An
unidentified army airplane lands as an
army airforce which carries a radiation
and a group of blood drinking zombies
emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth
killing their way through as they need
constant transfusions of fresh blood from
living victims as they go through the
town of Italy to feed their hunger
through TV stations and hospitals.
The army needs to put a stop to these
blood sucking freaks but somehow they
keep growing more and more when they
contaminate others.
Oh man this
Italian zombie movie was an embarrassment
and very obscure which I could see why
now. As if Gates of Hell aka
City of the Living Dead wasn't
bad enough!
I saw footage of this on Terror
On Tape and it looked pretty bad
but wanted to check it out regardless.
The zombies looked amateurish as the make
up effects looked like total Toxic
Avenger. Also it was hard to
know if they were zombie's as they do
alot of fast action gunfighting but these
filmmakers probably wanted to make it
different than other living dead films.
Well folks, they don't succeed.
It was almost like a ripoff cross between
a George A. Romero and Ted
V. Mikels flick combined into one.
The acting is hard
to judge as it was overdubbed by American
actors but it looks pretty bad to say the
least.
Lead actor Hugo Stiglitz
doesn't pull off his part too well like
he should be doing as he bored me half to
death.
However, Laura Trotter who
played his wife seemed to do a fine job
with her scared emotions and great
expressions as she seemed convincing
enough to portray a character actress.
We have a breast shot on a
woman in a bedroom when a guy slips off
her top and makes a move on her
A woman nurse has her top torn off by a
zombie
Another woman is topless while being
cannibalised
An arm is sliced
off
Heads are shot or torn open
Eyes are stabbed
Heads are sliced
Umberto Lenzi really
makes this zombie flick unconvincing and
extremely corny too but there are some
interesting moments.
There is a good shot on an army plane
landing with actors like Hugo Stiglitz,
Francisco Rabal and Manuel Zarzo
all cornering the plane demanding them to
step out as it gives you a chilling
feeling that the living dead coupld
possibly be in the plane.
The extra's playing the zombie's
attacking and shooting people coming out
of the plane was not at all convincing
and very hokey.
There's good shots on the extra's as
zombie's attacking a TV station with
performers dancing as we spot good shots
on the gruesome results.
Nice angle shots on Stiglitz speeding
in his car and zombie's trying to cling
on to his vehicle.
The dialogues during many spots of the
film are boring and uninspired too about
what is going on.
We have a nice performance by Laura
Trotter in a hospital with freaked
out expressions and zombie's attacking
her in a hospital with her running away
and freaking out.
Trotter does well losing her mind
towards Stiglitz and him
slapping her.
We also have a nice shot on Maria
Rosaria Omaggio turning around with
a possessed feature on her face holding a
knife.
There's good shots on Stiglitz and
Trotter running away from
zombie's at an abandoned amausement park
climbing up a roller coaster rail.
Stelvio
Cipriani seems to do the job for the
film as he has great drum thumping sounds
with some funky suspenseful piano music
too. There's some quivering music too
which gives it a nice zombie feel too.
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