Warm bodies? Dead Alive/Braindaead? its not really my genre but I always understood that the humans as the monsters was always the point of zombies. They fill a niche as a human made natural disaster. They aren’t interesting in and of themselves. They don’t really have personalities so you can’t make them protagonists which means the story is usually about the humans, and the humans are usually responsible for the zombies. Showing humans as the real monsters is pretty much what zombies are for. If you want more of a horror bend there are usually better monsters for that. My guess is you are more likely to find what you are looking for in movies where the zombie virus is natural or movies where there is more of a comedic bend. There is at least one movie where it takes place from the zombies perspective.

@anduin I might have been Eeek a zombie, wgich did have a good take on it. But I agree with @M I hate seeing humans as the problems in the zombie epoch, especially when they have a common threat, too bad there are about as assholes out there to make this seem like a reasonable idea

I can think of movies which are decidedly not “Humans are the real monsters”, but not ones that are explicitly about the zombies rather than the (human) characters who happened to share a world with them.

That said, I’m not totally sure what you’re looking for? Every zombie story I have ever seen, the zombies are fairly incidental. They serve as a horrific and strange disaster, but ultimately offer little to a narrative that a similarly large disaster would not offer. The main advantage they have is that A. They are pretty scary in a surreal sort of way and B. there presence makes for a good excuse at self-analysis.

…Having said that, I think of a couple of stories that, while they may not technically be “all about the zombies”, do offer somewhat refreshing takes relative to what you seem to be complaining about:

– Zombieland (Movie)
– World War Z (Probably the Novel Only. By all accounts the movie is terrible)