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Zombie Films

Don't Kill Me: Italian Zombie film. Mirta takes drugs with her boyfriend, Robin,she comes back, smashing her way out of her crypt but is heart broken to find that Robin hasn't risen. This isn't your usual type of Zombie, she won't decay provided she eats still living humans. There are Zombie hunters, the Benandanti, a centuries old organisation who capture Mirta. She is rescued by an experienced zombie, Sara, who instructs Mirta on the ways of the Overdead as the Benandanti call them. Victims have to be rendered unconscious and then eaten alive to best stave off body decomposition. The struggle between the Zombies and the Benandanti take up the rest of the film but Mirta still mourns Robin. Some horrific scenes of people being eaten alive, their throats bitten out by Mirta before she learns the etiquette of fine dining. The strength of the Zombies is awesome but they can be overpowered after multiple.gunshot wounds. Also a few well choreographed fight scenes. They are like a Zombie/Vampire hybrid, gaining immortality and retaining their mortal appearance provided they feed. Who will become a Zombie and how isn't clear but seems to be related to the way they die. Not a great film and at times style outshines substance as the narrative unfolds but I found it to be an enjoyable Zombie tale. Directed & Co-Written by Andrea De Sica. On Netflix. 7/10.
 
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Good (7/10) Spanish Civil War zombie film on Netflix - Valley of the Dead, done Z Nation style, review to follow.
 
Valley of the Dead: Set during Spanish Civil War this is a Zombie film very much in the Z Nation style but there's enough dark stuff to make the laughs choke in your throat at times. SS members of the Condor Legion (Fighting for Franco) create zombies through experiments on the dead and dying. Naturally the experiment gets out of control. These Undead spring back into action, eating people alive before thy can turn, one charging along on his stumps like the Knight from Monty Python, there's a great shot of a Zombie horde on the skyline. Francoites link up with Republicans against the common enemy. Everything from a partisan band, to ordinary fascists, a Nun (with a big gun), a young woman called Priest Killer, atheists, communists and muslims unite to do battle with the walking dead. The squabbling between the assorted characters gets a tad tiresome at times, maybe ten minutes of this excised from the movie would have made it a better film. Still, the individual characters are interesting, especially Priest Killer and Brodsky who identifies as a Russian (he reckons he was brought to Spain as a baby). Homage is paid to Night of the Living Dead with a Zombie attack on a farmhouse and a train scene which is straight out of Train to Busan. along with other Undead epics. A dark comedy Zombie thriller which delivers the goods. Directed by Javier Ruiz Caldera and Alberto de Toro. Written by Jaime Marques Olarreaga, Alberto Fernández Arregui and Cristian Conti. On Netflix. 7/10.
 
Carter: A South Korean SpyFi/Zombie movie. Carter (Joo Won) wakes up suffering from amnesia and immediately has to fight off assassins but there's an implant in his ear which gives him advice, he ends up fighting the CIA, South Korean Agents and elements of NK Intelligence, but is he working for another wing of NK Intelligence, maybe he's a rogue CIA agent. Meanwhile a Zombie plague has devastated North Korea and the US but South Korea has done ok. Some great action sequences worthy of Mission Impossible and James Bond made all the better as the helicopter battles and skydiving stunts are done for real without CG. Beautifully choreographed fight scenes where Cartet battles dozens of assassins hand to hand and great chase sequences involving trains, planes and automobiles. The Zombies are pretty savage, they even come at you when they have been set alight literally rising from a mass grave, the Zombie breakout in a clinic and subsequent fighting is superb. The plot perhaps gets a bit too complicated for it's own good and the running time of 132 minutes could have safely shed 15 minutes, even non-stop action can be overdone, could also have done with more Zombie scenes but certainly worth watching. Written & Directed by Jung Byung-gil. On Netflix. 6.5/10.
 
Operation Ragnarok: A biological warfare virus is let loose onboard a Swedish submarine turning the crew into Zombiesque violent maniacs. The sub crashes into a dry dock and the virus spreads through a port town infecting the residents. Surviving humans try to talk shelter but these zombies retain their intelligence and ability to use guns and other weapons. They shoot down a rescue helicopter. Meanwhile conspiracies are developing among the military to suppress the truth about the outbreak. Some good zombie horde scenes along with close quarter battles. Prejudice and racism divide the survivors but some cooperate. An OK Horror/conspiracy thriller, could have dome more with a bigger budget I reckon. Directed & Written by Fredrik Hiller. On Netflix. 6/10.
 
Day of the Dead (TV series): Remake of the Romero film which really didn't need ten episodes so it drags a bit. Done very much in Z nation style so you get satire, humour and real horror, sometimes the gore is overdone for comic effect. A centuries old zombie is discovered while an evil corporation is drilling, naturally they try to cover it up. The aforesaid corporation has also polluted the water supply in Mawinhaken, PA, causing the dead to rise and infect the townsfolk. A few soapy plots are included but there's good zombie action with people being eaten alive as well as turned. Survivors also have to combat the corporations paramilitary forces. Could have done with a better script but still entertaining and worth watching if you are a zombie fan. Created by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas. On sky sci-fi. 6.5/10.
 
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Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead: Akira Tendo is a bit like a zombie alrady, yet another corporate drone, overworked, he's the type who would welcome any apocalypse. when the zombie Apocalypse arrives at first he just combats the zombies, intent on not being late for work, then he realises that he is free from such tyranny. He encounters some disappointments at first, but links up with an old college friend and work colleague. They encounter a mysteriops female zombie hunter but embark on a series of escapades including Akira'a bucket list.There's a downside, some wish to continue the regimentation of the old life in refuges from the apocalypse. A story how crises cause some people to change their attitudes but others double down on their bad sides. It features a great Zombie Shark and believable human zombies. In spite of it being a comedy some of the deaths are all too realistic as the zombies eat people alive or turn them. it's far too long and drawn out though with too many cardboard cut out supporting characters who dial their roles in. A 2h 8m film which might have worked at 90 minutes. Directed by Yûsuke Ishida, written by Haro Aso, Tatsuro Mishima & Kotaro Takata. On Netflix. 5.5/10.
 
Peninsula (2020): Far darker than Train to Busan, this sequel lacks the original's lighthearted line of humour which leavened the death and destruction. From the outset there is savagery as refugess from the Zombie apocalypse are eaten and turned after an outbreak on a ship bringing them to Hong Kong. Four years later (former marine captain) Jung-seok lives a miserable existence in Hong Kong along with his brother-in law Chul-min, his sister and nieces having perished on the ship. They along with two other refugees are hired by HK mobsters to return to South Korea and retrieve a truck containing US$20 million. Dropped off by boat they land on the quarantined peninsula. The ruined city of Incheon is mostly seen at night, twilight and dawn. It is devastated, a Mad Max style fallen civilisation exists. isolated small groups and a large compound run by rogue soldiers who make captives battle zombies in hand to hand "sports". Convincing zombies with many savage fights, not everyone survives, some are totally eaten alive, others turned. This is where the darkness really takes hold but when you think things can't get any worse you see that humans are worse monsters, they make a choice to be cruel and evil. Jung-seok links up with an isolated family and together they try to escape. Themes of family, redemption and treachery predominate but there is a subtext about how refugees are trated. A good zombie film which might have been a better one if it had come in at 100 minutes rather than it;s 116 minute running time. Co-Written and Directed by Yeon Sang-ho. Showing again on Sky Sci-Fi Wednesday 16 August 9 pm. 7.5/10.
 
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