10 Highest-Rated Zombie Movies Of The 2000s, According To IMDb – Screen Rant

Though the zombie trope has gotten old in recent years, the 2000s still featured some solid flicks, and here are 10 of the best from that decade.

It may seem like the Golden Age of zombie movies is long over. The Walking Dead effectively killed the zombie genre in the 2010s, both by being so incredibly popular and for eventually sucking and dragging down the reputation of the genre. Even when it comes to movies, it seems like the zombie heyday is over. It reached a peak in the late 70s and early 80s thanks in large part to George A. Romero and his numerous successors.

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But, that's not to say that the zombie genre is dead. Far from it, in fact. These are the ten highest rated zombie movies of the 2000s, according to IMDb.

It's a surprising fact, but the first Resident Evil film was actually pretty good. While the series eventually went off the rails with clones and underwater facilities and ridiculous visual effects, the first was a relatively simple zombie story about a virus turning people into bloodthirsty freaks. While it wasn't particularly faithful to the video games, it still provided some decent scares and some iconic sequences, that being the laser grid among them.

Fido is a different kind of zombie movie. Serving as a unique combination of horror, comedy, and coming-of-age drama, Fido takes place in an alternate 1950s world in which space radiation has turned the dead into zombies. Little Timmy and his family employ a zombie named Fido for manual labor, and Timmy grows a bond with his undead companion. It's a cute and touching little film, and it put an original spin on the decaying genre.

It's not often that sequels serve as worthy companions, but28 Weeks Later mostly gets the job done. The movie has its problems, including some head-scratching plot holes and supremely dumb character decisions, but, if viewers can look past its flaws, 28 Weeks Later serves a very solid, very scary, and very fast-paced zombie film. It's certainly not the disaster that many claim it to be, as evident by its strong IMDb rating.

Planet Terror is a glorious throwback to grindhouse B-movies of old. That's probably why it was originally released as one half of the Grindhousedouble feature, opposite Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof.

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This is a winking throwback to the cheesy and ridiculously goryexploitation movies of old, complete with film grain, a machine gun leg, and some kind of nasty chemical agent that turns people into ghouls. It's gory, it's goofy, but, above all, it's a lot of fun.

It's unclear just what the monsters of I Am Legend truly are. Zombies? Vampires? Deranged cannibals? Some kind of mutated human? Either way, they're mindless killing machineswell, mostlyso they fall under the zombie umbrella. I Am Legend was a huge movie in 2007, grossing nearly $600 million and receiving rave reviews for Will Smith's incredible performance as Robert Neville and its depiction of a post-apocalyptic New York.

No one on Earth thought that a remake of Dawn of the Dead would work. It's just one of those seminal horror films that you do not touch. However, Zack Snyder dared to touch it, and it was actually pretty good. It's vastly different than its predecessor, favoring high-octane action and bombast over anything else. But, it does what it does exceptionally well, and it remains a very well made zombie film on its own terms.

Spain released one of the greatest zombie movies of all time with REC, which sees a news reporter trapped inside an apartment complex as its inhabitants turn into zombies. REC remains the greatest blending of zombie and found footage film despite George A. Romero's efforts with Diary of the Dead.

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The confined setting ensures a creepy, claustrophobic atmosphere, and the screeching zombies aresome of the scariest ever put to screen.

Zombie movies were big in the 2000s, and that meant zombie comedies. Enter Zombieland, which may have been the greatest zombie comedy produced in America. Zombieland is a well written and directed movie, but what makes it so good is the incredible chemistry between Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg, and Abigail Breslin. They undeniably carry the film, helping to create one of the funniest comedies of the 2000s.

Zombie movies were essentially dyingno pun intendedbefore Danny Boyle and 28 Days Later came along. This British film was a somber, introspective look at the post-apocalypse, as it followed a small band of survivors who bonded together and looked for sanctuary in an empty England. But, above all, the film was relentlessly terrifying, aided in no small part by the fast, screechy zombies. It revolutionized the genre, and many later zombie films followed in its footsteps.

Zombieland was a great comedy, but the 2000s zombie craze belonged to the British. 28 Days Later revolutionized the genre, and Shaun of the Dead served as one of the funniest comedies of the entire decade, helping to popularize the genre and launching the careers of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and Edgar Wright. It's an intelligent, tightly-written, and energetically-directed film, but what else do audiences expect with Edgar Wright?

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