Thanks to Avery (my kaiju search-robot, who moonlights as a zombie search-robot), I have just updated the zombie film list. 2008 is looking scarily full of the carnivorous dead. Here is a list of zombie flicks appearing in 2008 and beyond — as it exists as of today:
Autumn (US-2008; dir. Steven Rumbelow)
The Book of Zombies (US-2008; dir. Scott Kragelund)
Colin (UK-2008; dir. Marc Price)
Dance of the Dead (US-2008; dir. Gregg Bishop)
Dead Air (US-2008; dir. Corbin Bernsen)
Descendants [aka Solos] (Chile-2008; dir. Jorge Olguin)
Diary of the Dead (US-2008; dir. George A. Romero)
G.P. 506 (South Korea-2008; dir. Su-Chang Kong)
The Happening (US/India-2008; dir. M. Night Shyamalan)
Night of the Templar (US-2008; dir. Paul Sampson)
Onechanbara (Japan-2008; dir Yohei Fukuda)
Porto dos Mortos [aka Beyond the Grave] (Brazil-2008; dir. Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro)
RetarDEAD (US-2008; dir. Dan West, Rick Popko)
Sabbath (US-2008; dir. William Victor Schotten)
Trapped (US-2008; dir. Gary Ugarek)
The Veil (UK-2008; dir. Richard Chance)
Ultimate Weapon High School Girl: Rika (Japan-2008; dir. Kenichi Fujiwara)
Walking With the Dead (Canada-2008; dir. Mickey Cardoni, Ionas von Zezschwitz)
Z13 The Zombie Within (US-2008?; dir. Voltron Jones)
Zero Dark Thirty (US-2008; dir. John Stalberg)
Zone of the Dead (Serbia-2008; dir. Milan Todorovic)
Zombies of the Night (UK-2008; dir. Stuart Brennan)
Zombie Wars (US-2008; dir. David A. Prior)
Zombi Kampung Pisang [lit. Zombies of Banana Village] (Malaysia-2008; dir. Mamat Khalid)
Zomthology (US-2008; dir. Elias Dancey, Robert Elkins, Chris Kiros, Gary Ugarek)
All is Lost: The Zombie Saga ([in production]; dir. Manuel Antonio Gomez)
Boiled Blood (Japan-[in production, 2009]; dir. Ryuhei Kitamura)
Cell (US-[in production, 2009]; dir. Eli Roth)
Dead Centre: Architecture and Apocalypse (UK-[in development], short)
Death Walks the Streets (US/Canada-[in production]; dir. James Zahn)
Dead West (US-[in production]; dir. Adam Green)
Doomed to Consume (US-[in production]; dir. Jason Stephenson)
Flesh Crawl (US-[in production]; dir. Dustin Bennett and Troy Collins)
Worst Case Scenario [aka. Woensdag Gehaktdag] (Netherlands-[in development]; dir. Richard Raaphorst)
Now, we’re used to zombies from the US, UK, Italy, Japan, Hong Kong and even Germany and Australia, but everyone’s making ’em now.
There’s Zone of the Dead from Serbia:
Then there’s Zombi Kampung Pisang [Zombies of Banana Village] from Malaysia.
Not to mention Porto dos Mortos from Brazil:
Chile has got in on the undead act with Descendants [Solos]:
Still unmade, but much anticipated is the political satire zombie film from the Netherlands, Worst Case Scenario:
Avery says I should add Pakistan’s first zombie flick: Zibahkhana [aka Hell’s Ground] (2007; dir. Omar Khan) for good measure:
And also the trailer for South Korea’s G.P. 506:
Looks like it’s a worldwide plague…
By the way, here is the poster for Ultimate Weapon High School Girl: Rika — another Japanese sword-wielding, zombie-slaying school girl flick:
Wow! This is becoming scarily like the 50’s, when we were innundated with all those radiactive monster/alien invader movies! Ahhhh, the 50’s. Remember ’em well. Is this some sort of cultural comment, perhaps? Any theories, Rob?
Zone of The Dead looks hilarious – sort of The Equaliser meets Return of the Living Dead. Descendants looks pretty harrowing, though.
Strikes me that we Aussies could put together a pretty damn good zombie flick if we put our minds to it – we’ve got the desolate locations, certainly the writing talent, and I’m sure we wouldn’t have too much trouble in drumming up extras. 🙂
How ’bout it, Rob? Fancy a credit as writer/director?
Autumn – David Moody’s book was so good I produced the authorised Audio Drama version over at http://www.darkerprojects.com/autumn.html
Looking forward to the film!
Hey, Chuck! I think the level of obsession toward the zombie phenomena far exceeds the 1950s nuclear paranoia genre, at least in raw numbers — especially if you add ghosts (which are related) to the mix. Definitely some sort of cultural comment, I’d say, though the exact nature of that commentary might be harder to determine. I keep working on it. I’ll let you know.
Meanwhile, while I love movies, I know enough about making them to not want to try!
Paul, I just went to your site and am downloading your ‘Autumn’ dramatisation as I type this. My iPod demands it!