#26: The Resurrected Dr. Carl Hill
From: Re-Animator (Film)
Why He Rules: What is this undead John Kerry look-alike doing on our list of awesome zombies you ask? The answer is simple: even after his head was lopped off in the splatter classic Re-Animator, he still was able to make the most out of a butt-naked woman lying in front of him by mustering up the mojo to engage in one of the most infamously raunchy sex acts in movie history. How filthy is it? Well, I can't even explain it in this feature without getting fired. Just go rent it, but make sure the kiddies aren't around when you watch it.
#25: Julie Walker
From: Return of the Living Dead III (Film)
Why She Rules: Return of the Living Dead is regarded by some horror fans as the most well made zombie film of all time. Return of the Living Dead II is regarded as one of the most mind-blowingly shitty sequels of all time. And, while the third Return of the Living Dead III wasn't great by any means, it still had Julie Walker--the undead girl that we consider the sexiest zombie ever in a movie. Even with all those shards of glass jutting out of her flesh, we still find her hot.
#24: Zombie Liu Kang
From: Mortal Kombat Armageddon (Video Game)
Why He Rules: In Mortal Kombat Deception, the bicycle kicking Chinese martial artist Liu Kang is slain by Shang Tsung, and in the sequel Mortal Kombat Armageddon, Liu returns as a discolored zombie with a broken neck. Zombie Liu Kang proves that if a character has been around in every game for 16 years and fans are getting sick of them, bringing him back in zombie form is a nice way to make them interesting once more.
#23: Hare Krishna Zombie
From:Dawn of the Dead (Film)
Why He Rules: Hare Krishna people have a lot of positive beliefs, but the member of their religion that joins the mob of the living dead in the mall from Dawn of the Dead is testimony to the fact that it doesn't matter if you're Adolf Hitler or Mother Teresa, once you become a zombie, you have just as much disregard for human life than the next zombie.
#22: Biker Zombie
From:Dead Heat (Film)
Why He Rules: This bloated zombie emerges in the relatively unknown but highly recommended Dead Heat (which is best described as Lethal Weapon meets Night of the Living Dead) in a short fight scene. This dude has to be one of the most monstrous movie zombies that can walk on two legs. Just look at that stitched together face and tell us it doesn't make you shudder!
#21: Clairvius Narcisse
From:Real Life
Why He Rules: As far as anyone in Haiti could tell, Clairvius Narcisse was a dead man when he was buried in 1962. What they didn't know is that he was actually poisoned with several different toxic substances specially brewed by a bokor sorcerer to make him appear to be dead. After being exhumed, Clairvius worked for the next couple of years as a slave for the bokor on a sugar plantation in his zombie state. Even though some people dispute the validity of Mr. Narcisse's case, this is as close to a true story of a human zombie there is.
#20: Stubbs
From:Stubbs the Zombie in "Rebel Without a Pulse" (Video Game)
Why He Rules: Stubbs is an undead travelling salesman you play as in this refreshingly original horror video game, converting other bodies for your army of the undead. The coolest thing about Stubbs is the variety of killer ways you could attack enemies in the game, such as blasting them with your unholy flatulence, throwing your explosive pancreas at them, and even pelting them with your severed body parts. Stubbs is definitely one of the most iconic video game zombies ever, even though the game wasn't a huge hit.
#19: Big Daddy
From: Land of the Dead (Film)
Why He Rules: What's a Romero zombie flick without iconic zombies? While the undead gas station attendant Big Daddy is certainly no Bub, he's still pretty badass in Land of the Dead when he uses his superior zombie intelligence to douse Dennis Hopper's character in gasoline and set him ablaze.
#18: Half-Zombie Half-Motorcycle Freak
From: Cemetery Man (Film)
Why He Rules: In the lesser known horror comedy Cemetery Man, a motorcyclist is crushed by an onrushing bus, reducing him and his bike to a mangled pile of metal and shattered body parts. And when he returns from death as a zombie, he comes back as a half-man half-motorcycle, flesh fused to steel in a gruesome fashion. But despite his gnarled appearance, his living girlfriend still wants his undead meat sword.
#17: Trash
From: Return of the Living Dead (Film)
Why She Rules: This pink haired punk rock chick runs around nude for almost the entire movie, and after getting tackled by a group of excited zombies in the cemetery, she spends the remainder of the film as a zombie... but she's still completely naked. She's the classic stereotype of that kinky goth girl with problems from high school who you wanted to bone even though she was totally fucking nuts.
#16: Cemetery Zombie
From: Night of the Living Dead (Film)
Why He Rules: For many people who have never seen some of the earliest zombie films ever made such as White Zombie, the very first zombie that appears on screen in Romero's black and white Night of the Living Dead was the first zombie they've ever been exposed to. In this opening scene in the cemetery, this zombie struggles with Johnny and eventually causes him to do a face plant into a tombstone. Ouch!
#15: Resident Evil Zombie
From: Resident Evil (Video Game)
Why He Rules: The first time players encounter a zombie (which is chewing on the remains of a slaughtered individual in the mansion) in the original Resident Evil is a genuinely chilling moment. At the time of the game's release, no other game before it had managed to frighten the hell out of gamers, and this first taste of Resident Evil's walking dead is etched in the mind of many gamers including us.
#14: Nathan Grandham
From: Creepshow (Film)
Why He Rules: As campy as George A. Romero and Steven King's collaborative effort Creepshow is, there's something utterly disturbing about a vengeful elderly zombie that wants nothing more than to murder his daughter, the whole time shrieking "where's my cake!"
#13: Morbidly Obese Zombie
From: Dawn of the Dead - 2004 (Film)
Why She Rules: It's not because we here at OMGHorror hate fat people that we find this resurrected fatty so unbelievably frightening. Okay, maybe it is, but c'mon look at this disgusting bitch--we haven't seen a body that has made us want to vomit all over ourselves since that one decomposing granny from The Shining.
#12: Fly Boy
From: Dawn of the Dead (Film)
Why He Rules: Not since Alfred Hitchcock's timeless Psycho have audiences witnessed in horror as a film's central character gets killed. But unlike Psycho, "Fly Boy" in the original Dawn of the Dead comes back to life... only to be shot in the face to put him down for good.
#11: Nazi Zombie
From: Shock Waves (Film)
Why He Rules: There's only one thing more repugnant than a walking cadaver that eats human flesh and that's one that sieg heils as they engage in their normal zombie activities. In the uber cult horror flick Shock Waves, Waffen SS Nazi soldiers emerge from the sea, as a soggy horde of fascists hungry for human flesh.
#10: Dr. Tongue
From: Day of the Dead (Film)
Why He Rules: This jawless living dead man appears at the very beginning of Day of the Dead with his tongue flopping out of his destroyed mouth, setting the tone for just how grisly the rest of the film is in case anyone wants to back out. Although Dr. Tongue's time in the spotlight is brief, he's still an unforgettable zombie due to his truly monstrous appearance.
#9: Zombie Elephant
From: Resident Evil Oubreak File #2 (Video Game)
Why It Rules: Sure, the Resident Evil franchise has had its fair share of undead beasts from Doberman pinchers, to crows, to lions, to moths. But the Zombie Elephant from Resident Evil Outbreak File #2 could stomp these creatures into mush with ease. The destruction living Elephants are capable of is intimidating enough and ones that have undergone the zombification process are shit-your-pants scary.
#8: Zombie Jay Leno
From: Dawn of the Dead - 2004 (Film)
Why He Rules: In the well-received 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead, Ving Rhames' character and his sniper buddy play a game where Ving writes down the name of a celebrity that one of the zombies in the crowd below them looks like, and the marksman blasts them in the head with a sniper round. One of these unsuspecting zombies that gets a bullet in the brain looks like overrated late night comedian Jay Leno, something that many who have suffered through the real Jay's jokes wish could happen to the man himself.
#7: Undead Ed
From: Shaun of the Dead (Film)
Why He Rules: We don't think that most people will argue with us when we say that Shaun's best bud Ed is the funniest character in Shaun of the Dead. And at the end of the film, even after he's turned into a zombie, we're still laughing as we see him playing PlayStation 2 and drooling all over himself (a scene blatantly ripped off in the overhyped tub of shite Fido which turned SotD's idea of keeping a zombie as a pet into a 2 hour movie).
#6: Zombie Michael Jackson
From: Thriller (Music Video)
Why He Rules: Many things can be said about Michael Jackson. He's made himself into abomination of flesh due to excessive plastic surgery. He talks like he's three years old. He "sleeps" with children. But damn, Michael sure can dance like a motherfucker! And in the Thriller music video directed by the great John Landis (An American Werewolf in London), Michael gives one of his most memorable dance performances as a zombie (and briefly as a werewolf). Sadly, Michael somehow looks less bizarre as a member of the living dead in the music video than he does nowadays.
#5: Shark Fighting Zombie
From: Zombie/Zombi 2 (Film)
Why He Rules: After a female scuba diver in Zombie becomes paralyzed with fright when she's face to face with a massive shark, a zombie swims by to show who the more fearsome man killer is. The zombie then wrestles with the shark and rips off one of its fins in this must-see scene.
#4: Baby Selwyn
From: Dead Alive (Film)
Why He Rules: Peter Jackson's gore feast Dead Alive is bursting at the seams with the undead, but one zombie stands out above all others in the film, Baby Selwyn. In one beyond ridiculous scene, this zombie baby runs around a neighborhood park as the main character chases him around and repeatedly slugs him in the face in front of some poor old ladies. Despite the horrors Baby Selwyn is exposed to throughout the movie, he never stops that maniacal giggle of his, and we love him for that.
#3: Conquistador Zombie
From: Zombie/Zombi 2 (Film)
Why He Rules: While the iconic Conquistador zombie from Italian master of gore Lucio Fulci's Zombie (AKA Zombi 2) only appeared in the film for one scene, in the few minutes we see him, he viciously tears into the arteries of a woman with his teeth as blood spurts out of the nasty hole in her neck. The Conquistador zombie was so cool that he is even used on most promotional materials for the movie.
#2: Tarman
From: Return of the Living Dead (Film)
Why He Rules: From his skeletal frame to his deep grating voice when he gargles out "Brains!," the slime-covered Tarman from Return of the Living Dead is not your average undead imbecile. He's easily one of the most menacing (and strangest looking) zombies ever. Kickass Tarman moment: when he and his rotten teeth crunch into the skull of chain-clad, heavily pierced punk rocker who screams in agony as a good chunk of meat is missing from his head.
#1: Bub
From: Day of the Dead (Film)
Why He Rules: If you've seen Day of the Dead, George A. Romero's criminally underrated follow-up to his acclaimed horror masterpiece Dawn of the Dead, then there's a decent chance you already know why we are awarding Bub the zombie the honor of the greatest zombie who has ever lived... er, unlived. In the film, after being captured, experimented on, and fed via a bucket full of gooey human innards, Bub reveals through his actions that, while he was indeed a zombie, he wasn't so different from you or me. On top of being one of the most intelligent flesh-eaters we've ever seen, Bub also scores extra points by pumping several rounds into the psychotic Captain Rhodes who is a total ass muppet throughout the entire film.
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