An
army airplane which carries a biological
weapon ona germ warfare crashes and
causes a huge virus to spread ina small
town of Pensyvannia which causes locals
to slowly lose their sanity and creates
murders on others.
An army tries to flee locals from their
homes until they clear the problem but
some are risking their lives while doing
this and five people manage to escape the
grips of the government army to try and
survive this madness on their own only to
try to be gunned down by them.
Slowly each and one of them starts to
lose their sanity and each of them have a
hard time trusting one another as well as
risking their own lives from each of them
since some of them don't seem to be
themselves anymore.
Half of this film
just shows the military and government
going on missions to abandon any local
resident due to the virus which seemed
quite pointless as I was thinking when
will this film get going?
There's alot of paced paced
action with soldiers
preparing to go in to invade
neighborhoods along with camera shots
looking up on them breaking into homes
with disturbing shots on families getting
upset by all of this being taken away.
There's many great intense argumentive
discussions between Maj. Ryder, Artie and Dr. Watts in their headquarters on what
to do with the madness happening.
There's some good moments like a local crazy showing
paranoid expressions and shooting at the
soldiers or an old lady sitting in a
chair happily knitting with a solider at the house demanding
her to come with him and she uses her
knitting equipment to stab him which
really psychs you out that these situations
looked good and deceiving on her.
Plus there's great takes on locals being chased and gunned down near
a wooded area along with shots on their
bodies being thrown in a fire as well
as children seeing their
parents getting killed which the scene's that we spot here certainly looked
disturbing.
There's a good discussion with Kathy almost getting emotional
towards Col. Peckem on how
she's feeling about everything with good
close up shots on this.
There's many great takes on the main characters escaping through the forest
and hiding away from the army base as
well as a nice shot on Kathy laughing hysterically on what she's
seeing which looked a little psyched out
in a good way
after spotting people a distant away and
the tragedies happening.
There's good shots on them trying to
dodge away from a helicopter shooting at
them in the woods and them trying to
shoot back.
There's a great moment with Kathy trying to run towards the soldiers with Peckem trying to grab her and stop her for being
caught which looked nicely twisted.
There's a great creepy moment with Peckem trying to rape Kathy and then Clank grabbing at him and hitting him which
looked tense and then David trying to break it up with Clank just going crazy.
There's a good moment with Kathy just floating around outside acting like
she's intoxicated towards some soldiers
outside and talking to them along with
good shots at them shooting at her.
There's nice shots on David putting brick type layers around Judy to protect her when he is about to plan
to protect themselves from an invasion
with other soldiers along with good
emotional moments on Judy with all of this.
There's nice intense camera shots on
a supporting character Dr. Watts trying to show samples of blood to the
military and then they get forceful with
him as well as a crowd of people going
crazy around him causing him to fall down
a balcony which looked quite suspenseful.
There's a nice moment with David getting upset after she is killed and him
firing away with his gun looking
menacing.Halfway through though it does get
interesting when some people escape the
grips of the soldiers and try to survive
on what's going on but yet I'm thinking
to myself that this seems like mainly an
action suspense flick. Yet, there are
lots of moments with bodies being burned
as well as people losing their sanity due
to this virus going around so George
A. Romero was trying something a
little psychological than his average
zombie horror flicks with this one. This
is not even close to being considered a
zombie film. However the blood effects
look a bit fake looking like red paint
like you see in Dawn of the Dead due to it's low budget. Still it was
artsy looking nonetheless.
It does look creepy with some residents
looking like they're okay but yet act
deadly when it comes to the bottom of
things. It's also very disturbing with
children involved seeing their families
being killed or their parents acting
crazy which is for sure not a film you
want your child to see.
Bottom line is that this flick is a bit
boring in alot of spots but there's some
interesting moments when some people who
try to survive slowly turn crazy as well
as trying to fight for their lives
against the soldiers in this film while
these soldiers are wearing suits with gas
masks which almost reminds you of
something like My Bloody
Valentine but of course that
story is totally different. There's nice
looks on the great outdoors but that's
about it. It reigned in as a cult classic
and in 2010 a remake was made on this
which became more known.
The acting is not
too bad in which everyone really tries
their best in this one with all the
excitment happening. It's sometimes hard
to tell at time though. Lead actress Lane
Carroll (Judy) really brought out some good
emotions with her crying by what is
happening towards the end of her
performance and really losing her mind
too. In the beginnning of her film she
just seems average but by all means not
at all terrible in which she comes across
nicely with her role in the film.
Will MacMillan (David) brings a nice
seriousness to his part of the film and
shows a nice aggressive attitude too when
he needed to be by trying to defend
anyone with the soldiers trying to attack
him and his group of people. He shows
nice expressions too with his part
proving that he can pull of a character
in his role.
Harols Wayne Jones (Clank) came across
nicely too as someone with a bit of an
attitude along with really knowing how to
get physical too bringing out alot of
energy to his role. He had the rough
looks too which was a nice bonus to his
character.
Lloyd Hollar (Col. Peckem) does well as someone
who is protective and came across great
that way along with a nice seriousness to
his role. He really knew how to lose his
sanity as well a quarter way through the
film which seemed very impressive.
Of course we can't forget about cult
actress Lynn Lowry (Kathy) whom was one
of the best cast members showing a nice
sensitive type of attitude and being soft
spoken. She does a great job at losing
her mind and really acting light headed
like she's not herself at all. She always
has done a nice job with her work and
really shows it here and bringing off a
nice psychological tpye of horror appeal
in her part.
Some brief breast
shot on a woman in bed in the morning
Some other odd tit shots with a woman in
bed being dragged out by soldiers
There's bloody gun
shots and stabbings.
Blood being smeared on soldiers bodies
and the victims as crazies too.
Blood is splurted out of a guy's head.
The gore isn't as bloody as reputed to be
though.
There's many traditional
army drum beating on soldiers going out
on a mission as well as other sound
effects that sounds similar to the
opening on the Six Million Dollar
Man TV series. Plus there's the
odd cymbal clangings too with some
accoustic guitar strumming all done by a
famous songwriter named Bruce Roberts marking his debut with this cult
flick.
There's a terrific songtrack during the
closing credits called "Heaven Help
Us" sung by Beverly Bremers in which she sounds pleasant with her
beautiful voice and harmony almost
sounding like a Carpenters tune.
The song really suits the closing
credits.
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