kaijueguy

The cast was very good, the cinematography fine, its the movie itself which is just poorly edited and convoluted. I know this sort of thing is en-vogue these days but give me a stylish Argento over this sort of thing any day. The flashback sequences do little to make the films point or establish any coherency to the story and the surprise ending should really be no surprise no matter how improbable. Film is a form of communication and the end product fails miserably in communicating anything at all. Again, kudos to a fine cast in spite of the material. Sets, lighting, atmosphere, cinematography a movie that would have had everything going for it in more capable hands.

Lucio Fulci films aren't to all tastes but if you like zombie films, gore and nudity don't bother you and you don't have a problem with just sitting back and letting a movie happen, then Fulci is for you and this is his milestone marker.

Any "serious" film student can tear this film apart. You actually don't have to be all that serious to find faults with it. But if you want to know how to make a zombie film, this is the place to start.

I have watched this film at least 40 times and I have yet to see the eye-piercing scene all the way through. There's just something about eyes and sharp objects that don't go together.

Like most Fulci films, it has the nightmarish quality with individual sequences that transcend the movie as a whole. These moments of sheer terror make up for whatever else the film might lack. And like every Fulci film, there is no cookie cutter film-making here that is so dreadfully prevalent in the current horror films. There's no late 20's cast trying their best to pretend they are still in high school, no group of peers that you didn't really want to hang around with in the real world fleeing some faceless killer who lurks in the shadows. This is in your face, over-the-top and a great ride.

You have to see this movie just to see the creepiest kid in the entire history of film-making. The movie is one of the weaker Italian zombie flicks with its own share of nudity, gore and zombie flesh-munching but the creepiest thing about this movie is the kid.

Everything about him is creepy. At first you might mistakenly think he's actually a really short adult and maybe he was in real life but he's just so darned....well.... creepy.

Forget that he has a fixation on his own mother, the incest notions might make him creepy but even without the incest, he's just plain creepy.

The zombies in this film have nothing in realm of creepiness compared to this kid. They had to undergo grueling make-up. All this kid had to do was show up. It was unsettling and I'll never be the same person since I've seen him. I read on the database that this kid also was an uncredited boy scout on a train in some movie called Vai Alla Grande. Being a former Boy Scout myself, I hope I never run across this film. I know for certain it would scar me for life!!