Night of the Living dead is a classic film. It paved the way for horror films like no other. Dawn of the Dead is one of my faves, although the f/x are somewhat dated now. Although it is quite possible that the undead (if they were to come on back) would be all blue and smurfy. Now Day of the Dead. If you're looking for realistic gore, and lots of it, Day of the Dead is your film. The f/x are super, kudos to Savini for this. As realistic makeup f/x as I've ever seen in a film, and they're all throughout the movie. For this alone it's worth the view. George Romero has cast unknowns in his zombie films for whatever reason, (me thinks he can't afford anyone else) and that's just fine. Unknowns need to start somewhere and you could snag, or even make, a budding star. But how about they not suck? The Dawn of the Dead cast does a decent job. There are some nice moments there. NOTLD...well, he had like 12 dollars to make the movie so whatever. But the people in Day of the Dead are hideously bad. And all they do throughout the film is yell at each other. Badly. And when they're not yelling, you get to hear the pilot with the bad reggae accent get all deep and unconvincing and all that bad stuff. The guy in charge, the captain, spends every single moment doing the angry thing. It's jut not good. Sorry bud. The atmosphere in this film is very depressing, it's quite gloomy, and there is never an uplifting moment. That's fine...hell, the world is overrun with zombies. See, if I was making this movie, and I knew how much my actors sucked, I would have made it silent. Oh yeah. Keep all of that atmosphere jazz, and have no one talk. They still would have sucked, due to their stiff corpse like bodies (these are the live people I'm talking about) but at least we wouldn't have to listen to painfully bad actors yell at each other for however long this flick is. The special effects are fantastic, and it's great to see actors who suck get torn apart by zombies. See this film for gore galore. You can access the mute button somewhere on your remote.
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Nikos the Impaler
(2003)
Ridiculous
24 May 2003
This movie is ridiculous. Let me add that it is fun to sit around with a bunch of friends and watch, and there's two ways to go about it. You can either put it on mute, and make up your own lines, or turn it up and listen to the ridiculous dialogue and hear people with no talent (for the most part) deliver lines. Nikos is a Romanian Barbarian or something who gets killed or something and some buffoons bring him back in modern day New York. He then proceeds to run rampant around awful sets and the few places that the film makers were allowed to shoot. Bloods flows. Much blood. I think the f/x are fantastic for what the $3.50 budget allowed. The team does a great job with what they had, and I'm guessing it was not that much. Then there's your lead characters. The guy that plays Frank has got to be kidding me. Ham is not the word. He seems to stumble throughout the film as though he's in the worst cartoon to date. Get a paper route my man. Felissa Rose, the one with the mouth from Sleepaway Camp, has her moments. But they're generally not when she's talking. Darian Caine skanks up and gets naked. There's a girl in this film, I think she's supposed to be Velma from Scooby-Doo, but she's a bit less believable than the cartoon character. There's also a bunch of doofy college kids and some dude with huge clownish hair. As for the people I have mentioned, I'm surprised they can read. Congrats. Then there's a dozen or so cops walking around this picture. I think they had 3 costumes between them all. My heart bleeds for the two officers in the movie theater, as their goofy uniforms almost take away from the fact that they're amongst a handful of people in this movie who actually belong on a screen. The short cop throws in some ham for us, the tall cop actually shows concern for the situation(he probably got fined for actually acting) and then tosses in some blatant Schnaas plugs. What does all of this mean? Rent it, buy it, steal it, whatever.....get a group of friends and watch the blood flow. That's why you get this movie. Schnaas obviously had a lot of fun throwing this together, using what he had, stretching it out, and Schnaasing it up as Nikos.
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