Horror Movie discussion: ZOMBIES

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As promised SV, here are some of my recommendations. These are in no particular order and I have also not posted things like Dawn, Day, Shaun etc. that I am sure others have and will recommend. I have tried to post a few you may not have heard of:

LIVING DEAD AT THE MANCHESTER MORGUE aka LET SLEEPING CORPSES LIE



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Quote:Brought about by the use of a new, radiation emitting device intended to destroy insect's nervous systems, the dead are brought back to life due to the jump start the radiation provides to their nervous systems. After the murder of a woman's estranged husband, police suspect the woman, her sister and a relative stranger (who was only along because the sister had run into his motorcycle only hours prior) of involvement in the murder, and as the bodies begin to accumulate the police chief becomes more and more convinced of their involvement.

Great Italian/Spanish co-production set in England, with some very memorable zombies:




ZOMBI 2 aka ZOMBIE FLESHEATERS



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Quote:A sail boat arrives in New York without a living soul but a zombie that attacks two guards from the Coast Guard. The daughter of the owner of the ship, Anne Bowles (Tisa Farrow), requests information about her missing father that was in the Antilles to the detectives that are investigating the crime without success. She meets the journalist Peter West (Ian McCulloch) and they decide to investigate what might have happened to her father. They travel to Matul Island with Brian Hull (Al Cliver) and Susan Barrett (Auretta Gay) in their boat. Once in the tropical island, they meet Dr. David Menard (Richard Johnson), who is trying to find a cure to a disease that brings dead back to life, turning them into zombies that eat human flesh, increasing the menace against the group.

Italy had a trend of unofficially making sequels to US movies. Romero's Dawn of the Dead was released in Italy as Zombi and director Lucio Fulci made an unofficial sequel (story is actually more of a prequel) in Zombie Flesheaters (Zombi 2). Most famous for the notorious eyeball piercing scene, the film also contains an amazing underwater scene with a zombie fighting a shark

Fulci also went to make a further trilogy of "living dead" films with:

CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD AKA GATES OF HELL



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Quote:In the small New England town of Dunwich, a priest commits suicide by hanging himself in the church cemetary which somehow opens the gates of hell allowing the dead to rise. Peter, a New York City reporter, teams up with a young psychic, named Mary, to travel to the town where they team up with another couple, psychiatrist Jerry and patient Sandra, to find a way to close the gates before All Saints Day or the dead all over the world will rise up and kill the living.

THE BEYOND aka SEVEN DOORS OF DEATH



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Quote:The New Yorker Liza Merril (Katherine MacColl) inherits an old hotel in Louisiana, and invests her savings to reopen the place. While repairing the building, many people dies, and local Dr. John McCabe (David Warbeck) feels close to Liza and tries to help her to solve the mystery of the hotel. Meanwhile, Emily (Sarah Keller), a blind woman, advises Liza to leave the place as soon as possible. Later they realize that the place is one gate of hell and has been opened, permitting the dead walk on Earth.

HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY



AMAZON (imdb synopsis was rubbish):

Quote:A young family moves from their cramped New York City apartment to a spacious new home in New England. But this is no ordinary house in the country: the previous owner was the deranged Dr. Freudstein, whose monstrous human experiments have left a legacy of bloody mayhem. Now, someone - or something - is alive in the basement, and home sweet home is about to become a horrific hell on earth.

Another few I thought of to mention are for those who enjoy very, very over-the-top films:

NIGHTMARE CITY



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Quote:TV news reporter Dean Miller waits at the airport for the arrival of a scientist that he is about to interview. There, an unmarked military plane makes an emergency landing. The plane doors open and dozens of zombies burst out stabbing and shooting military waiting outside. Miller tries to let the people know of this event, but General Murchison of Civil Defense will not allow it. Then, Miller tries to find his wife and escape from the blood-thirsty zombies that are all over the city.

Following on from zombies flying a plane is of course:

FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD aka PLANE DEAD



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Quote:On a flight from Los Angeles to Paris, a mad scientist on the run from the CIA is transporting a coffin containing the body of a colleague infected with a genetically modified virus. While the 747 crosses a violent thunderstorm, the instability of the aircraft allows the corpse to get out of its container. The flesh-eating zombie quickly starts to spread the virus, infecting many of the passengers which now will have to fight for their lives stranded in the air with no way out...

Shaun of the Dead billed itself as a Rom Zom Com (Romantic Zombie Comedy) but before Shaun the original RomZomCom was

BRAINDEAD aka DEAD ALIVE



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Quote:A poisonous Sumatran rat-monkey is taken from a desert island to a zoo in New Zealand. Lionel takes his new girlfriend Paquita there. His pain-in-the-ass mother follows him, probably suffering from some kind of reverse Oedipus complex. She is bitten by the monkey and gradually dies and turns into a zombie. Then she goes around hunting people, and everybody she bites also turn into zombies. Lionel has bigger and bigger problems fighting the zombies and hiding them from Paquita and the rest of the world. Finally, Lionel and Paquita get into a fight with hundreds of zombies during a party of unwanted guests at Lionel's home.

Directed by a certain Peter Jackson, years before he ventured into Middle Earth. Also, if you have seen Jackson's King Kong, the scene where Adrian Brody is taken into the hold of the ship to write and he walks past animal cages of all sizes. One of the cages is marked "Sumatran Rat-Monkey"!



Well, there is a bunch to be going on with.

I will be back with some films which take a different approach to Zombies/Living Dead and also my views on zombie flicks.