20 best movies about zombie apocalypse and survival

20 best movies about zombie apocalypse and survival

For many, zombie films have become a real outlet. They can be scary, funny and even romantic, but they are certainly always dynamic! True, it can be difficult to find a really high-quality movie among hundreds of titles. That is why we have prepared this large selection for you. It contains only movies with a high IMDB rating!

1. Train to Busan (2016)

Train to Busan - zombie apocalypse and survival movies

The Korean thriller is breathtaking from the first minutes, so it was not in vain that its premiere took place in Cannes. People in horror are hiding from the zombies on the traveling train. But the infection still managed to get into the last carriage ...

2. A zombie named Sean (2004)

A zombie named Sean - zombie apocalypse and survival movies

Although this is a parody comedy, it turned out to be so successful that even Lego was seriously planning to release a themed set. An ordinary tech seller Sean and his friend Ed (Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) spend all their free time in a pub until news of a strange flu epidemic breaks out in the city.

3. Welcome to Zombieland (2009)

Welcome to Zombieland - zombie apocalypse and survival movies

The young loser Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) travels around the United States after the zombie apocalypse in search of other people and draws up his own rules of survival in a new hostile world. One day, he meets the grim Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) with a car, a gun and a pathological love for Twinkie's pastries. By the way, in 2019, the film came out with an equally spectacular sequel.

4.28 days later (2002)

28 Days Later - Zombie Apocalypse and Survival Movies

The British film continues the best traditions of the old stories of the zombie apocalypse. The four main characters are trying to survive amid the epidemic of a terrible virus that provokes people to kill. Starring: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Noah Huntley, Brendan Gleeson, Christopher Eccleston.

5. Evil Dead (1981)

Evil Dead - zombie apocalypse and survival movies

Over the years, one of the main zombie films was either censored or persecuted by the church. At the same time, it spawned several sequels and remakes, dozens of followers, comics and video games.

20 best survival movies worth watching

6. Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Night of the Living Dead - zombie apocalypse and survival movies

This classic zombie horror movie is even listed on the National American Film Registry, which is kept at the Library of Congress. Johnny and Barbara are attacked at their father's grave by an unknown person who resembles a living dead man ...

7. Army of Darkness (1992)

Army of Darkness - Zombie Apocalypse and Survival Movies

The comedic sequel to the Evil Dead series once again follows Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell). He needs not only to defeat the dead, but also to return home from Medieval England.

8. Planet of Fear (2007)

Fear planet - zombie apocalypse and survival movies

The film by Robert Rodriguez was originally part of Grindhouse, their joint project with Quentin Tarantino. As the dancer Cherry (Rose McGowan) searches for her new vocation with former friend El Rae, the deadly gas turns the townspeople into zombies.

9. Living carrion (1992)

Living carrion - movies about zombie apocalypse and survival

The cult parody film by Peter Jackson was not only successful, but received as many as thirteen international awards. An exotic rat monkey from Skull Island becomes a carrier of a dangerous virus.

10. The heat of our bodies (2013)

The heat of our bodies - movies about zombie apocalypse and survival

Do you think it's impossible to make a romantic melodrama about zombies? But one day, a zombie named R (Nicholas Hoult), with a tiny bit of emotion, saves Julie (Teresa Palmer) instead of eating her.

20 best time travel movies

11. Zombies in one plan! (2017)

Zombies in one plan - movies about zombie apocalypse and survival

The Japanese thriller could rightfully be called an arthouse. The main characters so badly wanted to make a believable film about the zombie apocalypse that they themselves did not notice how they awakened the real dead!

12. Zero patient (2018)

Patient Zero - Zombie Apocalypse and Survival Movies

Game of Thrones and Doctor Who stars (Natalie Dormer and Matt Smith) have teamed up to fight a new strain of rabies. In just one and a half minutes, a terrible virus turns a person into a bloodthirsty monster.

13. New era Z (2016)

New era Z - movies about zombie apocalypse and survival

A terrible fungus has infected humanity and turns people into carnivorous zombies. Meanwhile, at several bases, the survivors are trying to find a vaccine and at least some way out of the situation.

fourteen.I am a legend (2007)

I am legend - zombie apocalypse and survival movies

The cancer drug, which was supposed to be salvation for humanity, practically led to its extinction. Robert Neville (Will Smith) patrols the streets of New York City and appears to be the sole survivor of the entire city.

15. Resident Evil (2002)

Resident evil - zombie apocalypse and survival movies

It was impossible to ignore the history of the Umbrella corporation, which has long become a cult. The entire film is saturated with allusions to the work of Lewis Carroll, and one of the composers was Marilyn Manson. The starring role is the unsurpassed Milla Jovovich.

20 best films about witches

16. Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Dawn of the dead - zombie apocalypse and survival movies

The sci-fi horror film by Zach Snyder has absorbed its characteristic scope and epic character. A group of people are hiding in a shopping center and trying to survive during the zombie apocalypse.

17. Return of the Living Dead (1985)

Return of the living dead - movies about zombie apocalypse and survival

Frank and Freddie are sent to a warehouse where experimental military gas and the bodies of people who died from it are allegedly stored. By stupid coincidence, they depressurized one of the containers ... Some critics believe that the film should be called a free remake of "Night of the Living Dead"!

18. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

Pride & Prejudice & Zombies - Zombie Apocalypse & Survival Movies

Although the film received mixed reviews from critics, the bold and extravagant reworking of a classic story is definitely worth considering. And a nice bonus awaits you with a brilliant cast - Lina Headey, Matt Smith, Charles Dance and others.

19. Operation "Dead Snow" (2009)

Operation Dead Snow - zombie apocalypse and survival movies

The Norwegian film did not find worldwide fame, but it certainly looks very impressive. In the mountains of Norway, people are attacked by Nazi zombies who died here at the end of World War II.

20. Zombies (2018)

Zombies - movies about zombie apocalypse and survival

Another very non-trivial film in our selection is a striking Disney musical about the town of Seabrook. Half of its population turned into zombies half a century ago, and now the children from Zombitown can finally go to a normal school ...

the beauty

home and family

Garden