| City of the Walking Dead |
| copyright 1980 |
| In the late 70's, Italian cinema basically consisted of pornos and zombie movies. This, unfortunately, is a zombie movie, and a bad one at that. It starts when a plane encounters radiation and mutates the passengers into the walking dead. If these had been your traditional zombies, they wouldn't have accomplished anything, as the plane would've crashed. To get around this, they pissed all over the Rules of the Undead. They made the zombies in this film smart, quick and resourceful. They can fly planes. They can plan ambushes on stupid humans. They can run like Maurice Green and stab like OJ Simpson. Unfortunately, they look ridiculous. The majority look like their faces are made out of pie crust. The humans aren't much better. Being an Italian movie, the voices are all badly dubbed. The acting isn't all that good. The main characters are a reporter and his wife. They should have no chance of surviving this super-zombie attack, and yet they dodge death numerous times. This is despite them taking time out of escaping the city to go for a cup of coffee. We also get to see the dumbass army guys fighting the zombies. They get killed pretty easily because they won't shoot the zombies in the head, even though that was their direct order. So, perhaps some sweet gore would save this mess? Perhaps it would've, but we'll never know. Too often, we see slit throats that produce no blood. Then, instead of gnawing on the humans, the zombies give them slobbery hickeys. Last but not least, the ending was just piss poor. I mean, Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, the "it was only a dream" ending doesn't even work in Goosebumps books. 0 out of 5. |
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