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  1. Been on a bit of a zombie kick lately

     

    Let Sleeping Corpses Lie: This one's just great. Can't believe it's so underrated! Feels like you hardly ever see it mentioned anywhere when people talk about euro-zombie films, but in my opinion this one might actually be better than Fulci's much more well-known Zombi 2. The zombies in this one don't look as rotten and grimy as they do in some of the later Italian zombie flicks, but they still manage to be creepy enough all the same. Even though there's comparatively not as many of them as there will be in future zombie movies, the ones that are there still present more than enough of a threat. The whole cemetery sequence is extremely atmospheric and very well done. In fact, I'd say the entire movie's just overflowing with atmosphere, and the rural England setting was a great choice all around. It also helps that the acting in this one's generally of a much higher level than what you'd usually find in your average schlocky zombie flick. The male lead is incredibly charismatic and really helps to carry the film. If you haven't checked this one out yet and you just so happen to be into zombie films, definitely give it a go.  

     

    Zombie 3: Another one of Lucio Fulci's many undead films, this one's an INCREDIBLE mess. Fulci apparently camped with health issues while working on this movie and two other directors had to step in to shoot more footage in order to 'finish' the film. In general I found this one an enjoyable ride, but it definitely feels extremely trashy. This is not so much a film to enjoy cuz it's genuinely good, but rather one to watch simply for the extreme trash and cheese factor. The acting is INCREDIBLY hokey, the dialogue feels awkward more often than not and the plot feels like an incompetent mashup of every major zombie flick that came before it. On top of that, it feels like there are no consistent 'rules' as to how the zombie infection works - at one point you have zombie birds which are then never seen again, there's the usual slow shambling zombies, but there's also seemingly more intelligent ones able to talk, use tools and all that shit. It feels like every single director had their own idea of how the zombies should work and they just spliced it all together without care. Nevertheless, despite all its obvious flaws, the movie IS an enjoyable watch. The tropical setting works well, and in spite of the high camp factor I generally enjoyed the film's aesthetic. The action never really lets up for the most part, so you definitely won't get bored as the film moves from one  ridiculous setpiece to the next. 

     

    The Dead Pit: Another one that scores high on the cheese factor. It starts out as a film that feels like it owes more to Nightmare on Elm Street 3, feeling like a supernatural slasher more than anything for the first 2/3rds of the film before suddenly turning into a full-blown zombie movie in the last third. It feels like for every nice atmospheric moment the film has scattered around here and there, there had to be like two extremely corny moments to provide some kinda  counterbalance. The asylum setting is nice and provides a good variety of goofy side-characters, but pretty much all of them are paper thin. The lead actress is nothing to write home about acting-wise, but she does spend like at least a good quarter of the movie running around half-naked in an outfit that must surely go against any real life asylum's dress code, so there's that for compensation. The kills are nice and gruesome, especially once the zombie mayhem breaks loose, but it does feel like it takes AGES before it gets to that point. Entertaining enough for sure and hard to hate, but it does feel like another case of a director trying to do waaay too many things at once.


  2. That performance of Aka is real good.

    Actually I feel like all of the TIW songs work pretty well live from what I've heard so far. Might end up being one of the rare occasions where I like the live version of a track more than the studio version

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