Classic zombie images and iconic scenes by era

[MaxVeers]

I'm doing a documentary on zombie cinema. I am shooting some B roll stuff to go along with each era that's being talked about.

- 60s black and white zombie films (Night, mainly) with black blood and zombies fearing fire
- 70s exploitation film style zombies, excessive gore
- 80s over-the-top, colorful, comic book style zombies
- 90s shot on VHS zombie films, poorly editted, poorly disguised special effects
- currently running zombies and "infected" shot on DV

I'm shooting the stuff raw on DV then digitally altering it for the fitting eras and adding blood, gore, muzzle flashes, etc digitally. I need some specific shots I can go out and shoot and then give to our guy that does digital effects and adds filters overtop of the base footage (either outdoors or infront of greenscreens).

Along with the image of the daughter killing the mother, zombies in a field, zombies on a hillside with rednecks shooting them, the "helicopter zombie," the "machete zombie," the wrapped-up bodybag zombie sitting up and beiong shot, the shovel decapitation, and running zombies in an urban setting, what are some other iconic zombie images, related directly to certain films or not, that come to mind?

[Creeping Death]

Spot on with the classification.

Thats pretty much what I was thinking, ecspecially with the 80's stereotypes. :)

[MaxVeers]

Spot on with the classification.

Thats pretty much what I was thinking, ecspecially with the 80's stereotypes. :)

Thanks.

If you wanna throw out some of those stereotypes that would be easy to portray visually in a little clip (for example, "teen sex = death" sort of scenes), feel free to throw em out there. The same goes for any era.

[LMOE]

Zombi 2 has some great scenes of zombies rising from their graves. Really awesome.

[BarnabusBlackoak]

none of the pre-60's voodoo zombies ?

[MaxVeers]

none of the pre-60's voodoo zombies ?

Most of those movies are public domain. Night is, too, but for one, we interviewed a lot of people involved in Night, out of courtesy, we want to use as few clips as possible since some are still tender about the copyright issue, and I wouldn't want to make them angry by using clips just because I can. And secondly, while Fair Use law covers most anything we'd want to do in a comprehensive documentative educationally-driven piece, I don't want to rely on that, and I was denied rights to clips from Dawn and Day, so I don't want to go overboard on Night clips and then not have any or have very few from Dawn and Day, so I might use two or three REAL clips from each film, as well as others in the genre (so it's comprehensive and within Fair Use, not specifically about one franchise) and then make everything else myself in the era style of those related films. I hear Rubenstein is a real jerk, so I'm avoiding doing anything that might catch his eye. I hear he even gives the toy store in the Monroeville mall, that has a little zombie movie tribute museum in the back room free of charge, threats and legal problems, despite that the museum is free to view and they're not making any money off it. I don't wanna deal with his businessman crap just to make art.