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The streamer features impressive remakes and international heavyweights. Don't get bit: Here are the 9 best zombie movies on Netflix

The streamer features impressive remakes and international heavyweights.

Don't get bit: Here are the 9 best zombie movies on Netflix

The streamer features impressive remakes and international heavyweights.

By Declan Gallagher

and Ilana Gordon

Ilana Gordon is an entertainment, culture, and comedy writer originally from Connecticut. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

EW's editorial guidelines

on October 23, 2025 5:40 a.m. ET

A zombie in 'Night of the Living Dead'; Cillian Murphy as Jim in '28 Days Later'; Bill Murray as Officer Cliff Robertson in 'The Dead Don't Die'. Credit:

Pictorial Parade/Getty; Peter Mountain/FOX; Abbot Genser/Focus Features

Ever since *The Walking Dead* premiered in 2010, zombies have been increasingly hard to avoid. Sure, they mainly restrict their activities to monster movies and horror series, but every now and again, a craving for brains causes the undead to venture into comedy, sci-fi, or romantic spaces. And if you're looking to spend quality time with your groaning, roaming buds, what better place to find them than on Netflix?

Zombie fans, rise up: Here are the 9 best undead movies to stream on Netflix.

28 Days Later (2003)

Cillian Murphy as Jim in '28 Days Later'.

Peter Mountain/Fox Searchlight

Twenty-eight days after the country is ravaged by a "rage virus," Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens in an abandoned hospital and stumbles into a postapocalyptic London. He soon joins up with fellow survivors Selena (Naomie Harris, electric in her film debut) as well as Frank (Brendan Gleeson) and his daughter Hannah (Megan Burns), with whom he prepares to navigate their dangerous new world.

One of the most influential horror movies of the 21st century, *28 Days Later *pre-figured the zombie craze kicked off by Zack Snyder's *Dawn of the Dead *remake and *The Walking Dead*. Danny Boyle's film is both a nightmarish vision of terror and a humanist drama. *—Declan Gallagher*

Where to watch *28 Days Later: *Netflix

**Director: **Danny Boyle

**Cast: **Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Megan Burns, Brendan Gleeson

28 Years Later (2025)

Ralph Fiennes as Dr. Ian Kelson in '28 Years Later'.

Miya Mizuno/Columbia

Danny Boyle's *28 Years Later *proves the franchise still has a lot to say. Released 18 years after *28 Weeks Later* (2007), the third installment in the postapocalyptic horror series is set on one of the British Isles, where a community has flourished, isolated from the more evolved versions of the infected that still terrorize the region. The film follows 12-year-old Spike (Alfie Williams), who must contend with his mother's growing illness and his father's inability to help her.

Writer Alex Garland and director Boyle reunite for the first time since *28 Days Later*, and their collaboration meditates on British culture and isolationism in a post-Brexit, COVID-impacted world. EW's writer calls the film "strange, unpredictable, gloriously revolting, darkly funny, and, when you least expect it, rather touching. It's a full package, and one of the richest horror movies in a very long time." Its own sequel, *28 Years Later: The Bone Temple*, will premiere in January 2026. *—Ilana Gordon*

Where to watch *28 Years Later*: Netflix

**EW grade: **A–

**Director: **Danny Boyle

**Cast: **Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Ralph Fiennes

#Alive (2020)

Yoo Ah-in as Oh Joon-woo in '#Alive'.

A man confined to his apartment during a zombie outbreak must figure out how to fend for himself with a lack of technology as the undead close in. This stylish genre mashup from South Korea is one of the country's best zombie exports (which is saying a lot). *—D.G.*

Where to watch #*Alive*: Netflix

**Director:** Cho Il-hyung

**Cast:** Yoo Ah-in, Park Shin-hye, Jeon Bae-soo

Cargo (2017)

Martin Freeman as Andy in 'Cargo'. Netflix

Martin Freeman gives "a performance in turns stoic and heartbreakingly desperate," says EW's critic, in this story about a father and his daughter in the Australian outback struggling for survival after a zombie outbreak. It's more of a character drama than a horror film, and admittedly is not a ton of fun, but it's a strong movie and a brave take on the zombie mythos. If you're a fan of the genre, *Cargo* will offer you something with more emotional weight than you're used to. *—D.G.*

Where to watch *Cargo*: Netflix

**EW grade:** B

**Directors:** Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke

**Cast:** Martin Freeman, Simone Landers, Anthony Hayes, Susie Porter

The Dead Don't Die (2019)

Adam Driver as Officer Ronald Peterson in 'The Dead Don't Die'.

Frederick Elmes/Focus Features

*The Dead Don't Die* defies explanation. A zombie movie that dabbles in absurdist comedy, sci-fi, and horror — and delights in breaking the fourth wall — the movie is never what you expect, but that doesn't detract from the viewing experience. As EW's critic notes, the film isn't particularly scary or gory, so if those are your zombie priorities, you've come to the wrong place. However, if your goal is to watch a "genre-tweaking experiment" laden with director Jim Jarmusch's favorite acting collaborators, then *The Dead Don't Die* is the deadpan zom-com for you. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *The Dead Don't Die*: Netflix

**Director: **Jim Jarmusch

**Cast: **Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, Iggy Pop, Sara Driver, RZA, Carol Kane, Austin Butler, Selena Gomez, Tom Waits

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Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Undead zombies in 'Night of the Living Dead'.

Pictorial Parade/Getty

George Romero thought *Night of the Living Dead* would be a "one-off," but his seminal zombie flick has persevered to fundamentally shape the modern horror landscape. The *Dead* franchise spawned numerous entries and imitators, most notably *Dawn of the Dead* and its well-regarded remake, and one of the most successful TV series of this century — *The Walking Dead* — wouldn't exist without this low-budget lark. Named one of EW's scariest movies of all time, Romero's slow-burn, documentary-like approach to the apocalypse is as mundane as it is violent; the end comes not with an explosion, but the slow encroachment of our dead loved ones. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Night of the Living Dead*: Netflix

**EW grade: **A+

**Director: **George Romero

**Cast: **Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Marilyn Eastman, Karl Hardman, Judith Ridley, Keith Wayne, Russell W. Streiner

Peninsula (2020)

Gang Dong-won as Jung Seok in 'Peninsula'. Everett Collection

The third installment in the *Train to Busan *film series, *Peninsula* is a standalone sequel released four years after the original movie. The action horror is set in South Korea amidst a zombie outbreak and follows a former soldier who returns to the tip of the Korean peninsula, which was quarantined years before, to retrieve a truck full of money.

Along the way, the soldier encounters the expected zombies, but is also forced to contend with a militia, a group of mobsters, and a family he abandoned in Busan four years earlier. The film was supposed to premiere at Cannes in 2020, but the Covid outbreak sent the project into quarantine until it was released to Shudder later that year. A heist movie with zombie antagonists, *Peninsula* is a genre-bending, action-packed ride. *—I.G.*

Where to watch* Peninsula*: Netflix

**Director: **Yeon Sang-ho

**Cast: **Gang Dong-won, Lee Jung-hyun, Kwon Hae-hyo

Train to Busan (2016)

Gong Yoo as Seok-Woo in 'Train to Busan'. Well Go USA

The only thing faster than a bullet train is the zombie infection overtaking its passengers. In the South Korean action horror film *Train to Busan*, Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) is a work-obsessed hedge fund manager and absentee father who agrees to accompany his young daughter Soo-an (Kim Su-an) on a bullet train from Seoul to Busan so she can spend her birthday with her mother. As the train departs, a sick woman begins transitioning into a zombie — and infecting everyone around her.

Now barreling full-speed across the country, Seok-woo, Soo-an, and the other passengers must find a way to survive the apocalyptic journey in order to find refuge in Busan. These zombies seem to have studied at the *World War Z* School of Swarming; they move at the same frenetic speed, infecting the entire country during the course of the movie's under two-hour run time. *—I.G.*

Where to watch *Train to Busan*: Netflix

**EW grade: **B+

**Director:** Yeon Sang-ho

**Cast:** Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, Kim Su-an, Choi Woo-shik, Ahn So-hee, Kim Eui-sung

Valley of the Dead (2022)

The cast of 'Valley of the Dead'.

Courtesy Netflix

*Valley of the Dead* has a similar premise to 2081's *Overlord*, but this film does it in a more balanced and assured fashion. Soldiers in the Spanish Civil War must battle zombies created in a Nazi experiment in this wildly frenetic, imaginatively gory actioner. *—D.G.*

Where to watch *Valley of the Dead*: Netflix

**Directors:** Javier Ruiz Caldera, Alberto de Toro

**Cast:** Aura Garrido, Asia Ortega, Miki Esparbé, Francisco Reyes

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