| 100 Years of Terror's 13 Zombiefilme, die ihr gesehen haben solltet [Zombie movies you should have seen] | 2018 | Ranked | #2 |
| 247 Wall St's 50 Best Horror Films of All Time | 2018 | Ranked | #39 |
| Aaron Christensen's Horror 101 - The A-List of Horror Films and Monster Movies | 2007 | Unranked | — |
| Alan Jones' The Rough Guide to Horror Movies - 50 Horror Classics | 2005 | Unranked | — |
| Alternative Press' Joe Smith-Engelhardt's Top 10 zombie movies every horror fan needs to watch | 2020 | Ranked | #6 |
| AMC Filmsite's Greatest Horror Films | | Unranked | — |
| Antti Alanen and Asko Alanen's Musta Peili - horror film filmography | 1985 | Unranked | — |
| Arts & Faith's Top 25 Horror Films | 2011 | Ranked | #16 |
| Barry Gifford's Fifteen Favorite Late-Night Tinglers | 2008 | Unranked | — |
| Bartlomiej Paszylk's The Pleasure and Pain of Cult Horror Films - An Historical Survey | 2009 | Unranked | — |
| BFI's A great horror film from every year, from 1922 to now | 2022 | Unranked | — |
| BFI's Gothic - The Dark Heart of Film | 2013 | Unranked | — |
| Bloody Disgusting's Trace Thurman's The 100 Best Horror Movies Ever Made | 2018 | Ranked | #53 |
| Boston.com's Top 30 Zombie Movies of All Time | 2013 | Ranked | #15 |
| Box Office Prophet's 50 Favorite Horror Films | 2002 | Ranked | #50 |
| Bryan Senn's A Year of Fear - A Day-by-day Guide to 366 Horror Films | 2007 | Unranked | — |
| Buzzfeed's Stacey Grant's 11 Must-Watch Horror Films From The 1940s | 2014 | Unranked | — |
| CBR's Daniel Kurland's 10 Best Horror Films Of The 1940s | 2023 | Ranked | #9 |
| CBS News' David Morgan's 50 essential horror films for Halloween | 2019 | Unranked | — |
| CFB's 100 Essential Horror Films | 2010 | Unranked | — |
| Chicago Film Critics Association's 100 Scariest Movies of All Time | 2006 | Ranked | #71 |
| Cine.gr's The Most Scary-Movies Ever | 2010 | Ranked | #42 |
| cinematiccoffee's My Top 10 Favorite Horror Films of All-Time | 2013 | Ranked | #11 |
| Collider's Daniel Boyer's 10 Great Zombie Movies That Are as Original as They Are Scary | 2025 | Ranked | #7 |
| Collider's Haleigh Foutch's 13 Awesome Horror Movies That Time Forgot | 2017 | Unranked | — |
| Collider's Jeremy Urquhart's The 35 Best Gothic Horror Movies of All Time | 2025 | Ranked | #34 |
| Combustible Celluloid's Essential Horror Movies | 2024 | Unranked | — |
| Creepy Catalog's Chrissy Stockton's 1940s Horror Movies — An Overlooked Decade | 2023 | Unranked | — |
| CriterionForum Lists Project - Horror | | Ranked | #6 |
| Cult Labs' Community Top 100 Horror Films of All Time | 2014 | Ranked | #40 |
| Damnationdoormat's Top 100 Horror Films | 2006 | Ranked | #10 |
| Danny Peary's Cult Horror Movies | 2014 | Unranked | — |
| Darkweb Online's Top 100 Horror Movies of All Time | 2002 | Ranked | #45 |
| Darrell Moore's The Best, Worst, And Most Unusual Horror Films | 1983 | Unranked | — |
| David Jenkins' Top 10 | 2012 | Ranked | #6 |
| Diego Carrera's A History of Horror | 2016 | Unranked | — |
| DigitalDreamDoor's 250 Greatest Horror Movies | 2022 | Ranked | #90 |
| Dr-Faustus' GREATEST HORROR MOVIES OF ALL TIME | 2018 | Unranked | — |
| Dr. Nocturna's 2006 Horror Movie Census! | 2006 | Ranked | #66 |
| Dreadit's Top 20 1940s Horror Films | 2019 | Ranked | #3 |
| Drew Hunt's 100 Greatest Horror Films | 2013 | Ranked | #3 |
| El antepenultimo mohicano's Las 100 mejores películas de terror | 2016 | Ranked | #30 |
| EMP Museum's 100 Horror Films to See Before You Die | | Unranked | — |
| Entertainment Weekly's Clark Collis' 25 Best Zombie Movies of All Time | 2009 | Ranked | #15 |
| FilmWalrus' My Top 200 Favorite Horror Films | 2013 | Ranked | #172 |
| Final Girl Shocktoberfest Poll | 2017 | Ranked | #232 |
| Flavorwire's Alison Nastasi's The Best Island Horror Films | 2017 | Unranked | — |
| Fluxkompensator's Stefan_F's Die besten Horrorfilme der 40er Jahre [Best Horror Films of the 40s] | 2019 | Ranked | #6 |
| Funk's House of Geekery's darknite125's Best Horror Movies of the 1940s | 2020 | Unranked | — |
| Gary Gerani's Top 100 Horror Movies | 2010 | Ranked | #29 |
| Goomba Stomp's Ricky da Conceição's 150 Greatest Horror Films of the 20th Century | 2021 | Ranked | #147 |
| Goregirl's 100 Favourite Horror Films of All Time | 2009 | Ranked | #100 |
| Goregirl's Zombie Films | 2012 | Ranked | #13 |
| Horror Homeroom's Dawn Keetley's Top 10 Zombie Films - Food for Thought | 2015 | Unranked | — |
| Horror.com's The Official HDC Selection from 100+ Years of Horror Cinema | 2013 | Unranked | — |
| Horror.com's The Sub-genres of Horror - A Top 100 HDC Compilation | 2008 | Unranked | — |
| Horror.com's Vintage 101 | 2007 | Unranked | — |
| Horrornews.net's Mary Parker's 13 Greatest Horror Movies of the '40's and '50's | 2011 | Ranked | #13 |
| iCM Forum's Top 250 Favourite Horror Films | 2022 | Ranked | #82 |
| Image Journal's Top 25 Horror Films | 2016 | Unranked | — |
| IMDb Horror Board Favorite 201 | 2014 | Ranked | #48 |
| IndieWire's The 225 Best Horror Movies of All Time | 2022 | Unranked | — |
| IndieWire's Wilson Chapman's The 100 Greatest Horror Movies of All Time | 2024 | Ranked | #17 |
| James Marriott and Kim Newman's Horror! 333 Films to Scare You to Death | 2010 | Unranked | — |
| Jamie Graham's Top 10 | 2012 | Ranked | #9 |
| Jamie_Shannon's Best Horror Films | 2016 | Ranked | #124 |
| JarvisCity's 50 Greatest Zombie Movies Of All Time | 2016 | Ranked | #14 |
| Jennifer Eiss's Top 10 Horror Films | 2010 | Ranked | #6 |
| Joe Lansdale's Top 10 | 2015 | Ranked | #4 |
| Josh Keown's My Top 50 Zombie & Infection Movies | 2012 | Ranked | #8 |
| KilltheSnark's The 100 Greatest Horror Films | 2007 | Ranked | #44 |
| Letterboxd's Top 250 Horror Films | 2025 | Ranked | #193 |
| Letterboxd's Top 250 Horror Films | 2025 | Ranked | #184 |
| Marginal_Crogeny's The Top 250 Horror Films of All Time | 2016 | Ranked | #184 |
| Mario DeGiglio-Bellemare, Charlie Ellbe and Kristopher Woofter's Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema - Traces of a Lost Decade | 2014 | Unranked | — |
| Mark H. Harris' A Timeline of the History of Hollywood Horror Movies | 2017 | Unranked | — |
| Mark H. Harris' Notable Zombie Movies | 2017 | Unranked | — |
| Matthew Leyland's Top 10 Horror Films | 2010 | Ranked | #4 |
| Mike Mayo's VideoHound's Horror Show - 999 Hair-Raising, Hellish, and Humorous Movies | 1998 | Unranked | — |
| Monster Mania's The 14 Greatest Horror Films Of The 1940s | 2012 | Ranked | #6 |
| Movies & Mania's Essential Horror Films | 2018 | Unranked | — |
| MovieWeb's Rachel Johnson's Best Horror Movies of the 1940s, Ranked | 2022 | Ranked | #8 |
| MSN's Zombie movies that will leave you hungry for more | 2015 | Unranked | — |
| Murray Leeder's Horror Film - A Critical Introduction | 2018 | Unranked | — |
| Museum of Pop Culture's 100 Horror Films to See Before You Die | 2020 | Unranked | — |
| Nancy Holder's Thirteen Movies She Wishes She'd Never Seen Because They're Too Scary (Yet Continues to Watch Repeatedly. What the Hell Is Wrong With Her) | 2008 | Ranked | #4 |
| OneMetal's Graham Gough's In Love With The Dead - 10 Zombie Films You Must Watch Before You Die | 2010 | unranked | — |
| Osservatori Esterni's I Migliori Film Horror Fino al 1960 | 2011 | Ranked | #19 |
| Paste's Jim Vorel's A Century of Terror - The 100 Best Horror Movies of the Last 100 Years | 2019 | Unranked | — |
| Paste's Jim Vorel's The 50 Best Zombie Movies of All Time | 2025 | Ranked | #32 |
| Paul Wells' The Horror Genre - From Beelzebub to Blair Witch (Short Cuts) | 2000 | Unranked | — |
| Plugman's Top 100 Horror Films | | Ranked | #83 |
| PopOptiq's Ricky da Conceição's 200 Greatest Horror Films | 2015 | Ranked | #144 |
| Psychobabble's 150 Essential Horror Movies - The Complete List | 2012 | Unranked | — |
| Radio Times' 100 Greatest Horror Films Ever | 2010 | Ranked | #94 |
| Ramsey Campbell's Stevie's Top 100 Horror Movies | 2013 | Ranked | #79 |
| RantHollywood's Sean Troutman's Top 10 Horror Movies of the 1940s | 2014 | Ranked | #6 |
| Rathcoombe Manor's The Best Horror Films | | Unranked | — |
| Re93animator's Top 100 Horror Films | 2011 | Ranked | #56 |
| Reel Reviews' Frank Wilkins' Best Horror Films | 2010 | Unranked | — |
| ReelRundown's Sam Shepards' The 67 Best Zombie Movies Ever Made | 2019 | Ranked | #57 |
| Rolland Hedberg's Horror Films of the 1940s | 2016 | Unranked | — |
| Rotten Tomatoes' 30 Essential Zombie Movies | 2021 | Ranked | #19 |
| Rotten Tomatoes' Alex Vo's The Bloody History of Zombies in Movies and TV | 2015 | Unranked | — |
| Rotten Tomatoes' The 200 Best Horror Movies of All Time | 2019 | Ranked | #73 |
| Roy Huss and T. J. Huss' Focus on the Horror Film | 1972 | Unranked | — |
| Rue Morgue's 200 Alternative Horror Films | 2012 | Unranked | — |
| Salon's Matt Zoller Seitz's Braaaains! The 10 essential zombie films | 2010 | Ranked | #9 |
| SCFZ's Favourite Horror Films | 2017 | Ranked | #7 |
| Screen Rant's Tom Stewart's 10 Best Horror Movies Of The 1940s | 2021 | Unranked | — |
| Slant Magazine's 100 Greatest Horror Films of All Time | 2019 | Ranked | #16 |
| Slant Magazine's The 20 Best Zombie Movies of All Time | 2022 | Ranked | #2 |
| Spanish GQ's Noel Ceballos' Las 100 mejores películas de terror de la historia | 2021 | Ranked | #74 |
| Starburst Annual's Classics of the Horror Film - The Forties | 1982 | Unranked | — |
| Stephen Jones' Top 10 Horror Films | 2010 | Ranked | #3 |
| Steven Jay Schneider's 101 Horror Movies You Must See Before You Die | 2007 | Unranked | — |
| Taschen's Jonathan Penner and Paul Duncan's Horror Cinema Top 50 Horror Movies | 2017 | Unranked | — |
| Taste of Cinema's Daniel Miranda's The 14 Best Zombie Movies Every Horror Fan Should Watch | 2014 | Ranked | #6 |
| The Astounding B Monster - Bill Warren's horror top ten | 2014 | Ranked | #4 |
| The Astounding B Monster - Bryan Senn's horror top ten | 2014 | Ranked | #9 |
| The Astounding B Monster - Charles Kilgore's horror top ten | 2014 | Unranked | — |
| The Astounding B Monster - Jim Clatterbaugh's horror top ten | 2014 | Ranked | #7 |
| The Astounding B Monster - John Brunas' horror top ten | 2014 | Ranked | #5 |
| The Astounding B Monster - John Morgan's horror top ten | 2014 | Unranked | — |
| The Bedrock Blog's The Cutting Room Floor | 2010 | Unranked | — |
| The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw's Zombie movies – ranked! | 2019 | Ranked | #3 |
| The Irish Times' Donald Clarke's The best horror movies of all time | 2018 | Unranked | — |
| The Orlok's Top 5 of 1943 | 2015 | Ranked | #1 |
| The Telegraph's Anne Billson's 10 best zombie films of all time | 2013 | Unranked | — |
| The Wandering Image's Top 30 Horror Movies 1930-1949 | 2014 | Ranked | #17 |
| TheLastDriveIn's Top 175 Classic Horror Films | 2013 | Unranked | — |
| Time Out London's The Best Zombie Movies | 2019 | Ranked | #8 |
| Time Out's Matthew Singer's The best zombie movies of all time | 2022 | Ranked | #10 |
| Time's James Grebey's The 25 Best Zombie Movies of All Time | 2025 | Unranked | — |
| TOP 666 HORROR MOVIES (Freaky Fuckin Friday) | 2014 | Ranked | #191 |
| Total Film & SFX's The Top 66 Zombie Films of All Time | 2016 | Ranked | #18 |
| Ultimate Classic Rock's Michael Gallucci's The Best Horror Movie From Every Year - 1920-2022 | 2023 | Unranked | — |
| Variety's 100 best horror films of all time | 2024 | Ranked | #76 |
| VIRUS' Creepy ClasSICKs Vol. 1 | 2020 | Unranked | — |
| VIRUS' Retro Virus: Early Screams | 2023 | Unranked | — |
| Zombie Movies The Ultimate Guide - The Best Zombie Movies | 2008 | Ranked | #22 |
