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With the upcoming gender swap Vivica Fox version of Night of the Living Dead coming up in November, I thought I would have the NOTLD league table in place before then, but with the title and story now in the public domain it means any twonk with a camcorder can make a version.

This version from 2015 is the CGI animated version aka Night of the Living Dead:Origins and Night of the Living Dead:Origins 3D and stars Tony Todd reprising his role of Ben from the Tom Savini 1990 version, Captain Rhodes himself Joe Pilato as Harry Cooper, Bill Moseley as Johnny, and scream queen Danielle Harris as Barbara, and is set in a modern NYC over the winter.

A few really odd nods to the original, with the old truck, TV and radio, and the building, all look out of place for NY compared to the other locations, but some excellent additions, with the flashbacks to Ben and his wife and son dying in the diner, and Tommy and Judy, as well as Johnny's demise by getting a plane in th face.

The one thing that you will notice is the poor quality of the CGI characters, who don't blink, and look like the actors but with a stocking pulled over their head, squishing their face, ears and nose. Given this is 2015, that is only real negative.

5/10 for me. The action scenes were decent, the tension, but the animated characters were just poorly created.

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Based on Courtney Summer's award winning YA novel of the same name from 2012 we are in a small Canadian town as the zombie apocalypse starts. Annoying teen Sloane is considering committing suicide because of her drunkard violent father, absent mother and now vacant sister. But then after a bang on the door, we get the noises of the apocalypse and well, darn, it is the zombie apocalypse.

After losing her dad after ignoring his advice on staying alive not once, not twice, but thrice, Sloane joins up with the only other survivors from town, who all are from the same class at high school. What are the odds?

We get some decent effects and tension, I thought. Sloane is, if anything, the pain in the ass, and being the central character we see too much of her walking off by herself before she causes numerous deaths.

Plenty of naysayers moaning about this one, but I actually liked it. Anna and the Apocalypse without the singing, Breakfast Club without the John Hughes factor. You do feel like you've seen this before and that it is all derivative, until you realise the book was written 14 years ago.

What can I say? I enjoyed it. It felt like an elongated episode of Black Summer.

6/10

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I should have known better. When a fellow movie reviewer lists their worst zombie movie of all time, I should have thought, well, if I listed our worst zombie movies (Attack of the Flatulating Dead, Oasis of the Zombies and Hsien of the Dead) I wouldn't then expect them to go out and buy them on DVD before watching them. But guess what I did?

Yes, this was bottom 3, on par with the aforementioned bags of steaming horse dung. Zombinator! A documentary style movie where the camera crew are mute at times and just film people being eaten, stabbed, shot, you name it, and don't give their opinions despite them being the only adults in the room of 15 fuckwit wannabe fashionistas.

And this was before the zombie apocalypse, created by the "company" and a mad colonel, and before the idiot fashionistas are saved by the Zombinator, a man so tough he wears sunglasses at night, a man who's shotgun doesn't need reloading and a man who's dialect coach should be shot.

If I could liken this movie to a liquid it would be the liquid at the bottom of a garbage can, bin juice, in taste and smell.

Avoid this one like the syphilitic sore on your pervy uncle's lip as he comes in for a kissy hello.

1.5/10 absolute badger shit.