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like reviewed rather than just winging it as I go, it could put out
better material. Maybe there is a specific genre that captivates you
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So please toss me a message or five and
let me know what is actually interesting to you folk so I can accommodate you. Sadly, the only thing I have on the dockets in
another Barely Legal Zombie Sequel. Hey! Speak up or this crap
filters into the writing again. I will be doing audio reviews of
said movies I have seen via YouTube so hope you enjoy those as well
and no, my co-host via Rotten Ramblin' On won't have to be subjected
to those flicks if he doesn't want them. This is Zombie 6: Monster
Hunter.
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| Not sure I like my new barber. |
Brought to use by Italian exploitation
director Joe D' Amato ( Heroes in Hell, Emanuelle in
Bangkok, Emanuelle in America, Anthropophagus, Beyond the Darkness,
The Blade Master a.k.a. Cave Dwellers and House of Pleasure)
We can almost immediately expect gore or some good old T&A
floating about. This is the story of Mikos (George Eastman of
1990: The Bronx Warriors, Warriors of the Wasteland, Endgame, Hands
of Steel and StageFright: Aquarius) a disturbed individual
with a nasty notion of leaving a trail of bodies broken and bloody
all the while not staying wounded. We will call him our zombie for
the time being. There are no other candidates at this time to say
otherwise. I'm looking at you, Helicopter prop zombie from Dawn of
the Dead.
This is supposed to be a follow-up or
sequel to Anthropophagus and given it has George Eastman and it is
directed by D' Amato I guess that makes sense. Sure's hell makes
more sense than calling it a sequel to Zombi. This film was released
in 1981 under the official title of Absurd and I quite agree that
calling this movie Zombie 6 is as absurd as Killing Birds made into
Zombie 5. For crying out loud, there is at least 9 alternative
titles in English alone and Killing Birds came out 6 years later
after this title. Thank you Foreign post-production and
redistribution!!! Thanks a heap!
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| AHH!!! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! AHH..oh wait it's a little boy. |
So Mikos volunteered for an medical
experiment that allows his body to regenerate rapidly from almost any
wound (Insert Wolverine and Deadpool jokes here) but it
also made him bat shit crazy in the process. Our liaison of
exposition a priest played by the dean in Pieces (Edmund Purdom
of Herod the Great, Sword of Freedom, Don't Open Till Christmas and
Pieces) relies all this information in true Dr. Loomis style
via Halloween. He hooks up with the local constable, Italian Sheriff
Brackett and the two go of to Mikos as the only way to bring him down
is a bullet to the head. Not sure how they came to that information
during this secret experiment but fine. Most of the second act is
revolving around this house with a girl recovering from a spinal
operation (you thought I was going to say Spinal Tap),
her nurse and bratty little brother Italian Tommy Doyle.
Now you might have noticed my
references to John Carpenter's Halloween and well you would be right.
We have a neigh-invulnerable killer, a priest rather than a shrink
toting a gun and a clueless constable a'la Sheriff Brackett. If that
wasn't enough the bratty kid get multiple Boogeyman comments in his
dialogue and even the soundtrack sounds like a sped up version of
Carpenter's theme music. Some of the kills are impressive as we see
a table-saw through the head, a drill and even death by oven. Yeah,
death by oven. It all feels like we skipped over Halloween and moved
into Halloween II with the elaborate death scenes and no real
coherent story arc.
The movie is professionally done with
some great POV handheld, everyone is blocked well and even the
dubbing is pretty spot on, I just would rather see the first two
Halloweens rather than its conjoined twin via Italy.
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| Now you get back in that oven and clean it right this time! |
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