Zombi VIII: Urban Decay

The worst Zombie film I have ever seen. I enjoyed Zombie 2 & 3, 4 was Meh and 5 was lame. I haven't ever heard of the Director/Writer of this one before but he clearly doesn't know how to make a film. Every single boring scene was dragged out for 10 minutes. My favorite scene was where a girl dancing takes her top off, other than that there's nothing to see.

The Zombi series is quite the confusing franchise. But this film claims to be a direct sequel to the two original Lucio Fulci films. Other than original music cues and reference to the original island the zombies are on, there is no connection.

Here we have a zero-budget film shot in the United States made for the Australian market based on two Italian films that were made as unofficial sequels to an American film (Dawn of the Dead) which was also a sequel to Night of the Living Dead. Which they show clips of in this movie because public domain even though they film it off a TV and looks like crap.

You'll be bored watching this even though it's 57 minutes. In order to pad the runtime as best they can, they put in minutes of footage where nothing is happening as characters are walking around a forest. But that's better than when the characters are talking. Not only are the actors bad, you can barely hear them as the audio was recorded straight from the built-in camera mic.

They also stretch the runtime by long opening credits, lasting about 3 minutes, and about 4 minutes of closing credits. Leaving virtually no plot, no character development, or any lack of care for what's happening.

This feels like an insult to the Fulci films. Those weren't great either and were low budget in their own right but at least there was real effort, talent, and charm to them. Especially if you're familiar with the making of Italian horror films of that time.

If you're going to watch anyway, don't pay for it. It is not worth the money. I was fortunate to watch it for free on Tubi.

Since half of the current reviews are obviously written by people involved with the makers of this piece of crap ,I decided to split the difference.

WARNING this isn't even a movie.

Don't waste your time please , and watch anything else with zombies in it , if you are a fan of the genre , and give this crap a pass.

I sat down to watch the 2021 movie titled "Zombi VIII: Urban Decay", given my interest in all things zombie. Sure, the "Zombi" movie franchise haven't exactly been great, but still, I opted to give it a chance.

And I should have gone with my gut feeling and just left this movie alone. Yeah, "Zombi VIII: Urban Decay" was that bad.

There weren't any properly well-written storyline to be seen in "Zombi VIII: Urban Decay", so I don't really know what writer and director Dustin Ferguson was thinking when he wrote and made this particular movie.

What you get when you sit down to watch the 2021 movie "Zombi VIII: Urban Decay" is a whole lot of nothing. There is no proper storyline, and even worse dialogue. Then there was the dubious and questionable acting, which was just painful to witness. And "Zombi VIII: Urban Decay" contains a whole lot of nothing, virtually nothing - film being wasted on people walking in the wilderness, or sitting in a cab. I feel that I should also mention the audio in "Zombi VIII: Urban Decay", because it was atrocious. I wonder how a sound that bad, which was at times so low you could hardly hear what was being mumbled on the screen, could ever pass through editing. Surely someone must have noticed it and raise a finger.

"Zombi VIII: Urban Decay" is one of the worst zombie movies I have had the misfortune of stumbling upon. And it is definitely a contender for the top 10 of bad zombie movies I have seen.

I am rating "Zombi VIII: Urban Decay" a generous one out of ten stars. You should really do yourself a favor and skip on this abysmal wreck of a movie. Some of us suffered through this ordeal so you don't have to. Another strike out for the "Zombi" franchise.

"Worst ever" gets thrown around a lot. Most of the time the thing being labeled as such is nowhere near "the worst ever". But in the case of prolific trash-peddler Dustin Ferguson it is actually true.

Somehow, this man has figured out loopholes to release 'sequels' to numerous cult 70s and 80s films. On paper that is awesome. Who wouldn't want to see a new Zombi film?

Like all of Fergusons films, we don't get a new Zombi film. We get 50% stock footage, 25% credit sequences, 15% talking scenes and 5% terrible zombie footage.

Do not bother watching this garbage, there is absolutely no redeeming value whatsoever.