Review of Night of the Zombies (1980) by Carl N — 01 Apr 2010
This is one of my all time favourite Italian Zombie films. The whole thing is just so cheesy and unintentionally comical. In what is clearly a Dawn of the Dead and Cannibal Holocaust rip off. A group of SWAT team members and a female reporter head into the New Guinea jungle to investigate an outbreak of a virus.
What follows is insanely violent and ridiculously gory. Zombies, cannibalism, gratuitous nudity and exceedingly over the top acting. All add up to make this such a fun film to watch. Oh and this film even has an eye ball scene that outshines the one in Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2.
Director Bruno Mattei clearly doesn't mind "borrowing" other people's work. The soundtrack is Goblin's score from Dawn of the Dead. Endless Stock footage of animals is used. Even documentary footage of a real New Guinea tribe preparing a burial ceremony is thrown in for good measure.
Hilarious, preposterous and ever so much fun. A must see for any Zombie fan.
This review of Night of the Zombies (1980) was written by Carl N on 01 Apr 2010.
Night of the Zombies has generally received mixed reviews.
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