12 INSANE Zombie Movies On Netflix & Prime Nobody Is Watching!

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:06]Look, you've seen Train to Busan. You've seen 28 Days Later. You've probably seen everything Netflix puts on the homepage.

[00:00:12]But I promise you right now, at least 10 of these films you've never even heard of, and every single one of them is better than half the zombie movies getting millions of views. Number 12, Dead Snow on Shudder and Prime.

[00:00:25]>> [music] [music] >> Let's finish this.

[00:00:37]Norwegian Nazi zombie horror comedy, and yes, that's a real genre. Medical students go to a cabin in the Arctic mountains. Turns out a battalion of frozen Nazi soldiers are still guarding stolen gold under the snow. Most people skip this because the subtitle thing puts them off. Massive mistake. Director Tommy Wirkola shot this for around $2 million, and the practical gore effects are some of the best I've ever seen in the genre. There's a cliff scene involving intestines that I genuinely can't get out of my head. Wirkola went on to direct Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters for Hollywood.

[00:01:13]USA! [screaming] USA!

[00:01:24]Number 11, The Battery on Tubi and Prime.

[00:01:30]Come on, man!

[00:01:43]Two baseball players surviving the zombie apocalypse in Connecticut. No base, no plan, just walking. Now, here's why you need to pay attention. This entire film was made for $6,000. The director Jeremy Gardner raised it by asking 10 friends for $600 each. He wrote it, directed it, starred in it, shot the whole thing in 15 days with zero script. Every scene was improvised, and it works better than movies with a thousand times the budget. The final 20 minutes trapped inside a car with zombies at every window is genuinely more intense than anything The Walking Dead ever did.

[00:02:30]Number 10, Cargo on Netflix.

[00:02:36]We're here to when things get back to normal.

[00:02:40]That's not going to happen, is it?

[00:02:44]I don't think normal's on the horizon.

[00:02:47]Martin Freeman in a zombie movie set in the Australian Outback. He gets bitten.

[00:02:51]He has 48 hours before he turns. His baby daughter is strapped to his back.

[00:02:56]The whole film is him trying to find someone to take her before his time runs out. A lot of people scroll past this on Netflix thinking it looks slow. And yeah, the first act takes its time, but that's the point. This isn't an action film. It's a father running out of time.

[00:03:10]The Outback cinematography is stunning, and the indigenous Australian storyline adds a layer most zombie films never touch. Roger Ebert's site said Romero himself would have loved it. I believe that. Number You can't lose hope.

[00:03:28]Only girl you need to be worried about is your own.

[00:03:32]Number nine, Pontypool on Netflix, Shudder, and Prime.

[00:03:41]>> [music] [music] >> A zombie film set entirely a radio station. That's the whole thing. A washed-up shock jock in small-town Ontario starts getting reports of mobs attacking people outside, but he can't see any of it. He just hears it through phone calls. Then they figure out something impossible. The virus isn't spreading through bites, it's spreading through words. Certain English words become infected. Understand them and you're gone. Made for about 1 and 1/2 million dollars, earned 32,000 at the box office. You never see a single zombie on screen. You don't need to. Do you see any police? Is there anybody trying to restore order? Um I don't know what the hell has just happened. Well, we're uh we're going to have to see if we can Ken, what Ken, are you there, Ken?

[00:04:38]Number eight, Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead on Tubi and Prime.

[00:04:44]What?

[00:04:56]Think Mad Max meets Dawn of the Dead, but set in Australia and made on a hundred and sixty thousand dollars. A mechanic's wife and daughter turn. He has to put them down. His sister gets kidnapped by a psycho military doctor, so he armors a truck and drives into the Outback to get her. Oh, and petrol doesn't work anymore, but zombie blood is flammable, so they use that instead.

[00:05:16]Now, here's the mad part. Director Kiah Roach-Turner made this over four years, shooting only on weekends around his day job. Him and his brother. Four years, and it looks like it cost ten times what it did. Hold on.

[00:05:28]Come on, you zombie. You want a zombie?

[00:05:30]I'll get you a zombie.

[00:05:35]What?

[00:05:39]Number seven, Ravenous on Netflix.

[00:05:54]>> A French Canadian zombie film set in rural Quebec. Now, before you skip to the next one, listen. This won best Canadian film at the Toronto International Film Festival. It swept 10 awards at the Quebec Cinema Awards, including best film and best director.

[00:06:07]Variety called it the most contemplative zombie movie ever made. The zombies here do something I've never seen before.

[00:06:13]They build. They stack chairs and furniture into strange towers in forest clearings. Nobody knows why. The film never explains it, and that's what makes it terrifying. Total box office was $183,000.

[00:06:25]An award-winning masterpiece that earned less than a used car dealership makes in a month. Criminal.

[00:06:42]Number six, Dance of the Dead on Tubi.

[00:06:49]Who are you guys? We're the SAC club.

[00:06:52]We're here to rescue you.

[00:06:57]Zombie prom night. The cemetery next to the high school starts spitting out corpses on prom night. The cool kids are trapped inside the gym. The misfits outside have to save everyone. Now, I know what you're thinking. Sounds like a bad sci-fi movie. It's not. Director Greg Bishop won the Audience Award at South by Southwest with this. The characters actually have personality.

[00:07:18]When someone gets bitten, it actually hurts. It came out in 2008, same year as Twilight, Iron Man, and The Dark Knight.

[00:07:24]Lionsgate picked it up and sent it straight to DVD with zero marketing. If you like Zombieland, you'll love this.

[00:07:31]End of the world.

[00:07:32]I'm going to need years of therapy after this.

[00:07:36]Where y'all going? To the prom to kick some ass.

[00:07:44]Number five, The Girl With All The Gifts On Prime.

[00:07:48]That's what you are.

[00:07:50]I just want to live.

[00:07:52]Everyone wants to She loves you.

[00:07:54]The hell is this?

[00:07:55]World is falling [music] apart.

[00:07:58]You can save people, Melanie.

[00:08:01]You can save everybody.

[00:08:03]British zombie film starring Glenn Close, Gemma Arterton, and Paddy Considine. Post-apocalyptic England.

[00:08:09]Children are kept locked in cells at a military because they're second generation infected. They can think and feel, but one smell of human skin and the hunger takes over. Here's what most people don't know. The infection is based on Ophiocordyceps, a real fungal parasite that takes over ants' bodies.

[00:08:25]This was 2016, seven years before The Last of Us made that concept famous. The science was here first. In this film, made for £4 million, barely earned that back worldwide. A film that literally predicted the most popular zombie concept in gaming history and nobody noticed.

[00:08:42]>> to live.

[00:08:43]Everyone wants to live.

[00:08:44]She loves you. The hell is this?

[00:08:46]World is falling apart.

[00:08:49]You can save people, Melanie.

[00:08:52]You can save everybody.

[00:08:55]Number four, One Cut of the Dead On Shudder.

[00:09:05]>> [music] >> Japanese zombie comedy. A film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie in an abandoned building gets attacked by real zombies. The first 37 minutes play out in one single unbroken take. It looks cheap, the acting seems off, and then the film restarts and shows you what was actually happening behind the camera and everything clicks. I'm not going to spoil it. Here's what I will tell you.

[00:09:31]This was made for $25,000.

[00:09:34]It earned over with million worldwide.

[00:09:36]That's over a thousand times its budget.

[00:09:38]No film in history has ever done that.

[00:09:41]It opened on two screens in Tokyo and ended up on 200 through pure word of mouth.

[00:09:58]Number three, Dead Set on Prime and Channel 4.

[00:10:03]>> [music] >> She can't stay out here. I think she's in a lot of pain.

[00:10:10]Pain is temporary. Film is forever. Not a film, but a five-episode British mini-series, about 90 minutes total, created by Charlie Brooker, yeah, the Black Mirror guy. His first major work.

[00:10:23]A zombie outbreak hits Britain during a live Big Brother eviction night. The housemates have no idea what's happening. The production crew outside are getting ripped apart. When a surviving producer fights her way into the compound, the housemates think it's a stunt. It isn't. Brooker's zombies aren't just zombies. This aired on E4 in 2008 and most people outside the UK have still never seen it. But this is where it started and honestly, it might still be his best work.

[00:10:57]>> [music] >> Number two, The Night Eats the World on Prime and Shudder. French >> [music] >> I think there's a cure.

[00:11:09]He's at a party in a Paris apartment. He wakes up and everyone is dead. The entire city has fallen overnight. He's alone. The building becomes his fortress and nobody is coming. This film has almost no dialogue. You just watch a man slowly lose his mind in total silence.

[00:11:26]There's a scene where he starts playing drums alone in an empty apartment and the rhythm builds until it's the only proof he's still alive. If you've ever searched isolation zombie movies or zombie movies like I Am Legend, this is the one. The >> [screaming] [music] >> Number one, The Sadness on Shudder.

[00:11:49]Hell, the dead will walk the earth.

[00:11:53]A terror to the living.

[00:11:55]>> [music] >> Is anyone out there?

[00:12:03]Taiwanese extreme zombie horror. A mild virus mutates overnight, but it doesn't make people mindless. It removes every inhibition they've ever had. The infected are aware. They remember who they are. They choose their violence, and they enjoy it. A young couple separated across Taipei tries to find each other while the city tears itself apart. This is not a film for everyone.

[00:12:23]I need to be up front about that. It's one of the most extreme horror films I've ever watched, but it's also one of the smartest. Director Rob Jabbaz, a Canadian working in Taiwan, made this during COVID about a society that ignored a virus until it was too late.

[00:12:41]What do you mean you ain't seen no bite marks?

[00:12:45]That's the only way to infect disease.

[00:12:46]They bite you.

[00:12:49]Goes down your bloodstream. Make you do crazy things.

[00:12:52]I'm in the dark.