It's called The Dead. You know you have the right one if it stars Rob Freeman and takes place in Africa. It won't change your life, but if you like zombie movies it's worth watching. Enjoy.

I don't see how an actor and a setting are good criteria when selecting movies to watch... but that's just me.

There seem to lots of zombie movies but most of them are just garbage, I've yet to see one which is as enjoyable as 48 Hours Later.

There are many crappy Zombie and Infected movies and few well made ones.
"The Dead" is a good one.
Other noteworthy non comedic/silly ones worth watching in no particular order are:

World War Z
Night of the Living Dead, both the original and remake
Dawn of the Dead, both the original and remake but the original is my favorite
Day of the Dead, both the original and remake, quite different stories
Land of the Dead
The Crazies, 2010 release
28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
Stake Land
Stake Land II
Train to Buson( English dubbed version available )
I am Legend( the remake of Omega Man with Will Smith )
Omega Man( classic with Charleton Heston that are sentient Infected )
The Last Man on Earth( classic 1964 with Vincent Price, technically Vampires but not in the standard sense)
Quarantine
Quarantine 2
All the Resident Evil Films
Rabid ( classic with Marilyn Chambers )
Maggie ( with Arnold Schwarzenegger, quality film but more of a drama )

I didn't include many Vampire or Post Apocalyptic Human confrontation movies or sentient Infected/Zombie films.

I am planning on watching a new movie "Army of the Dead" in theatres now, if anyone has watched it and has an opinion.

All of them? I thought the last one was pretty bad (Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)). It seemed to be mostly a showcase for 3D action.

I have hopes for Army of the Dead (2021), but we'll see.

I enjoyed Dead Snow, but as a fun zombie movie.

I remember 28 Days Later being intense.

As far as zombie movies go, depends what you are looking for in them.

Most zombie movies seem to be about survival, mostly. I recently saw "Maggie" (2015) which is a different kind of zombie movie, concentrating on drama and the social aspects of there being zombies (or a disease causing zombification among humans). How do people and the society act and react when someone gets the disease etc. All the more surprising seeing the old Arnold in one of the lead roles, and acting ok in it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1881002/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_17

I found it a refreshingly different movie from other zombie movies. It is like someone making a movie about Vietnam war that was actually a comedy... oh wait, they already did Tropic Thunder, if that counts...

About movies in general... I still don't understand superhero movies, why they are so wildly popular. Yesterday I saw e.g. Captain America: Civil War (I think it was my second time seeing it, but maybe I didn't watch it completely the first time...).

I have to agree with that world famous movie director, whatshisname, who said superhero movies are mere rollercoaster rides, not real movies. Well, naturally they are movies, but a rollercoaster ride depicts them so well, in that they just pretend to be exciting movies, but they really aren't.

Watching that movie yesterday, I wasn't at the edge of my seat at any point, excited to see what happens to someone... there is no excitement at all in battle scenes. You are not afraid of the survival of the protagonist(s), you know they will just keep going, the fights are mere fluff where heroes first knock down a couple dozen common henchmen with their left hand, and then trade some blows with their nemesis while sharing their life stories and "complicated history" together, without either one getting any injuries from the battle.

It is all so superficial. Even the stupid funeral scene near the beginning of the movie... my god, was I supposed to feel sorrow for that scene? It was all so badly acted and cliched. I have been in real funerals you know, like the ones of my own father and mother, and they were much better scripted and acted! I actually cried there, ffs!

And that (Captain America: Civil War), my friends, was the highest earning movie of 2016, allegedly. Trash, but polished trash. Quick, someone who just loves superhero movies, can you explain what is so great about them?

Yeah, it is all about superhero movies these days, it seems... Even the praised movies like the first WonderBraWoman movie, or any Batman movies, are yawning.

Not that I disagree with you about zombie movies, I think that genre has been rehashed enough (both in movies and games), but I'm sure it will be rehashed again sometime in the future.

Maybe that is exactly what we need: a superhero zombie movie. Captain America: The Zombie Holocaust.

Not a movie, but I'd also recommend Kingdom (2019) on Netflix. It's a South Korean TV series with action, historical drama, and zombies. It's about an illegitimate prince who stumbles on zombies plaguing his people while dealing with political conspiracies. Some of them have multiple layers to them. They can be comfort brain food for kids and overworked people because you can usually turn off your brain and enjoy the visual eye candy. But they can also be quite complex with apparent or hidden social commentary through plots and its characters. These films help inspire others to do good in our world and to help catalyze our pondering of the world.

If you're not convinced, I suggest checking out Wisecrack on Youtube. They do plenty of video essays that analyze these movies from literature, philosophical, and sociocultural standpoints that can help you better understand the subtext. Specifically, you can find an essay on Civil War here. However, whether that subtext fits the medium or were the intentions of the team behind the movies are up for debate.

It sure does sound a bit different from the rest of the zombie movies: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092843/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Maybe I am jaded, but the main premise, which apparently was that friends were fighting against each others, and the main protagonist and his nemesis being old friends (or something), seems so overused, already in the old 80s ninja movies. Watch Chuck Norris' movie "The Octagon" for an example, lots of other examples as well.

The social commentary etc. just seemed so straightforward, heavy-handed and dare I say... woke? Like the lecture that Tony Stark gives about how a promising young (afro-american, naturally; probably he was an overweight lesbian too in a thin athlete cis-male's body) student dying due to their actions in demolishing some building earlier, and everything being like "you are right, we are shit when we are trying to save the world, our bad, how could we?". I mean, come on! That student spent his whole summer break building homes for the poor with his bare hands in Sovlokskoskaja, Bulgaria! BUILDING HOMES FOR THE POOR! And now he is D-E-D dead, because you stupid asshats tried to save the world! (Ok ok I admit I may have partly misunderstood the meaning of that whole discussion, they had some big disagreement over whatever, I was half asleep at that point I think...). I guess it was related to the government getting involved and whether they should go with it, similarly like in Iron Man 2 (I think) where the government wanted the Iron Man suit...

Or when that Scarlet Witch character barely saves the life of Captain America (and dozens if not hundreds of civilians on the market) by hurling that blowing up baddie to midair... but causes a building to take major damage from the mid-air explosion, then she is like "Oh my god, what have I done with my powers?!?". YOU JUST SAVED A COUPLE HUNDRED LIVES IN THE MARKET! Ok, so you were not able to nullify the damage altogether and apparently there were still some casualties, but really'?!?

Anyway, I know opinions are like assholes, mine smells better. Maybe I am just dumb and jaded for not getting the point of these movies. Maybe I'll try those social commentary links that you offered and they open my eyes to their greatness.

I always felt it must be partly because I never really read any superhero comic books as a kid, so I am not that familiar with the characters, their history in the comic books etc. I have read one comic book as a kid where there was at least Captain America and Thor teamed up, I think I found it entertaining back then. Now seeing these new Captain America movies though, it appears to me CA has been toned down to a mere mortal who just has a cool shield and is athletic, while in that cartoon I seem to recall he was just as capable as Thor fighting the baddies, and Thor is a damn demigod for christ sake. So yeah, Captain America in movies seems to me weaker and more meh, less badass.

One superhero movie I kinda liked though was Watchmen. The characters were mostly quite complex (like the Comedian being kind of a dick in private life (to put it very mildly) etc.), there was a complicated plot or "plan" behind all of it where there was no right or wrong, and I liked the whole premise where one of the superheros (Dr Manhattan) was so overpowered that it kinda made the rest of the superheroes redundant, but his powers also made him gradually lose interest in mere mortals, as he was more like a god himself...

SPOILER ALERT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T SEEN THE WATCHMEN MOVIE!!!!









I think the ending overall was pretty brilliant, the superheroes saving the world, by becoming baddies in the eyes of the world? At least the ending took me by surprise, and was kinda thought-provoking.

A good and different (superhero) movie IMHO, not like the other superhero movies I've seen.

Lately i enjoyed Zombieland, Shaun of the Dead, The Dead Don't Die, Scouts vs Zombies...as they offer sort of an different approach (mostly comedy elements) of the zombie movies i grew up with (mostly bloody, splatter "brains!" etc...). For me still a little approach to this branch of movies is, that as a grown up i can watch this movies & don´t have to ask nobody for permission. This freedom is still very intriguing to me. In my childhood / youth those films were frowned upon by people i lived with as well "sh**". Nowadays they seem much more accepted and film makers experiment with the underlying motives. Which i like. I am hoping that games will do the same so that i do not have to always kill zombies (which bores me from time to time tbh)- something like "Brothers - A Tale of two sons"...but one of them is a zombie & both have to deal with the up-/downsides of the relationship while trying to solve "situations"...combined with a good storyline - why not? I would try it out.