Amazon Prime Video has a huge library of some of the best movies within a variety of genres, including zombie movies. Zombies movies are some of the best in the horror genre for their "end of the world" mantra, for the terrifyingly realistic undead.
In case a zombie movie fan doesn't know what to watch next, Amazon Prime Video has the goods. There are some mediocre zombie movies on Amazon Prime, but then there are those that are exciting and terrifying in their own way.
Exit Humanity: 5.3 (2011)
Exit Humanity is a movie that was released in 2011 and tells the story of Edward Young (Mark Gibson) who is reeling after the death of his wife and son during the American Civil War. A deadly zombie apocalypse breaks loose, and Young swears he'll get back at those who wronged him to avenge his family's death.
Although this is a zombie movie through and through, it also has to do with loss and trauma, which makes this a unique zombie movie to indulge in.
Daylight's End: 5.4 (2016)
A mysterious plague has taken over the planet and has taken most of humanity down with it. While most of the world has turned into blood-hungry zombies, a loner named Rourke (Johnny Strong) stumbles upon a group of survivors; he bands together with them to survive.
The survivors are trapped in a police station and know they have to move to stay alive and Rourke is the ticket to safety. Daylight's End stars Johnny Strong, and Lance Henriksen, known for his role in 1986's Aliens.
Aaah! Zombies!! (Wasting Away): 5.7 (2007)
This 2007 film is a horror-comedy that stars Legally Blonde's Matthew Davis, who accidentally turns into a zombie, along with his friends. After a military serum is transported because a soldier turned into a zombie, the military realizes they have to get rid of it. Along the way, a barrel falls off, contaminating food at a nearby bowling alley.
The four friends, including Mike (Davis), eat some ice cream and turn into zombies themselves; the only thing is, they don't understand they're the undead. From then on, the quartet lives their lives as zombies, realizing what is happening to them, and the rest of the world around them. The movie is silly and doesn't take itself seriously, which is sometimes why a movie is so good.
Cooties: 5.7 (2014)
When a mysterious virus hits an elementary school due to the contaminated cafeteria food, the kids start to turn into blood-thirsty monsters. A band of teachers joins together to stay alive and get out of the school.
Cooties is a horror-comedy that stars Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings), Rainn Wilson (The Office), Alison Pill (Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World), and Jack McBrayer (30 Rock), that is a good time with an awkward love triangle intermixed. If zombie fans like the movie Dead Rising, this is a great one to watch immediately.
Savageland: 6.0 (2015)
Savageland is a 2015 American horror film that takes on not only the found-footage genre but the zombie sub-genre, as well. Savageland could probably be considered an underrated found footage movie for its approach to the original storyline and the creatures wreaking havoc on a small town located on the US-Mexico border.
It all starts when a massacre hits the small town, and every citizen is found dead except for a photographer who is accused of murdering them all. When the accused's film is developed, the sheriff's department and the local newspaper realize something is very wrong with this situation. What makes Savageland so unique is how the found-footage angle makes the zombie creatures much more horrifying and the storyline much more intriguing.
Anna And The Apocalypse: 6.0 (2018)
The small town of Little Haven has been taken over by a zombie apocalypse, and a young woman named Anna (Ella Hunt) has to fight her way to safety. Her way of surviving, along with her friends, is breaking out in song and dance while the undead is all around them.
Because it's set around the Christmas holidays, the brain-hungry zombies are dressed to impress, which doesn't make the situation at hand any better. While Anna and her friends are trying to make it across town to safety, she realizes that being a teenager is just as hard.
White Zombie: 6.3 (1932)
Zombie movies came from somewhere, and Victor Halperin's White Zombie is often considered the very first zombie movie. It's best to start at the beginning and since 1932, White Zombie has remained a high-rated movie. The story is about a young woman who is transformed into a zombie at the hands of an evil man named "Murder Legendre" (Bela Lugosi).
When a man named Monsieur Beaumont (Robert Frazer) offers his plantation up for a young couple to marry at, he has much more insidious plans for them behind closed doors. Because Beaumont wants the young woman, Madeline Parker (Madge Bellamy) to himself, he enlists in the voodoo doctor to make her his own zombie slave. After he isn't satisfied with the outcome, he wants to change her back, which doesn't go well. This movie might've been released decades again, but it still has a great storyline today. In fact, if zombie fans enjoy The Walking Dead, White Zombie is a great movie to enjoy on a Friday night.
Afflicted: 6.3 (2013)
Afflicted came out in 2013 and has a much different take on the typical zombie flick, but turns out just as deadly. When two friends finally take that trip of a lifetime, things take a turn when one of them comes down with a mysterious infection. The affliction starts to take over the man's body, and because they're across the world in a different country, the race to figure out what's wrong and what happened to the man is prevalent before the disease completely takes over his humanity.
Afflicted is another underrated found-footage movie that takes a slightly different direction when it comes to the zombie/vampire genre, but it packs a punch nonetheless.
The Crazies: 6.5 (2010)
The Crazies is set in the quiet town of Ogden Marsh, Iowa that has been plagued with sudden illnesses and freak happenings. A sheriff named David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant) realizes there's something much darker in play after a set of deaths randomly start happening.
A toxin has been dumped into the local water source due to a plane that's crashed, and from then on, violent psychopaths take over the town, while Sheriff Dutton tries to keep his friends and family alive.
Overlord: 6.6 (2018)
In 2018, director Julius Avery came out with a different spin on the zombie genre and threw a new horror named Overlord back to the eve of D-Day. When Private Ed Boyce (Jovan Adedo) is among several men on a plane all set to destroy a radio tower in their enemy's territory, the plane is shot down before they can complete the mission. Being one of the only survivors, Boyce must try to stay alive, and figure out where to go next.
What Boyce and a handful of other survivors find is something much darker than they could have ever imagined. Nazis were conducting horrendous experiments on their soldiers, and they definitely are no longer human. Their plan was to create an army of mutated and invincible soldiers, but before they can complete their mission, Boyce and the rest of his group mess up their plans and ultimately end the potential outbreak in Overlord. Without a doubt, Overlord is original, scary, and one of the best horror movies of 2018 that zombie fans may have overlooked.