With this movie, the Italian horror master Lucio Fulci gives us a pretty decent trip in the zombie genre.
The plot is simple. An unfortunate priest hangs himself and unleashes the evil into our world, somewhere in a small town in New England, presumably on an ancient Salem-like witchcraft cradle. The malevolent aether starts resurrecting the dead from graves and coffins, which unleash a festival of gore around them. A journalist, a psychiatrist and a psychic who was nearly buried alive team up to bring the supernatural mayhem to an end. Will they succeed?
This movie introduces the concept (at least to me) of ghost zombies, so literally you have zombies that appear out of nowhere, kill the unlucky ones, and then disappear into thin air as if they were never there.
The special effects are cool and, as a big fan of practical effects which I find far more realistic than even the most advanced CGI, they made a good impression on me. So, if you are a big fan of gore and decomposed bodies and stuff like that, you are really going to like it. The zombies way of killing is particularly interesting, they basically crush the skull and squeeze out the victim's brain with their hands. And you have a lot of intestines also. And again, if you are a maggot-loving freak, you're going to digest this one pretty easy.
The soundtracks produce some eerie '80 atmosphere here, so well recognized and beloved by the hardcore fans of this horror subgenre.
Of course, this film suffers, like almost all of its kind, from some well-known drawbacks, such as sloppy, underdeveloped characters who seem to lack the basic fight-or-flight survival reactions that would normally be triggered during a surreal situation such as those depicted in the movie, and cheesy dialogues, but nevertheless, this entry remains a highly enjoyable one especially for the dedicated fans who are willing to spend 90 minutes plunging themselves into 80's nostalgia.
The plot is simple. An unfortunate priest hangs himself and unleashes the evil into our world, somewhere in a small town in New England, presumably on an ancient Salem-like witchcraft cradle. The malevolent aether starts resurrecting the dead from graves and coffins, which unleash a festival of gore around them. A journalist, a psychiatrist and a psychic who was nearly buried alive team up to bring the supernatural mayhem to an end. Will they succeed?
This movie introduces the concept (at least to me) of ghost zombies, so literally you have zombies that appear out of nowhere, kill the unlucky ones, and then disappear into thin air as if they were never there.
The special effects are cool and, as a big fan of practical effects which I find far more realistic than even the most advanced CGI, they made a good impression on me. So, if you are a big fan of gore and decomposed bodies and stuff like that, you are really going to like it. The zombies way of killing is particularly interesting, they basically crush the skull and squeeze out the victim's brain with their hands. And you have a lot of intestines also. And again, if you are a maggot-loving freak, you're going to digest this one pretty easy.
The soundtracks produce some eerie '80 atmosphere here, so well recognized and beloved by the hardcore fans of this horror subgenre.
Of course, this film suffers, like almost all of its kind, from some well-known drawbacks, such as sloppy, underdeveloped characters who seem to lack the basic fight-or-flight survival reactions that would normally be triggered during a surreal situation such as those depicted in the movie, and cheesy dialogues, but nevertheless, this entry remains a highly enjoyable one especially for the dedicated fans who are willing to spend 90 minutes plunging themselves into 80's nostalgia.