9 Underrated Zombie Movies Horror Fans Need to Watch

There’s horror, and then there’s zombie horror: a subgenre that turns the room’s exits into urgent considerations and trades singular monsters for waves of collapse and panic. Familiar touchstones like 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead, World War Z, and Train to Busan have reshaped the field, but zombie cinema is vast and full of strange, overlooked corners.

Zombeavers leans into an absurd premise—college friends, a lakeside cabin, and angry, mutated beavers—yet Jordan Rubin’s handling gives the characters surprising depth and earns a wild third-act turn. Pontypool confines its action to a radio booth, centers on Stephen McHattie’s performance, and imagines an infection that spreads through language, drawing on its novelistic roots to explore how communication can fail.

Little Monsters, directed by Abe Forsythe, pairs Lupita Nyong’o’s warm, composed lead with Josh Gad’s cowardly comic turn on a kids’ field trip gone wrong, balancing horror and heart in a way that quietly defies genre expectations.

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