Horror > Dead of Night Horror

Riotous Fun for the Most Part

Advantages: Brilliant fun, some interesting gore, hilarious!
Disadvantages: Overlong, technically dreadful!

Zombie Holocaust In 2005, my sister Claire and I decided to begin watching horror films. Fed up with the recent wave of sadistic, American slasher movies, we opted for something a little more exotic: the J-horror and Italian horror scenes. We had seen the Ring, the Grudge, Dark Water, The Beyond and so on, but wondered if delving deeper into the realms of weird, horror cinema would give us the 'absurd' high we were craving. To begin with, let me ...
...Absolutely hysterical, especially the goriest zombie death scene on the beach – realism loses whatever little grip it had on this film. Finally, another classic dreadful moment is the much-quoted ‘The patient's screaming disturbing me, performed removal of vocal chords’, which he removes by reaching no further than her tongue with a pair of tweezers and removing what looked to be something the size of a small tooth with relative ease. Another moment ...

storpey 27.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Zombie Holocaust (DVD)

the curse of the dead........

Advantages: gripping, haunting images
Disadvantages: not enough blood

...of Mario Bava's other films, Kill Baby, Kill is actually a quiet ghost story. It still creates the air of suspense throughout the film, and keeps you on edge. The Plot Dr Paul Eswai receives a summons from Inspector Kruger to come to a small village in Transylvania. He is asked to perform an autopsy on the body of a young girl who was found impaled on iron railings. He is helped by Monica, who is ex-local girl. Whilst Dr Paul Eswai stays to help ...
...Graps. Melissa was a young girl who had been left to bleed to death after an accident by drunken villagers. Her spirit is said to still roam the village and whoever catches sight of it suffers the same fate she did. Soon, one by one, the villagers start dying. Inspector Kruger is also found dead. Dr Paul Eswai needs to find a way to stop the deaths before he suffers from the same fate. The main characters Rossi-Stuart as Dr Paul Eswai Piero Lulli ...

madhatter7880 27.07.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Kill Baby Kill (DVD)

Attack of the Killer Pigeons <Guffaw>

Advantages: Has the right B Movie Feel
Disadvantages: But just ain't scary!

...of humans being attacked by birds that are otherwise normally very docile. It seems that bird-kind has had enough of being pushed around and now it is the humans who are in their way, as opposed to the other way round. The similarities to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds are evident - conceptually, Birds of Prey is roughly about the same idea. Sadly, in the hands of a far less visionary director, and with a far smaller budget, Birds of Prey is unlikely ...
...Heel and saves the day. Birds of Prey plays roughly to this formula. The setting is slightly unusual - the action takes place in Spain rather than the USA - but otherwise things play to a tried and tested formula. Events start out on a small scale and then quickly escalate until they've suddenly got out of hand. There are those who disbelieve, rapidly persuaded otherwise when they see the problem with their own hands. And then there are the innocents; ...

LostWitness 14.10.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Birds Of Prey (DVD)

Look out .... ZOMBIE SHARK!

Advantages: All zombie fans will love this.
Disadvantages: The films dub is a little off, but who cares when there's zombies involved.

...yet to see all the zombie features.. so I'm a little slow - bite me ;^) This is one that has been in the back of my brain on my must watch list for a long time. Up until I recently saw the film, I suppose I was a little sceptic to it being in any way as entertaining as some of the brilliant Romero films (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead).. But I was pleasantly surprised at how scary and gore-tastic it was. The fantastically ...

janstephens 21.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Zombie Flesh Eaters (DVD)

Dead Gory

Advantages: Well written, tense, black humour, make up and effects, Davina McCall(!)
Disadvantages: Violent and very gory, a little padded in places

...format. 3. Parts of Dead Set are pretty gruesome, so if you’re of a nervous disposition you may not even want to read the rest of this review, never mind follow any of the links at the end. Not Ideal Boyfriend Material How’s this for a nightmare scenario? You’re a lowly female member of the production team on Big Brother. No no, that’s not it. There’s more. Not long ago you were engaged in a passionate clinch with Danny, your new almost-boyfriend, ...
...above scene appears early in Dead Set, a zombie thriller by Charlie Brooker, who writes a humorous column in The Guardian and also writes and presents TV programmes including Screenwipe. The original idea for the story came, surprisingly, from watching an episode of “24”, the American thriller series starring Kiefer Sutherland. In one of his Guardian columns Brooker wrote: "The idea for my TV show Dead Set (in which zombies attack the Big Brother ...

jonathanb 06.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Dead Set (DVD)