Contagious violence
Often very similar to zombie movies but the dead aren't reanimated, instead some kind of "infection" turns the population into raging cannibals.
Despite not ticking all the boxes for a zombie film there is plenty of crossover (especially as The Last Man on Earth inspired Romero's zombies) and a fan of the undead should be just fine with these too, especially as classifying them separately from zombies means any extra abilities (like running fast, and even free running) won't be too jarring. Most are worth a rental although some, like almost all the I Am Legend adaptations, 28 X Later, The Crazies, Quarantine and Pontypool are good enough to seek out.
See also: The vengeful dead (another group of films often grouped with zombie films) and contagion (for films where a lot of people get sick and just die). There is also they walk amongst us for more subtle takeovers (as some of the films on this list involve infection by an alien virus or parasite in order to violently take over the world - see Slither as a good example)
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Despite not ticking all the boxes for a zombie film there is plenty of crossover (especially as The Last Man on Earth inspired Romero's zombies) and a fan of the undead should be just fine with these too, especially as classifying them separately from zombies means any extra abilities (like running fast, and even free running) won't be too jarring. Most are worth a rental although some, like almost all the I Am Legend adaptations, 28 X Later, The Crazies, Quarantine and Pontypool are good enough to seek out.
See also: The vengeful dead (another group of films often grouped with zombie films) and contagion (for films where a lot of people get sick and just die). There is also they walk amongst us for more subtle takeovers (as some of the films on this list involve infection by an alien virus or parasite in order to violently take over the world - see Slither as a good example)
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- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsLane CarrollWill MacMillanHarold Wayne JonesThe military attempts to contain a manmade combat virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.Here for the thumbnail graphic, the list starts below:
- DirectorJames P. HoganStarsDavid BruceEvelyn AnkersGeorge ZuccoA university chemistry professor experiments with an ancient Mayan gas on a medical student, turning the would-be surgeon into a murdering ghoul.Possibly not contagious but definitely induced, zombie-like cannibalism amongst the living, which is exactly what we are looking for here.
- DirectorBruno VeSotaStarsEd NelsonAlan Jay FactorCornelius KeefeThe inhabitants of a small Illinois town begin disappearing after a strange cone is found sticking out of the ground nearby.An early pioneer of the parasitic possession theme.
- DirectorUbaldo RagonaSidney SalkowStarsVincent PriceFranca BettoiaEmma DanieliWhen a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.The first "I Am Legend" adaptation and an important one for zombie movie fans researching the sub-genre's history because, while the infection and general mythology is more vampiric, a lot of the feel of the film inspired Romero when he was making Night of the Living Dead.
The film is public domain. - DirectorDavid E. DurstonStarsBhaskar Roy ChowdhuryJadin WongRhonda FultzA group of Satanic hippies wreak havoc on a small town where a young boy whose sister and grandfather were victimized by them tries to get even--with deadly results.The film is public domain.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsCharlton HestonAnthony ZerbeRosalind CashDr Robert Neville has developed an experimental vaccine which makes him the only immune survivor of a biological catastrophe. A gang of homicidal mutants blame science for their condition and attempt to kill him.Also based on "I Am Legend"
- DirectorPeter SasdyStarsIan BannenJudy GeesonJohn PaulThe waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
- DirectorGeorge A. RomeroStarsLane CarrollWill MacMillanHarold Wayne JonesThe military attempts to contain a manmade combat virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.This helped define these films early on. Romero wanted to try something different after redefining the zombie movie but he didn't stray far from home, just making the infected faster.
- DirectorWillard HuyckGloria KatzStarsMichael GreerMarianna HillJoy BangA young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.A difficult one to classify as the cultists are often called vampires (but they eat meat and go out in daylight, there is an I Am Legends feel to them though) or ghouls, but we do see this spreading to the woman Thom meets and the cop, so I'm putting it here.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsPaul HamptonJoe SilverLynn LowryThe residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others by the slightest sexual contact.The parasitic infection doesn't make the hosts become quite as violent as they do in other films (and they aren't cannibals) but they are very "insistent" that other people also become infected to the point it becomes violent, sinister and just plain nasty.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsMarilyn ChambersFrank MooreTerry SchonblumA young woman develops a taste for human blood after experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into blood-thirsty zombies, leading into a city-wide epidemic.
- DirectorJeff LiebermanStarsZalman KingDeborah WintersMark GoddardA bizarre series of murders begins in Los Angeles, where people start going bald and then become homicidal maniacs. But could the blame rest on a particularly dangerous form of LSD called Blue Sunshine the murderers took ten years before?
- DirectorJean RollinStarsMarie-Georges PascalFélix MartenSerge MarquandA young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into killer zombies.The slow, sadistic, pustule-pocked, psychopaths are clearly not zombies and even have relapses where they show remorse or ask for help. This plus the setting in desolate upland France (presumably somewhere in southern-central France from the landscape) all help to give this a genuinely creepy atmosphere, that sometimes borders on backwoods horror. It is a very different feel to a lot of the post-28 Days Later infected films (which with their usually fast and brutal infected tend to lead to more action-horror movies) but it is definitely worth a watch if you are looking for something a little different, perhaps with the feel of something like The Children (2008).
- DirectorMax KalmanowiczStarsMartin ShakarGil RogersGale GarnettA nuclear-plant leak turns a bus-load of children into murderous atomic zombies with black fingernails.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsHugo StiglitzLaura TrotterMaria Rosaria OmaggioAn airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.From Wikipedia: "Director Umberto Lenzi felt the film was not as much as zombie film but a 'radiation sickness movie' with hints of an anti-nuclear and anti-military messages"
Lenzi only did one proper zombie film - Black Demons (often given as Demoni 3, even though it isn't part of the series). Instead this is more a way to combine the zombie and cannibal genres, although not that successfully. - DirectorAntonio MargheritiStarsJohn SaxonElizabeth TurnerGiovanni Lombardo RadiceMentally unstable Vietnam vets who were held captive by the Viet Cong come back to America after being rescued carrying a dangerous virus that turns people into cannibals when bitten.aka Cannibal Apocalypse
Another interesting attempt to make a zombie/cannibal film with bites infecting people with violent cannibalism but it rarely makes the best use of its premise, with only a handful of stand-out scenes. Unfortunately, John Saxon didn't realise what he had signed himself up to and refused to get involved in the cannibalism which meant that his character (the core of the film) is presented with the real internal conflict this type of film should have. - DirectorCharles McCrannStarsCharles McCrannBeverly ShapiroDennis HelfendMarijuana growers deep in the woods are hit with a new toxic herbicide, and they turn into mindless cannibals killing everyone they come into contact with.
- DirectorThom EberhardtStarsCatherine Mary StewartKelli MaroneyRobert BeltranA comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.So Eighties it hurts.
A comet kills everyone not protected by steel, turning them to dust. Some with only slight exposure are turned into violent, oddly-coloured cannibals, but we only see a few of them - the biggest threat is other survivors. - DirectorGraham BakerStarsTim MathesonMeg TillyHume CronynAfter a small earthquake in a tiny, quiet town, local citizens start to exhibit bizarre, violent and self-destructive behaviour.
- DirectorJohn 'Bud' CardosMark RosmanStarsWings HauserBo HopkinsJody MedfordTwo brothers discover that the residents of a small Southern town are being infected by a form of toxic waste, turning them into blood-ravenous zombies.A classic example of this type of film - it provides the kinds of thrills a zombie movie fan is looking for, without any of the post-Romero rules: no reanimated dead, bites aren't infectious and headshots aren't required, but did it have to be quite so dark? Dark as in the light conditions, not the story. At a lot of crucial moments all you get are abstract dark blobs moving against a black background, something that might have worked in a cinema once the viewers eyes had adjusted to the light, but one home media any effect there might have been is a hindrance to the viewer in working out what is actually going on.
- DirectorRussell KernStarsJames AerniChopper BernetRex CutterThe planet Jupiter has moved closer to the Earth causing an increased gravitation pull which affects the human brain, and people with certain blood types in higher elevations. The result is that the citizens in a town in the Rocky Mountains have become blood-hungry, flesh-eating, and insane.
- DirectorHal BarwoodStarsSam WaterstonKathleen QuinlanYaphet KottoA woman working as a security guard in an agricultural research facility finds herself and her co-worker Schmidt fighting to survive against their former friends.
- DirectorLarry CohenStarsMichael MoriartyAndrea MarcovicciGarrett MorrisA delicious, mysterious goo that oozes from the earth is marketed as the newest dessert sensation, but the tasty treat rots more than teeth when zombie-like snackers who only want to consume more of the strange substance at any cost begin infesting the world.I'm not 100% sure of this so will need to rewatch it.
- DirectorLamberto BavaStarsUrbano BarberiniNatasha HoveyKarl ZinnyA group of random people are invited to a screening of a mysterious movie, only to find themselves trapped in the theater with ravenous demons.A touch of demonic infection.
- DirectorWilliam MaloneStarsStan IvarWendy SchaalLyman WardAfter a member of a geological research team who was sent to Saturn's largest moon: Titan crashes their spacecraft into a space station, another team is sent to Titan to investigate, not knowing the terror that awaits them.As well as being a blatant Alien rip-off, there are contagious violence elements. I suspect this was done to keep the rather poor Creature in the background (and shadows) as long as possible, instead relying on the cheaper option of people in make-up, pulling faces.
So a crossover with my Space Horror list. - DirectorFred DekkerStarsJason LivelyTom AtkinsSteve MarshallAlien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their host into a killing zombie. Some teenagers start to fight against them.Classic 80s flick (for the full retro hit watch this in a double bill with Night of the Comet), with alien parasites on the loose causing all sorts of problems by animating the living and the dead.
- DirectorLamberto BavaStarsDavid Edwin KnightNancy BrilliCoralina Cataldi-TassoniA group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.aka Demons 2
- DirectorDeran SarafianStarsDennis ChristopherMartin HewittLynn-Holly JohnsonThree American friends travelling through Spain get stuck in a remote town where something very dangerous is changing the town's people.aka Mutant 2
An unofficial sequel to "Mutant". - DirectorBret McCormickStarsScott DavisJude JohnsonBlue ThompsonAn old woman coughs up what she believes to be a tumor. While asleep, the thing crawls inside of her son and reproduces inside him, then causes him to go on a killing spree to feed it.
- DirectorHenri SalaStarsDebbie LasterDale MidkiffDebra HunterA female scientist performs experiments on three college girls that turn them into drooling, murderous mutants.
- DirectorMatt DevlenStarsScott DavisBlue ThompsonBrad McCormickA hole in the Ozone layer turns some rednecks into flesh-eating mutants.
- DirectorDonald FarmerStarsDrew GodderisSky NicholasDonald TrimbornAs a sorority initiation, two girls have to pose as hookers. Then they turn into zombies and start killing and eating the locals.
- DirectorDavid KeithStarsWil WheatonClaude AkinsMalcolm DanareWhen a meteorite lands near his family farm during a storm in Tennessee, the son of a struggling farmer believes it's connected to strange plague-like events afflicting the crops, the farm animals and even the family themselves.
- DirectorTony CurrieStarsFrank StalloneBruce PirrieElizabeth EdwardsA pink meteor controlled by aliens lands near a small town and turns the local women into nymphos. A deputy sheriff and a local private eye investigate.
- DirectorKevin TenneyStarsCathy PodewellAlvin AlexisHal HavinsTen teenagers party at an abandoned funeral parlor on Halloween night. When an evil force awakens, demonic spirits keep them from leaving and turn their gathering into a living Hell.Although some of the kids were indeed dead (or damn close to it) before turning violent and cannibalistic, the film sits more comfortably in this list, alongside Demons and Demons 2.
- DirectorNico MastorakisStarsWings HauserBo HopkinsGeorge KennedyScientists poison the water supply of a small town, turning the residents into homicidal maniacs who kill each other and anybody who passes through.A remake of "Mutant" also starring Wings Hauser and Bo Hopkins.
- DirectorJames Aviles MartinStarsRobert Lee OliverDonatella HechtNeal RosenSuburban housewives turn into vicious cannibals after committing adultery with the neighborhood womanizer.
- DirectorVittorio RambaldiStarsPatrick LoweCheryl AruttSarah BuxtonA scientist at a Florida University accidentally creates a "rage virus" while conducting experiments to restore dead brain tissue in baboons. The virus soon spreads.
- DirectorJohn SaxonStarsDennis ColeAnthony FranciosaDino PaskasA renegade federal agent uses a new drug to create an army of unbeatable warriors.
- DirectorGiovanni ArduinoAndrea LioyStarsJohn J. BridgeNick TortoneBernie BurntUnderground Italian extremely gory, gross-out "comedy" (in early John Waters vein) about a badly burnt morphine junkie who is turned into a zombie after he gets injected with infected urine by his pug-ugly, crazy sister.
- DirectorPericles LewnesStarsSteve SooyAnthony M. CarrKen DavisA barrel of radioactive waste is lost out in the woods. Some demented rednecks find it and use it as part of their still. Everybody who drinks the liquor they produced turns into zombies.
- DirectorMik CribbenStarsMichael RobertsonRich HamiltonRobin LillyA mentally-disturbed teenager kidnaps and brainwashes children into cannibalistic psychopaths - but not when the adults intervene.
- DirectorTimothy O'RaweStarsJoe FranklinWilliam FriedmanScott GordonSex, babes and rock 'n roll! Two thugs in search of hidden treasure mistakenly unleash a chemical into the school's water supply, causing everyone it comes into contact with to become flesh-eating ghouls.
- DirectorDavid NutterStarsDavid DuchovnyGillian AndersonXander BerkeleyMulder and Scully are sent to investigate when a team of geophysicists stationed at a remote Alaskan outpost are killed by a parasitic alien life form.Parasites thaw out of the ice and turn people into murderers.
- DirectorBrian Trenchard-SmithStarsCristi HarrisDarin HeamesBobby JacobyHigh school students throw a Halloween party in a mansion haunted by a young demon.
- DirectorPeter SvatekStarsRoddy PiperJayne HeitmeyerBilly DragoBoston, 2009. A police detective (Roddy Piper) searches for Adrian Dunn, his ex-partner (Billy Drago) who murdered his wife. Dunn has escaped from prison on the moon and returned to Earth with an alien virus.
- DirectorJim KaufmanStarsLarry DayAmelia KinkadeKris Holden-RiedA group of delinquents accidentally shoot a police officer. To avoid arrest, they hide out in an abandoned house, unaware it is haunted.
- DirectorJim ReardonMark KirklandStarsDan CastellanetaJulie KavnerNancy CartwrightHomer battles mutants after Springfield is annihilated by a neutron bomb; Bart has his DNA mixed with a fly; Marge is revealed to be a witch in colonial Springfield.
- DirectorDavid E. PeckinpahStarsJerry O'ConnellSabrina LloydCleavant DerricksA deadly virus turns a world's population into man-eating zombies, and when Quinn is bitten, the other Sliders frantically search for an antidote.
- DirectorAndrew ParkinsonStarsGiles AspenEllen SoftleyDean SiplingA young man gets infected and gradually starts turning into a zombie.
- StarsDermot MorganArdal O'HanlonFrank KellyAfter winning a poetry contest, Mrs. Doyle gets a visit by the show's host and a few of his crazed fans.A great riff on NotLD, and what is so contagious that it makes the old ladies dangerous? Love, of course.
- DirectorTimo RoseMarc FehseStarsMark DoorMarc FehseTimo RoseA chemical created by Nazi experimentation is discovered in modern-day Germany. Once released, it causes all sorts of horrific bloodshed, mutation, and madness.
- DirectorWai-Man ChengStarsStephen FungSam LeeAlice ChanCIA Anent Harry is bitten by a man who was part of a deadly experiment involving the ability to withstand pain. The bacterium has a virus, causing the victim to become a zombie. Upon Harry's arrival in Hong Kong, after rejection from his ex-girlfriend, the virus begins to take effect. He kills a call girl and is arrested after a gang fight. When he is in prison, Harry transforms into a Zombie King and transforms nearly an entire Triad gang into his personal horde. Soon, the police department becomes a House of the Dead. It's up to a police officer named Marco, Harry's ex, and a Triad member named Cheap to stop them before it's too late.aka Bio-Cops
- DirectorMichael A. MartinezStarsTim JahnGeorge N. ThompsonGabriel DerrickA small band of survivors unwillingly add a new member to their quickly dwindling population, with disastrous results.
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsNatasha HenstridgeIce CubePam GrierIn 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find that the post has become a charnel house.
- DirectorAndrew ParkinsonStarsBeverley WilsonAntonia BeamishBrendan GregoryA group of women afflicted with a horrible disease (which forces them to cannibalism) try to support one another.A sequel of sorts to I, Zombie.
It follows the story of some seemingly normal young woman and their day-to-day existence as the cannibalistically contaminated: trying to secure fresh man-meat, dodging zombie hunters and slowly transforming into something less easy on the eye. It is an unsettling portrayal as they more sympathetic than the raging infected we'd come to know very well the following year, almost like a social realist take on drug-addicted prostitutes interspersed with gory cannibalism. - DirectorTimo RoseStarsErich AmerkampThomas KercmarAndreas PapeThe toxic chemical rediscovered in the original film causes more death and destruction across Germany, leading to a new mutation unlike anything the world has ever seen...
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsCillian MurphyNaomie HarrisChristopher EcclestonFour weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.The film that really kicked this sub-genre up a couple of gears - it is telling that 4 times the number of such films were made after this than in the longer period before.
- DirectorPaul W.S. AndersonStarsMilla JovovichMichelle RodriguezRyan McCluskeyA special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.Tricky one as the T-virus mutates living people (we see in Vendetta that the infected can be cured) but is somehow strong enough raise the dead, as we saw in Apocalypse.
- DirectorBrad SykesStarsLisa JayKarla ZamudioJeff RyanA group of college students decide to party at the abandoned chemical factory on the outskirts of town, unknowing that one of the former factory workers is still lurking about.
- DirectorBrian ClementStarsTamara BarnardStephan BourkeFiona Eden-WalkerThree private detectives are sent by a corrupt police chief to investigate a series of murders that show evidence of cannibalism, leading them to a fashion designer and his troupe of models.
- DirectorTimo RoseStarsThomas KercmarAndreas PapeErich Amerkamp
- DirectorGeorg KoszulinskiStarsGeorg KoszulinskiMatt DevineSharon ChudnowIn the year 2012, the 3rd great war comes to an end. The war claims no victors, but both sides succeed in executing their chemical warfare campaigns. The result is over 3 billion deaths. Over ninety-eight percent of the male survivors are rendered sterile. Human reproduction is realized by means of cloning. The first strand of clones are harvested in December of 2012 and received with overwhelming success. It was not until nineteen years later that the first problems arose.
- DirectorDavid WuStarsRichard GriecoKate GreenhouseColin FoxAn electrical crew stumbles into a parallel universe dominated by a mutated spider.
- DirectorDavid LivingstonStarsScott BakulaJohn BillingsleyJolene BlalockEnterprise answers a distress signal from a stranded Vulcan ship, only when arriving they find the ship completely desolate, wrecked - and filled with Vulcan zombies.
- DirectorAlexander WittStarsMilla JovovichSienna GuilloryEric MabiusAlice wakes up in the Raccoon City hospital after the area has been overrun by zombies, and must now make it out of the city before a nuclear bomb is dropped.
- DirectorMasayuki OchiaiStarsMichiko HadaMari HoshinoTae KimuraINFECTION takes place in a dark, isolated hospital, where a doctor's mistake has led to dire consequences for a patient.
- DirectorAlbert PyunStarsJenny Dare PaulinMorgan WeisserAlan AbelewOn May 19, 2004, an unprecedented biological outbreak occurred in Lawton, California. A classified N.S.A.A. report detailed the carnage which ensued that night. This film is based on that top-secret report.
- DirectorCarl BessaiStarsPaul CampbellSarah LindJulian ChristopherA group of young environmental activists become infected, ravenous, unstoppable zombies when a forestry company's genetic experimentation goes disastrously wrong.
- DirectorRichard GriffinStarsPatrick CohenEmily MorettiniAndrew VellenowethThere's a rave going on. It's gonna be great. Tuesday and her boyfriend J.T., and their friend Katie, and Katie's brother, are going out partying to the biggest rave in Providence, Rhode Island.
- DirectorAndrzej BartkowiakStarsKarl UrbanRosamund PikeDwayne JohnsonSpace Marines are sent to investigate strange events at a research facility on Mars but find themselves at the mercy of genetically enhanced killing machines.
- DirectorSv BellStarsMelantha BlackthorneElizabeth FaureMagenta BaribeauAstronomers across the world are watching the sky as a meteor is reported on a collision course with our planet. When the rock gets to crash on Earth, some campers in the neighborhood decide to venture in the woods to find that relic from outer space before the authorities. Problems arise when one of the ladies touches the alien rock and turn into a monster that feeds on human flesh.
- DirectorPeter MervisStarsBrandon StacyGriff FurstChriss AnglinAfter killing four persons in his home with a shotgun, Dee Travis claims that he had accidentally ingested an experimental biotoxin that the company Blackthorn where he worked was researching. Travis is sent visibly ill to the Harwood Maximum Security Prison and the Security Officer Sweeny sends the inmate to the infirmary. Meanwhile the CDC Agent Samantha Beckett comes to the prison to interview Travis and is received by Warden Mahler. While they are having a conversation, they are informed that Travis has been transferred to the solitary confinement and his infected blood has caused an outbreak among the prisoners and guards. Samantha calls the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the responsible advises the warden that the prison is in quarantine.
- DirectorEdward Evers-SwindellStarsRoss EvisonSusan RileyPaul SutherlandThe not too distant future. A deadly virus has swept across the Earth. Billions perished. The survivors moved underground . . . 30 years on and plagued with self-blame following a devastating crash, pilot Loki is coaxed back from the edge by his partner Sash. Together they must take on a new mission: Go Topside. Retrieve missing recon team. Hostility unknown. After a thunderous journey through the Earth's crust they discover the planet surface is not what it once was, only death survives. As they quickly uncover the fate that befell the first team, they are forced to make a choice, either stay and die or stay and fight. But what will kill them first, the mutants or the virus?
- DirectorSimon Micael BerggrenMats KejonenStarsChrystian AlarconSimon Micael BerggrenNiklas Engvall8 Months ago a deadly virus was discovered in Asia. Today, only very few survivors remain, where those who are not dead have become mindless flesh eating zombies. Andersson, a young man, believes he is the only survivor until he meets Voorhees, a very strange man who lives in a tall, abandoned apartment building. Andersson realizes that he does not want to live with this man, yet he knows that man is his only hope for survival and friendship. Eventually, Voorhees let's Andersson know that there is a cure, and they begin their search for the cure through the desolate streets of the small Swedish town.
- DirectorAntti KiuruMatti KuusniemiVille LähdeStarsMatti KuusniemiAndres PassOssi KakkoAliens from outer space crashes on Hervanta and starts to transform people into flesh eating creatures.
- DirectorJames GunnStarsNathan FillionElizabeth BanksMichael RookerA small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
- DirectorJim MickleStarsNick DamiciKim BlairRon BriceA deadly infection breaks out in Manhattan, causing humans to develop into blood-thirsty rat creatures.The UK DVD was retitled "Zombie Virus on Mulberry Street" but that is just to shift a few extra units - the virus changes people into rat-like mutants.
- DirectorDerek WanStarsTony ToddCarla GreeneNina HodorukEvil voodoo-practicing serial killer Shadow gets executed for murdering pregnant women. Twenty years later the prison Shadow was put to death at has been turned into an experimental women's penitentiary. Tough and fiercely autonomous new inmate Solitaire has some kind of link with Shadow. When Shadow and his lethal shambling zombie minions are resurrected, it's up to Solitaire to stop them.A film that manages to span the three types of "zombie" film I'm tracking here - Shadow is one of the vengeful dead, his blood induces a violent cannibalistic rage and he is also able to raise the dead in order to set them loose chewing on the inmates. This, and a lot of gratuitous nudity, can't save the film though, but its ambitions (and the genres it tries to hybridise) do raise it above more run-of-the-mill peers a little.
- DirectorElio QuirogaStarsSilkeOmar MuñozPepo Oliva8-year-old Jesús has been living in a crumbling underground facility since he was born with eight survivors of an apocalyptic war: the leader Maria and her lover Pablo, gays Lucas and Mateo, astronomer Magdalena, teenager Ana, soldier Pedro, and lonely Judas. They are permanently under surveillance, threatened by the contaminated mutants The Strangers, and once a day they have to lock themselves in their rooms without heating to protect against the dangerous ghosts The Invisibles that attack in the Cold Hour. They cannot go to the surface, destroyed by a nuclear war. When they need supplies, medications, and ammunition, they organize expeditions to a store. When the menace of The Invisibles affects the safety of the group of survivors, they need to reach the surface.A subterranean horror film in which The Strangers are "not exactly" zombies, but are infected with a bio-weapon, an infectious virus that spreads by touch.
- DirectorShawn WoodardStarsShannon BlackCandice BojiMichael BurrisAuditors uncover Accounting fraud at a Fortune 500 Company. The CEO and CFO behind the fraud attempt to coerce the auditors into keeping the fraud quiet. Mean while a worker who recently returns to work after being on a Reality Television show begins infecting others with a highly contagious disease that sends the infected into a violent rage against the non-infected. For the safety of the outside world the FBI declares an emergency and quarantining everyone in the building. The people on the inside must survive the onslaught of the Infected people until a vaccine is developed. Later, one of the FBI agents on the case discovers that his long lost love is one of the people quarantined inside the building, which forces him to violates agency protocol in an attempt to save her.
- DirectorIan McCruddenStarsMichelle BorthJoleigh FioreavantiAlex FeldmanTyler is a surfer who constantly searches for good surfing spots. When he's traveling through Mexico, he finds one of the best places he has ever seen. He invites his brother Colin to join him and his friends in surfing the wild Mexican waves. Colin gathers 4 friends and leaves for Mexico but is surprised that nor his brother nor his brother's friends are there. They start realizing that there's something wrong with the beach, a curse that says that no one will leave the beach alive...
- DirectorHal MasonbergStarsJames Van Der BeekIvana MilicevicBrad HuntTen years have passed since the world's children fell into a coma. Tonight they're waking up and all hell is breaking loose. An unholy battle between the generations is being waged, and time is not on the side of adults.Similar to the Children films, something turns the kids violent. Unfortunately, while there are elements that have a zombie film influence (although technically quite a bit of that came via The Last Man on Earth) the film just isn't that scary and the story is a mess. Apparently, this was heavily edited by Clive Barker without the director or writers being involved and they have their own (currently unreleased) cut of the film that might help clarify some elements. Although it I can't imagine it is going to improve the film from being just OK.
- DirectorAiden DillardStarsCarey SveenCarl SkoggardDennis PalozzoloFour lovely southern belles smoke the meat weed and then face off against Bullpucky and his family of hillbilly hipster drug fiends!
- DirectorDuane StinnettStarsNoel GugliemiHoward AlonzoEthan EdneeIn Los Angeles, a meteor bringing some sort of disease falls on a group of homeless and turns them into flesh eater zombies. Meanwhile, two rival gangs are dealing drugs with an intermediary in an old warehouse without knowing that there is a stake out of the LAPD of the whole operation. When the policemen are ready to arrest the criminals, they are attacked by the hunger zombies in the beginning of a nightmarish night.
- DirectorJohn SpechtStarsNicole AshmoreTrudy Lynn BarrJim KeithCult horror director John Specht's low-budget feature, "Electric Zombies," neatly cobbles together two disparate genres: the conspiracy thriller and the horror/slasher movie. It also comments sardonically on the post-9/11 fear of the U.S. government-gone-haywire, as it recounts the tale of a misguided federal project to brainwash "enemies of the state" via cell-phone signals. The signals inadvertently grow in power and become redirected to the U.S., turning unsuspecting civilians into super-obedient zombies whenever their cell phones are answered. They receive self-destructive orders, which they follow will-lessly -- orders running the gamut from self-mutilation to suicide to homicide to riot. Those who manage to escape from falling prey to the menace must find a way to stop the threat -- before the U.S. erupts into unchecked anarchy.
- DirectorBrett YoungStarsGary AppleApril & LouMachete Bang BangA new form of digital terrorism has been unleashed on America. A deadly song transmitted through Ipods is turning New York City into brain eating zombies. While President Bush hides from Osama Bin Ladin, Zeek, a Manhattan bike messenger, and Niki, his cute bike mechanic, do battle against the army of zombies in a race against time to save America. Everyone gets covered in blood by the end of this gory adventure.
- DirectorJuan Carlos FresnadilloStarsJeremy RennerRose ByrneRobert CarlyleSix months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan.
- DirectorRussell MulcahyStarsMilla JovovichAli LarterOded FehrSurvivors of the Raccoon City catastrophe travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against the evil Umbrella Corp.
- DirectorFrancis LawrenceStarsWill SmithAlice BragaCharlie TahanYears after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.The only I Am Legend adaptation that stuck with the name. It is big budget, but not as satisfactory as The Last Man on Earth.
- DirectorRobert KurtzmanStarsAndrew DivoffErin BrownRyan HooksA crazed scientist experiments with a rage virus on innocent victims in a laboratory in the woods. When his monstrous subjects escape and vultures devour their remains, they became mutations seeking to feed on humans.
- DirectorJohnny KalangisStarsBilly ZaneMaggie CastleShauna MacDonaldA comedy-horror-thriller in which a doctor and his teenage daughter are terrorized by flesh-eating zombies at a truck stop.
- DirectorKirk BowmanStarsHeidi BruckerDan ShelbyMira RaysonPassionate archeology students unearth a cursed jewel box in the Burbank mountains that turns the females into blood-thirsty cannibals and the guys into "dinner".
- DirectorJon KnautzStarsRobert EnglundTrevor MatthewsDaniel KashA troubled young man still mourning the childhood loss of his family now has to deal with his professor being turned into a monster.The monster's tentacles "infect" the students and turn them into violent monsters, something Slither would do better, although this is a decent film too and well worth checking out.
- DirectorFranck VestielStarsClovis CornillacVimala PonsZohar WexlerA man wakes up in an underground cave, next to a dead body. He has no memory of how he got there and starts to try and work his way to the surface and escape from the network of tunnels, which seem to be some kind of ancient civilisation.Workers on the plant are turned into mindless violent mutants.
- DirectorKevin TenneyStarsJoshua BentonSarah Grant BrendeckeDavid CraneThe story of six people caught in the unusual (except in horror films) predicament of being stranded in a deserted fishing lodge with a host of alien-infected, mutant amoeba-controlled zombies at their doorstep.
- DirectorDavid BrucknerDan BushJacob GentryStarsAnessa RamseyJustin WelbornScott PoythressA horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
- DirectorBrian SingletonStarsChris AndersonErin BrophyBrandi BouletIt's old-school horror the Canadian way in this classic summer camp cannibal bloodbath!
- DirectorAdam DeyoeEric GosselinStarsTim AllenDiana AroneMichael BolandTwo rival juice companies, Eco-Elixir and Jock Juice, accidentally unleash an experimental formula of energy drink on an unsuspecting group of concert- goers. This formula turns whoever is unfortunate enough to drink it into flesh-eating crazies!
- DirectorGriff FurstStarsMark DacascosGeoff MeedJennifer Lee WigginsIn post apocalyptic LA being rampaged by zombie like cannibals humans that have some kind of genetic infection local man renchard is forced to live a daily struggle as he trys to locate radio signals and find a cure.The inevitable Asylum cash-in, which downplays the more vampiric aspects of the mutants bringing it even more in line with these types of films. Not that any of that makes it any more watchable.