15 Greatest Zombies 5-1

5. Bob

The only zombie on this list to come from a song (in this case, Jonathan Coulton's "Re: Your Brains"), Bob is, much like Stubbs, not particularly evil, but still has a thirst for organs and murder. I mean, he is still an undead monster after all.

However, in the song, Bob shows great intelligence whilst corresponding with Tom from the office down the hall. Bob is very friendly in his conversations, like any good businessman should, even as he assures Tom and his fellow survivors that they will die.



4. That zombie what fought a shark

A good fight scene can thrill an audience and put them on the edge of their seat. A great fight scene is so holy fuck awesome that you will not forget it EVER. There is a scene in Lucio Fulci's "Zombi" that is so holy fuck awesome that it has to be seen to be believed. That scene is when a zombie fights a fuckin shark.

Does it matter that the shark had its teeth removed and was sedated? Shit no. Why? Because it still is god damned amazing and ends with the zombie WINNING and making a fucking zombie shark.


3. Cemetery Zombie

Yeah, there were zombie films before "Night of the Living Dead." Who cares, though? Once people caught a glimpse of that first zombie killing Barbara's brother in the cemetery, that may as well have been the first time the undead were put on celluloid.

He only appears for a few minutes but after he smashes Johnny's head into a tombstone and chases (zombies can't really chase, can they?) Barbara, people knew that this new breed of zombie wasn't to be fucked with.

Also, he looks a lot like Tom Kenny and that's pretty awesome to me.


2. Tarman

A skeletal monstrosity covered in tar, the Tarman is the quintessential zombie in "Return of the Living Dead," the movie where we get a lot of modern zombie mythos (i.e. they feed on brains, they have a limited vocabulary as opposed to just grunts, etc.).

Sealed in a tar barrel for years only to be brought back from the dead, Tarman finally found comfort after killing some punk who came into his basement, busting out of his tar barrel with a scream of "BRAINS!" and chowing down on his head.

Played by mime Alan Trautman in a suit with a robot head, Tarman's movements lead to one of the most disturbing and strange zombie performances ever made.


1. Bub

There is no reason that any breathing un-undead person would not choose Bub as the greatest zombie of all time. The subject of the underground experiments for a cure, "Day of the Dead"'s Bub stands as the example of zombies as more than slow, dumb, monsters.

Bub exhibits abilities such as recalling memories, showing emotions, and even proving himself to be a moral human being, all by protecting his experimenter by shooting a psycho military captain gone martial law (that same captain had previously mocked Bub and treated him like dirt).

Bub shows in "Day of the Dead" that, even as a zombie, he is still a human at the bottom of his no longer beating heart.