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Sink Your Teeth Into the 28 Best Zombie Movies
The zombie is one of the most oversaturated horror symbols of our time, but our appetite for it is seemingly endless.
REC is nerve-wracking; it makes full use of the fact that there’s no way out of the cramped corridors and sweaty rooms, thus reducing “fight or flight” to just “fight.” And while it starts to get a little liberally cinematic with its camera work toward the end, for the most part, it maintains its gut-covered cinema-verité stylings. It’s got a cute Bill Murray–playing-himself cameo and its tagline was “NUT UP OR SHUT UP.” But at only 88 minutes and with an amazingly fun core cast, Zombieland manages to outdo overstuffed zombie outings from around the same time (see: World War Z and the enthusiastically preposterous Resident Evil series). But The Wailing, about a mysterious illness/series of possessions in a small Korean town, manages to beat back against the tide of its own running time with its inexorable atmosphere and a story that shifts between cultural fears, familial drama, supernatural delirium, and moments of jarring gruesomeness.
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