15 Best Zombie Movies On Amazon Prime

It seems as though ever since zombies shuffled onto the horror film scene in George A. Romero's "Night of the Living Dead," their popularity has exploded like so many walker guts in an average "The Walking Dead" episode. And fortunately for zombie aficionados with Amazon Prime Video, the service has you covered with globs of free viscera included in your Prime subscription.

As with all genres, not all zombie films are created equal, so we're here to help you sort the living dead-end from the undead-in-the-water. Whether you're in the mood for philosophical meditations on existence, a little zombie comedy, or just a bunch of brains splattering everywhere, Amazon Prime Video has some great flicks to choose from.

Updated on December 31, 2021: Like all streaming services, Amazon Prime changes its selections to give subscribers more choices, so we'll keep this list updated with what's available to view. Watch these zombie delights and then check back every month for new zombies that want to be your friends — and eat your brains.

While not strictly a zombie film per se, South Korea's "The Wailing" uses zombie tropes and a zombie-like infection in its dread-filled story of a small village that goes to hell in a handbasket after the arrival of a mysterious stranger. Soon after the stranger shows up, an infection breaks out, and villagers start murdering each other. It's up to Sgt. Jeon Jong-gu to figure out what's happening and stop it, especially after his young daughter, Hyo-jin becomes infected. Doing so involves talk of ghosts, exorcism, and other supernatural horrors, including a terrifying undead attack. It's a kitchen sink of monstrosities and a long runtime, but it's very much worth the journey to find out what's gone wrong in "The Wailing."

• Starring: Kwak Do-won, Jun Kunimura, Hwang Jung-min
• Director: Na Hong-jin
• Year: 2016
• Runtime: 156 minutes
• Rating: 16+
• Rotten Tomatoes Score: 99%

What do you do if you find a zombie whose bite reinvigorates senior citizens? If you're the struggling, ne'er-do-well Park family, you monetize that young man's misfortune because what could possibly go wrong? A lot, it turns out, in this funny but affecting take on the zombie mythos. Director Lee Min-jae mines family dysfunction and the perils of capitalism and science gone amok as Jjong-bi — the name given to the young man by his new "bosses" — is exploited, first by the scientists whose experiments zombify him and then the Parks. Also known as "The Odd Family: Zombie on Sale," the film gets points for being both a social satire and a loving look at a family that will do anything for each other, regardless of how bizarre things get.

• Starring: Jeong Jae-yeong, Kim Nam-gil, Uhm Ji-won
• Director: Lee Min-jae
• Year: 2019
• Runtime: 111 minutes
• Rating: 18+
• Rotten Tomatoes Score: 89%

"Dead and Buried" is a classic horror film that mashes up "White Zombie"-style undead and weird small towns. It also has special effects by the late FX master Stan Winston. Tourists start winding up murdered in quaint Potters Bluff, and its sheriff, Dan Gillis, wants to find out why. Trouble is, the people don't stay dead. Jack Albertson, in what would be his final film, plays Dobbs the coroner, who may or may not be connected to the strange events happening in town. The film has some excellent twists we won't reveal. Suffice to say, nothing on the surface is what it seems.

• Starring: James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson
• Director: Gary Sherman
• Year: 1981
• Runtime: 93 minutes
• Rating: R
• Rotten Tomatoes Score: 76%

In "Cockneys vs. Zombies," a group of East Enders have to fight off a zombie invasion. The British comedy includes bank robbers with hearts of gold and a group of retirement home residents besieged by a horde. It all starts when a couple of builders blunder into a catacomb and get attacked by ancient zombies, and as we know, that always leads to even more zombies. Meanwhile, a pair of brothers, including Harry Treadaway from "Mr. Mercedes," decide to rob a bank to save the retirement home where their grandfather lives. The opening credits are filled with jazzy graphics and a poppy song that lets you know you're in for a rollicking time, and the first scene lets you know it's also going to be gory as all get-out.

• Starring: Michelle Ryan, Georgia King, Harry Treadaway
• Director: Matthias Hoene
• Year: 2012
• Runtime: 88 minutes
• Rating: 16+
• Rotten Tomatoes Score: 76%

Moody and tragic, the French film "Zombi Child" takes zombies back to their roots in Haiti. In 1962, a Haitian man dies and is turned into a zombie who's forced into slavery. Several decades later, a young teen, Fanny, at an all-girls school runs her own literary society. She lets a newcomer, Mélissa, join the group, and soon, the Haitian Mélissa reveals her aunt is a practitioner of voodoo. There's a connection between the two stories, as well as self-awareness on the part of director Bertrand Bonello that he's telling a Haitian story from an outsider's perspective. The film is a slow burn, but the resulting horror of the ending lands hard.

• Starring: Louise Labeque, Wislanda Louimat, Katiana Milfort
• Director: Bertrand Bonello
• Year: 2019
• Runtime: 103 minutes
• Rating: NR
• Rotten Tomatoes Score: 86%

Although "Quarantine 2: Terminal" is a sequel to 2008's "Quarantine," it goes off entirely in its own direction, away from the Spanish "Rec" series that was the basis of the first film. Rats are the culprit of spreading a zombie virus to humans in the film, this time to the passengers of a plane en route to Kansas City. The plane makes an emergency landing, and the passengers find out they're barred from entering the terminal. It then becomes a fight for survival as soldiers and the CDC try to corral the passengers to contain the outbreak. Interestingly, animals besides rats carry the zombie plague, and the virus makes the infected behave in rat-like ways. It's similar to the zombie flick "Mulberry Street," but "Quarantine 2" carries its own devious surprises.

• Starring: George Back, Bre Blair, Lynn Cole
• Director: John Pogue
• Year: 2011
• Runtime: 86 minutes
• Rating: R
• Rotten Tomatoes Score: 75%

While visiting a cemetery, Barbra and her brother, Johnny, are attacked by a strange, lumbering figure. Johnny is killed, and Barbra ends up at a farmhouse where others are already hiding. The resourcefulness of one of their number, the heroic Ben, manages to keep the group safe — for a while. Tensions soon rise as the house is besieged by undead ghouls, hungry for brains. This low-budget shocker's atmosphere of dread is oppressive and unrelenting — one of the major reasons why it's endured as a classic of the genre. Plus, it boasts intriguing subtext about the Vietnam War and American race relations.

• Starring: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman
• Director: George A. Romero
• Year: 1968
• Runtime: 96 minutes
• Rating: NR
• Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96%