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ZOMBI

Dawn of the Dead

1978 IT HMDB
septiembre 2, 1978

La epidemia que hace resucitar a los muertos convertidos en seres ávidos de carne humana se ha extendido, llegando al punto en el que varias ciudades han quedado prácticamente desiertas. Los supervivientes deben refugiarse en zonas militares ya que los zombies no dudan en acabar con sus propios familiares…

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Marco Castellini

Un mal desconocido se extiende por el mundo, resucitando a los muertos y transformándolos en zombis hambrientos de carne humana. Cualquiera que sea mordido por estos muertos vivientes contrae la misma "enfermedad". En poco tiempo, la epidemia se expande rápidamente, y las áreas urbanas, repletas de zombis, se convierten en los lugares menos seguros para estar. Tres hombres y una mujer deciden huir de las ciudades y encuentran refugio en un enorme centro comercial abandonado en las afueras. Lo transforman en un búnker impenetrable para los "muertos vivientes", pero no para los humanos. Una banda de criminales, deseosa de apoderarse de los suministros aún presentes en el centro comercial, ataca el refugio, destruyendo las protecciones. Ahora, los zombis también pueden entrar, desatando una masacre de la que solo dos sobrevivientes saldrán con vida. Dirigida por el gran Romero, quien en 1968 reinventó el mito de los zombis con "La noche de los muertos vivientes", y co-producida y presentada en Italia por Dario Argento, la película es un deleite para los amantes del cine de terror: tensión, delirio, angustia, repulsión, gore extremo, acción, miedo. Pero "Zombi" no se limita a esto: la película de Romero también tiene un claro mensaje político, una acusación contra un modelo de sociedad estadounidense basado en el consumismo y el capitalismo. No es casual que la película esté ambientada en un centro comercial: en ese enorme edificio, los protagonistas no solo encuentran un refugio temporal contra la muerte, sino también una especie de "baluarte" de la civilización, que atrae a los muertos vivientes como si fueran "consumidores obtusos". Afuera, la sociedad tal como la conocían se está desmoronando inevitablemente bajo el ataque de una fuerza inesperada y aparentemente inexplicable (los zombis), lista para subvertir el orden establecido y reinar finalmente (libre) en el caos más completo y febril. Los magníficos efectos de maquillaje son obra del maestro de los efectos especiales Tom Savini, quien también aparece en la película como actor, interpretando a uno de los motociclistas que asaltan el supermercado. La banda sonora corre a cargo de los legendarios Goblin, en ese momento famosos en todo el mundo por la espléndida música de "Profondo rosso". Un último dato curioso: el propio Romero hace una breve aparición al inicio de la película como el director de la emisora de televisión. Mira el tráiler de ZOMBI.

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talisencrw

9 /10

This is one of the finest sequels ever, in that it's both of comparable quality with the original, yet is fundamentally different from it at the same time. Marvelous stuff, with aspects copied thousands of times over the past two generations, with no end in sight.

This and 'Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom', from about the same time frame, would make one of the best double-bills ever on the evils of consumerism gone rampant...

Wuchak

Wuchak

8 /10

Romero’s imaginative and thrilling zombie sequel

A decade after the excellent “Night of the Living Dead” (1968), writer/director George Romero offers up this exceptional sequel. The plague of reanimated corpses with a hunger for warm flesh is now global and society is increasingly breaking down. A television exec (Gaylen Ross), her helicopter-reporter beau (David Emge) and two SWAT officers (Ken Foree and Scott Reiniger) take refuge in a suburban mall. Unfortunately for them, a veritable army of biker-raiders wants the mall for their own.

One of the main reasons this film is so iconic is because Romero seriously considered what it would be like after a ‘zombie apocalypse’ and came up with an inspired story. While the bleakness of the situation is addressed there’s also a sense of adventurous freedom; for instance, the protagonists having an entire mall to themselves.

The movie’s disturbing, ghastly and gory, but also action-packed and sometimes humorous. The zombies make for good bullet fodder while, at the same time, satirizing consumer society. The creative score is varied and I’m sure it was cutting edge at the time, but it’s very dated today, although you’ll probably find yourself acclimating to it. The no-name cast is convincing with the towering Foree standing out while Emge comes across as a poor man’s Donald Sutherland.

The movie runs 2 hours, 7 minutes with the longer version running 2 hours, 19 minutes (the one I watched). It was shot in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, and nearby Pittsburgh.

GRADE: A-

JPV852

JPV852

8 /10

Been a while since I last watched this one, but with the new 4K UHD out, decided to give it another watch going with the Extended Cut. Still very well made with some great zombie effects and really liked the characters, Peter (Ken Foree), especially. I'm not a big fan of the zombie horror genre but this is one of the exceptions. 4.0/5

Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

1 /10

This must be some kind of joke, right?

Firstly, allow me to clarify: I am not a fan of “zombie” films, although I understand very well the interest that, in recent years, there has been for this material. I totally respect those who enjoy it. But let's be honest: a film has to have some aesthetic quality and some good taste to become “digestible”. And, well, I just finished watching this film, and I honestly can't understand how it has survived without ending up in the vault of oblivion. There are incredibly better films that have been forgotten as the years pass, but a certain type of crap, purely and simply because it's bad, lives on.

The plot is essentially based on a moment of chaos in which the USA (the rest of the world does not exist) is taken over by zombies and no one knows what to do or where to go. Everyone thinks of themselves, saves their own skin and that's it. In the meantime, the usual opportunists take advantage of the situation as they see fit, and a small group of “surviving heroes” look for somewhere to take shelter. It's the plot of this film and a dozen other disaster films (zombies, volcanoes, wars, earthquakes, alien invasions, you name it). The level of originality is below zero, and the situations are all predictable and highly cliché. We know who is going to die and who is going to be saved by a whisker, and the fact that the film starts without any kind of introduction is just confusing and a little stupid.

Directed by George A. Romero, a man who must have suffered from some bizarre sexual fetish with dead people and zombies (look at his filmography!), the film is absolutely trash and could compete in poor quality and bad taste with all of Ed's films Wood and with the historical rigor of Ridley Scott's period films. I lost count of the script problems, continuity errors and gross editing errors. The cinematography is ugly, there is a blatant exaggeration of the sets and the zombies' makeup is so obviously fake that they look like what we did at fifteen in school plays. And we'd better not even talk about the cast: I have doubts whether those people were actors.

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