So you say you love zombies. Maybe you routinely use the quote: "They're coming to get you Barbara," and you've dressed up three years in a row for the local Zombie Walk. And yet…you've never heard of Lucio Fulci, the Italian director who made three of the best zombie movies ever. When I saw the new Angelika Mosaic Theatre featured an onscreen viewing of The Walking Dead season premiere, I figured it was time for a living dead history lesson.

Welcome to the "School of Rot." For the first time in Cinema Siren column history, I asked a zombie expert, my friend Douglas E. Winter, to help pick 10 movies that are perhaps less known by late-coming fans of the undead, yet required viewing for any true zombiephile.

Doug is the horror critic and best-selling author known for writing a trilogy of short stories "Less Than Zombie," "Bright Lights Big Zombie" and "The Zombies of Madison County." "Less Than Zombie" is credited with being the first zombie mashup, way, way before Seth Grahame-Smith's "Pride Prejudice and Zombies" crawled up the New York Times bestseller list. Check out the links below for great collections of zombie stories that will have you boarding up your doors and windows on Halloween night!

After quite a bit of haggling between Doug and Cinema Spouse (who himself has had the license plate "zombi" for 15 years), and a few peeps and eeks from my direction, the list below took shape and shambled forth:** Top 10 zombie movies you've never seen

10) The Horde: 2009 This French film takes place in an abandoned apartment building in the bad part of Paris where a cadre of corrupt policemen and gangsters at odds join forces against a surprise attack of zombies. Very high body count…a great double feature with Versus.

9) Versus: 2002 Japanese film in which ruthless gangsters fight zombies from the 444th Portal of Hell in the Forest of Resurrection. Its relative plotlessness is made up for by a cool mix of traditional samurai and modern gang battles against the undead. Gangsters, Samurai zombies and machine guns…oh, my!

8) Shockwaves: 1977 Starring Peter Cushing the same year he was in Star Wars. A yacht full of party-goers shipwrecked on an island discover an aging S.S. officer (Cushing) whose experiments created a regiment of amphibious undead Nazi super-soldiers. Light on gore, heavy on atmosphere and iconic visuals of zombies from the deep.

7) Dellamorte Dellamore, also known as Cemetery Man- 1994 Starring Rupert Everett in an erotic, blackly comedic, and introspective zombie movie, directed by Michele Soavi, a student of Dario Argento. Everett is the lonely custodian of a cemetery in a small town in Italy, where unfortunately corpses keep rising from the grave. (don't you hate that?) He believes it his job to put them back in their place. Somehow love enters into the proceedings. Leave it to the Italians… 6) Demons 1985 Lamberto Bava (son of Italian horror maestro Mario Bava) directed this Dario Argento produced film about a group of filmgoers trapped in a West Berlin theatre where ravenous demons emerge from a haunted film to infect them and add to their numbers one by one. Claustrophobic and terrifying, this great classic is even greater seen as a double feature with Demons 2.