(selected by Billy Chainsaw, text by Stephen Daultrey - in no particular order)

DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978)

George A. Romero's shopping mall slaughterfest, sending up consumer culture, and inventing Hare Krishna zombies into the bargain. Genius!

DEAD SNOW (2009)

Holidaying medical students encounter an undead army of Nazi face-munchers in this Norwegian genre hat-tipper. Features the superb tagline 'Ein! Zwei! Die!'

ZOMBIE FLEASH EATERS (aka ZOMBI 2) (1979)

Italian fright king Lucio Fulci introduced ritual beliefs and pitted his diseased terror on a remote tropical island for added atmos. Extra memorable for its incredible zombie versus shark fight scene. Brilliant!

I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1943)

Black and white Voodoo eeriness from French Cat People director Jacques Tourneur, made with virtually zilcho budget. A nurse is sent to West Indies to look after a plantation manager's wife who looks suspiciously corpse-like...

RE-ANIMATOR (1985)

An oddball medical student becomes an 80's Frankenstein in Stuart Gordon's biological H.P. Lovecraft adaptation. The talking decapitated head scene is a genre classic.

VERSUS (2000)

Gory, camp, OTT action blow-out from Japan, featuring 666 portals, Yakuza killers and hordes of resurrected dead going ape. And lots of martial arts. POW!

(REC) (2007)

Spanish mockumentary about a film crew who get (mostly) gobbled up in a quarantined apartment block. Blair Witch-film style delivers genuine added fright.

THE PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES (1966)

Voodoo magic invades a quaint village in Cornwall in this overlooked Hammer Horror classic. Duff acting, but nasty clay-face make-up skills!

WHITE ZOMBIE (1932)

A glutton of ye olde scares as Bella Lugosi stars as zombie master 'Murder Legendre', who helps a jealous man to possess his unrequited love. Now you know where Rob Zombie nabbed his band name from!

PONTYPOOL (2008)

High-brow/low-budget zombie flick from Canada about a small town that's mysteriously hit by rampaging locals. A bit like the Resident Evil IV video game, then. Sort of...