"Out there! They're coming back to life! They're everywhere!"
Taking the zombie mythology back to its Caribbean origins; the rising dead, lumbering threat, rotting flesh, tropical beaches, voodoo medical experiments...and a shark fighting a zombie on the bottom of the sea??? All set to one of the most banging scores of all time!
'Zombie' aka. 'Sanguella' aka. 'The Island of the Living Dead' aka. 'Zombie Flesh Eaters' aka. 'Zombie: The Dead Walk Among Us' aka. 'Zombie 2: The Dead Are…
"I can't feel sorry for the victims. I need to keep on killing."
Austrian glass, concrete and steel, shot straight into your veins! Gerald Kargl's 1983 psycho killer shocker is a jolt to the system, where Erwin Leder plays a man just released from prison. He goes to a cafeteria and enjoys a bratwurst (in the most disturbing way possible) while ogling some girls at the counter. He then get's in a taxi and almost strangles the chauffeur with his…
"Why did you take me on this hopeless... journey? let me go home and die in peace! what good is it to have tea when I can't find the right vegetable to go with it? I guess I have to eat the rest of the Romanian lettuce... with lemon. Ze oil! Zey put zo much oil here on everyting! But there must be some cheese?"
Crackling cinema on every conceivable level, in glorious 4K thanks to the fine people at Severin Films.
I used to own the DVD of this until recently when I gave it away with all my other DVDs to make room for all my blu-rays, but i used to watch the shit out of this documentary, and I pretty much know it all by heart. So when I watched this again now for the first time in probably 14 years or so this just hit me like a ton of bricks. Martin Scorsese has compiled so much great…
"You think this is a fuckin' costume? This is a way of life."
I hadn't seen this in ages and ages (think it is close to 30 years since last the time), but this thing moves!!
<3 Linnea Quigley. <3 Trash.
There is a treasure trove of trivia from this film, but this was my favourite one:
"The character Ernie (Don Calfa) is thought to be a Nazi due to him sharing his name with Ernst Kaltenbrunner. There are also…
