Showing posts with label umberto lenzi. Show all posts
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Aug 29, 2010

Primal Rage

Primal Rage (1988)
Director: Vittorio Rambaldi
Starring: Patrick Lowe, Cheryl Arutt, Bo Svenson
Rating: 2.5/5

"This blood-soaked, stomach-churningly gory Italian horror outing is set on a college campus in Miami and chronicles the grisly aftermath that occurs w
hen a student is bitten by a laboratory baboon and turns into a voracious, man-killing beast."

Comments: Forgotten and somewhat forgettable horror flick directed by Vittorio Rambaldi (and written by Umberto Lenzi). Worth checking out for fans of terrible acting and mindless gore. Other than that there's not much to see here.

Jun 15, 2008

Nightmare City

Nightmare City (1980)
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Starring: Hugo Stiglitz, Mel Ferrer
Personal Rating: 4/5

"Miller (Hugo Stiglitz) is a reporter on to something when he sees passengers disembark from a plane and start attacking and murdering whomever they come across -- no, they are not upset with their service, they are zombies -- or more accurately ghouls who need human blood to stay alive. While flight attendants may contend that more than one ghoul is on any flight, this group was contaminated by a man exposed to radiation that leaked from a nuclear plant, and they are hereafter identifiable by their black-face make-up, if not their eating habits. When Miller tries to notify the citizens that these monsters are on the loose, he is rudely stopped by a nasty general (Mel Ferrer) who does not want to make the public unnecessarily hysterical. The monsters have a molecular structure that is not affected by bullets, and so in imitation of the accepted code that zombies only die with a shot to the head, the general launches his attack "aiming for the control center" of each zombie head, before everyone is converted into the blood-thirsty monsters."-© Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

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