Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

Uriah43 A group of scientists go to a tropical island to work on a cure for cancer. In the process they attempt to cure a young girl of leukemia but fail. Her father, who happens to be a voodoo witchdoctor, blames them for her death. As a result he conjures up a plague which turns everyone on the island into zombies. The only person who escapes is a little girl named "Jenny" (Candice Daly). How she escaped from the island isn't known but she returns 20 years later with a group consisting of 4 men and 1 woman named "Louise" (Adrianne Joseph). The men are veterans of Vietnam who have become mercenaries and apparently all of them have gone to the island simply to check it out. Also on the island is a smaller group of people who are investigating what happened to the scientists 20 years earlier. One of these members, named "David" (Massimo Vanni), reads from the "Book of the Dead" he just happened to find and accidentally brings the zombies back into action. Anyway, this film has lots of action and plenty of gore. Sadly, it also has extremely bad acting, an awful script and some very annoying music throughout. To make a long story short, this film had some potential. But it was too poorly developed and executed to realize it. That said, only extreme zombie fanatics will probably find any satisfaction with it.

geminiredblue No-one can blame Italian Euro-trash for consistency! Borrowly liberally from the over-arcing story in ZOMBIE, the movie is set on a tropical island (filmed in the Phillipines) about the dead rising up to kill a team of scientists. The sole survivor is a little girl with a pendant. How she makes it off the island, the movie doesn't show. In fact, the movie is pretty scant on details (not even a little "20 years later..." inter-title?) Anyway, "20 years later..." she returns as part of a boatload of stereotyped characters. No kidding, it sounds like the beginning of a joke: "So, this blond chick, some mercenaries, a black dude, and a few others are on this boat. And the boat pulls them into an island over-run with the undead..." Almost immediately upon setting foot on-land, one of the characters spots a weird be-robed figure running through the forest and (naturally) chases after him. Why? We don't know, but he does. And of course, upon catching the figure, he's bitten and the survivors hole up in what looks like a rundown hospital. Conveniently, there is a makeshift graveyard out back. As night wears on, the dead rise and claim the living. As is usually the case with these bad movies, I live for moments of sheer stupidity. This movie contains two moments! The first is at the very beginning when the wife of a voodoo priest (and I swear I'm not making this up) is literally pulled down to Hell. She re-emerges moments later as a green gob spewing she-demon with claws, incredible speed and jumping. At one point, she even hovers in mid-air. The second is when the black dude is surrounded by zombies in the hospital. The other survivors have escaped, but he decides to stay behind and sacrifice himself. The zombies are closing in and he's holding a grenade. One zombie says "We'll all be together again" and the black dude replies "We'll be together, forever!" And drops the grenade. BOOM! The ending makes absolutely no sense, though it is eerie. Then again, the same could be said about most Italian horror movies. As usual, this movie is best watched in the company of your funniest friends, so that you can riff your way through it!

Master Cultist Second sequel to the simply phenomenal Zombie Flesh Eaters, this is extraordinary only in as much as it is utterly, utterly ordinary. It really is as if a bunch of bored Italian horror writers got together, smoked a few Marlboro, quaffed a couple of glasses of finest red and fished out the Zombie Movie Checklist document stored in that dusty cupboard in the corner of the office. All the clichés are here, handled neither poorly nor with any semblance of passion, more a going through the motions permeates everything on screen. The whole thing is so mundane even the zombie awakening sequence fails to stir any emotion, in the viewer or the on screen protagonists. In one moment of inspired lunacy, a woman clutching a child sees a zombie approaching, not too far away then proceeds to turn her back, puts the kid on the ground and then lectures the child about how to behave in such trying circumstances. Her lack of urgency sums the whole movie up, really. Zombie-holics may find something to sink their teeth into, everyone else avoid this like the 'will turn you into flesh eating hordes' plague.

MovieWiz66 It is a shame that this should even be remotely linked with the Fulci classic. Fulci and Romero in the 70's,that was the cream of the crop. The best era in zombie films was the 70's. Outside of Fulci and Romero,you had a lot of really good relatively unknown Italian zombie flicks that actually are worth a look. This isn't one of them. This is 80's Zombie trash,the 80's pretty much ruined the Zombie genre and it still hasn't recovered. Sure Romero is back with his Diary and hopes for a new series but that is our only hope for those of us who like our zombie flicks to actually be scary and not tongue in cheek humor all the time. If these directors today want to make comedy then go make comedy and leave the zombie genre to those who would try to treat it with the respect it deserves. I mean really,if the dead did get up and start moving around and chomping on flesh,I don't think there would be too many one liners and jokes flying about do you? So leave it out of the zombie movies!! Sorry to get off topic but this film is so bad that you have to go off topic to get 10 lines in. Two words would sum up this movie perfectly...IT SUCKS! LOL. Go find some mid to late 70's Italian zombie flicks is you want to see a few decent pics. Zombi(Fulci classic)and the ORIGINAL Dawn are the two best zombie flicks of all time. To have trash like this in the same genre is a disgrace.