Marco Castellini
•Frank, caretaker of a funeral home, shows his new assistant strange containers with corpses inside that he claims are real "living dead". The recommendation was not to open them at all, but the two, accidentally, bump into them and the dead, thirsty for human brains, escape. The infection begins to spread, and the intervention of the army with an atomic bomb is needed to restore normality. Certainly a great horror directed by Dan O'Bannon, a "specialist" in the fantastic genre and thrill (he is remembered above all for the screenplay of the splendid "Alien") with a rather simple plot, from a "classic" zombie movie, but special effects and splatter sequences really effective. It's a shame only that O'Bannon decided to introduce some "comic" moments in the film, somewhat out of place. A kind of "comedy" version of Romero's "Zombi".
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