#11 - Zombie Flesh Eaters
...I think we broke the BlogExplosion blogathon radio thing. I was listening it it, then it just cut out and now I just get a "this station is not available" message. So I'm connected to the Cape now instead.
And yes, it's the first proper zombie film of the 'thon. Good old Lucio Fulci, he always delivers.
A boat drifts into a New York harbour, seemingly deserted - except for a large zombie that's shambling round on it. He lunches on a cop before being pitched into the water, and then the daughter of the boat's owner heads off to the Carribean island where he was last with a journalist to find out what's going on. And what's going on is zombies, of course.
Really, that's all the plot you need to know, because this is a set-piece movie. There's the 'naked woman vs shark vs underwater zombie scene' (and spare a thought for the poor stuntman who had to do that scene, which included him grappling a real shark and biting it), there's the '16th century mouldy Conquistadors rise from the grave for a light snack' scene, and of course there's the 'attractive woman get's her eyeball pierced on a 13" wooden splinter' scene. Coherent plot just isn't necessary when you've got stuff like this to hold your audience's attention.
And yes, it's the first proper zombie film of the 'thon. Good old Lucio Fulci, he always delivers.
A boat drifts into a New York harbour, seemingly deserted - except for a large zombie that's shambling round on it. He lunches on a cop before being pitched into the water, and then the daughter of the boat's owner heads off to the Carribean island where he was last with a journalist to find out what's going on. And what's going on is zombies, of course.
Really, that's all the plot you need to know, because this is a set-piece movie. There's the 'naked woman vs shark vs underwater zombie scene' (and spare a thought for the poor stuntman who had to do that scene, which included him grappling a real shark and biting it), there's the '16th century mouldy Conquistadors rise from the grave for a light snack' scene, and of course there's the 'attractive woman get's her eyeball pierced on a 13" wooden splinter' scene. Coherent plot just isn't necessary when you've got stuff like this to hold your audience's attention.