Top 12 Classic Zombie Movies – Watch now
White Zombie
Director: Victor Halperin
Starring: Bela Lugosi
Jealous plantation owner engages Murder Legendre to bewitch the woman he loves. Can her fiance Neil rescue the White Zombie?
King of the Zombies
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Starring: Dick Purcell, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland
A megalomaniac doctor, some spies, 3 lost travellers and a bunch of Zombies. Thank goodness we have Mantan Moreland to keep our spirits up!
Classic Black and White Zombie Film. Features the talented Mantan Moreland.
Revenge of the Zombies
Director: Steve Sekely
Starring: John Carradine, Gale Storm
Based in an old mansion in the middle of a Louisiana swamp, Dr Max Altermann is building a Nazi Zombie Army for the Third Reich. Shortly after his wife, Lila, becomes his latest victim, her brother Scott Warrington and his hired detective Larry Adams arrive at the mansion.
Mantan Moreland makes a welcome re-appearance in this remake of the original King of the Zombies.
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Director: Ed Wood
Starring: Gregory Walcott, Bela Lugosi
Aliens plan to animate an army of dead humans to march on the capitals on the world in retribution for their stupidity. An intriguing tale of flying saucers, zombies and cardboard tombstones brought to you from the incomparable Ed Wood. With appearances from Bela Lugosi, Vampira and the accolade of 2 golden turkey awards, this film is a must watch.
Cast:
Gregory Walcott
Bela Lugosi
Maila Nurmi
Tor Johnson
Lyle Talbot
Night of the Living Dead
Director: George A Romero
Starring: Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Karl Hardman
The first in George A Romero’s “Dead” movies, this cult movie inspired and influenced every other zombie movie since.
A desperate group of survivors take refuge in an isolated house to get away from the living dead who surround them.
Dead Men Walk
Director: Sam Newfield
Starring: George Zucco, Mary Carlisle, Nedrick Young
and the incomparable Dwight Frye as Zolarr
An evil twin returns from the grave to torment his twin brother and wreak havoc on the villagers.
Haunted House
Director: Walt Disney
Starring: Mickey Mouse
With borrowed footage from that other Disney classic, The Skeleton Dance, The Haunted house is Mickey’s first encounter of the horror kind.
On a stormy night, Mickey takes refuge in a house. When the door becomes locked and Mickey can’t get out, the ghostly goings on force Mickey to play music.
Voodoo Man
Director: William Beaudine
Starring: Bela Lugosi
Voodoo Man relates the story of Dr Richard Marlowe (Bela Lugosi) who is endeavouring to transfer the essence of young women to his long dead wife through Voodoo. He is aided by Nicholas (George Zucco) and Toby (John Carradine).
Nicholas runs a filling station out in the sticks, while Toby helps take care of the zombie women and plays the bongos during voodoo ceremonies.
The hero of the hour is a Hollywood screenwriter called Ralph who endeavours to rescue the zombie women and capture this inpirational tale in a blockbuster Hollywood movie called “Voodoo Man”.
Cast:
Bela Lugosi as Dr. Marlowe
John Carradine as Toby
George Zucco as Nicholas
Wanda McKay as Betty
Louise Currie as Sally
Michael Ames as Ralph
The Living Ghost
Director: William Beaudine
Starring: James Dunn, Joan Woodbury, Paul McVey
Former private eye, Nick Trayne, comes out of retirement in order to find missing banker Walter Craig. A knife, a body and a newly zombified Walter are all it takes for everyone to assume that the wealthy banker is the murderer. Nick Trayne is not convinced.
Valley of the Zombies
Director: Philip Ford
Starring: Robert Livingston, Adrian Booth
Valley of the Zombies is a 1946 American horror film written by Dorrell McGowan and Stuart E. McGowan. It tells the tale of Ormand Murks (Ian Keith), who has recently been brought back from the dead. Murks is scouring the city for human blood, predominantly from his old enemies. This draws the attention of police lieutenant Blair (Thomas E Jackson). Doctor Terry Evans (Robert Livingston) decides to track down Murks to stop his murder spree.
The cast:
Dr Terry Evans ~ Robert Livingston
Susan Drake ~ Adrian Booth
Ormand Murks ~ an Keith
Blair ~ Thomas E. Jackson
Dr Rufus Maynard ~ Charles Trowbridge
Fred Mays ~ Earle Hodgins
Hendricks ~ LeRoy Mason
Tiny ~ William Haade
Dr. Lucifer Garland ~ Wilton Graff
The Vampire Bat
Director: Lionel Atwill
When the villagers of Kleinschloss start dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism. However, police inspector Karl Brettschneider remains skeptical.
Cast:
Lionel Atwill as Dr. Otto von Niemann
Fay Wray as Ruth Bertin
Melvyn Douglas as Karl Brettschneider
Maude Eburne as Gussie Schnappmann
George E. Stone as Kringen
Dwight Frye as Hermann Gleib
Robert Frazer as Emil Borst
Revolt of the Zombies
Director Victor Halperin
Published: Edward Halperin Productions in 1936
‘Revolt of the Zombies‘ is set during World War I. A “French Cambodian” contingent had heard strange stories about zombification–supposedly Angkor Wat was built by utilizing zombies, and there are tales of zombie armies easily overcoming foes.
Armand Louque (Dean Jagger) brings back a priest who supposedly knows the secret of zombification, but he won’t talk. So Louque and an international military contingent head to Angkor Wat on an archaeological expedition designed to discover the secret of zombification and destroy the information before zombies have a chance to “wipe out the white race”.