Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide

From Booklist
For fans of the gory, grotesque, dark-humor-filled world of horror, zombie films may be the most beloved of subgenres. Kay (Disaster Movies, 2006) provides a chronological listing, with summary and review, for more than 250 films from 1932 to 2008. Summaries of each decade, interviews with filmmakers, and other features are interspersed, as is a generous complement of promotional photos. A list of the author’s 25 favorite zombie films, an appendix of “zombie-less” zombie films, and a short bibliography follow. Director and film indexes complete the book. One caveat: basic information like running time, country of origin, director, and stars are spread throughout each film’s description (and sometimes not included) instead of summarized at the top of each entry as in most filmographies. Kay’s readable style and the subjective nature of so-bad-it’s-good cinema make this fun book more appropriate for circulating collections than reference.
Review
"The definitive guide to zombie movies. . . . A must-read for all zombie scholars!" —Dan O’Bannon, director, The Return of the Living Dead


"[Kay] knows the genre inside and out." —Blog of the living dead


"Meaningful and well-researched . . . enjoyable and funny." —Hartford Courant


"[A] thorough, uproarious guide." —Mania.com


"This book is a must-own text written for zombie fans by a zombie fan. If there's such a thing as a zombie scholar, Kay is the dean of the college that annoints them." —Niagara Gazette


"An obsessively complete guide…(author) has certainly done his homework…highly recommended." —blogcritics.org


"The zombie movie bible." —popmatters.com


"Something that no self-respecting psychotronic fan should be without." —
Oklahoma Gazette