*** This review may contain spoilers ***
*Plot and ending analyzed*
After reading so many positive reviews of this film, I went through an extensive search in an attempt to find this rare film, well, suffice it to say, it was a complete waste of time.
This boring rarity, should have never seen the light of day, it is a terrible film which attempts to classify itself as a "horror" or "zombie film".
It takes one hour for us to even see any zombies in the film and when we do, they are so lethargic and boring, that we don't even care. The zombies are of the typical variety, very dim-witted and slow, and yet at other times they use their own blood to invent other zombies, pick a door open with a key, throw a headstone at a policeman, etc, etc.
The lead actor is played by a moronic hippie who only whines instead of actually killing any of the zombies, if he were as tough with action as he was with rambling words, then this mess would have ended a lot quicker, but no one believes that there are any zombies in the first place, and we have to go through the entire tediousness of no one believing.
It's a premise that could have been very interesting if the director could have created a viable story that didn't bore us to death.
The washed-up, drunk-o actor Arthur Kennedy (from "Lawrence of Arabia" fame - he was the journalist who remarks on Lawrence's annihilation of a Turkish rearguard by saying his memorable line: "Here, let me take your god damned picture!") plays a cop who makes no sense and he goes as far as shooting the lead actor! Call that absurd, it was actually quite a stupid scene.
The ending was typical, and the whole film had no plot what-so-ever; I would suggest to people that they avoid this mess.
There's a bit of extras on the DVD, namely the has-been director recalling the "glory days" of the film, and even this is boring.
*Plot and ending analyzed*
After reading so many positive reviews of this film, I went through an extensive search in an attempt to find this rare film, well, suffice it to say, it was a complete waste of time.
This boring rarity, should have never seen the light of day, it is a terrible film which attempts to classify itself as a "horror" or "zombie film".
It takes one hour for us to even see any zombies in the film and when we do, they are so lethargic and boring, that we don't even care. The zombies are of the typical variety, very dim-witted and slow, and yet at other times they use their own blood to invent other zombies, pick a door open with a key, throw a headstone at a policeman, etc, etc.
The lead actor is played by a moronic hippie who only whines instead of actually killing any of the zombies, if he were as tough with action as he was with rambling words, then this mess would have ended a lot quicker, but no one believes that there are any zombies in the first place, and we have to go through the entire tediousness of no one believing.
It's a premise that could have been very interesting if the director could have created a viable story that didn't bore us to death.
The washed-up, drunk-o actor Arthur Kennedy (from "Lawrence of Arabia" fame - he was the journalist who remarks on Lawrence's annihilation of a Turkish rearguard by saying his memorable line: "Here, let me take your god damned picture!") plays a cop who makes no sense and he goes as far as shooting the lead actor! Call that absurd, it was actually quite a stupid scene.
The ending was typical, and the whole film had no plot what-so-ever; I would suggest to people that they avoid this mess.
There's a bit of extras on the DVD, namely the has-been director recalling the "glory days" of the film, and even this is boring.