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FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Sam Panico Claudio Fragasso and Rossella Drudi, our friends who brought Troll 2 to life, were the writing team behind this, setting the film in the Philippines as a cheap and convenient locale. Lucio Fulci claimed that the script was dreadful and that he tried to rewrite most of it, whereas the producers would contend that Fulci's initial cut was a little over an hour yet felt much longer than that. They got Fragasso and Bruno Mattei to finish things up. And we're left. to watch the results.There's this formula called Death One, which brings back the dead. Why anyone would want to create this for the army is beyond me. But Dr. Holder realizes that this is all just a bad idea, so he resigns. As he goes to surrender his findings, criminals attack (if this movie starts to remind you of Nightmare City, you aren't alone) and run away with Death One.That criminal gets infected and even cutting off his own hand - oh that Fulci - can't stop the outbreak. The hotel he ran to is condemned and General Morton orders everyone there killed and the criminal's remains burned by his two right-hand men (played, of course, by Mattei and Fragasso). But just like Return of the Living Dead, the ashes in the air just make things worse. The birds are infected and begin to spread the disease.What follows is a group of victims gets introduced to us and one after another, they are wiped out with pure malice and utter glee. There are some American GI's who mention how horny rock and roll music makes them and the girls on the bus they hook up with. There's a tourist couple, too. No one will be spared when Death One achieves its full power.Everyone heads to the now abandoned resort and is shocked to find so many weapons. As they are killed off, Dr. Holden looks for a cure while General Morton works on killing off every single person and animal he can find.Soon, only five of our heroes - Kenny, Roger, Patricia, Nancy, and Joe - are still alive. As soon as I wrote this down, the soldiers kill Joe. Our survivors make their way to a hospital, where Nancy tries to help a woman deliver a baby - bad news, zombie baby - and gets killed. This scene is packed with the gore that you had hoped that this film would bring. Don't eat while watching, trust me.Who lives? Who dies? You should just buy this and watch it, right? Right. I will say that I loved Blue Heart, the DJ who talks throughout the film and adored how he keeps doing it even after he joins the ranks of the undead. It reminds me a lot of the DJ as narrator scenes in The New York Ripper.I almost forgot! There's an awesome scene where a zombie skull flies out of the freezer and attacks. It wasn't in the script but instead came from Fulci. He would go on to say that it was one of the most clever things he had come up with and the only thing about this film that he was proud of.If you're hoping for the follow-up to Zombi, this isn't it. It's still fun and the last twenty minutes or so really pick up. I'd love to see what happens if they ever did a sequel to this.

Leofwine_draca If you've ever wanted to see a really, really awful zombie film, then this is the one for you. This is the film which makes ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS look like a technical masterpiece. A film which swipes liberally from George Romero's dead trilogy, THE BIRDS, and even RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD. A film totally irredeemable except for one small thing - it's funny. Yes, hilariously funny. In fact I would have to say this is the funniest zombie film I've ever seen. But first things first. For the most part this is total rubbish. The cast are of the uninteresting, bland teenage-types who populated the likes of DEMONS 2. There's a trio of amusing soldiers, one of whom is the spitting image of John Steiner. The dubbing is appalling, and the usual pieces of choice dialogue to enjoy ("I'm feeling thirsty... FOR YOUR BLOOD!"). The only character I did find amusing was the scientist, dubbed by somebody with a stutter! It's pretty funny. The film is poorly made - don't be fooled into thinking Lucio Fulci directed it, as he did only the first 15 minutes before being forced to retire through ill health. Claudio Fragasso took over, filling the film with his confusing editing, poorly-framed shots, and general lack of technical ability. This also has to be one of the most grainy, dark films I've seen - a lot of the zombie attacks take place at night.For most of the time, we get to see pointless things happen. For instance, a group of survivors spend half an hour building a barricade which the zombies knock down in two seconds. Why? The zombie attacks, when they do come, usually consist of an over-excited person being jumped on by a horde of them, hilarious instead of frightening. Some people even partake in a little hand-to-hand combat with the zombies, not realistic but very amusing. The makeup is insipid and uninspired, worse than in any other zombie film I've seen. The gore is quite disgusting but exceptionally cheesy, and when it comes it's laughable - view the bit where a man rescues a girl from a pool, only to find her missing her legs! Most chucklesome. Or what about the rubbish bit where a zombie hand bursts out of a pregnant woman's stomach - trust me, it's not as disgusting as it sounds, just silly.BUT...some bits turn out to be classic, not because they're good, but because they're so awful. In one scene a zombie head flies out of a fridge (!) to bite an unfortunate soul, this had me choking on my own tongue. The description just doesn't do it justice. These particular zombies seem to have little co-ordination, and on top of this none of them behave the same. Some like to hide in bushes and jump out on people. Some like to climb pillars and jump on people from there. One particularly enterprising zombie-guy appears to have been trained in the art of ninja, jumping about in a frenzy and slashing his machete everywhere in a scene which will have you wetting yourself due to the fact it happens so quickly. The ending tries to be shocking, but it's just plain dumb. A DJ who has been adding out-of-place comments throughout the film turns out to be a zombie. ZOMBIES CAN TALK?! What is this? Apart from the above unintentional humour, this is a film for sadists only. But if you're drunk and want a good laugh, then it might just be worthwhile. Just don't expect anything good. It's sheer awfulness all the way...

callanvass I'm a big fan of Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2. This is an unofficial sequel, but I'd like to say it doesn't even deserve to be mentioned alongside Zombi 2. The storyline is completely inane, and the effects are utterly atrocious. We get this green like substance on people, whenever they get infected, and it doesn't look convincing at all. Unlike Zombi, where they were truly blood curdling, they look laughable here, and not even remotely threatening. I had trouble paying attention in this one, simply because it's so damn dull, and not much happens. There are zombie attacks, but they lack suspense and excitement. In Zombi 2, you were in fear by the zombies. They moved very slowly and the attacks were filled with tension. This movie reminds me of another horrible zombie film called Hell of The Living Dead. It has terrible dubbing. The actors are simply awful because of it. Beatrice Ring is disposable fodder, and nothing more. There is a scene where a woman gets shoved off a balcony into some water, and a guy goes to save her. He brings her to the surface, and she attacks him. How's that for gratitude? I didn't find this movie to be particularly gory, either. We get a spike in the chin, cut off arm, blood splashing, some zombie bites, but it's not that great. Lucio Fulci became sick and had to leave this project. Bruno Mattei & others took over, and it shows. Even for die hard zombie fans, I'd have trouble recommending this. Watch Nightmare City for an entertainingly cheesy zombie film, and avoid this like the plague1/10

BA_Harrison From the word go, Zombie Flesheaters 2 (AKA Zombi 3) makes very little sense, but thankfully it's one of those trashy 80s Euro horrors that is so shoddy in virtually every department that one cannot fail to have some fun with it.Just one look at the film's pedigree is enough to give a pretty good idea of how crap (and therefore how enjoyable) this film actually is: Lucio Fulci, fast approaching his end-of-career worst, directed some of the action before a stroke forced him to hand over the reins to Bruno 'Hell of the Living Dead' Mattei; actor turned TV director Deran Sarafian leads the incredible no-star cast; and Claudio Fragasso, the man responsible for Troll 2 (considered by many to be the worst horror film ever made), provided the derivative, nonsensical plot that gleefully rips off a variety of zombie/infection classics, including Romero's The Crazies and Dan O' Bannon's Return Of The Living Dead.The cause of the zombie plague in Zombi Flesheaters 2 is a top secret genetically engineered virus called Death One, which is accidentally introduced into the atmosphere after a victim is cremated (on the orders of a contemptuous general, who ignores warnings from concerned army boffins, accusing them of "talking science fiction!"). Pretty soon, the area is not only crawling with flesh hungry reanimated corpses, but also squads of haz-mat suited soldiers who have orders to contain the virus by any means necessary—which isn't exactly great news for the small group of survivors trapped inside the contaminated zone (which, within a single day, has become inexplicably derelict and overgrown with vines!).Lacking any sense of logic, the film stumbles awkwardly from one daft scene to another in a shambolic manner that makes its mouldy walking corpses seem positively well coordinated in comparison. For connoisseurs of extremely trashy horror, this can only be good news, with the complete absence of rationale resulting in some mind-bogglingly bonkers moments: zombie birds attack a bus full of babes; a severed zombie head, shrouded in an eerie green light and smoke, flies from inside a fridge to chow down on a man's throat; a survivor discovers a box full of weapons in an abandoned building ("I found a crate full of guns downstairs," he casually declares); a lady is attacked by an unborn zombie baby that tears its way from its mother's womb; and a hand grenade, conveniently found under a truck, not only knocks down several of the undead but also destroys an entire building!Factor in some truly awful acting, unconvincing gore, dreadful direction, zombies that can talk, jump, fight, and use weapons, and a jive-talking radio DJ who joins the ranks of the living dead, but still carries on hosting his show, and what you have is one hell of a mess—but one that really needs to be seen to be believed.It doesn't really deserve it, but I'll give Zombie Flesheaters 2 a rating of 5/10 just for being a genuine one-of-a-kind experience.