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In a high-rise building, most TV sets are showing a
gory horror film. At a birthday party, a teenage girl
is attacked and infested by a zombie who emerges from
the TV. The zombie girl starts infecting her friends
and not before long most people living in the building
are transformed into zombies. The survivors are
trapped in the building due to a power blackout and
have to make their way to the roof ton get
away from there...
Entertaining sequel to the famous and incredible
popular zombie flick Demons. This is basically the
same plot except for that the zombies emerged from
a cinema screen in the first film. This is a
typically stylish, gory but stupid, 80s Italian horror
film. The director, Lamberto Bava (son of famed
filmmaker Mario Bava) and the producer Dario Argento
knows what they're doing and after some slow opening
minutes the film never gets dull and looks great all
the way through.
It's no doubt though that the energy was put into the
gory special effects and makeup, while the characters
(and their dialogue) remain hilariously dumb. One woman
spends an half-hour in her apartment with a demon
monster without even trying to get her ass out of there,
while some silly gym people try to break down an iron
will with - flower plants!
The film is often laughable and unintentionally funny,
but also - surprisingly quite scary in some scenes,
like the scene where the zombie in the film-within-the-film
spots the girl watching the film and climbs out (in a
rather The Ring-like sequence). The makeup-effects are
admittedly repellent and disgusting, but in an effective
way since some of these zombies tend to freak you out and
pray that its intended victims will manage to escape.
The first victim, the teenage girl, is an awesomely
annoying character though who keeps having these
unexplained fits of rage, which she amusingly enough
keeps on having also as a zombie!
So the horror in this cult film is both amusing and
sometimes scary, but the plot could have used some work
even if this is just a B-movie. The characters are
vaguely (if all) presented and the fates of many of
them (like the little girl who becomes an orphan and the
black gym leader) are never explained. And the ending
doesn't really bother to give out the rest of the story,
except for the escape of the main characters and heroes.
Not as blood spilling and super-splatter as the first
movie, but still a lot of gore, slime, blood and special
effects. The killings are not very explicit and sometimes
off-screen but the zombies and their extremely disgusting
skin problems make way for some good gross-outs. High
point has a small demon monster (extremely cute, its
death is a surely sad moment) climbing out of a zombie
kid in an Alien-inspired twist.
Typically dark, Italian score. Moody, but ultimately forgettable.
A fun, gory zombie flick for those who liked Demons - and
loves 80s Italian horror films. Expectedly stupid and
senseless but also great entertainment with lots of nice
gore effects and even some scares and suspense.
Review
By: Slicer-dicer
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