The films

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Sugar Hill

Revenge via Haitian zombies. The best of the blaxploitation horror crossovers.

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Messiah of Evil

Made by the couple who then wrote American Graffiti. A nightmare that never explains itself.

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Night of the Seagulls

The Blind Dead ride out one last time. A quiet, sad closer to Spain's best monster series.

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The Ghost Galleon

The Blind Dead put to sea on a model boat in a visible fish tank. The runt of the four.

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The Living Dead Girl

Rollin's best late film. Melancholy where the Italians were loud.

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Burial Ground

Incoherent even by the standards of the cycle. The Peter subplot is unforgivable.

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Cannibal Apocalypse

Vietnam veterans as cannibals. Sillier and kinder than the jungle cycle.

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Nightmare City

Zombies that run and use guns, decades early. Incompetent in enjoyable ways.

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Return of the Evil Dead

Blind Dead again, this time besieging a whole village. The best of the four.

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Zombie Holocaust

Cannibals and zombies at once, reusing the Zombi 2 sets and cast.

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A Virgin Among the Living Dead

Franco at his dreamiest. Distributors added zombies later without telling him.

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Shock Waves

Underwater Nazi zombies rise off a tropical island. Peter Cushing, John Carradine, and real dread.

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Hell of the Living Dead

Bruno Mattei rips off Dawn of the Dead with a Goblin score he also stole. Gloriously shameless.

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The Grapes of Death

Rollin does an outbreak. A pesticide turns wine-country villagers into oozing killers.

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Tombs of the Blind Dead

Eyeless Templars on skeletal horses in slow motion. Best monster design of the 70s.

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Cemetery Man

A cemetery caretaker shoots the returning dead and falls in love repeatedly. Beautiful and deranged.

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Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

Spanish-Italian, shot in England, and much smarter than its stablemates.

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The Crazies

A military bioweapon drives a town homicidally insane. Romero on institutional failure, again.

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City of the Living Dead

The drill scene. Otherwise thin, but the atmosphere is thick.

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I Walked with a Zombie

Val Lewton doing Jane Eyre in the Caribbean. Beautiful and barely horror.

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The Beyond

Makes no sense whatsoever and is Fulci's best film. Dream logic, fully committed.

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The Return of the Living Dead

Punk soundtrack, running zombies, and the film that invented 'BRAINS'.

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White Zombie

Lugosi, Haitian folklore, and the first zombie film. No eating involved.

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Zombi 2

A zombie fights a shark. Fulci's splinter shot is still the worst thing here.

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Day of the Dead

The bleakest Romero. Bub is the only sympathetic character in it.

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Dawn of the Dead

A shopping mall, four survivors, and Savini's finest hour.

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Night of the Living Dead

Made for $114,000 in Pittsburgh. Invented the entire modern genre.