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* In Lamberto Bava's ''[[Demoni]]'', the creatures are more like monsters than zombies, but they work with zombie rules and may have been an inspiration for straight zombie films to follow.
* Blending Zombie Apocalypse with [[Our Werewolves Are Different]], ''Mulberry Street'' gives us a virus that's transmissible by rats as well as humans (''totally screwed'' was the phrase, wasn't it?), and turns infected people into rat-faced, rampaging cannibals. Subverted in that {{spoiler|the Virus goes into remission at sunrise, restoring victims to normal, albeit not until after the protagonists have killed off their loved ones in self-defense or mercy}}. Similarly, ''Reliquary'', the sequel to ''Relic'', has those affected by a watered-down virus (it turned you into a horrific cocktail of dinosaur/primate DNA in the original) turned into light-shunning, psychotic, rat/lizard faced things. The even more watered down version just turned you into something like a ''[[28 Days Later]]'' zombie.
* Italian director [[Lucio Fulci]]'s ''[[Zombi 2]]'' took the Romero concept and increased the gore factor with such novel touches as [[Everything Is's Even Worse Withwith Sharks|a zombie fighting a shark underwater]] and [[Eye Scream|a woman getting her eye gouged out with a sliver of wood]].
* ''[[Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror]]'' takes this trope to its beginning phase, with zombies coming back as the presumable result of an ancient curse, and includes [[It Can Think|tool-using zombies]], along with the unusual use of [[Dawson Casting|an adult dwarf playing the role of a child]].
* ''[[Shaun of the Dead]]'' plays the concept for laughs, while at the same time remaining faithful to the style of the Romero films. Like those films, it includes hints that zombies retain some semblance of their former personalities. It also includes a [[Take That]] against the ''Twenty-Eight'' series.