![]() ![]() I’ve personally found it charmingly cheesy, but I can see how it would potentially turn off viewers in equal measure. The majority of its references age the film for better or worse. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for this movie. Much of Romero’s Dead trilogy aged like fine wine over the years. Borrowing from Romero’s handling of the genre, the movie also likes to go out of its way to use the world as a platform to bleakly satirize the times-notably governmental authority, Satanic panic, and environmentalism. While I can say that it is most definitely imaginative, it also comes off as a complete absurdity nowadays. ![]() Drawing heavily from science-fiction, the film relies heavily on fictional pseudoscience to explain the undead epidemic. In a lot of ways, it’s very much a product of the 70s with how it handles the movie world logically and thematically. However, it is mostly that last bit that makes the film challenging to judge in the modern era. Only this time with the modern advantages of full color and contemporaneous sensibilities. I won’t go any further than that because I believe the movie is at its most fun without any spoilers, allowing the wild plot elements to do their magic instead.Ĭonceived as a direct response to Night Of The Living Dead, the producers intended the movie to cash in on the genre’s success by recreating George Romero’s zombie formula. Unfortunately, it seems fate has a different plan for the two, and soon they find themselves stalked by a mysterious, fetid figure with a hunger for the living. Hesitantly, they head off deeper into the countryside to Southgate, towards the estate of Edna’s sister. ![]() With George’s motorbike now out of commission and Edna’s car being the only means of transportation, the two agree on a reluctant compromise to make each of their ends meet. The movie follows a young woman, Edna, and a male shopkeeper, George, who happened to accidentally collide-quite literally-at a gas station on the outskirts of Manchester, England. ![]()
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