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Terror in the streets
When the body of a dead scientist, infected with a stolen chemical, is cremated by the US military, a virus is unintentionally released into the atmosphere of a grimy urban wasteland.
Zombi VIII: Urban Decay
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26 Feb 2021
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Don’t ask me how I didn’t put it together sooner because I can’t tell you, but last week I came to the realization that the reason I had enjoyed some of Dustin’s movies a while back and rated them somewhat highly is because it was right after I had knee surgery and I was full tilt off my ass on Percocet for like 3 weeks! Of course I enjoyed them. I enjoyed literally everything during that time!
Now here I am watching this absolute piece of crap because Rich directed me towards all the horrible reviews and I just had to hate watch it for myself. I can’t explain that and I really wish I could. But I can’t.
After…
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One star for how hard I laughed that they managed to get a zombie on a commercial flight and through customs.
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Zombie VIII, the sequel no one asked for. Furthermore, it just kind of dragged and there was no extended shopping scene!!! Oh yeah, this was directed by Dusty Ferg.
The gore was okay for what it was but not great by any means of the imagination. Then there were the zombies. Some of the people that turned just had bite marks while others had full on zombie makeup. Not exactly consistent, to say the least.
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If you told me that this film was made by zombies, I'd believe you. There is almost no story and what little we are given, makes zero sense. Since when do remote islands have international airports? And even if they did, what is the likelihood that you'd be able to sneak a bloody zombie through customs?
This is also supposed to be a direct sequel to Zombi 2. There isn't much of a connection outside of the island and well, zombies. There is an homage to the eye stab from Zombi 2 but it's awful. The actress awkwardly inches her eye forward to be impaled. It's clear that she is trying to do the scene without hurting herself. Usually, these…
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Anytime somebody says that *insert generic Hollywood movie* is the worst movie they've ever seen I just want to send them a link to this.
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A direct sequel to Zombi 2 and Zombi 3 featuring the boat zombie as the long lost father of an adult woman. All the technical competency of a Troma film with none of the grace. A meandering clip show of callbacks. And this is how our boy goes out. Truly the Logan of the Zombi franchise.
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About 60% of this is filler and stock footage, including about 5 minutes of NotLD, not even cut into the movie. The director just pointed his camera at a tv screen.
There's a scene where characters are talking in a car, but the camera only picked up engine noise and you can't hear the dialogue. NBD. It's just the exposition scene that sets up the plot. Not important at all.
Halfway through the movie, there's somewhat good editing and somewhat good zombie effects, so I assume those scenes were directed by someone else.
Also, every 400th frame or something is all red, which I guess means that the director is trying for mood lighting or something? idk.
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After learning of her father's disappearance, a woman brings a group of friends to go with her to a strange island to investigate, and when they learn that he's become a flesh-eating zombie inadvertently brings him back to the mainline where he starts a zombie outbreak that overruns their town.
There was a lot to like with this one. One of the better aspects of this one is a rather fun setup that manages to bring this one into the universe. The introduction of the trip to the original island and the desire to find the missing father echo many of the same beats and storyline points from the original films and end up tying this together rather nicely. The…
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It’s a bold move to make a film that’s not even an hour long yet still include endless stock footage shots and endless filler shots, and close out with a 7 minute credit sequence. There’s maybe 10 minutes of actual movie here. And those 10 minutes are atrocious.
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Sequel to Lucio Fulci's ZOMBIE (or ZOMBI 2, if you prefer) has a daughter finally getting word that her father has been located on the island of Matool.
Dustin Ferguson's ZOMBI VIII: URBAN DECAY is a pretty ambitious low-budget horror film that actually has the balls to try and get in on the Italian "Zombi" series but it goes even further in trying to be a sequel to Fulci's ZOMBIE. If you've seen that film then you'll remember the boat zombie and well, that's the "father" that the daughter here is searching for.
Obviously this movie was shot for peanuts so you really can't expect it to be on the level of ZOMBIE but I must admit that I enjoyed…
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So if your film in total is 1 hour and 10 minutes, why in earth would you have 10 minutes stock footage of a voodoo ceremony at the beginning which is then followed by 4 minutes of credits and then is ended by another ten minutes, and in the middle of the film, there is a full minute of a camera recording Night of the Living Dead. They can’t even make a movie without having to record someone else’s work. There isn’t much space for the actual film. But that’s okay, those 24 minutes were the best part.
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Not terrible for Dustin Ferguson. The zombie looked good. I wanna know how they got it through an airport though.