Nightmare City

1980 "Now They Are Everywhere! There Is No Escape!"
5.6| 1h31m| R| en
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In a nameless European city, a local reporter and his doctor wife try to escape from hordes of blood thirsty zombies, undead people exposed to nuclear radioactivity, while the military leaders fight a losing war of attrition against the relentless atomic zombies.

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Scanialara You won't be disappointed!
ThiefHott Too much of everything
Console best movie i've ever seen.
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Andy Clark Considering many of the films out of that era, this is one of the better genre rip-offs. Can't say the story is all that gripping, as the characters are pretty much stock zombie movie fodder.Acting is middling to poor. Camera work is decent, makeup and effects are a joke at times.It was fun to watch, but it really is just pretty much a bunch of hide and seek set pieces. That being said, I didn't dislike this movie. It was gripping and well worth a viewing every so often. It hasn't aged as well as some other movies in the genre, however.Definitely a movie for genre completionists and hardcore zombie flick fans.
robhat78 If you like your "zombies" in turtle necks and blazers then you're in luck. I'm not exactly sure why every "zombie" in this movie is wearing some sort of suit/turtle neck/sweater w button up/etc but it happened. These "zombies want your blood and your Khol's card.Speaking of "zombie" appearances, this might be the worst zombie makeup I've ever seen in a movie. Half of them just have a piece of brown clay or something on their cheek and it looks more like eczema than rotting flesh. And yes I am purposefully putting the word "zombie" in quotes because these things are really hard to define. They're dressed up, fairly normal looking, use weapons, and desperately try to get their hands on boobs. If that's what it takes to be considered a zombie then I guess I'm one too.Speaking of boobs, one of my favorite scenes is when the "zombies" overtake a hospital and one of them pulls open a nurses smock to reveal naked breasts. Did nurses in 1970s Europe really not wear bras or undershirts to work? If so, does anyone have a time machine because I feel the need to schedule a doctors appt.Anyway, as far as the story goes, there isn't much of one. "Zombies" overtake an airport from a mysterious plane and then run amok in the city. The military tries to stop them, but (shockingly) fails miserably. In many scenes it's hard to distinguish who is a "zombie" and who is a regular person. The best way to tell is to look for the figure wielding a baton or a small knife. I've never seen such well armed "zombies" before, this group really has their stuff together. Why bite when you can stab! There are many silly scenes throughout, like when a man camping with his girlfriend decides that something must be wrong because he hears a dog barking in the country...then 1 second later he sees a zombie laying on the ground beside him. One usually does lead to the other so next time you hear a barking dog, watch your step. I should mention that after this a group of "zombies" drive up in a car, yes they drive, and proceed to shoot and stab the couple. Did I mention that these zombies like weapons? There is also a scene where a woman is an artist and makes clay sculptures and happens to make a bust that looks exactly like the "zombie" who breaks into her basement and kills her? I don't know if this was some misunderstood meaning of the word foreshadowing or if she's some kind of precog or what, but the scene does end in the "zombie" stabbing her friend and fondling her boobies. As a director you win some and lose some, at least he got the end of the scene right.As far as the end of the movie goes, it's possibly the most unoriginal "shock" ending they could think of. The main character is about to die and...he wakes up! Whaaaaaaat, it was all a dream?? Or was it...but seriously it wasn't. Because then he goes to the airport and the "zombies" really do come out of the plane just like in his dream. Consider your mind blown.
George Taylor First of all, the terrible special effects and horrible acting, as well as the silly story with it's silly (and done far too many times) ending, gives this a 1. I really wish IMDb would add a zero rating. Basically there's a warning of a radiation outbreak that the government claims has been contained. A plane that doesn't answer the tower lands and horribly scarred, running and using weapons, radioactive men clamber out of it, killing everyone in sight and occasionally drinking their blood. The make up on these invaders is simply horrible. It looks like the make up artist simply threw clay at their faces and left it there. Another big error, is this is not a zombie movie. These creatures use weapons, feel pain (watch when one gets a door slammed on his hand or the cries of pain when another gets set afire). They also show a propensity for committing vile deeds on nubile young women. So, is it worth seeing? Yes, for a laugh, but if it's on anyone's top ten list, they likely haven't seen any good zombie movies, like the original Night of the living Dead, or Shaun of the Dead, to name a few.
gavin6942 An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.Director Umberto Lenzi felt the film was not as much as zombie film but a "radiation sickness movie" with hints of an anti-nuclear and anti-military message. Quentin Tarantino has even said he was criticized by Lenzi for calling it a "zombie" film rather than an "infected people" film. (Tarantino further points out, perhaps correctly, this is the first zombie or infection film where the bad guys run instead of walk.) John Kenneth Muir referred to the film as a "cobbled together disaster", but went on to say it was not the worst zombie film of the 1980s -- that honor goes to Bruno Mattei's "Hell of the Living Dead". Danny Shipka described the film as "absolutely terrible in every way" as well as referring to poor make-up effects, poor acting and a plot that "makes no sense". Are you guys missing the point?