Advantages: Well-built suspense, compelling enough story Disadvantages: Very dated, some wooden acting
Barbra and her brother, Johnny, are taking flowers to their father's grave. Knowing it is getting late, Johnny teases his sister, telling her that a man they can see in the distance is coming to get her. Little does he know that the man really is going to try and get Barbra. Johnny manages to fight the man off, but then is caught himself, leaving Barbra with little option but to run for her life. Finding a seemingly empty house, she barricades herself ... ...Surrounded by zombies, Ben does what he can to protect them, but is it enough? The news on the radio is grim - the whole of the area is infested with flesh-eating zombies, following a radiation leak. And just who are the five people hiding in the cellar?
I am not particularly a fan of zombie movies - I like the occasional horror, but much prefer it Asian-style - that is, minus zombies. However, I received a free copy of this film and knowing that ...
sunmeilan 12.11.2007
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Advantages: Influential and a great watch. Disadvantages: Dated there are better zombie movies out there these days.
I doubt that when George A. Romero first created this b-movie on a budget of just $114,000, he realised it would become the inspiring and classic film it is today. Now seen as a semi-cult classic it is the king of the horror b-movies.
Although it wasn't the first ever zombie movie, previous films such as Victor Halperin's White Zombie, were based on living people been controlled by a voodoo witch and were mainly set in the Carribean. Romero brought ... ...they are in todays modern cinema. With this film an entire new horror sub genre was created and Romero revealed how powerful exploitation was by setting the film in very ordinary circumstances.
When the film was first released however, it was dismissed because of the graphic scenes and the gore. However, since then it has seen many imitators including The Evil Dead and 28 Days Later and has been parodied by films such as Shaun Of The Dead as well ...
oo2bea 11.11.2008
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Ii was alright but not the greatest thing in the world! Could have done better but I'd give it a satisfactory! Bit too dated! ...
elsie002 12.11.2007
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the dead and returning to life, only that the living are their eviscerated victims. In a remote wooden farmhouse seven people fight for their lives against ever-inc...
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Production Year: 1998 - Horror - Director: Jamie Blanks - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Jared Leto, Alicia Witt, Michael Rosenbaum, Joshua Jackson, Rebecca Gayheart, Robert Englund, Tara Reid
Production Year: 2004 - Horror - Director: Alexander Witt - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Thomas Kretschmann, Jared Harris, Sandrine Holt, Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr
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