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 Zombie Creeping Flesh (DVD)
Description: Genre: Horror / Theatrical Release: 1984 / Director: Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso / Actors: Margit Evelyn Newton, ... more  Zombie Creeping Flesh (DVD) ... Franco Garofalo ... / DVD released 01 November, 2004 at Vipco / Features of the DVD: PAL, WidescreenNewest Review: ... Several of the set pieces are the same. And Goblin provide the music, just as they did for Dawn; not content with simply ... more ... getting them on board, the film even re-uses some of their Dawn soundtrack.
It also manages to rip off a number of other films. The jungle setting allows them to throw in some cannibal movie motifs. The female lead is called Lia, although she isn't a princess. Little bits are stolen from other films, both zombie and otherwise. And there's an astonishing amount of stock footage. Most of it is of jungles and animals and birds that live in them (assuming elephants live in the jungle). The cannibal village section cont...more |
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Zombie Creeping Flesh (DVD): "When the creeping dead devour the living flesh!" (773 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 13.03.08 (Very useful, 65 readings)
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A review of just the film. A video nasty from 1980 directed by Bruno Mattei, one of many low-budget Italian exploitation directors. You don't notice just how many Italian zombie movies there are until you sit down and try to work out which ones you haven't seen. This, like the much better Zombie Flesh Eaters, tries to pass itself off as a prequel to George A Romero's hugely successful Dawn of the Dead. A chemical leak at a research centre in New Guinea infects the local populace, causing the dead to rise with their usual hunger for living flesh. An American SWAT team and a couple of TV journalists end up wandering around the jungle, trying to avoid ...
