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Imagine if "Independence Day" was about a zombie apocalypse! But with a cool gritty 70s vibe and style, and well, flesh-eating-zombies!!
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One of my fav zombies films is Lucio Fulci's "Zombi". George Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" is my other favorite. If you ask me on any given day which one is better then I'd say which ever one I was watching!
But when Fulci became this successful horror-zombie filmmaker late in his career, his follow up films felt more like encores rather than bonefide movies themselves. "Zombi" is that rare example of a serious monster film that pulls no punches, with a style and craft rarely seen in a movie like that.
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So, for fun, I decided to take ALL of Fulci's zombie films and blend them together.
"Zombi"(1980)
"City of the Living Dead"(1981)
"The Beyond"(1981)
...and a few other zombie films at the time that were ripoffs of Romero, like Bruno Mattei's "Hell of the Living Dead"(1980) and others!
I had always wanted to do something like this for many years now. The inspiration for this was those disaster movies from the 70s. So I carefully took some of the subplots from those other later Fulci films and treated them subplots for a redux of "Zombie" that I (re)titled "Zombies". I mean, who is to say that the events of those other films taking place in different parts of the world are not taking place in the same Fulciverse?haha
When you stop to think about it, there are no real big-spectacle zombie movies that show you a zombie pandemic from beginning to end. As a kid, I always felt a bit cheated that we couldn't see what it looked like when zombie hordes attacked the world at the beginning. I get it... the real horror is to leave all that to our imaginations. So I won't carp about the great Romero films that do this well, since less is more.
But we could all use at least one movie that shows us the zombie outbreak in all its glory, amirite?! I think the awful "World War Z"(2013) was trying to be that movie. But even that eventually is stuck with the POV of just one family more or less. I always wanted that zombie film that would cut to different characters and places, like the good disaster movies of the 70s used to do. i.e. The Poseidon Adventure(1972), Earthquake (1974),Towering Inferno(1974), Meteor(1979).
By re-editing these movies now as part of one large natural disaster epic, but with zombies as the cause of the disaster, the cast is treated like an ensemble cast now, with varying subplots that take us from voodoo islands to the city to zombie infested hospitals to haunted houses, etc.!
+++HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE+++
*Custom intro with new titling worthy of a Lucio Fulci epic!
*The best of "Zombi"(1980), "City of the Living Dead"(1981), "The Beyond"(1981), "Hell of the Living Dead"(1980) as an interconnected plot.
*Fabio Frizzi's best music, some of it taken from his recent live tours!! You never heard Frizzi this good, and much of the music is updated.
*Enhancements across the board. Remember how as great as "Zombi"(1980) was we never once saw any of those voodoo Priests the other characters keep blabbing about? No, longer! They and the villagers themselves are now as much a character as anyone else. Restored 'lost' deleted scenes... like the fat zombie that falls into the ocean at the movie's beginning resurfacing at the dock. And other extended scenes, FX and dialogue!
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