Top 5 Most Profitable Zombie Movies of All Time

As Halloween 2012 is approaching, various horror movies is about to be released. As the major component of horror movies, zombie movie is usually favored by youngsters, not only in Halloween 2012 but also in the whole year around. In recently days, zombie movies have turned out to be quite influential. Walking Dead, the famous zombie drama, had set new ratings record on AMC and the newly released zombie movies, Frankenweenie and Hotel Transylvania, had also done quite well in box office. In fact, the zombie apocalypse is one of the most favored themes of directors.

Though a number of zombie movies will be released each year, just a few of them can be called of great influence. In most cases, zombie movies are those who fail to impress audience with both the plot and the effects. However, there are also zombie movies that can not only win high profits but also earn good reputations. Therefore, this post will display you top five most profitable zombie movies of all time. All the data come from box office mojo.

1. Hotel Transylvania

To everyone's surprise, the most profitable zombie movie till now is a newly released comedian. As a zombie animation movie, Hotel Transylvania had received over 100 million dollars in box office and it is still widening the margin. Hotel Transylvania is a movie focusing on the attempts of the vampire king, Dracula to force a man to leave his lavish hotel as well as his failures. The successful point of the movie is that it has provided audience new points of view towards zombie movie. Instead of showing people zombie apocalypse or flesh-eating monster, it provides users cute characters with funny stories.  

2. Zombieland

As the most profitable zombie movie only second to Hotel Transylvania, the 2009 movie, Zombieland has earned over 75 million dollars in box office. More importantly, the zombie movie is just a low-budget one. In Zombieland, four persons are involved, timid Columbus, strong Tallahassee, beautiful Wichita and cute Rock. The movie gets all the elements a zombie movie can get including zombie apocalypse, walking dead and scaring plot. Moreover, the movie also gets those elements a zombie movie lacks like funny language, amusing coincident and witty speech. Therefore, as an innovative zombie movie, Zombieland attaches new charms to the old genre.

3. Resident Evil: Afterlife

As the most profitable zombie movie of Resident Evil series, Afterlife ranked third with 60 million dollars in box office. As the first 3D Resident Evil movie, Afterlife has attracted many 3D fans. The zombie movie is about how Alice tries to find the only safe place known as Arcadia with a group of friends. Of course, they need to fight a way among the surrounding zombies. Besides the 3D movie, the coming of new zombies is another factor that leads to the success of Resident Evil: Afterlife.

4. Dawn of the Dead

The 2004 zombie movie, Dawn of the Dead, ranked fourth with 59 million dollars in the list of the profitable zombie movies. As the remake of the 1978 zombie movie, Dawn of the Dead attaches new vigor to the old story. In Dawn of the Dead, some survivors of zombie apocalypse have hidden in shopping center. However, when their location has been traced, they need to find out other ways to escape from the zombie world. The most attracting point of the zombie movie is the impressive scaring face of zombies which is based on the appearance of real corpses.  

5. Death Becomes Her

Death Becomes Her occupies the fifth place in the list of most profitable zombie movies with 58 million dollars. As a zombie movie made in 1992, Death Becomes Her is of great influence towards this genre. Even till now, some still can't believe several effects can be shown in this 1990s movie. It is not more a comedian than a scaring movie. As a movie starred by Meryl Streep and Bruce Willis, the box office performance of the zombie movie is fully guaranteed. Death Becomes Her is about how a woman learns of an immortality treatment and uses it to wipe out her enemy.

4 Awards for Outstanding 2012 Horror Movies

Now along with the approaching of Halloween 2012 comes people's increasing interest towards horror movies, especially horror movies of 2012. Just as love movie and superhero movie, 2012 horror movie contributes a lot to the prosperity of film industry in 2012. Moreover, with the development of science and technology, some 2012 horror movies are not only realistic in visuality but also reliable in plot. Of course, one will find some 2012 horror movies exciting and excellent while others boring and awful.

Since not all 2012 horror movies are available in the market, we can't tell which one is best and which one is worst. However, we can still pick up those outstanding 2012 horror movies and even award them for their uniqueness. Therefore, this post tries to present 4 outstanding 2012 horror movies with 4 awards. Since the DVD versions of those 2012 horror movies are released, one can enjoy the DVD files with Kindle Fire HD.

1. Award for Most Disappointing 2012 Horror Movie: Prometheus

As one of the most expected 2012 summer movies, the performance of Prometheus was quite disappointing. Though it has gained over 400 million dollars worldwide, it is far less influential than other movies like The Avengers and The Hunger Games. As the prequel of Alien series, Prometheus mainly focuses on a scientific team's exploitation to find the origin of life and their battle with those monsters in the planet. Though Prometheus is not an awful 2012 horror movie, it is actually one which can fail to impress audiences too much with both its plot and its main characters.

Comment: When one has watched Prometheus, he will feel that it is a horror movie that shall not bear some much anticipation.

2. Award for Funniest 2012 Horror Movie: Hotel Transylvania

When audiences can see vampire, mummy, Frankenstein and lycan in one horror movie, it must be a scaring one. However, this is not the case here. Actually, Hotel Transylvania gathers those monsters together to present audiences an extraordinary comedy. The movie is about how a young man accidentally gets to a hotel used by Dracula as a resort for monsters and falls in love with the vampire's daughter. Of course, as such a funny horror movie, Hotel Transylvania wins both the reputation and the box office.

Comment: Hotel Transylvania is a movie full of all gothic elements a horror movie can get but do all the things a horror movie won't do.

3. Award for Most Surprising 2012 Horror Movie: The Possession

While everyone was focusing on expected 2012 fall movies like Resident Evil: Retribution and Bachelorette, they surprisingly found a low-budget film named The Possession had stolen all the thunders. The Possession not only ranked first in box office for two successive weeks but also turned to be second most profitable movies in September, only inferior to Hotel Transylvania. Moreover, it is a 2012 horror movie released in August. The Possession is about how a girl is infected and controlled by evil spirits in an old box.

Comment: Though no one expected The Possession could be a hot word in September, the mysterious box actually attracted people's attention and proved its endless magic.

4. Award for Most Creative 2012 Horror Movie: The Raven

As one of the most well-known novelists in the world, Allan Poe is famous for his horror novels. In The Raven, the novelist turns out to be the main character. In the movie, a murderer commits his crime according to Allan Poe's work. When Allan Poe tries to trace the inner world of the murder, his life is threatened. It is a bold attempt to direct an Allen Poe-oriented horror movie and it is even creative to associate the plot with Allan Poe's novels. Movies like Abraham Lincoln: The Vampire Hunter also focus on the different lives of celebrities but they are not that creative.

Comment: In an Allan Poe style movie, Allan Poe acts as the main character to deal with Allan Poe style murders. That's really fantastic!

3 Special Horror Movies to Watch on Halloween 2012

As one of the most favored festivals in the world, Halloween is featured with scaring masks, frightening make ups, treat-trick games and pumpkin pies. This is day when people can indulge themselves in various Gothic-style factors. Therefore, to enhance the atmosphere of Halloween, various horror movies will be released during that period. In fact, Halloween always gets the company of horror stories and even horror movies.

Halloween is so influential that various movies or games are exclusively designed for it. For example Scared Shrekless is a Shrek movie made to celebrate Halloween and Angry Birds Halloween is an Angry Birds game to commemorate Halloween. Therefore as Halloween 2012 draws near, one needs to make a good plan about Halloween 2012. Besides choosing costume for Halloween 2012 or preparing horror stories for Halloween 2012, he can also celebrate the special day by watching excellent horror movies. Therefore this post will recommend you 3 special horror movies to watch on Halloween 2012. (If you like, you can also watch the DVD versions with Kindle Fire HD.)

1. Dracula: Most Romantic Horror Movie

As one of the most well-known vampire, Dracula has been the main character in various horror movies. However, in Dracula, the vampire king turns out to be the main character in a love story. In the first part of Dracula, the movie shows how the loyal Christian turns out to be a vampire after losing his true love. The second part of the movie mainly focuses on his love story with a woman looking like his wife.

Therefore, instead of showing audiences a blood-thirsty fiend, Dracula shows audience a poor man who is tortured by love. His fall is caused by loss of love and his redemption is gained by realizing his love. Moreover, the most attracting point of this movie is the cross-century love between Dracula and his wife, which makes the movie a romantic horror movie worth watching on Halloween 2012.

2. Halloween: Most Popular Horror Movie

Just as its name has indicated, Halloween is a movie exclusively designed for the special festival. Surprisingly, it gained great success at that time which led to the production of extra seven Halloween movies. The movie mainly focuses on the story of how a boy kills his sister and begins his slaughtering fifteen years later. As a milestone in the history of horror movies, Halloween even plays a role in the producing of movies like Scream. Moreover, to make the movie more attractive to the world, the reboot movie of Halloween had been released in 2007. Therefore, maybe Halloween is not the most excellent horror movies, but it is definitely one of the most popular horror movies.

3. The Last Exorcism: Most Scaring Horror Movie

The director of The Last Exorcism is quite smart because he chooses to make the movie in a documentary-film-style. The movie is about the trip of a priest's last exorcism. The Last Exorcism first makes people feel like watching BBC Discovery channel when the hero introduces various frauds of priest. Then it turns out to be a movie about human ethnics when people get to know the girl is a pregnant. However, it turns out to be a really horror movie in the end because there are really fiends and evil spirits.

While people believe they can explain all the weirdness with reasonable assumptions, they surprisingly themselves in a trap set by the director. Moreover, the movie presents people the illusion that it is too realistic to be a faked story. Consequently, horror movies like this will terrify audiences most because they still believe all things happened in a real world. This makes it scaring horror movies worth watching on Halloween 2012.