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The Best Zombie Comedies
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Vote up the best intentionally funny zombie comedy films
This list of the best zombie comedies proves that there's plenty of laughs available even in the most rotting, apocalyptic landscape. These movies feature everything from fast zombies and chatty zombies to classically shambling horrors, but they all intentionally offer a respite from the undead nightmare with humor.
Zombie comedies include everything from intentionally funny B movies like Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead and other Troma films, satire like The Return of the Living Dead, and very self-aware and dark comedy like Re-Animator. There are even several of zombie musicals, with new entries like Anna and the Apocalypse only swelling the ranks of that particular subgenre of zombie comedy and zombie satire. When a good zombie movie is also a good comedy it becomes something it feels like everybody's seen, not just horror nerds. Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, and Army of Darkness are three films that even folks who aren't fans of zombie flicks probably recognize, which shows just how popular good zombie comedy movies can be.
Get in there and vote the best zombie comedies to the top and keep them beyond the reach of the hilarious horde! Then check out our list of zombie shows and our deep-dive into zombie (or zombie-adjacent) movies that don't have any zombies.
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Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Edgar Wright
Shaun (Simon Pegg) is a 30-something loser with a dull, easy existence. When he's not working at the electronics store, he lives with his slovenly best friend, Ed (Nick Frost), in a small flat on the ...more - 2Emma Stone, Amber Heard, Bill Murray
- Released: 2009
- Directed by: Ruben Fleischer
After a virus turns most people into zombies, the world's surviving humans remain locked in an ongoing battle against the hungry undead. Four survivors -- Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) and his ...more - 3Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa
- Released: 1985
- Directed by: Dan O'Bannon
When foreman Frank (James Karen) shows new employee Freddy (Thom Mathews) a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into ...more - 4Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert
- Released: 1992
- Directed by: Sam Raimi
3rd Evil Dead movie. Ash (Bruce Campbell) finds himself trapped in medieval times. He must quest for the Necronomicon, a book of evil which can return him to his time. Unfortunately, he releases the ...more - 5Tye Sheridan, Logan Miller, Joey Morgan
- Directed by: Christopher B. Landon
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is a 2015 American horror comedy film directed by Christopher B. Landon and written by Landon, Carrie Evans, Emi Mochizuki and Lona Williams. When bloodthirsty, ...more - 6Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks
- Released: 1987
- Directed by: Sam Raimi
The second of three films in the Evil Dead series is part horror, part comedy, with Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) once again battling horrifying demons at a secluded cabin in the woods. After ...more - 7Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison
- Released: 2011
- Directed by: Drew Goddard
When five college friends (Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams) arrive at a remote forest cabin for a little vacation, little do they expect the horrors that ...more - 8Barbara Crampton, Jeffrey Combs, David Gale
- Released: 1985
- Directed by: Stuart Gordon
Re-Animator is a 1985 American science fiction horror comedy film loosely based on the H. P. Lovecraft episodic novella "Herbert West–Reanimator." Directed by Stuart Gordon, it was the first film in ...more - 9Peter Jackson, Jed Brophy, Tim Balme
- Released: 1992
- Directed by: Peter Jackson
This film is a 1992 New Zealand Zombie comedy gore film directed by Peter Jackson. Written by Jackson with his partner Fran Walsh and Stephen Sinclair, the film was a commercial failure at the time ...more - 10Elijah Wood, Nasim Pedrad, Alison Pill
- Released: 2014
- Directed by: Cary Murnion, Jonathan Milott
A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley band of teachers in the fight of their lives. - 11Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney, Robert Beltran
- Released: 1984
- Directed by: Thom Eberhardt
After a rare comet sighting, teen sisters Regina (Catherine Mary Stewart) and Samantha (Kelli Maroney) find that they're among the only survivors of a zombie attack. The girls partner with another ...more - 12Ella Hunt, Malcolm Cumming, Sarah Swire
- Released: 2017
- Directed by: John McPhail
A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to ...more - 13Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick
- Released: 2012
- Directed by: Chris Butler, Sam Fell
Young Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit-McPhee) has the ability to speak with the dead -- and he often prefers their company to that of the living. Norman receives word from his strange Uncle Prenderghast ...more - 14Mark Hamill, Frank Welker, Adrienne Barbeau
- Released: 1998
- Directed by: Jim Stenstrum, Kazumi Fukushima, Hiroshi Aoyama
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island is a 1998 animated direct-to-video horror-comedy film based on the animated television series Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoon franchise. In the film, Scooby-Doo, ...more - 15Carrie-Anne Moss, Billy Connolly, Kesun Loder
- Released: 2007
- Directed by: Andrew Currie
When a cloud of space dust causes the dead to rise as ravenous zombies, the ZomCon Corp. emerges to conquer the creatures and domesticate them to become menial workers and pets for humans. Now, in an ...more - 16Ane Dahl Torp, Bjørn Sundquist, Vegar Hoel
- Released: 2009
- Directed by: Tommy Wirkola
This film is a 2009 Norwegian zombie splatter film directed by Tommy Wirkola, starring Charlotte Frogner, Stig Frode Henriksen, Vegar Hoel, Jeppe Laursen, Evy Kasseth Røsten, Jenny Skavlan, and Lasse ...more - 17Michelle Ryan, Georgia King, Harry Treadaway
- Released: 2012
- Directed by: Matthias Hoene
A group of east-enders made up of bank robbers and pensioners fight their way out of zombie-infested London. - 18Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, John C. Reilly
- Released: 2014
- Directed by: Jeff Baena
A guy (Dane DeHaan) discovers that his girlfriend (Aubrey Plaza) has returned from the dead, but his joy turns to horror as she slowly undergoes a horrible transformation. - 19William Katt, George Wendt, Kay Lenz
- Released: 1985
- Directed by: Steve Miner
A mounted fish moves, household objects levitate, and monsters haunt a troubled novelist (William Katt). - 20Nathan Fillion, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Rooker
- Released: 2006
- Directed by: James Gunn
Wheelsy is a small town where not much happens and everyone minds his own business. No one notices when evil slips in quietly but, when people find mutilated livestock and a woman goes missing, ...more - 21Nathan Meister, Danielle Mason, Peter Feeney
- Released: 2006
- Directed by: Jonathan King
Sheep-fearing Henry (Nathan Meister) returns to his brother's (Peter Feeney) New Zealand farm, hoping his sibling will buy out his share of the property. However, what he finds are genetically ...more - 22David Paymer, Dick Miller, Tom Atkins
- Released: 1986
- Directed by: Fred Dekker
Night of the Creeps is a 1986 American comedy horror written and directed by Fred Dekker, starring Tom Atkins, Jason Lively, Steve Marshall and Jill Whitlow. The film is an earnest attempt at a B ...more - 23Andrea Duro, Luis Alberto García, Blanca Rosa Blanco
- Released: 2011
- Directed by: Alejandro Brugués
Juan of the Dead is a Spanish-Cuban comedy zombie film written and directed by Alejandro Brugués. in 2010. Coproduction by La Zanfoña Producciones, Producciones de la 5ta Avenida, with the ...more - 24David Anders, Chris Wylde, Louise Griffiths
- Released: 2009
- Directed by: D. Kerry Prior
A dead soldier (David Anders) comes back to life and joins forces with his slacker buddy (Chris Wylde) to hunt down criminals and drain them of the blood he needs to prevent his body from decomposing. - 25Lloyd Kaufman, Jamie Gillis, Rufus
- Released: 2005
- Directed by: Caleb Emerson
Die You Zombie Bastards! is a 2005 American zombie comedy by directed by Caleb Emerson, written by Emerson and Haig Demarjian, and starring Tim Gerstmar, Geoff Mosher, and Pippi Zornoza. It is about ...more
