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InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Leofwine_draca If you thought that ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS was a low budget, poorly-made film, then wait until you see this rip-off! Andrea Bianchi disposed of a story entirely and instead hired Gino de Rossi (son of Giannetto) to create as many gut-wrenchingly gruesome moments as he possibly could on the film's poor budget. The plot consists of a group of people hiding out in a variety of locations - a mansion, a monastery, a model storeroom (!) and being picked off one by one by a pack of unruly zombies which have risen from the local caves after an interfering professor accidentally re-awoke their corpses! Just about everything in this movie is inept and that's what makes it fun. The lighting is almost non-existent; scenes are either bright or dark with nothing in between, no shadows for suggestion or anything. The dubbing is particularly stilted with inappropriate voices for the actors and actresses which don't match their characters at all. The sound varies between a laid-back jazz score and some weird computer noises in the zombie scenes which don't have the desired effect. The zombies themselves look pretty mouldy and scary thanks to some good masks and make-up, although you can see human skin in between the joins once too often for my liking. They are also tool users and grab a wide variety of weapons to help with their conquest. Although they are some of the slowest shamblers ever to grace a horror movie, they seem to have no trouble cornering the humans at every stage, at one point disguising themselves as monks to capture an unwilling victim!The movie is full of weird and wonderful characters. The first person we meet is a professor with a huge beard. Upon encountering the zombies, he cries "Stand back - I'm your friend!" Hilarious. The most memorable character of all is 'Michael' a supposed teenage boy actually played by a dwarf actor (why? Was there a shortage of child actors around or would they not allow a child to partake in some of the more adult scenes?) who sniffs a piece of rag and says "Momma! This cloth smells of death!". He also has Oedipal desires which come to a climax in the infamous scene at the conclusion! Another guy shouts "Whatever it is, it's not human!" on his encounter with a zombie - but isn't that obvious? Many scenes explicitly rip-off ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS, like a guy having his leg grabbed while embracing a girl ("Who are you?!"), a zombie rising from the ground, and a scene where a girl is pulled toward a shard of glass and killed. It's genuinely funny throughout, especially in scenes where people just stand and watch the zombies as they come towards them! Hello - you're about to get eaten - don't you think you better do something? Those crazy Italians! Other amusing moments have the zombies setting a man-trap in the garden for their next victim and working as car park attendants! One of them is particularly handy with knives and must have worked in a circus before he died.The setting of the deserted mansion is actually pretty eerie, although again it has been stolen from NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. There's an atmosphere of unease in the sense that a zombie could be lurking behind any door or corner. Of course such few eerie moments as there are, are countered by ludicrous others like the "shooting gallery" scene where a victim repeatedly shotguns the heads of the zombies causing them to explode all over! This causes the rest of the zombies to run off into the woods and return with better weapons next time. One other extremely weird moment has a zombie being thrown over a wall, and for some reason this is filmed in slow-motion. Whatever the intention, the effect is absolutely hilarious.Oddly, the freeze-frame ending actually works in this film; it closes in a downbeat fashion with one victim being shoved into a circular saw blade, the other being artistically surrounded by zombie hands. There's an amusing poem that comes up on screen that talks about the "nigths of terror" and the "profecy of the black spider" - hilarious stuff. And that's the ending of what may be one of the most poorly-made zombie movies out there, but is also one of, if not the, most hilarious with it, although I'm not sure how it would stand up to repeat viewing! Cheesy stuff from pasta-land, to be sure, so don't go in expecting a proper "film", as this is as far as you can get from a mainstream movie.The cheap gut-munching effects are plentiful but hardly realistic, only seen in close up to disguise the fact that its sheep offal or whatever. Most of the blood and gore is poorly done and lacking in realism - Gino obviously didn't inherit his dad's ace makeup talents. Even the nastiest scene - in which a woman has her breast bitten off and eaten - is really schlocky and the film-makers don't even go to the trouble of hiding the model breast that's used. However, at least the movie has a purpose now as a low budget stomach-churner, a bad film come good and a howl for genre lovers. Behold the "nigths" of terror!

callanvass This is when a slew of Zombie films were coming out, and a lot of them were low budget knockoffs of Dawn of The Dead. Dawn of The Dead itself wasn't that big of a budget, but that movie is the greatest Zombie film ever made, so it doesn't matter. You've really seen it all before when it comes to this one, except the Zombies have aging makeup with maggot infested bodies. This movie can be pretty controversial at times. Director Andrea Binachi gives us an incest subplot between a mother and daughter. Michael (Peter Bark) who plays the son was around 30 years old when this happened. So that makes it even weirder. Bark is a creepy looking kid; Michael has a sexual desire for his Mother, and let's just say; it's rather creepy. Look out for that scene near the end with the breast. I won't spoil it, but it's one of the more shocking things I've seen. The characters themselves are nothing special. They basically get ridden with atrocious dubbing and run and scream a lot. That's the problem with Italian Zombie films, is you really have nobody to root for in most of them. The gore flows like wine as to be expected, and the effects aren't too shabby. I didn't care too much for the Zombie makeup, but it wasn't bad. My main problem with this movie is the ending itself. It is extremely anticlimactic. It tries to be ambiguous, but it ended up pis****** me off more than anything else. I also have gripes with the pacing in the middle. There are too many scenes with zombies staggering around and the actors doing nothing of note. It became very redundant. Final Thoughts: Nothing original here, except for some rather shocking incest, but it does have moments of cheesy entertainment. I would recommend Zombie Holocaust over this one, but this one is good for a few laughs as well. 4/10

Rrrobert Similar to but in my opinion more fun than the Fulci zombi films. There's no real logic at all. The story simply throws three couples into a grand old vacation property where, for the film's first twenty minutes, they portray sex scenes and nudity. Then the unexplained, unrelenting zombi attacks begin. There's plenty of gore, suspenseful chase sequences, and scenes of terror.Though the story and the character behaviour made little sense I found much of the film pretty tense. The audience feels little or no empathy with the dim witted characters on screen (the jet setters are still ordering the servants around after the zombi attack has begun: 'Maid, go off alone and investigate, will you?!'). Yet despite this the many scenes where they are being pursued by the horrific looking zombies can be quite chilling, even though in the end you are glad when the silly victims finally do get eaten. The sumptuous mansion and grounds made a much more atmospheric location than the simple huts and palms of the Fulci films set on tropical islands.Actor Peter Bark is a very short 25 year old man made-up to resemble a teenager. His character has an incestuous love of his beautiful mother. They used an adult for this part because Italian child labour laws forbade use of an actual child in a film of this sort. The female cast members are all very beautiful and glamorous and provide the expected nudity nice and early in the film. They all get to appear in extended love scenes with their unattractive male partners.

Scott LeBrun Are you tired of explanation in horror films? Here's an Italian zombie flick, full of all of the requisite flesh munching, that never dwells too long on that pesky exposition that might otherwise intrude on all of the fun.Director Andrea Bianchi ("Strip Nude for Your Killer") dives almost right away into the gory set pieces, as a nosy professor creates trouble for his associates by opening a crypt, unleashing a zombie horde that proves to be very relentless in their efforts to make meals out of our various chump victims.Now, these zombies are some of the ugliest one may see in this sort of thing, and are pretty damn smart to boot, being able to manipulate weapons and tools. And our fated-to-be-zombie-dinners human characters sometimes don't try very hard to save their worthless butts. You add to that some typically hilarious work by the actors doing the dubbed in English voices, deliciously ridiculous English dialogue ("You're getting a raise from me, all right, but it has nothing to do with money!"), great music (by Elsio Mancuso and Berto Pisano), an attractive bunch of ladies (Karin Well, Antonella Antinori, and Mariangela Giordano), a generous dose of sex, and some very entertaining masks and makeup effects, and it creates an often quite funny and fairly action packed flick worth checking out.But no review of this movie would be complete without mentioning the reason why it should have a reputation & following: perhaps THE greatest depiction of an Oedipal relationship in the history of cinema, as the extremely memorable Peter Bark (who indeed bears something of a resemblance to director Dario Argento) plays a young man who laments the passing of the days when he could suck on his dear mothers' breast, and gets to relive this experience before the whole sordid story is over.Slip this into your DVD and/or BD player and be prepared to have some good laughs and thrills, done in that irresistibly wild Italian fashion that always guarantees a good time.Eight out of 10.