With 28 Years Later this year, unconventional zombie movies are back in the zeitgeist, where the zombie apocalypse serves merely as a premise, used to explore other facets of the human experience.

This summer, director Danny Boyle returns to the zombie series that helped reinvigorate the genre. But unlike 2002’s 28 Days Later, the appropriately named 28 Years Later isn’t emerging in a barren ...

Grebey is a contributor for TIME. Clockwise from Top Left: 28 Days Later, Night of the Living Dead, Evil Dead II, Resident Evil, Shaun of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead Clockwise from Top Left: 28 Days ...

The second film continues to focus on the franchise’s main couple, Addison and Zed, and their budding romance, which is threatened by the introduction of werewolves. Zombies 3 takes things even ...