What are your favorite indie zombie films?

[DjfunkmasterG]

Now not many zed fans watch low budget indie zombie films, but if you do, out of the ones you have seen with a budget of less than $200,000 (so $0.00 to $200,000) what are your favorites. (Excluding Night of the Living Dead)

I ask because I want to know if there are any gems I may have missed, and to see how many people go after the low budget zombie films.

[darth los]

Now not many zed fans watch low budget indie zombie films, but if you do, out of the ones you have seen with a budget of less than $200,000 (so $0.00 to $200,000) what are your favorites. (Excluding Night of the Living Dead)

I ask because I want to know if there are any gems I may have missed, and to see how many people go after the low budget zombie films.

Before i make my decision, what was the deadlands budget?

[iluvc2h5oh]

The Stink of Flesh.

[EvilNed]

Now not many zed fans watch low budget indie zombie films, but if you do, out of the ones you have seen with a budget of less than $200,000 (so $0.00 to $200,000) what are your favorites. (Excluding Night of the Living Dead)

I ask because I want to know if there are any gems I may have missed, and to see how many people go after the low budget zombie films.

Uhm, aren't most zombiefilms indie productions? Land of the Dead and the Dawn remake weren't, and nor were the 28 films. But apart from that, I can't think of a zombiefilm that's NOT indie!

[Danny]

i really like undead, for a film done in premier pro on a laptop and a few digi cams its dern good and i loved it.

[clanglee]

I always liked "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things"

Old. . yes
Cheesy. . yes
Great though.

[fulci fan]

The Dead Hate the Living. (not sure about the budget)
Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
DeadLands (even though I worked on it)
Trapped (even though I worked on it)
House of the Dead 2 (not sure about the budget)

[Bub666]

I always liked "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things"

Old. . yes
Cheesy. . yes
Great though.

I agree.I love Children Shouldn't Play with Dead things,it's a great movie.It's probably going to be one of the next zombie movies that I'am going to buy.

[horrormad]

The Dead Hate the Living.

[MinionZombie]

I enjoyed Meat Market 1 & 2, even if the acting was as ropey as a school gymnasium.

Deadlands - I thought it rocked, and no doubt I'll think the same of the sequel. :)

Undead was awesome too, really enjoyable flick.

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I assume by "indie" you mean the really properly indie-indie flicks out there, stuff that doesn't necessarily get a very wide distribution, made on very low budgets and such.

[bassman]

Uhm, aren't most zombiefilms indie productions? Land of the Dead and the Dawn remake weren't, and nor were the 28 films. But apart from that, I can't think of a zombiefilm that's NOT indie!

That's what I was thinking.

So in that case my choices are Day and Dawn.:confused:

[DjfunkmasterG]

Before i make my decision, what was the deadlands budget?


$10,800.00


Believe it or not, I actually dug, Feeding The Masses. The corny commercials turned me off a bit, but take them out of the story and you have a nice sick and twisted little indie. My other favorite is a short by Scott Godberg titled The Day They Came Back. Most indie zombie films I can't even sit through, I turn them off after 15-20 minutes.

Too boost MZ's ego, my favorite zombie spoof is I AM ZOMBIE MAN. I always show that off to friends who I have over and some get it some don't... but I enjoy it and will continue to like it for years to come.

MZ, you need to do a remake and spiff it out with that DVX100B :p


Uhm, aren't most zombiefilms indie productions? Land of the Dead and the Dawn remake weren't, and nor were the 28 films. But apart from that, I can't think of a zombiefilm that's NOT indie!


Resident Evil films weren't indies, neither was the first Two Return of the Living Dead films. First was Orion Studios the other was Warner Brothers through their Lorimar Studio label.

[MoonSylver]

Believe it or not, I actually dug, Feeding The Masses. The corny commercials turned me off a bit, but take them out of the story and you have a nice sick and twisted little indie.

This is the first one I thought of. There are some really great ideas & scenes in that one. A little uneven, but I can more than forgive that. A low budget indie w/ some smarts that doesn't try to clone NOTLD for the upteenth time.

My other poster-boy for low budget indie zombie goodness has always been "The Dead Next Door". A lot of people have slammed that movie UNFAIRLY IMO. The seem to judge it by the standards of a Hollwood pic, & yes, by that standard it WILL fail. Keep in mind that:
A) These were amateur film makers.
B) the whole thing was shot on 16mm & done in the early 80's
C) it took them 2 YEARS of shooting evenings, weekends, whenever there was spare time, which shows a high level of dedication to me!

Now having said all that, yes it's a bit goofy & tongue-in-cheek, but to me this is a film made by fans of the genre (in the 80's mind you, before the big "zombie explosion" of recent years, when it really meant something!) & seems like a real labor of love to me. The amount of zombie goodness they managed to pull off with so little still impresses me to this day. I like to tell people it;s the greatest zombie movie ever filmed in Akron, Ohio.:lol:

As others said CSPWDT is a classic of the genre too.

[fulci fan]

I forgot about Dead Next Door.

[Bub666]

I love The Dead Next Door.That is my favorite indie zombie movie.

[MinionZombie]

*ego boosted* :D

Oh yeah - The Dead Next Door - got that on video and SE DVD, I really like that flick, it's pure indie zombie filmmaking right there. One of my all-time favourite indie zed flicks.

hehe, a remake of IAZM, with my hatred of remakes? :p

Mind you - I have had an idea for a 5 minute BenZee only short called "Living Impaired", which would be a film to go in-between IAZM2 and the as-yet unfilmed IAZM3. But that's the first mention of the idea I've ever made, so...

[DjfunkmasterG]

Get rolling on IAZM3... I am already scripting Deadlands 3.

[MinionZombie]

Get rolling on IAZM3... I am already scripting Deadlands 3.
The script is ready, the dialogue has been recorded, the props have been bought, certain footage for a sequence has been prepared, title tests have been conducted ... all before December 2007 ... since then it's been sitting, waiting for the man himself to be in a position to help (he's either moving into, or has moved into, a new gaff - where IAZM3 would be shot - but then it's also about him getting time off work to be able to help me out).

Don't worry - it WILL happen ... some day.

[DjfunkmasterG]

As the founding member of the IAZM fan club and an honorary member, I speak for all fans when I say it can't happen soon enough.


WE WANT ZOMBIE MAN!:D

[Dillinger]

Night Life with Scott Grimes and John Astin (Gomez Addams) is the best indie zombie movie in the world.

I don't give a **** what anyone says.

[clanglee]

I forgot about NightLife. I used to love that movie.

[MinionZombie]

As the founding member of the IAZM fan club and an honorary member, I speak for all fans when I say it can't happen soon enough.


WE WANT ZOMBIE MAN!:D
:D

It'll come ... it'll come ... IAZM3 is like tantric shagging at the moment I guess, but sooner or later there'll be an explosion. :p

[JasonEdw]

I changed my answer. The Sci-Fi channel zombie movies sucked ass, but this is so horrible it's a guilty pleasure!
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"BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, BELIEVE IN ROCK N ROLL!!!"

[sandrock74]

I just saw the movie Fido. Not sure if that counts as an indie movie? It was an amusing concept.

[Mike70]

Night Life with Scott Grimes and John Astin (Gomez Addams) is the best indie zombie movie in the world.

I don't give a **** what anyone says.

word. that was a great little film. i haven't seen it in eons, so i think i'll look into downloading it.

[MinionZombie]

I changed my answer. The Sci-Fi channel zombie movies sucked ass, but this is so horrible it's a guilty pleasure!
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"BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, BELIEVE IN ROCK N ROLL!!!"
I got that flick on DVD years ago when I was in second year uni or whatever, a fun flick, quite crazy...I must re-watch it something, but first I've gotta re-watch Tenebrae and Terror at the Opera, which have been sat there for quite a while - I HAVE watched them, but that was ages ago and only once, so they deserve being watched again you see.

[Bub666]

I changed my answer. The Sci-Fi channel zombie movies sucked ass, but this is so horrible it's a guilty pleasure!
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"BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, BELIEVE IN ROCK N ROLL!!!"

I've never seen this movie before.I might have to check it out sometime.It looks like it could be good.

[MoonSylver]

I changed my answer. The Sci-Fi channel zombie movies sucked ass, but this is so horrible it's a guilty pleasure!
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"BELIEVE IN YOURSELF, BELIEVE IN ROCK N ROLL!!!"

"Wild Zero" kicks mucho farkin' arse. Beware, though, it's VERY zany & weird & permeated with the strange Japanese sense of humor. There are some strange twists to be sure....:confused: But how can you NOT love a Japanese punk rock band a la the Ramones called Guitar Wolf starring as themselves fighting zombies? :lol:

[JasonEdw]

lol @ Wild Zero
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Awwww, zombie love in Wild Zero...
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