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It's Halloween, so why not. Everyone loves a zombie, whether they're slowly shifting towards you arms outstretched moaning grimly with little pieces of unknown human organ dripping from their pale faces, or frantically charging at you gnashing their teeth with their grey dead eyes that could out stare a shark.

Zombies are a bunch of hideous, brain eating, mindless monsters which what makes them so darn cool. Happy to consume the living, dining out on us, quaffing down poached organic human gallbladder, cassoulet of eyeball and a confit of rotting skin. They love it. So this is a celebration of their gruesome awesomeness.

And because it's Halloween I've picked some gory scenes of eye-gorging and delicious zombie mutilation. Mu-ha. Muhaha. Muhahahahaha!

Shaun of the Dead
The greatest British movie ever made (well maybe 2nd to Withnail and I), and a kick-ass zombie movie to boot. Expertly interweaving comedy, romance and the zombie apocalypse. Not only is it truly laugh-out-loud funny with some great dialogue and plenty of memorable scenes, it's also gory. Even Romero loves it. Here are some outtakes with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, two comedy gods.

George A Romero's zombie trilogy
Three films in one here, and they're all classics. Night of the Living Dead set the tone, in moody black and white it was something of a revelation. Dawn of the Dead relocated to a shopping mall with all the not-so-veiled consumerist symbolism. And then the nuclear bunker paranoid brilliance of Day of the Dead. Then he had to go and ruin it all with Land of the Dead and *shudder* Diary of the Dead. Maybe he's turned into one of his beloved zombies.

Re-Animator
An 80s science fiction horror cult classic, it's a film from another era. It centres on a medical student who is trying to develop a formula to revive the dead. It's got gore, and by god it's got plenty of it, but in between the blood-letting it has moments of inspired comedy which elevates it above other movies of its ilk. Here's a compilation of the goriest bits. M'mmm.

Zombie flesh Eaters (Zombie 2)
Directed by horror icon Lucio Fulci, it's a stone cold zombie classic. Even if you were a brain dead zombie craving human flesh who had the intelligence of a lobotomised tadpole with dementia you'd still enjoy this. It's grisly, it's gory, it's f#cking A. And it's famous for two scenes, firstly an eye-popping eye gorging scene, watch it here. And secondly for a zombie wrestling a shark. That's right. A muthaf#cking shark. Watch and worship it's depraved genius.

Dead Snow
Zombie Nazis. Splattered blood on crisp white snow. Fuck yeah. Here's a funny scene involving said zombies getting attacked with chainsaws, a weapon that's guaranteed to inflict some intestine splurging, mutilated damage.

Dawn of the Dead (remake)
Part of the new wave of zombies that are agile and, more troubling, fast. Who move like they're late for work down at the organ-munching centre. It has a brilliant opening scene that jars you like a turd you've just dropped leaping out of the bowl and dancing the Charleston while singing Fly Me to the Moon. Watch it's malign brilliance here - nothing says gruesome like an enraged zombified child taking a savage lump of hot flesh from your husband's soft neck. It doesn't have the intelligence of the original but it does have a menacing pace and a relentless sense of the grim fruitless ordeal of a planet overrun by the undead.

I Walked With A Zombie
It's, loosely, a zombie version of Jane Eyre set in the exotic Caribbean, home of voodoo. It's an unsettling, brooding masterpiece from director Jacques Tourneur. Haunting, peculiar, spectral, it's rightfully a classic and soon to be remade by the Saw guys.

Braindead (Dead Alive)
From Peter "LOTR" Jackson, his early films had humorous and splendidly gory violence which he seemed to relish like a cigar rolled on the thighs of virgins and sealed with the tuna juices of a Greek goddess. This is a classic, like his low-budget masterpiece Bad Taste. Set in New Zealand this movie sees a domineering mother bitten by a Sumatran Rat-Monkey which slowly turns her into a ravenous zombie. It has some grisly scenes, one set around the dinner table, and the end is sublime in its gory glory, featuring our protagonist attacking hordes of zombies, animated intestines and disembodied limbs with a lawnmower. The mother becomes a giant monster and in a moment of Freudian indulgence stuffs her son back into her stomach. It also has one of the coolest lines ever when a priest says, "I kick ass for the Lord!" Here's a compilation of the goriest bits. Yum.

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