In anticipation of
The Walking Dead's Sunday premiere on AMC, Wired.com takes a look at the most influential zombie films of the last 40-plus years.
From George A. Romero's groundbreaking
Living Dead series modern twists like
Shaun of the Dead and
Zombieland, ghouls have been chowing down on guts and brains -- and taking shotgun blasts to the face -- for four decades.
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Night of the Living Dead (1968)
A group of people hide from hungry zombies in a farmhouse in director George A. Romero's low-budget, black-and-white masterpiece that got the ghoul genre going.