MS
Marco Saraga
•In a land contaminated by a pathogen that brings the dead back to life, a group of mercenaries must work together to find the solution to the disaster. Behind the scenes, corrupt governments seek to carry out their dark plans.
We can define contemporary independent cinema as a continuous attempt to resume the discourse of the golden period of the past. A period that has ended, historicized, and with no possibility of coming back to life, even though most "directors" try in every way to insert citations and references that prevent a new birth, hoping to continuously witness and be protagonists of the rebirth… but of what?
"Zombie Massacre" is a fun movie, full of citations and references, and for this reason, it is a movie that does not set itself in a new cinematic land but remains in the limbo where numerous self-produced and low-budget films dwell.
Screened at the latest edition of the Fantafestival, an event that greatly resembles an operating room where every effort is made to keep the patient alive, while the wisest choice would be to pull the plug and dedicate oneself to something else, "Zombie Massacre" stands out for its self-ironic, exaggerated, anarchic vein. Caricatured characters resembling many small figures manage to give meaning to the work of Marco Ristori and Luca Boni, already authors of the other zombie movie "Eaters". The absurd and surprising scenes, even in their excessive slowness, allow the film to take a leap forward and help forget the many imperfections that a film/non-film like this small work carries with it.
The special effects are well done, the zombies/demons are detailed and cause unease, going beyond the usual knife slash or the door that opens on its own. From watching the film, the presence of a producer like the German director Uwe Boll is perceived, creator of a cinema that is based on simple ideas and grandiose titles.
Marco Ristori and Luca Boni make a well-crafted and highly watchable film, surely to keep on the shelf of a cinephile collector more than many other products that have no reason to be seen.
