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Zombi poster

ZOMBI

Dawn of the Dead

1978 IT HMDB
settembre 2, 1978

Negli Stati Uniti dilaga un'invasione di zombi, redivivi dall'aldilà, esseri regrediti a uno stato di torpore animalesco, tesi alla ricerca di carne dei vivi, deboli di forza e robusti di zanne, facili da abbattere ma invulnerabili se non colpiti al cervello. Tre uomini e una donna trovano riparo all'interno di un centro commerciale, lasciando l'inferno fuori dalle porte.

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Marco Castellini

Nel mondo dilaga un morbo sconosciuto che resuscita i morti trasformandoli in zombi affamati di carne umana, chiunque venga morso da uno di questi morti viventi contrae la stessa “malattia”. In breve tempo l’epidemia si espande a macchia d’olio, i centri abitati, brulicanti di zombi, diventano i luoghi meno sicuri in cui stare. Tre uomini e una donna decidono così di allontanarsi dalle città e trovano rifugio in un enorme centro commerciale abbandonato, in una zona periferica; lo trasformano in un bunker inattaccabile per i “morti viventi” ma non per gli uomini, così una banda di criminali, desiderosa di impossessarsi delle scorte ancora presenti nel centro commerciale, attacca il rifugio distruggendo le protezioni. Ora però anche gli zombi possono entrare e comincia una carneficina che vedrà solo due superstiti. Diretto dal grande Romero, che nel 1968 con “La notte dei morti viventi” aveva reinventato il mito degli zombi, e co-prodotto e presentato in Italia da Dario Argento, il film è ciò che di meglio possa desiderare un amante del cinema dell’orrore: tensione, delirio, senso d’angoscia, ribrezzo, splatter estremo, azione, paura. Ma "Zombi" non si limita a questo: la pellicola di Romero ha anche un chiaro messaggio politico, è un atto di accusa nei confronti di un modello di società, quello americano, basato sul consumismo e sul capitalismo. Non è casuale l'ambientazione della pellicola in un centro commerciale, nell'enorme edificio i protagonisti non trovano solo un temporaneo rifugio dalla morte ma anche una sorta di "baluardo" della civiltà, che attira a sé i morti viventi come tanti “ottusi” consumatori. Al di fuori la società, così come la conoscevano, si sta inevitabilmente sgretolando sotto l'attacco di una forza inaspettata ed apparentemente inspiegabile (gli zombi) pronta a sovvertire l'ordine costituito e a regnare finalmente (libera) nel caos più completo e febbrile. I magnifici effetti di make-up sono opera del mago degli effetti speciali Tom Savini, che nel film compare anche in veste di attore nella parte di uno dei motociclisti che assalta il supermercato, mentre la colonna sonora si deve ancora ai grandissimi Goblin, al tempo famosi in tutto il mondo per la splendide musiche di “Profondo rosso”. Un ultima curiosità: lo stesso Romero si ritaglia una piccola apparizione all'inizio del film nei panni del direttore dell'emittente televisiva.

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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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