Showing posts with label zombies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label zombies. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Flesh Eater

Flesh Eater (1988)
Director: Bill Hinzman
Starring: Bill Hinzman
Personal Rating: 1/5

"After terrifying millions of moviegoers for over 30 years, the original zombie (Bill Hinzman) from George Romero's classic NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is back and hungrier than ever! FLESHEATER follows the path of a not-quite-dead killer one dark Halloween night. Join a group of teenagers as they take the nocturnal hayride of a lifetime in a pulse-pounding, non-stop onslaught of suspense, fright and splattering gore!"

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Friday, September 12, 2008

Junk

Junk (1999)
Director: Atsushi Muroga
Starring: Kaori Shimamura, Yuji Kishimoto
Personal Rating: 2.5/5

"A gang of thieves are on the run after a successful heist. They make a deal with the local yakuza to sell their stolen jewels at an abandoned army base. Little do they know the government has been experimenting on the dead. The dead rise and it's an all out war between the thieves, yakuza and the army, in a desperate attempt to not only stop the zombies but to stay alive."

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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

The Dead Pit

The Dead Pit (1989)
Director: Brett Leonard
Starring: Jeremy Slate, Cheryl Lawson
Personal Rating: 2/5
"Zombies rise up from a terrifying pit beneath a notorious mental asylum to do the bidding of the evil Dr. Ramzi, the crazed doctor who twenty years before was walled up alive in the crazy house after someone discovered his horrific experiments involving formaldehyde and illegal lobotomies. Following each experiment, the doctor would casually toss the dead victims into the pit. While his captor slowly bricks him up, Ramzi swears that he will have revenge. When enigmatic Jane Doe is admitted into the asylum for severe amnesia and she turns out to have amazing subconscious psychic power that wakens Ramzi from his hellish sleep, he gets his revenge. Jane and Ramzi seem to be psychically linked and he draws his power from her as he begins to resurrect his former victims. He then sends his small zombie army out into the hospital to find new recruits. Gory, creative killing occurs, for Ramzi's zombies are not only quick, they are also semi-intelligent. Now only Jane, the doctor who originally killed Ramzi, a psychotic demolitions expert and a lunatic zombified nun can stop them."-© Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)
Director: Jorge Grau
Starring: Cristina Galbó, Ray Lovelock
Personal Rating: 3.5/5

"In a small town in the north of England, an experimental pest-control device is being used with horrific consequences. Edna (Cristine Galbo) and George (Ray Lovelock) are unlikely traveling companions - they met en-route when she backed her car into his motorbike and subsequently offered him a lift to his destination. Stopping over near Manchester, Edna is attacked by a man that the locals say has been dead for days. Edna and George soon realize that inhabitants are being murdered by the re-animated dead: the new pesticides used in the area are bringing the dead back to life, and for sustenance they need human flesh."-© Xploited Cinema

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Sunday, June 22, 2008

Hell of the Living Dead

Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
Director: Bruno Mattei
Starring: Margit Evelyn Newton, Franco Garofalo
Personal Rating: 4/5

"An accident at a chemical plant unleashes a horrific virus, and an elite SWAT team is sent to New Guinea to investigate. But when they arrive on the hellish island, they discover a plague of flesh-eating zombies as well as a beautiful female reporter who practices nude anthropology. Can the commandos survive this cannibal rampage, uncover a shocking government secret, and still find time for the occasional cross-dressing before the ravenous hordes of the living dead infect the entire world? Directed by the notorious Bruno Mattei, this ‘80s Italian gut-muncher is infamous for its eye-popping gore, jaw-dropping dialog and heart-stopping use of inappropriate stock footage."

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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Nightmare City

Nightmare City (1980)
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Starring: Hugo Stiglitz, Mel Ferrer
Personal Rating: 4/5

"Miller (Hugo Stiglitz) is a reporter on to something when he sees passengers disembark from a plane and start attacking and murdering whomever they come across -- no, they are not upset with their service, they are zombies -- or more accurately ghouls who need human blood to stay alive. While flight attendants may contend that more than one ghoul is on any flight, this group was contaminated by a man exposed to radiation that leaked from a nuclear plant, and they are hereafter identifiable by their black-face make-up, if not their eating habits. When Miller tries to notify the citizens that these monsters are on the loose, he is rudely stopped by a nasty general (Mel Ferrer) who does not want to make the public unnecessarily hysterical. The monsters have a molecular structure that is not affected by bullets, and so in imitation of the accepted code that zombies only die with a shot to the head, the general launches his attack "aiming for the control center" of each zombie head, before everyone is converted into the blood-thirsty monsters."-© Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

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Sunday, June 8, 2008

The Dead Next Door

The Dead Next Door (1988)
Director: J.R. Bookwalter
Starring: Peter Ferry, Bogdan Pecic
Personal Rating: 3.5/5

"The feature debut of ultra-low-budget horror auteur J.R. Bookwalter, this fast-paced zombie mini-epic is very likely the most expensive movie ever shot on Super-8 film. Playing with the long-established mythos of George A. Romero's Living Dead trilogy, was produced with the help of many of the The Dead Next DoorEvil Dead crew: financial backer Sam Raimi is credited as "Master Cylinder" and one of the characters is named after him; Evil Dead co-writer Scott Spiegel plays a role; and some character voices are dubbed by Bruce Campbell. The story centers on the members of the "Zombie Squad" -- an assault team trained in the hunting and extermination of the living dead -- and their mission to track down the scientists who developed a zombie-making virus and find the rumored antidote. Of the many lethal obstacles in their path, the deadliest comes in the form of a religious cult whose leader sees the zombie epidemic as a precursor of Armageddon -- and is hell-bent on expediting it. Very stylish for what is essentially an epic-scale home movie (and gushing with plentiful home-style gore effects), this remains Bookwalter's best effort and contains numerous witty homages to the Romero films which inspired it."-© Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide

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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Burial Ground

Burial Ground (1981)
Director: Andrea Bianchi
Starring: Karin Well, Peter Bark
Personal Rating: 3.5/5

"Another entry in a nearly endless string of Italian variants on George A. Romero's zombie films, Andrew Bianchi's Le Notti del Terrore (Burial Ground) borrows its scenario most heavily from Night of the Living Dead. The story opens with a loony professor unsealing a crypt and releasing voodoo-animated corpses, who immediately make up for lost time by devouring him and every other living human within reach. They eventually gate-crash the professor's posh country villa where a collection of painfully annoying upper-crust types are throwing a party... and since these jet-setters are also phenomenally stupid, the shambling zombies are soon enjoying a human buffet. Virtually plotless, this silly little gore-fest may hold a certain perverse appeal for those looking forward to seeing these obnoxious characters eaten alive (at least the zombies have the good sense to keep silent). The most outrageous scene comes when a young mother is so overjoyed to see her weird, huge-headed son (played by an adult dwarf) back from the dead that she immediately decides to breast-feed him!"-© Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide

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Saturday, April 12, 2008

Zombie Holocaust

Zombie Holocaust (1979)
Director: Marino Girolami
Starring: Ian McCulloch, Alexandra Delli Colli
Personal Rating: 5/5

"Following the success of Zombie (aka. Zombi 2) and Cannibal Holocaust in 1979, producer Fabrizio De Angelis came up with the idea of cashing in on the subjects at the same time. By taking the basic plot of Zombi 2 and adding elements of cannibal films, Zombie Holocaust was born. The film starts off in New York, where a hospital worker is found to have been devouring bodies in the morgue. It turns out that he was originally a native of one of the Moluccan Islands, and similar corpse mutilations have occurred in other city hospitals, where immigrants from this region are also working. Led by Dr. Peter Chandler (Ian McCulloch), an expedition is organized to the islands to find out the reason behind the terrible happenings. However, on the Moluccas the crew are soon hunted by cannibals and zombies, the latter being created by the sinister Dr. Obrero who is experimenting with corpses. Lori (Alexandra Delli Colli), an attractive lady in the expedition team, is accepted as queen of the cannibals, and sends them off against the mad scientist and his zombie army."

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Thursday, March 27, 2008

The Beyond

The Beyond (1981)
Director: Lucio Fulci
Starring: Catriona MacColl, David Warbeck
Personal Rating: 4/5

"Beneath a run-down New Orleans hotel lies a dark, evil secret. the entrance to the underworld is waiting to be opened, and when the new residents of the hotel move in...the evil is awakened. Demonic forces of all shapes and sizes are rising up and violently attacking the living one by one. Can the text of an ancient book save the tenants from horrible death? Will mankind prevail over the demonic forces, or will it perish in a bleak wasteland conquered by legions of the undead?"

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