Your Zombie Guide

Inspired by Andrew Sullivan's rant on a topic way outside his expertise (much like Tom Friedman's rants on automobiles, a story for another time), I decided to put together my own uninformed guide to Zombies in the cinematic world.  

Shaun of the Dead (2004):  Quite clearly a spoof of classic zombie movies, but it nails the zombies dead on.  They sort of roam around and get at you by sheer determination and numbers.  And because you have to brain them or remove their head to stop their advances.  Sullivan would love these I'm sure, and the dry British humor (er, humour) should tickle his Thatcherite senses.  

Serenity (2005):  Zombies in space, really.  (I can't take credit for this categorization, but I certainly can steal it.)  The zombies are a result of government experimentation, natch, and have the "increased cardiovascular skills" that Sullivan decries.  They are smart.  I think they like to eat people.  But, they die like everyone else.

I Am Legend (2007):  The one that started this mess has zombies with more cardiovascular skills than many pro-football players.  They, also, were the result of scientific experimentation and die like normal humans, only louder.  It would have been so much better for them to have something interesting and new about them, but aside from their ability to jump out of dark corners, the zombies were an uninteresting hybrid of previous reanimated peoples.  The book upon which the movie was based is apparently chock full of new ideas, but alas, I must concur with other reviewers that this movie is a hatchet job in the vein of I Robot and that all such zombie innovation was lost.