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Horroctober 2012

My father's father always say: when the Earth spit out the dead, they shall come back to suck the blood from the living.
-Native

I fully realize that some (or a lot of) people will give me a funny look for thinking this is a good film, but I truly do. My experience so far with Lucio Fulci films is that sometimes it's hard to look past the putrid gore to see the talent behind the camera. I do question if Fulci actually directed the entire film though.

I'm sure he directed the majority of it, it's just there's a few of the New York scenes that are devoid of any sort of style especially compared…

A.K.A. Zombie Flesh Eaters... A.K.A. The unofficial Italian sequel to Romero's Dawn of The Dead. (!) Which has nothing to do with it plot-wise!

Just purchased the new restored and uncut version of this from Arrow Video, and I have to admit: I love it. The ban it received during the "video nasty" hysteria was totally uncalled for. If anybody had a problem with it, it should've been for its silliness. But, it is the silliness that lets Zombie Flesh Eaters stand the test of time; where else would you find a zombie wrestle a shark in the Caribbean? Only in a Italian zombie flick, that's where!

The great thing about masters like Lucio Fulci, he has the balls to…

I got a ton of films for christmas and now things have returned to normality, I'm going to start fighting my way through them. First is the blu-ray of Zombie Flesh Eaters.

I don't know how I've avoided this for so long, it's exactly the type of film I normally try to seek out so I sat down with great expectations of a exploitation gorefest. To its credit ZFE tries to be a bit more serious, sure there's lots of blood and some naked ladies scuba-diving, but behind that is a plot with a bit of substance concerning a voodoo curse and a doctor trying to find a cure. Unfortunately the story isn't developed as far as I would have…

"When the earth spits out the dead... They will return to tear the flesh of the living..."

This is far superior to Dawn of the Dead in my humble opinion (the original, perhaps not the remake). The Italians knew their thing, and Lucio Fulci was the king of beautifully photographed "squirm horror". In this cult classic he slowly drives a splinter through a woman's eyeball in extreme closeup. He also has a real shark fight it out with a zombie right after a woman has dived through the area topless - movie scenes don't get much better than that!

This is only the second time I've seen this one, but I came to appreciate it a lot more this time…

Gave it a re-watch as I couldn't really remember much about it and had recommended it to someone recently.

I still love the opening scene with the boat and the cops, it then gets a little stale for a while, but probably its 2nd most famous scene is the turning point in the film; the shark/zombie bit! The most famous, at a guess, is probably the eye gag..? Either way, it kicks the film back into life (pun intended) and from then on in it's just over-the-top levels of gore and action as they fight off the living dead.

I first saw the film on TV when it was on the Horror Channel (I think) and quite enjoyed most of…

I’m not quite sure when we reached saturation point but it seems like over the past few years the unthinkable has happened. Zombies have become boring. Every chancer and their granddad is making a zombie film from the lowest of low budgets to the A list and most of them aren’t very good. Worse than that, they are becoming appropriated by the mainstream and stripped of their original meaning.

Anyone who has seen the trailer for the upcoming World War Z couldn’t help but be shocked by shitty CGI zombies and jingoistic undertones. The upcoming Warm Bodies sees zombies falling in love and even providing voice-overs. It’s virtually sacrilegious. It’s like the Sex Pistols being covered on The X Factor.…