Back from the dead with an insatiable appetite: Find the best zombie movies
If it’s flesh-eating zombies and the lumbering undead that you’re after, this is the JustWatch streaming guide for you. Discover the best, the worst, and the most forgotten movies of the Zombie genre.
Find the Zombie movies available on all streaming platforms, including the most popular, such as Netflix, Max, Paramount+, Prime Video, Apple TV+, Disney+, and more. Use the JustWatch release year filter to go back and discover vintage zombie classics such as 1968's Night of the Living Dead and White Zombie, considered to be the first ever zombie movie made in 1932. You can also use the age rating filter to discover family-friendly zombie movies such as ParaNorman and Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, or take it to the R-rated extreme for movies like Planet Terror and Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead.
Find the best zombie movies available to stream now
Based originally on Haitian folklore, a zombie is traditionally a corpse reanimated through a magical ritual. Modern interpretations of the phenomenon mostly imagine the revival of the dead occurring through scientific means, whether it be a virus or bacteria. These can be traced to the movies of George A. Ramos who after completing his outstanding Night of the Living Dead went on to make a slew of sequels, including Dawn of the Dead and Return of the Living Dead. Michael Jackson’s Thriller music video also did a lot to popularize the genre into the 1980s before a major zombie hiatus at the box office in the 90s, punctuated only by the cult classic Death Becomes Her and Peter Jackson’s splatter comedy Dead Alive, both of which foreshadow the zom-com craze of the early 2000s.
Dredged up from the dead, Zombie movies slumbered back into the zeitgeist with the brilliant British comedy Shaun of the Dead and other comedy zombie movies in this era such as Zombieland, Corpse Bride, and The Cabin In The Woods. The zombie trilogy that started with Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later and spawned the sequels 28 Weeks Later and 28 Years Later is one of the most well-regarded sets of zombie movies around.
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Train to Busan was one of the first non-English-language zombie movies to take the globe by storm. The South Korean masterpiece was followed up by One Cut of the Dead by Japanese filmmaker Shin’ichiro Ueda. The found footage Spanish zombie movie REC is another highly regarded movie in the genre. Lesser known and independent English-language zombie movies include The Autopsy of Jane Doe and The Dead Don’t Die. Honourable Australian zombie movie mentions include Lupita Nyong’o in Little Monsters, Undead, and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.
Discover other genres
Zombie movies have recently been overtaken by the popularity of zombie TV shows such as The Last of Us, Z Nation, and The Walking Dead. But the appeal of these ghoulish creatures remains strong in multiple genres, such as horror comedy movies, end-of-the-world movies, disaster movies and more.
