Thanks everyone for the R/R/Cs, still much appreciated,
What has happened to the site? i can't ret...
Thanks everyone for the R/R/Cs, still much appreciated,
What has happened to the site? i can't return rates on my latest reviews, the new format is a little 'iffy' . What are you doing ciao...???
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Director: George A. Romero. Producer: Richard P. Rubinstein Writer: George A. Romero Stars: Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joe Pilato, Sherman Howard, Antoine Dileo and Jarlath Conroy.
Released in 1985, 17 years after Romero's original idea of the dead walking the streets, this hour and forty minute horror sees the undead being held at a unorthodox military base and used in experiments to try and find a cure for the state of the world.
* BRIEF PLOT
Somewhere underground there are a groups of surviving humans who are holding a heard of zombie creatures in a massive prison type cell… The group consists of a couple of scientists, Dr Logan, (played by Richard Liberty) and Dr Ted Fisher, (played by John Amplas) and Sarah (Lori Cardille), who are studying the zombies in the hope of finding a way to defeat them. And a team of soldiers, led by Captain Rhodes, (played by Joseph Pilato), who does seem to be on the verge of a total brain meltdown. Unfortunately, the scientists and the soldiers are
constantly arguing about what to do with the many zombies they have trapped in the underground tunnels. With the two groups at loggerheads the other members in the compound, helicopter pilot John (played by Terry Alexander) and his friend William McDermott (played by Jarlath Conroy) try to avoid the friction and end up living deep inside one of the tunnels in a caravan, having a plan to fly to a desolate island and enjoy life away from the undead…
As Doctor Logan experiments on the zombies which the soldiers capture he hopes to find a way to co-inside with the flesh eating undead… using Bub, (played by Sherman Howard), a zombie who shows some signs of intelligence as his main experiment…. Unfortunately, as the soldiers job of capturing the zombies becomes deadly and Rhodes discovers the gruesome truth regarding Logans reward scheme for Bub the trouble really starts… leaving the entire underground compound in danger of being seize by the wondering zombies.
* IN CONCLUSION
Not the greatest of the Romero collection but still a good movie to watch with it's interesting storyline and a rather more in-depth look on a persons life… as it does try to show the different feeling of three 'groups' of survivors… the scientists who want to discover what has happened and what can be done to resolve the situation… then there's the soldiers who simply want to kill all the zombies before they escape and kill them all… and finally there's the 'civilians' who simply want to live out there lives without fear of being attacked by the undead…
The special effect are as 'comical' as you would expect from the living dead collection, (although with this one being made in the mid 80s you would have thought a little bit more attention to the gory scenes would have made it less tacky and a little more frightening… (although maybe the dodgy special effects are intentional??? Giving the movie that old fashioned look which Romero became so famous for with his first 'living dead' sagas??).
This story does tend to become a little on the deep feeling side, straying from the initial zombie horror track for a lot of the plot… seeming to concentrate more on the scientific research rather than gore factor, (of which the 'living dead' stories have always been about) does tend to make this one a little bit more boring than its predecessors, although it does catch up with itself towards the end when the blood fest does begin…
The all round acting is as good enough to keep the movie flowing, with each character displaying all sorts of emotions… Richard Liberty as the excitable Doctor logan with his experiments… Joseph Pilato as the completely insane and very dangerous Captain Rhodes and the laid back attitude of Alexander and Conroy as they simply try to live there lives to the full… But the man of the match award has to go to the brilliant Sherman Howard as Bub, the slightly intelligent zombie, who looks like he wouldn't hurt a fly… tending to make you feel sorry for him (in a way)… until you come to your senses and realise just what he is portraying…
In all, another brilliant creation from the very strange mind of George A. Romero and his zombie look on life… although this does tend to be slightly different with this one, giving it more of a sombre story line rather than his usual flesh ripping, brain eating, blood lusting story lines, (although there is a good amount of it in this movie too)
It is another fine gore movie to watch but is again probably not to everyones taste, (even if you approach it knowing it has a more humorous side than horrific side, due to it's very bizarre use of some dodgy special effects). If you are interested in adding this to your collection then you can get a copy from amazon.co.uk for as little as 6 and a half quid… which is not bad for over a hundred minutes of madcap mayhem….
Although not the best it is still worthy of watching for all you Romero fans…
** Other Soldiers in the movie under the command of the mad Captain Rhodes…
Privates Miguel Salazar (Anthony Dileo JR) Pvt Steel (Gary Howard Klar) pvt Rickles (Ralph Marrero) pvt Miller (Phillip G. Kellams) pvt Torrez (Taso N. Stavrakis) pvt Johnson (Gregory Nicotero)
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