To celebrate the 50th anniversary of zombie classic Night of the Living Dead, Fandango’s on-demand video service FandangoNow Oct. 1 launched a list of the 25 “freshest” zombie movies with the George Romero film taking the top spot.
The list was curated by movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on the movies’Tomatometer scores. (A movie gets a “Fresh” designation when at least 60% of its critic reviews are positive.)
On Oct. 1 only, fans can rent any (or all) of the zombie movies on the list at a discounted rate of $1 off the regular price when using the promo code LIVINGDEAD50 at checkout.
“Zombies owe their popularity today to a little low-budget film from Pittsburgh released 50 years ago today, and Night of the Living Dead has lost none of its power to shock, stun and terrify,” said Fandango managing editor Erik Davis. “With its stark, in-your-face black-and-white imagery of the dead coming back to flesh-eating life, director George Romero’s film made it clear to 1968 audiences that visceral horror no longer took the shape of Gothic frights like werewolves and vampires. It now looks just like your friends and neighbors, and there is no escape. To celebrate the ‘Dead’s 50th-anniversary FandangoNOW is hosting the top 25 zombie movies that you can view at home today, starting of course with the film that started it all.”
The list with Tomatometer scores is:
| Night of Living Dead (1968) | 97% |
| Train To Busan | 96% |
| Dawn of the Dead (1978) | 93% |
| Shaun of the Dead | 92% |
| I Walked with a Zombie | 92% |
| The Cabin in the Woods | 91% |
| Return of the Living Dead | 91% |
| Zombieland | 90% |
| ParaNorman | 89% |
| White Zombie | 89% |
| [Rec] | 88% |
| 28 Days Later | 87% |
| Dead Alive | 86% |
| Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead | 83% |
| The Plague of the Zombies | 80% |
| Warm Bodies | 80% |
| Dawn of the Dead (2004) | 75% |
| Planet Terror | 74% |
| Land of The Dead | 73% |
| The Crazies | 71% |
| 28 Weeks Later | 71% |
| Dead Snow | 68% |
| Night of the Living Dead (1990) | 68% |
| World War Z | 66% |
| The Serpent and the Rainbow | 61% |
