20 Best Zombie Movies on Netflix You Need to Watch
Who doesn’t love a good zombie movie, right? But to find the good ones, especially on only one streaming platform, is not an easy job. This is where our article comes in handy, as we are bringing you the best zombie movies on Netflix you can watch right now.
Some of the movies on the list are big names, while others are hidden gems. Some are cult classics, but we have to warn you, there are also a few B-production zombie movies on this list (not many, but a few). Still, if you are looking for your next zombie fix on Netflix, just check it out below.
Army of the Dead (2021)
After zombies have taken over Las Vegas, a group of mercenaries will accept the most dangerous job ever and risk their lives to break into the quarantine zone and pull off the heist of the century.
Day of the Dead: Bloodline (2017)
A small group of military personnel and survivalists dwell in an underground bunker as they seek to find a cure in a world overrun by zombies.
Operation Ragnarok (2018)
Operation Ragnarök takes place in Landskrona in Scania where a submarine crashes. On board the submarine is an extremely contagious virus that turns the population into zombies. The city is quarantined. A few people seem to have escaped being infected, and are now trying to survive under the monsters.
Resident Evil (2002)
Alice (Milla Jovovich) and Rain (Michelle Rodriguez) lead an elite commando team to Osinjak, a large, underground genetic research facility, where the spread of a deadly virus threatens humanity.
The virus has mowed down the entire research team and turned them into ravenous zombies. If Alice doesn’t close the virus inside the compound in just three hours, the zombies threaten to take over the Earth. To make matters worse, the team learns that it’s not just zombies that are infesting the complex.
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage Earth, turning the population into legions of undead cannibals. The last and only hope of the human race, Alice (Milla Jovovich), wakes up in the center of the most secret facility “Umbrella” and discovers new pieces of her mysterious past as she penetrates deeper into the complex.
Without a safe haven, Alice continues to hunt down those responsible for the disease outbreak, and this hunt takes her from Tokyo to New York, from Washington to Moscow, and culminates in an incredible discovery that will force her to reject everything she previously believed to be true.
With the help of new allies and old friends, Alice must fight to survive long enough to escape a hostile world on the brink of destruction. The countdown has begun.
Cargo (2017)
In 2270, Earth is completely depleted and no one lives there anymore. Those that have money move to Rhea; but most of the population lives in orbit in space stations. Dr. Laura Portmann decides to work in the cargo ship Kassandra in eight-year travel to Station 42 that is in orbit of RH278 to raise money to meet her sister Arianne in Rhea.
They keep in touch with each other, but their messages take three years to reach the other. Laura joins Captain Pierre Lacroix and his crew composed of First Officer Anna Lindbergh; Communication Officer Miyuki Yoshida and Igor Prokoff and Claudio Vespucci. The Sky Marshall Samuel Decker joins the team since the terrorist group Luddites, led by Klaus Bruckner, is bombing the stations.
Lacroix organizes shifts of eight and half months for each crew-member while the others rest in cryogenic sleep. Three years and eight months later, Laura finds that there is apparently a stowaway in the cargo compartments and Decker and Lacroix are awakened to it.
Quarantine (2008)
Television reporter Angela Vidal (Carpenter) and her cameraman (Harris) are assigned to spend the night with a fire crew working the night shift. After a seemingly routine call leads them to a small apartment building, they find the police there, who have arrived in response to eerie screams coming from an apartment. They soon find out that the woman in the apartment is infected with something unknown.
After several residents are brutally attacked, the others try to escape, followed by a news crew, only to discover that the disease control center has quarantined the building. Telephones and the Internet are turned off, and television and cell phone signals are blocked, while officials refuse to pass on any information to those detained in the building. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of the events in the building is the videotape of the camera crew.
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)
A policeman pursues two hippies suspected of a series of Manson-like murders. For him, the real culprits are zombies, revived by their thirst for human flesh, chemical pesticides used by farmers in the fields and ultrasonic radiation.
Train to Busan (2016)
While an unknown virus spreads throughout the country, the Korean authorities declare a state of emergency, but the situation soon gets out of control. A few of those who were on the high-speed train from Seoul to Busan at that moment, a city that successfully defended itself from the virus epidemic, now have to fight for their own survival in order to survive and reach the desired goal before it is too late.
Valley of the Dead (2010)
It is set in 1938, during the Spanish Civil War. Upon the appearance of zombies as a result of the deployment of biological warfare by Nazi Schutzstaffel on the inhabitants of a small village, Republican and Francoist forces see themselves forced to temporarily ally with each other to deal with the undead.
Ravenous (1999)
Captain Boyd (Guy Pearce) is relocated to the wilds of the Sierra Nevada after a bloody battle in the Mexican-American conflict, when he accidentally becomes a hero. Tired of violence, Boyd is convinced that life in the isolation of a military station can bring him calm.
When a half-starved Scottish settler Colqhoun (Robert Carlyle) appears one night, things take an irreversible turn for the worse: faced with cave confinement during a blizzard, the settlers turned to cannibalism as their only chance for survival. When it’s Colqhoun’s turn, he manages to escape, but the story doesn’t end there.
Kingdom: Ashin of the North (2021)
The focus of the plot is the mysterious character of South Korean lead actress Jun Ji-hyun who appeared in the last seconds of the second season finale. Not only will he tell the story of the mysterious heir to the village of the northern Yeojin tribe, but he will also finally discover the origin of the resurrection plant that started the avalanche of tragic events that engulfed Joseon and the woman who was abandoned by everyone – Ashin.
#Alive (2020)
The rapid spread of an unknown infection has left an entire city in ungovernable chaos, but one survivor remains alive in isolation. It is his story.
I Am Legend (2007)
“My name is Robert Neville. I survived. If there is anyone else, anyone.. know you are not alone!” – is the desperate message of genius scientist Robert Neville. But science could not stop the deadly virus, terrible, cruel and – made by human hands.
Inexplicably immune, Robert is the only human survivor in what’s left of New York, and possibly the world. As the last hope for the human race, he tries with all his might to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood, but he is ambushed by mutated victims of the scourge.
Doom: Annihilation (2019)
A group of UAC Marines responds to a distress call from a top-secret scientific base on Phobos, a moon around Mars, only to discover it’s been overrun by demons who seek to create Hell on Earth.
World War Z (2013)
United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself.
The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
In a world divided into equal parts by death and chaos, the last oasis of hope is a human stronghold located in London. A group of scientists, guarded by an iron guard wall from zombies, are trying to discover salvation for the human race.
They see the solution in a small group of second-generation hybrid children – infected with a deadly spore who are still able to retain their mental abilities. Until they smell a human “aroma” nearby.
And then the drive becomes stronger than reason. As in any experiment, the guinea pigs are condemned to death. For multiple purposes. However, everything changes when doctor Helen Justinou decides to save the girl Melanie at the cost of her life from the vicious clutches of the project manager, it’s boss Caroline Haldwell.
Convinced that she is the special one, in whom is hidden the antidote to the scourge that turned the living into the dead, and awakened the worst in the rest, Helen will have to risk everything to save humanity!
Izla (2021)
Veronica (Isabelle Daza), Valerie (Beauty Gonzales) and Venus (Elisse Joson) are three adventurous and sometimes mischievous sisters with their own Vlog channel. Together with their friends: Abi (Aiko Climaco), Gina (Sunshine Garcia) and Lani (Analyn Barro), they decide to go on vacation in the town of “Kalimliman”.
Incidentally, their uncle, Anding (Niño Mulach) is the town Mayor. Mayor Anding has tour guides assigned to promote tourism in his town. He selects Badong (Paolo Contis) and Entoy (Archie Alemania); his top tour guides; as the official guardians for the visiting girls. Badong and Entoy are getting increasingly frustrated with the meager amount of money that they are getting from their tour guide work.
They are constantly coming up with plans to earn more cash. During their stay, the five girls hear about the infamous “Forbidden Island”, located somewhere near the town. This island so remote that Mayor Anding has banned all travel to it. The girls ask Badong and Entoy to bring them there so that they can produce a prank video to trick their Vlog’s viewers into thinking that they got lost while on vacation. Badong and Entoy agree to the girls’ request, provided that they get ample payment for their services.
Upon reaching the island, the group discovers that weird and horrific experiments were done on the island’s former residents; turning them into bloodthirsty zombies. The supposedly prank video project has now become a real-life race to escape the island with their lives. Will they be able to outwit, outlast and escape the zombies or will they become new members of the living dead?
Maniac Tales (2016)
Maniac Tales tells the story of Juan, a Mexican illegal immigrant in New York, who is offered a job as a doorman in an old building in the city. It turns out that the screenwriter of “Maniac Tales”, a very popular TV series, lives in the building but has disappeared with the script of the last chapter of the season, and a reward is offered to whoever can find that script. Juan decides to look for it, and when he gets into the screenwriter’s apartment he finds out that the TV series hides creepy secrets which are related to the building.
Bloody New Year (1987)
A group of friends takes refuge in an island hotel that is decorated for New Year. The problem is, it’s early summer, and soon enough, even the walls themselves are striking out against them.
