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    What are your favorite indie zombie films?

    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DjfunkmasterG View Post
    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?
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    Quote Originally Posted by DjfunkmasterG View Post
    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!

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    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.


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

    Old. . yes
    Cheesy. . yes
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    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)

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    Quote Originally Posted by clanglee View Post
    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.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EvilNed View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by darth los View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EvilNed View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DjfunkmasterG View Post
    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.

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

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    I forgot about Dead Next Door.

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

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