2021: Zombies Ate My Free Time

Once more, I subjected myself to 31 horror films in 31 days! As usual, I considered not doing it in 2021 but as usual, I had several friends tell me they love reading my reviews so I went ahead. I didn't come up with a theme until literally halfway through October 1st, and it took some time to finalize a list (several of the films I originally wanted to cover weren't easily watchable so I had to swap them out) but in the end I decided that 2021 would be the year where I watch 31 zombie movies. (As it turned out, I'd only ever seen a small handful, and certainly none of the classics!) There was a brief period where I was traveling and so I couldn't watch the movies I had planned (hence why two of the movies are decidedly NOT zombie films) but overall I covered a huge portion of the spectrum of what a zombie film could be.

(Also, I honestly don't think I realized that I had already reviewed Pontypool; as a result, this is a completely new review. Fair warning, there will be more repeat reviews in 2022, so stay tuned, but after that I plan to only review movies I haven't reviewed before.)

So, in 2021, I watched the following movies:

1. Night of the Living Dead (1968)

2. Dawn of the Dead (1978)

3. Day of the Dead (1985)

4. Return of the Living Dead (1985)

5. Return of the Living Dead II (1988)

6. Return of the Living Dead III (1993)

7. Dawn of the Dead (2004)

8. Land of the Dead (2005)

9. Diary of the Dead (2007)

10. Survival of the Dead (2009)

11. Army of the Dead (2021)

12. Shaun of the Dead (2004)

13. Mulva: Zombie Ass Kicker (2000)

14. Resident Evil (2002)

15. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

16. Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

17. Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

18. Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

19. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)

20. Pontypool (2008)

21. 28 Days Later (2002)

22. 28 Weeks Later (2007)

23. Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)

24. Don't Breathe 2 (2021)

25. World War Z (2013)

26. Deadgirl (2008)

27. Little Monsters (2019)

28. Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006) 

29. Night of the Comet (1984)

30. Zombieland (2009)

31. Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)

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