Review of Eaters

Eaters (2011)
7/10
back to memory lane
31 July 2011
People who know me on this review site know that I am not really into zombie flicks. Mostly the make-up is so bad that it is unbelievable. But still there are some gems out to catch and even that this one is a bit low on attacks still I liked it very much. It reminded me (the zombies) a lot of those Italian zombie flicks from the eighties. Even as they used a lot of blue key or green key and some CGI to make the cities look like they just experienced Armageddon still I liked it. As I said before, don't expect to see a lot of zombies it is more a story of two friends trying to survive in a zombie world but once they are confronted with the zombies it does deliver the red stuff or sometimes even becomes gory. Blood do sputter on the lens a few times. A big cheer to the first time director. He surely know how to add his score and how to use colour grading by changing saturation to a low level and working in the grey scale. The fact that the actors talk Italian do add it to make it a trip down memory lane. But overall, it's the make-up used, you know, syrup and latex, for the zombies that made them look believable. It's not all about lenses in their eyes like in so many flicks nowadays. And if you know those old Italian horrors then you know how they exaggerated with the sound of wind. Nevertheless, one to pick up and surely to recommend to zombie geeks. A new race is rising...
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