Top 20 Smartest Decisions in Zombie Movies

[@WatchMojo]

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[@infamouswickedjokestar]

Resident Evil franchise

[@mr.fartman]

Second to comment ❤

[@jimbo9208]

@@mr.fartman no one cares shut up

[@Reaperguy67]

​@@mr.fartman watch mojo doesn't care if you are

[@erzaender]

dawn of the dead the remake and zombieland

[@shaunconnally4794]

Double tap is not only the best decision but it's a necessity when it comes to zombie survival horror

[@KxngKUDA]

Lest you get swarmed by ankle biters😂

[@shaunconnally4794]

@@KxngKUDA that's when you give them a goodnight kiss 😁

[@디탄로일렌]

Not only in zombie movie but also other horror movie like slasher film

[@jakebrooks7481]

@@디탄로일렌in a slasher you don’t stop swinging till you see pink

[@dino.niichan1991]

I tried to take notes when I watched the film. Also effective in everyday life.

[@hpfan2007]

There’s one zombie movie I watched recently, the night eats the world, where a guy rides out the zombie apocalypse in an apartment building for weeks/months and for the most part he’s really smart about it; locking down the whole building, going into apartments he knows aren’t infested with zombies (and marking the ones that are), keeping an inventory on his food and even weighing everything, once the water stops working he puts every container he can on the roof to collect rainwater, etc.

[@rexlumontad5644]

Always aim for the head when facing zombies.

[@Reaperguy67]

Also don't forget to double tap as well. That is from zombieland by the way . I think the best part of the movie was the scene in bill Murrays mansion.

[@randomguypostanimeupdates6703]

The head is most weakness of zombies then I agreed with you a

[@abellewis3062]

Enough said.

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

Wow, this compilation really highlights the ingenuity and quick thinking in zombie films! It's refreshing to see characters making intelligent moves amidst the chaos. Thanks for putting this together - it's a must-watch for all zombie movie enthusiasts! 👏🍿

[@scottdoesntmatter4409]

Too many stupid bits in the same movies you point out as having smart characters. Thumbs down.

[@mr.decencykeepinitreal6348]

1968’s ‘Night of the Living Dead.’ ‘World War Z.’ 1978’s ‘Dawn of the Dead.’ ‘Brain Dead’ (or ‘Dead Alive’). 1985’s ‘Return of the Living Dead.’ My top 5 most favorite zombie movies.

[@Risseii]

This is not an insult, I’m genuinely curious, but how old are you? Most of these movies are old with about 10 years of gaps in between them so it must be a series, did you grow up watching them?

[@jarrettowens6073]

What about Zombieland?

[@Ravishrex1]

Shaun of the Dead.

[@DavidStowers-o7k]

It's a shame that The Girl With All The Gifts didn't make the list. The scene where she's sent out to scout around and look for supplies because of her natural camouflage is in the short term a great plan.

[@johnlime1469]

This has nothing to do with ingenuity, but that film is scored by Cristobal Del Veer, the same music producer who worked on _Utopia (UK)_ .

[@lordnightingale7346]

I really enjoyed Train to Busan and their clever thinking. And that made the ending the more heartbreaking.

[@rexlumontad5644]

13:14 Warm Bodies - still a better love story than Twilight.

[@jarrettowens6073]

I actually liked that zombie as much as Zombieland.

[@Juggtacula]

The smartest decision in Army of the Dead would've been for Scott to force his daughter to stay her ignorant ass home while he went on the mission. That way literally everybody involved wouldn't be dead, and Vanderohe wouldn't be the new source of infection on a plane.

[@Loptr177]

I hated his daughter. She was so annoying and entitled

[@MegaManiee]

I will say it is hard as hell to bite through a whole ass magazine

[@morgantaylor84]

The protagonist pair from #Alive and the two rules makers from the Zombieland films have to be the smartest zombie apocalypse survival characters I have ever seen in a movie.

[@rexlumontad5644]

Always use the Ultimate Joestar Secret Technique when being chased by zombies. It is Super Effective.

[@nunyabizznis1598]

Run awaaayyyyy!!!

[@DavidStowers-o7k]

The priest from Braindead shouting I Kick Arse For The Lord, cracks me up every time.

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

Resident Evil Afterlife - Alice placing the nuke on Wesker's escape Heilcopter.

[@cosminandreimatei756]

That was a nice touch for her "sisters"

[@imsomewhatcertain1024]

“Dawn of the Dead” (2004) was the zombie movie of my childhood, but the decision to leave the mall was absolutely stupid. If the mall was properly sealed up, it could’ve been a fortress. There was plenty of food, clothes, living space, and lots of other items one would need to live. On top of all of that, there was Andy’s gun store across the street. If the group was smarter in dealing with the zombie horde outside the mall, they could’ve gone to the gun store, snagged all the weapons and ammo, and built up their arsenal. They could’ve put a garden and rain catchers on the roof, and they could’ve scavenged the other nearby buildings. Instead, they decide to leave the safety of the mall to go to an island; which turned out to be infested with zombies.

[@phillip22722]

Both of the Bus Tanks were destroyed. One fell over on it's side after an accident, the other had to be blown up to stop the horde. Showing just how destructable the buses actually were after all and how increasingly of a bad idea it is for them to "just stay in the buses all the time..." It WAS a good idea to make the Bus Tanks as an escape plan from the Mall, if they had to, however. It gave them a fighting chance. But let's not pretend they could have survived indefinitely in them.

[@leonielson7138]

If you're ever lost in the woods with a phone that's about to run out of power, update your voicemail with a description of your location and GPS coordinates, if possible.

[@LezzyMania_02]

Built your own weapons from Homemade Materials instead of finding one outside as the Apocalypse Starts.

[@funnelwebspider9078]

Another one from ZombieLand. 'When in doubt, know a way out'.

[@megansimplystitch]

This is easily your best zombie list. It's a clever list about being clever. You touched on some great, good, bad, and so bad their good movies. Train to Busan, Dawn of the Dead, Life After Beth and Dead Alive. I enjoyed this video. It's been a rough day for me. You made me smile. And distracted my attention for a while.Thank you.

[@bloodhound4741]

I just watched 28 Days Later last night for family movie night for my birthday. And I think the smartest decision in that movie was when Jim hid in the dead bodies.

[@robertbouley7697]

Also like, shortly after, when he freed the chained zombie to wreak chaos on the compound and proceed with the rescue.

[@nelliesilvers1210]

Remember though, they're not reanimated bodies. They're just infected with a rage virus on 28 Days/Weeks Later. Fucked up and full of intensely extreme rage with no boundaries and almost non-existent pain threshold but they're living people. Not zombies. Just mentally deranged and a one-tracked mind to inflict immensely excruciating agony with nothing but their bare hands and chompers😬. More like angry cannibals with the munchies and the urge to use people's guts etc as playdough. Or chew toys.

[@nelliesilvers1210]

The machine gun leg in Planet Terror is up there in my top epic ideas in a zombie "slasher". So creatively twisted👌🏻. Zombieland is made even more enjoyable by ScAmber Turd being double tapped😂. The only movie I can tolerate watching that has her in it. It's one of my favourite movies in my horror collection. "It's time to nut up or shut up" - Tallahassee. The remake of Dawn of the Dead with the buses turned into weapons is definitely an epic move.

[@carsonchambers5617]

She’s in Zombieland? Lmao, then that’s a great scene. Can’t stand her.

[@nelliesilvers1210]

@carsonchambers5617 I don't think anyone can😆. Except for her few minions but they don't count. They haven't got enough braincells to rub together to class as intelligent thinkers. There's a strong resemblance to her acting in this part and her courtroom antics. Hilariously obvious

[@Mangolite]

#Alive was a surprise treat from South Korea from a script written by Matt Naylor for his American Indie film Alone from the previous year. I have both films and #Alive is the superior despite both telling the same story with a very different outcome.

[@GiovanniV69]

Expected this to be the list from ZombieLand. Great set of rules!

[@megamuffin1940]

As almost EVERY resident evil game has taught us, if you think something is dead YOU’RE PROBABLY WRONG, if you can’t ensure it isn’t coming back it’s gonna come back

[@pandex2707]

Zombieland is basically the American adaptation of Zom100

[@weaselwolf8425]

Other way around zombieland was around first😂

[@brookerickettson4950]

I know its a tv series, not a movie, but Z Nation has one of my favorite instances of zombie fighting: scaring a super horde off a cliff with fire aka like old buffalo hunts. That series gets weird and wild at times, but just the old being used to fight the new! Plus one of the characters actually sees a bicycle and starts using it! Like hey! Gas less transportation!!

[@eltsoldier]

Using fireworks as distractions. Dying Light was a game rather than a movie, but much of it was practically movie-quality. The survivors came up with using bundles of firecrackers as distractions to lure zombies away from important things (like airdropped crates of supplies). And after they discovered the zombies are vulnerable to UV light, they improvise ultraviolet road flares -- one mission involves you getting the ingredients for it, namely turpentine.

[@abellewis3062]

I love seeing people being smart in zombie movies. Amen.

[@buddah1221]

WWZ was so good it made the list twice.... it really does deserve a sequel even if it's a new cast with a new story set around the same time as the first they created an interesting world to explore there

[@JessieCristo]

There's a GREAT young adult book series called Rot & Ruin or the Benny Imura stories that has so many great ideas. My fave is this zombie spray similar to how Walking Dead and R in Warm Bodies used zombie blood to mask their human scent. The survivors in Rot & Ruin manufacture a spray that could be purchased or traded for. They didn't USE actual corpses to make the spray, but a concoction of chemicals that were more sanitary but still made the wearer smell like a rotting corpse.

[@NTEWING2020]

The lawnmower isn’t something I’d use. Sure it would cut off some limbs from a zombie or two but they can easily get jammed. So clearing out a house with one is just asking to die

[@BigFella117]

One smart decision that should’ve been on here was the opening to 28 Weeks Later. Even though Don abandoned his wife and their fellow survivors, they would have slowed him down and they all would have became zombies. Sometimes the only person you need to save is yourself.

[@djamelhamdia134]

Exactly!

[@dietotaku]

probably didn't make the cut because he turns around and completely undoes that smart decision by kissing her when she turns up in a quarantine facility later on.

[@BigFella117]

@@dietotaku yep. That was stupid

[@JosieKay15]

Best movie line ever: “I kick ass for the Lord.” From Braindead

[@NerdCU]

Saving this to the Zombie Apocalypse playlist lol

[@weaselwolf8425]

#1 not abandoning weapons that arent broken

[@jarrettowens6073]

#9 I remember that moment. Oh, and the chainsaw idea? Completely badass!

[@Animeguy300]

Thank you for the video

[@JAvatar80]

Warm Bodies was also a unique take on the zombies, giving a good reason for the feelings and still thinking.

[@Ghost_Division]

Finally, some good ideas in ZMs

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love it when people are smart on this moviez

[@caseymacmacl7463]

Warm Bodies is one of my favourite zombie movies!

[@buzzybuzzbuzz760]

I approve the thumbnail choice LOL

[@Bluestar-bh3bf]

In zombieland double tap I would’ve also included using the monster truck to run over the hordes of T-800 zombies

[@jarrettowens6073]

#14 Didn't really think that was a zombie movie. Still, it was insane as hell!

[@user-em6ie2be7x]

Dawn of the Dead (2004) Using Chips to get food to Andy realizing Zombies don't attack animals. 🐕

[@Sckipt]

#4 is called object permanence btw. Something nuerotypical humans develop less than a year into their lives. Which opens up a different set of question about zombies tbh

[@jarrettowens6073]

#4 Reminds me of Highschool of The Dead. Except it's actually an anime show, and the zombies were blind, but used sound to attack survivors.

[@kvsyaoran727]

I love the thumbnail so much ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@carsonchambers5617]

3:11 Trying to remember what movie, or tv show some guy used textbooks/phone books as a plate carrier/vest. Not sure it’d work for anything bigger than handguns though, but probably helps for impact protection.😂 World War Z is still one of the scariest zombie movies to me. Just the fact that they can sprint so fast, that (probably) painful turning scene with the toy counting down, and the fact they have sorta a hive mind during the MASSIVE pileup scene somehow breaching the wall (pretty bullshit imo, especially the dumbass pilot getting too low) like that could happen, let alone them falling that distance and not getting their legs breaking off. They did probably show how overwhelmed, and mass panic/chaotic it would be. Hospitals being overwhelmed, how just one person infected trying to hide it could endanger of whole plane of people. Everyone trampling over everyone. The heart wrenching moments of your SO being infected, and trying to kill you, let alone kids. Ugh. Walking Dead takes the cake on the gut wrenching moments though out the whole series. Countless favorite characters being killed off, betrayal, heart break, etc. One thing about the apocalypse that most usually don’t think of is it’ll eventually end when all those zombies finally decay. So as long as you got plenty of food, water, protection, can defend yourself, shoot, bunker/well secured area, and can hold out, you should be eventually good. Unless on the off chance it’s like the walking dead with the roaming horde of zombies that’s pretty hard to avoid without some serious construction equipment to divert them via land moving. OH I forgot about how fucking twisted, and creepy Overlord is! The Nazi zombie idea has to be one of my most favorite zombies ideas. Whether it be from the Black Ops video games, or the nightmare/hella eerie looking Cod WW2 zombies (which shares the exact same creep factor/design with Overlord). Still can’t beat Ash’s chainsaw hand, and broomstick! Groovy baby! Just wish I could find a platform to watch them all on.

[@GiovanniV69]

"This.... is my BOOM stick!"

[@OwlcityloveBooboo]

I ❤️ love zombie 🧟 🧟‍♂️ 🧟‍♀️ movies

[@MartinAmdor]

While I agree with most of these, there are some I'd say needed to be adjusted slightly or don't agree at some points. For instance, while tanking-up the buses was a brilliant strategy, they could NOT stay there for good. What would they do about food and water? By going into the boat, the yhad a chance at finding much needed supplies. Is it a gamble? Yes. And a damn risky one at that. But it's better than to live in a can all the time. Besides, living in such tiny spaces for long does a number on the mental health of those doing so. And considering these guys already shaken mental states... Yeah, not a good idea.

[@sharebear421]

I never see cemetery man on any zombie lists and it’s unfortunate cause it’s one of the goats

[@jarrettowens6073]

#6 Ironically, I really liked that movie.

[@smokeyarcade]

You cut the best line in Braindead! "I kick ass for the lord!"

[@mr.decencykeepinitreal6348]

As zombie movie fans, we love these smart decisions in your new top 20 list video. Good work, WatchMojo. 🙂👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@scottdoesntmatter4409]

Too many stupid bits in the same movies you point out as having smart characters. Thumbs down.

[@rexlumontad5644]

*thumbnail* Amber Heard as a zombie

[@moviemania23]

And hitting her with a toilet tank cover! Win!

[@matthewfredericks25]

4:11 how did bill Murray get pulled into another zombie movie

[@unholypepe]

I don't think a mall would be the best idea. yeah it's enclosed, you have food for days, and it's a very defensible position, but there's probably also going to a ton of zombies in there and you need to clear them ALL out

[@lyaika69]

Thanks you

[@danasaeed9018]

World War Z Deserves A Sequel!

[@rockero1313]

#15 what's so smart about keep filming ??? also, Maggie is a brilliant and very sad must-see zombie movie

[@Shadowcat753]

The Rules from Zombieland actually inspired me to make my own Craigslist Survival Rule list, so fair enough, considering I've sold multiple TVs with zero times being robbed and/or injured via Craigslist.

[@omegafeather6254]

I really hope resident evil amazon prime movie's will do.

[@AndrewCastlemaine]

Zombieland is exceptionally good 💀👍

[@mttmdg3091]

Need a good zombie movie to watch rn

[@GrimGames1978]

the double tap to kill amber turd was the best rule

[@crimsonvoid1595]

There is one problem with the Double Tap and that’s it is a minor waste of ammo.

[@jaredquinney204]

I really can't believe that these people made these smart decisions

[@amaiyagrace]

In World War Z they make arm guards but what about face guards? Jerry was going to throw himself off of the bullying because he got zombie blood in his mouth. They should have made face guards just as much as arm guards.

[@dogwithnobones906]

Nice

[@VADallasCowboysFan]

" I kick ass for the Lord!!"

[@eddy9216]

Always Aim For The Head!

[@matthewfredericks25]

3:07 I would just cover my whole body in thing teeth can't go through

[@jediclonekag13]

When dealing with zombies, always aim for the head. For caution, double tap them.

[@marchdoesvlogs9823]

I’m surprised that y’all mentioned the dead and deceased had to be employed in the Labor Force of today for Shaun of the Dead

[@zackbader3896]

I am not joking Columbus’ rules are the best rules to ever follow

[@Judah_Mafia_074]

Dawn of the Dead 2004 my favorite

[@Nedum05]

World War Z is just GOATED 😎

[@weaselwolf8425]

Holy shoot the protag being saved by a Meal Team Six made me laugh at the end of that movie

[@thebeatlesloveisallyouneed]

The Beatles forever ♾️

[@ryukomatoi592]

How can those things in overload be counted as zombies? They don't have craving for human flesh and are immune to being shot in the head.

[@liambutler4619]

Dear watch mojo do a list called top ten best villain moments like Discord, Bill cipher,Team rocket Jessie James and meowth,Dr Doofenschmirtz and Black hat

[@barrygreen5782]

A lot of these make sense if the worst ever happened 😊😊😊

[@jarrettowens6073]

#14 I thought that was a super-soldier movie.

[@Killajere]

Little monsters the teachers is amazing

[@withdrawnfromearth]

Life after Beth ❤❤❤

[@dragonweyr44]

I've seen so many zombie movies in which people make the same stupid mistakes, like keeping someone around after they've been bit And why is it that no one has never heard of or calls the undead, zombies I have an entire list of why zombies are the dumbest and most illogical monsters

[@randomguypostanimeupdates6703]

This decisions are so very wise but also need some company right.. friends or something a

[@dalenesbitt]

The lawnmower wouldn't work. The engine will run out of gas quickly since it's gravity-fed and there is no fuel pump.

[@marissallagas6884]

Im waiting for The walking dad, saving his toddler.

[@wojtek1765]

Miss Caroline is teacher of the decade

[@jweezyyy]

All of us are dead on Netflix has a lot of really cool zombie shit in it as well. It’s a Korean show but it’s so good, better than squid game fs

[@szczurman83]

The scene in the thumbnail from Zombieland showcases what everyone on earth would love to do to Amber Heard (played that particular zombie) in real life as well!

[@Sistik123]

I kick ass for the lord

[@Mx.Phoenix]

18:06 when doxing yourself is a good thing

[@neilbender3050]

IT STAINS THE SANDS RED. Make your zombie work for you…😂

[@Osma777]

It's not a movie, but the book series "Dark Tide Rising" was full of fantastic examples of how to stay alive in a worldwide apocalypse. Within 24 h of finding out there was a likely outbreak, the veteran parents and their two daughters had successfully "brought" an ocean going one family boat, loaded it up with everything from tampons to iodine tablets, and used firefighters gear to survive bites when boarding larger boats for supplies and ship parts.

[@zoidboy1569]

Run man

[@Xone9]

I feel like the thumbnail of Amber Heard getting clocked with a toilet lid was a very deliberate choice.