Reviews

I guess it's pretty clear that this film was put together as an action movie - so it's perhaps harsh to criticise other elements of it's shockingly bad execution. However much I lament the fact that the film didn't make more of such plentiful opportunities to provide something a little more unsettling, and a lot less laughable - there remain FAR too many irritations, clichés and oversights to make this even watchable, never mind enjoyable. I'm pretty tolerant when watching movies, and will endure even the worst film in order to get the straight story, but RE-Apocalypse is the CLOSEST I've ever come to turning the DVD player off midway through, which is of course, an unspeakable crime, reserved for only the worst films known to man! Such a shame, I had such high hopes for it.

Having not taken much time to watch older movies of this genre, I was pleasantly surprised by how comprehensive the film was.

Black and white photography rarely seems to look this good, and has been one of the things that has turned me off such films before now. The visuals in City Of The Dead are so sharp and foreboding that they serve to accentuate the small town paranoia perfectly.

In terms of the characters, Patricia Jessel as Mrs Newlis and Christopher Lee as Prof Driscoll, are supremely sinister, whilst Venetia Stevenson as Nan Barlow, is hopelessly deserving of the viewers compassion as the witches prey!

I've come to love this film, not just for the sake of the film itself, but because it proved me so wrong in my assumption that most movies of this type/age are dull, it's incredibly watchable and tense.