6.1 | 6.10 | 142 | 74 | 00 / 00 | 61.7 | |
| 17 | Day of the Dead (1985) | Directed by George Romero | 5.00 | 15.2 | 15.20 | 114 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 59.2 | |
| 19 | Night of the Living Dead (1990) | Directed by Tom Savini | 5.80 | 14.9 | 14.90 | 111 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 57.3 | |
| 18 | Fido (2006) | Billy Connolly | 0.30 | 0.5 | 0.70 | 264 | 73 | 00 / 00 | 57.2 | |
| 20 | Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) | Milla Jovovich & Iain Glen |
26.80 | 33.4 | 389.10 | 100 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 53.6 | |
| 20 | The Battery (2012) | Jeremy Gardner | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 391 | 71 | 00 / 00 | 53.4 | |
| 22 | Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) | Milla Jovovich & Ali Larter |
50.60 | 79.4 | 231.50 | 51 | 44 | 00 / 00 | 51.2 | |
| 23 | Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) | Milla Jovovich & Jared Harris |
51.20 | 88.9 | 224.60 | 64 | 41 | 00 / 00 | 51.0 | |
| 21 | Cemetary Man (1996) | Rupert Everett | 0.30 | 0.7 | 0.70 | 215 | 70 | 00 / 00 | 50.9 | |
| 24 | Resident Evil (2002) | Milla Jovovich & Michelle Rodriguez |
40.10 | 74.6 | 190.40 | 65 | 46 | 00 / 00 | 49.9 | |
| 23 | Night of the Creeps (1986) | Jason Lively & Tom Atkins |
0.60 | 1.7 | 1.70 | 181 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 48.7 | |
| 26 | The Girl With All The Gifts (2016) | Glenn Close | 0.10 | 0.1 | 6.00 | 320 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 48.3 | |
| 25 | Dead Alive (1992) | Directed by Peter Jackson | 0.20 | 0.6 | 0.60 | 197 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 47.9 | |
| 30 | Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) | Milla Jovovich & Ali Larter |
60.10 | 82.2 | 404.70 | 55 | 41 | 00 / 00 | 47.1 | |
| 29 | Juan of the Dead (2011) | Alexis Díaz de Villegas | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 335 | 68 | 00 / 00 | 46.3 | |
| 30 | Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) | Milla Jovovich & Michelle Rodriguez |
42.30 | 57.3 | 325.20 | 76 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 44.9 | |
| 30 | Dead Snow (2009) | Jeppe Beck Laursen | 0.00 | 0.1 | 2.90 | 385 | 66 | 00 / 00 | 42.3 | |
| 33 | Army Of The Dead (2021) | Dave Bautista | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 214 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 38.8 | |
| 33 | Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead (2014) | Vegar Hoel | 0.00 | 0.0 | 0.00 | 440 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 38.6 | |
| 34 | Return of the Living Dead II (1988) | James Karen | 9.20 | 24.1 | 24.10 | 93 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 38.0 | |
| 34 | Deathdream/Dead of Night (1974) | John Marley | 0.10 | 0.5 | 0.50 | 159 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 36.0 | |
| 35 | Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014) | Jay Gallagher | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 337 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 30.7 | |
| 36 | Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula (2020) | Zombie Movies | 0.70 | 0.9 | 34.50 | 61 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 29.4 | |
| 36 | George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008) | Directed by GeorgeRomero | 1.00 | 1.5 | 1.50 | 222 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 28.0 | |
| 38 | The Dead Don't Die (2019) | Bill Murray & Adam Driver |
6.60 | 7.7 | 15.10 | 130 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 27.0 | |
| 39 | Maggie (2015) | Arnold Schwarzenegger | 0.20 | 0.2 | 0.20 | 197 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 26.8 | |
| 42 | Here Alone (2016) | Lucy Walters | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 376 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 25.4 | |
| 41 | Freaks of Nature (2015) | Denis Leary | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 232 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 25.3 | |
| 42 | Cured (2018) | Ellen Page | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 317 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 24.6 | |
| 42 | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) | Sam Riley & Jack Huston |
10.90 | 13.6 | 20.40 | 137 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 24.3 | |
| 44 | Life After Beth (2014) | Anna Kendrick | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 226 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 16.9 | |
| 46 | Dead Heat (1988) | Treat Williams | 3.60 | 9.4 | 9.40 | 137 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 16.3 | |
| 47 | ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction (2009) Film Festival Circuit Only |
Sydney Sweeney | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 297 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 15.7 | |
| 48 | Undead (2005) | Felicity Mason | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.30 | 315 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 14.9 | |
| 49 | Range 15 (2016) | Sean Astin | 0.60 | 0.8 | 0.80 | 217 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 13.2 | |
| 50 | A Zombie Invansion (2013) | Robert Pralgo | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 354 | 50 | 00 / 00 | 13.0 | |
| 51 | Dead Rising: Watchtower (2015) Crackle |
Virginia Madsen | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 238 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 11.5 | |
| 51 | American Zombie (2007) | Austin Basis | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 398 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 11.5 | |
| 52 | Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015) | Tye Sheridan & Logan Miller |
3.70 | 4.7 | 20.60 | 147 | 46 | 00 / 00 | 10.2 | |
| 53 | George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead (2010) | Directed by George Romero | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 274 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 9.4 | |
| 54 | Boy Eats Girl (2005) | Domhnall Gleeson | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 343 | 47 | 00 / 00 | 9.3 | |
| 56 | Detention of the Dead (2012) | Jacob Zachar | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 361 | 46 | 00 / 00 | 8.4 | |
| 55 | Midget Zombie Takeover (2013) | Kristi McKay | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 353 | 46 | 00 / 00 | 8.3 | |
| 57 | Dead Before Dawn 3D (2012) | Christopher Lloyd | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.80 | 306 | 42 | 00 / 00 | 5.1 | |
| 58 | Zombie High (1987) | Virginia Madsen | 0.00 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 284 | 42 | 00 / 00 | 4.9 | |
| 59 | Night of the Living Dead 3D (2006) | Brianna Brown | 0.30 | 0.4 | 0.40 | 268 | 29 | 00 / 00 | 0.7 | |
| 60 | House of the Dead (2003) | Jonathan Cherry | 10.20 | 18.3 | 24.70 | 126 | 16 | 00 / 00 | 0.1 |
Hey Steve…I am convinced you will enjoy Train To Busan…..I loaned the movie to a friend at work….and he loaned it to a friend….I might not ever see the movie again……but getting people to notice this movie….is now a goal of mine. There is a sequel in the works…..and a graphic novel that provides “the reason for the zombie outbreak”. So it is time for you to get on the train….lol.
I again am embarrassed . I saw 2. in my defense, I would like to decrease that number. as a medical professional , the zombie like characters in planet terror were technically infected and alive not undead. just saying. thank God for brad pitt and bruce willis or I would have whiffed again. oh, wait , wait……….
BRUCE WILLIS
& brad pitt
see , The Bob has taught this old dog something.
count me for one and we will let Steve judge if I have to say I saw 2.
HI BOB COX
Perceptive billing. If you have seen any RECENT Stallone/Arnie/Harrison Ford movies you should add those to your zombie tally!
Hey Bob….you are seeing the light…funny comment about seeing recent movies starring action heroes of yesteryear. Good stuff.
The Bob, love it. just because they look dead does that make them undead. tommy lee jones, who I love as an actor and was the previous resident in a home my mother rented, was the worst in Jason bourne. there was no evident facial expression except wrinkle.
Hey bob cox….thanks for checking out our Zombie movie page….sadly I got this page published about 3 weeks to late….and missed the entire Halloween rush…..bad timing on my part. Good call out to Bruce Willis….stuff like that….will get you far on this website…lol. Your tally of 2…..is behind Steve and my tallies…by more than a little bit. I highly highly recommend watching Train to Busan….it is awesome! My review of that movie.
“Wow….LOVED THIS MOVIE. Not a huge horror movie fan at all….but this was an amazing movie. Fast paced, awesome special effects, great characters, great performances and wonderful story. Not only does this movie move to the top of my all-time favorite zombie movies (right there with Dawn of the Dead) but will be on my list for my Top 10 movies that I watched in 2018.”
Thanks as always for the feedback.
As Steve knows I am not a big fan of horror/sci-fi movies that contain just endless sequences of blood-letting and “slasher” activities. I prefer more subtle fare which in my view is provided by for example Hitch’s Psycho and the 1956 Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. However I think the most boring kind of presentations at all in the genre(s) are the zombie stories which I feel have been grossly over-killed on both the big and small screens to saturation point..
FRASIER SEASON 10 EPISODE 5 OCT 2002”TALES FROM THE CRYPT”
Bulldog Briscoe has been playing merciless tricks on Frasier who decides to get his own back on the Bulldog so he recruits his own father Martin and others to go down into a basement where Bulldog works and dress up as zombies, ready to pounce on Bulldog when the latter reports for work.
Frasier organises a series of dress rehearsals which are prolonged because Frasier isn’t satisfied with the acting complaining among other things “You look dead enough but not undead!” Everyone becomes exasperated when Frasier orders yet another rerun.
MARTIN
“Not again! We’ve been through this practice umpteen times.”
Whereupon Martin finally snaps and shouts-
“And in case you haven’t heard THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS ZOMBIES!!!
Hey Bob. Thanks for the feedback on our zombie movie page. I agree with you about a lot of the zombie stuff out there…..for every good zombie movie there are 3 to4 bad to horrible zombie movies out there. One of the reasons, I do not like the Romero movies…..is his desire to have so many “just gore” scenes. The zombie movies I have enjoyed have concentrated on the story versus focusing on the ways zombies actually eat their victims…lol. Funny line about Zombies from Frasier….I can easily picture the late John Mahoney saying that line. Good feedback as always.
A lovely topic which is right up my alley (or should that be cemetery?).
Let’s see I’ve seen… 25 of the 52 films on the chart, not bad I suppose, some of them I’d never heard of.
Lots of favorites including – George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead, the Resident Evil series, Return of the Living Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, 28 Days Later, Re-Animator, Warm Bodies and World War Z.
Notable zombie movies missing from the list are – White Zombie (1932 Lugosi), I Walked With a Zombie (1943 Val Lewton), Plague of the Zombies (1966 Hammer), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988 Bill Pullman), Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979 Lucio Fulci) and REC (2007 Spanish).
Also missing is the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead, directed by George Romero’s favorite make up artist Tom Savini. (Savini is also an actor, he played the gang leader in Dawn of the Dead (1978) and a vampire in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996))
Bob Hope comedy The Ghost Breakers featured a creepy zombie at the climax of the film and Romero’s Creepshow anthology featured a zombie story starring Leslie Nielsen and Ted Danson.
My favorite zombie film? Romero’s Dawn of the Dead (1978).
You just missed Halloween with this one Bruce but you could always resurrect it on the next one. Good stuff. Vote Up!
Hey Steve
1. Sorry it took so long to respond to this comment.
2. I wanted to do so much more with this page….just ran out of time initially and then ran out of desire later….lol.
3. I recently saw and really enjoyed Train To Busan….which was not only a great zombie movie….but was one of the best movies I have seen in 2016…..it was so good it go me fired up to do this zombie page. If you have not seen it…..I highly highly recommend tracking that movie down and watching it.
4. As for the many missing movies…..decided to only list movies made after Romero’s original classic (1969)….so that excluded the classics you mentioned….The Serpent and the Egg did not make it because…those were not flesh eating zombies….just poor humans that were led to believe they were zombies. As for the REC movies and the Fulci trilogy….I wanted to add those movies….but it does not look like they played in North American theaters….so with no box office….they were also excluded. That leaves the Creepshow and Night of the Living Dead…Ted Danson’s zombie….just did not fit in with this group of movies. Which leaves 1990’s Return of the Living Dead…..glad to say that one is now on the page. I think I got confused about the 3D version, the classic version and Savini’s version.
5. So I assume you saw the Savini version…which would put your tally up to 26…I have seen….counting…I have 33 of these movies.
6. I had a Cogerson Top Ten that I created…but #2 derailed putting it on the page…..but that Top 10 was…..second comment.
Hey Steve….part two…feel like I am writing an essay…lol.
10th 28 Days Later….the first half is amazing…the second half is a letdown
9th Zombieland….the Bill Murray cameo alone, makes that one worth while
8th Planet Terror….the Bruce Willis bias gets it into the Top 10
7th Warm Bodies….interesting take on the subject
6th Night of the Living Dead….gotta give the granddaddy of those movies some love
5th Return of the Living Dead…saw this one in a packed theater at a midnight showing….a good time was had by all
4th Resident Evil movies – put all the movies together…and you fine a good movie
3rd Shaun of the Dead – love this movie….horror and comedy…just the way I like it
2nd Train to Busan – not only a great zombie movie….but a great movie period
1st Dawn of the Dead – we agree…so it has to be #1
I agree…I will have to share this one at Halloween……Zombies and Horror for Halloween…..John Candy for Thanksgiving…..and the Scrooge for Christmas.
Good feedback.
Good posts Bruce, I will check out Train to Busan, never heard of it before.
We seem to have the same ‘taste’ in zombie films. 🙂
You’ve seen more zombie films than I have and you’re not a horror fan, whoa!
Hey Steve….just created a trailer page for Train To Busan……stats, links, review and a trailer. https://www.ultimatemovierankings.com/train-to-busan-2016/ Thanksgiving and zombie talk…love it!
mmm looks good thanks for the trailer link Bruce, will def check this out.
Cogerson, did from dusk till dawn just have vampires or were there a few zombies also? tarantino, Clooney, keitel
steve, great share. you are a wealth of knowledge. I just saw I walked with a zombie. even The Bob might approve of that one, no slashing. it made me think, is live and let die (the bond movie with moore) a voodoo movie or could it sneak into zombie? even though they were just drugged? thanks for your list of favorites , it grew my to watch list a lot. I love your slide shows, strong work on those ratings and posters/stills. I rarely get to watch them in a timely fashion due to computer restrictions at work, high security locations, no you tube.LOL