Among his many laudable creative choices was the casting of Duane Jones as Ben, the filmвЂ™s noble but doomed hero. Romero was only 28 years old when he revolutionized cinematic horror with Night of the Living Dead. (The others were Dracula: Prince of Darkness Rasputin-The Mad Monk and The Reptile.) Filmed in crisp, vivid Technicolor, The Plague of the Zombies is a fascinating bridge between HollywoodвЂ™s voodoo-created zombies of the вЂ™30s and вЂ™40s and the gruesome re-imagining that would come two years later. The Plague of the Zombies was the third of four Hammer films shot in rapid succession in 1965, often using the same sets. The Plague Of The Zombies (1966)Д®nglandвЂ™s legendary Hammer Films is best known for its Dracula, Frankenstein, and Mummy movies featuring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, but its sole entry in the zombie film canon shouldnвЂ™t be overlooked. Of all the films produced by legendary horror maestro Val Lewton, I Walked With a Zombie was reportedly his personal favorite.

ItвЂ™s not HollywoodвЂ™s first zombie movie, but it was the first to take its subject matter seriously.

The script, co-written by The Wolf Man screenwriter Curt Siodmak, transports the story to a Caribbean island where voodoo and colonialism are inextricably woven into the cultural fabric. You wouldnвЂ™t guess it from the title, but director Jacques TourneurвЂ™s hauntingly beautiful follow-up to his 1942 surprise hit Cat People borrows heavily from Charlotte BrontГ«вЂ™s Jane Eyre. Regardless of what the filmmakers call it, if it looks like a zombie and acts like a zombie, itвЂ™s fair game. In the following entries youвЂ™ll find flesh-eating ghouls, Deadites, and вЂњconversationalistsвЂќ rubbing elbows with victims of demonic possession, black magic, and the rage virus. Note: For the purposes of this list, weвЂ™ve decided to be liberal in our interpretation of the word zombie. From grim anti-war allegories to lighthearted comedies, here are 25 of our favorite zombie movies from around the world. There are hundreds of zombie movies to choose from, and theyвЂ™re not necessarily confined to the horror genre. Thanks to constant reinvention, zombies have given form to our fears of other cultures, loss of agency, communism, atomic warfare, race relations and the civil rights movement, capitalism, mass contagions, the space race, and, most importantly, our bone-deep fear of one another. But maybe their mutability is the secret of their appeal.

TheyвЂ™ve changed dramatically since Bela Lugosi zombified his victims in 1932вЂ™s White Zombie, which was largely inspired by a 1929 book about Haitian folklore. ItвЂ™s been 89 years since zombies first shambled onto the big screen, and our fascination with them is still going strong.

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