RNL
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Post by RNL on Dec 7, 2009 1:36:09 GMT
Finally got around to watching this. The pacing is very unexpected, very slow, or very confident in an ultimate payoff.
Fulci has a good eye, there's a lot of evocative images. Desolate village streets. Shambling zombies in longshot. Underwater photography.
The infamous eyeball scene made me squirm.
Lovely synth score.
Atrocious dubbing.
It's an unofficial sequel to Dawn of the Dead, with opening and closing sequences in New York that account for the origin of the zombies - with voodoo, apparently, which would undermine the apocalyptic social commentary of Romero's films somewhat if it were canon.
Those conquistadores should've been skeletons, that didn't really make sense, but it was effective.
What do people write in these threads?
Oh dear...
Here's a zombie attacking a shark.
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Post by ronnierocketago on Dec 7, 2009 2:33:39 GMT
The shot I always remember, and still impressed by, was the rising of the conquistadore zombies...and then that quick lurch for a bite. Fulci wasn't so much remembered for his filmatics for his movies were pure exploitation junk to be devoured back home in Italy. Which explains that DAWN "sequel" bullshit because DAWN OF THE DEAD released over there as ZOMBI. Still, he made an impression for his (screwy) gory creativity in still making some folks squirm to this day. Though that ZOMBIE ending still is unintentionally funny with the radio guy's last message and then URRRRRRRRRRGH! Humorous.
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Post by RNL on Dec 7, 2009 2:41:14 GMT
Apparently he was a Marxist. But so were most European artists of his generation. Sigh...
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Post by ronnierocketago on Dec 7, 2009 5:50:12 GMT
You should try to review his NEW YORK RIPPER someday. I mean a NYC serial killer movie where said killer talks in a Donald Duck lisp.
And hey, boogie to the soundtrack! Shake those hips bitches!
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