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The Nights Of Terror
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Le Notti Del Terrore
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The Zombie Dead
Ok. First off, this is a terrible film. Terrible. But I have a deep deep gra for it that I can't really explain. It's film 2 of my #31DaysOfHorror viewing and probably the most entertaining of them all. And it's not a film i'm watching ironically either. I genuinely love it.
3 couples are invited to spend the weekend at a villa in Tuscany. One of them brings her creepy son. The son fancies his mammy. The little weirdo. Re-animated peasant zombies attack them. That's it.
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| How could you not love this film? |
It's hilarious. I mean proper belly laugh funny and all unintentional. The zombies look like someone lined them up at a wall and threw cowshit at their faces and whatever stuck was makeup. The plot makes no sense. None. It's the type of film that ends with a line from a prophecy that's been made up because the film makers have no idea of how to end it. The dubbing that makes old Kung Fu film voiceovers like professional. The fact that slow shuffling zombies can suddenly use scythes and knifes to murder people. One of them throws knives with pin point accuracy. The gratuitous sex scenes peppered about the film to keep people interested when the bloodletting stops. It's 85 minutes of total entertainment. Very gooey entertainment too. When it was first released in the UK it had 13 minutes cut from it! Plus it's been blamed as the movie that put a stop to Italian zombie films. That's a serious claim to fame.
And then there's Peter Bark.
Peter Bark. His character is supposed to be a child but he's clearly a small adult. His scenes are unsettling to say the least. He lends an air of creepiness to every scene he appears in. He's far scarier than any shite faced zombie.
All this good badness and the film still throws us a message too. But I'll leave it up to ye to find out what it is. If ye dare! Mwahahaha.
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