Movie recommendation request: (Zombie) outbreak movies

[Remus]

[Rec], or if you want the US remake, Quarantine. It's all about an outbreak just starting in an apartment slum. It's found footage when the genre was in its prime but that doesn't detract terribly from the film itself.

 

[the December King]

Great lists so far... I've got nothing to add at this point, except for an appreciation of the zombie film genre. Pontypool was really interesting, to be sure. Dawn of the Dead remake was a great film, I get the sense that it helped inspire at least the visuals, if not the graphic novels for Walking Dead (or, if my sequence of events is off here, that there was some sort of symathetic relationship between the projects conceptions).

I love The Thing, but it doesn't really feel like a zombie film, except in the basest of psychological approaches (the stranger beside you, etc.)

 

[FPLOON]

Uh... The only one I can think of (that hasn't been mentioned yet) is 2004's They Came Back aka Les Revenants or The Returned... Honestly, I would go with the TV adaptation (not the American version) because it delves further into this particular zombie thriller, but that's just me...

Other than that, if we're [still] suggesting show-based series (with an outbreak-like situation), then The Straindoes fit that bill...

 

[WolfThomas]

A kind of obscure one that's still on (us) Netflix, "Pontypool." It's everything that's the typical "spam in a can" zombie movie, with classic "shambling" zombies, but with some cool twists. Including a "viral" transmission type that is unique to that story and some very vague multiple worlds leanings (until the post-credits sequence.)

I was bone-tired when I first watched Pontypool. I work 3rd shift, and had stayed up helping one friend move nearly all day. Then after only getting an hour of sleep or so a friend needed me to pick him up from work... at a bar so I had to stay up till 2 a.m. It had been over 24 hours since I'd had any real sleep. When we got back my bartender friend kicked on Netflix and I resolved to hang out for a while figuring he was just going to kick on a 30 Rock or an Archer or something and I could be hospitable for a half hour. Instead he started Pontypool which he had heard was good.

And we were glued to it. Every second. Until even the post credit sequence was over.

Yeah great film. I have to watch it again.