The 13 Best Zombie Movies on Netflix (2025)

Zombie movies have undergone a real transformation over the years. From the groaning, stumbling past of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (itself inspired by Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel I Am Legend) to the screeching, sprinting terror of Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later (and then later full circle with the 2007 adaptation of I Am Legend—which we’ll call both vampire and zombie.) Zombies have gotten harder, better, faster, stronger.

But the concept of the zombie hasn’t changed all that much. Romero said that zombies represented a people’s reaction to change—how a human contends with the reversal of nature’s law: all things move toward death. When facing the zombie, the human confronts the unnatural, the eternal. The horror of the zombie film is, therefore, not one of dying; it’s one of not dying. The irony of zombie cinema is that it makes death less scary, more welcoming. We’re scared not when our hero’s friends and families die, but when they return.

As for why we can’t get enough of the zombie genre, well, the answer to that is maybe more grotesque. It’s not that we long to stoop above a shopping mall with a sniper rifle and mow down the undead—at least, we hope that’s not your IRL fantasy; go buy a video game, you psycho. It’s the dissolution we long for, a world where we’re no longer constrained by class or race or, for you psychos, law. (Also, there’s probably some fallacious second amendment reverse justification going on here; umm, why else did London stand no chance in 28 Days Later??)

So whatever your immortal fear or apocalypse kink, here are the best zombie movies to stream on Netflix right now.

Maybe not quite as good as its earlier counterpart Train to Busan. Still, this zombie installment proves that Korean cinema continues to kill in all genres.

Residing in that contemporary genre of "post-horror" (smarter, smaller-budget art house screams), It Comes At Night is less an all out zombie fest and more a meditation of all those things that go bump in the dark, including images of ravenous humans. It's scarier when you can't see them, trust us.

The short film contained within the sci-fi anthology series Love, Death + Robots crosses multiple genres, including mystery, historical drama, and folktale. At its heart is a zombie struggle, but that’s not even the best part.

Perhaps the most successful zombie comedy of all time, Zombieland is probably too popular for “cult” status. Still, the characters and jokes will stay with you until all the Twinkies in your house expire—which is never.

While Bird Box wasn't able to do with sight what A Quiet Place did with sound (namely, make a scary movie that's actually scary), it's a concept film still worth the watch. Just please don't blindfold yourself and do stupid shit after you're done.

Director Zack Snyder went George A. Romero in 2004 with Dawn of the Dead, an update on the genre classic. Snyder went even bigger this year with Army of the Dead, a heist zombie movie that absolutely kicks some undead ass.

This short documentary follows the Army of the Dead team during the production of the Netflix smash hit. For zombie film fans, it’s an invaluable look behind the undead makeup and VFX innovations of a top budget zombie flick.

Cargo is just an overall solid post-apocalyptic flick, similar in structure to The Road but without being (quite) as bleak.

Set in Quebec, this Canadian horror movie hits mostly all the zombie tropes, but in a way that feels fresh. It's also (possibly) an allegory for Quebec politics, giving it that extra layer of interpretation on top of all the decayed human matter.

Translated to "soul thieves," this Mexican horror slasher is just good bloody fun, as well as a decent period piece on the Mexican civil war.

So it’s technically a miniseries, but it clocks in just over two hours, so we’re just gonna put it here. The British production is reality show meets zombie invasion, which is both funny and very not funny in the most excellent English way.

While we’re partial to the first Resident Evil movie, it’s hard to fault this videogame-turned-B-movie franchise. It is what it is, and what it is is zombie-killing fun.

Okay, this is a weird one and there's a good chance you may find it ridiculous and unwatchable. There's also a chance you'll have a ton of fun watching it at various levels of inebriation. It's one of those movies.