noiseredux Presents THE MONTH OF HORROR (2015) (remake)

[prfsnl_gmr]

It has the red-head with big teeth and open mouth, right? I love that guy - especially as a white gangster in colors.

Yep. He's in it.

Malachai! He wants you too, Malachai. He wants you too!

[Ack]

Village of the Damned (1960) is up next for me, and I was thinking of a doing a "creepy kids" marathon. I have seen most of the good "creepy kid" movies, however, and I don't think I have enough to last me more than a few nights...

Have you watched these? I won't say they're all good...

Who Can Kill a Child?
Alice, Sweet Alice
We Need to Talk About Kevin
The Brood
It's Alive
Beware! Children at Play
The Night Child
The Unborn
The Devil Within Her
Audrey Rose
The Children
The Expelled
Strange Behavior
Wicked Little Things

Also for laughs at the end, you should watch The Baby. Or maybe even better...Bad Milo.

[prfsnl_gmr]

I've seen a few of them. (Alice, Sweet Alice and The Brood are both very strong. Some of the others don't look so hot.)

The ones I really need to see are:

It's Alive!
The Other
Village of the Damned/Children of the Damned
Who Can Kill a Child?

Ones you should see, if you haven't already, are:

The Bad Seed (1956); and
The Innocents (1961)

[Ack]

First one down for me in the marathon!



Zombi 3

Terrorists get hold of a biological weapon called Death One in the Philippines, but the lone survivor in their group accidentally contaminates himself. The US Army tracks him down and burns the corpses of everyone in the hotel he was staying in, but this causes Death One to enter the atmosphere, kill birds, and bring them back to life to infect humanity. Soon a bus full of tourists and a handful of GIs find themselves facing off against a horde of the undead while containment squads wander around killing anything that moves. Can the world survive this spreading zombie plague? Or will the hubris of the United States military end the world?

Have you seen much Italian schlock cinema? The US Army almost always kills us all, especially when guys like Lucio Fulci(Zombi 2), Bruno Mattei(Hell of the Living Dead), and Claudio Fragasso(Troll 2) are at the reins. Fulci is credited as the director for the film but had to quit partway through, ostensibly for hepatitis but also possibly because of disputes with the producer. Producer Franco Gaudenzi then brought in Mattei and Fragasso to finish the film without Fulci's consent, with Fragasso writing new material for Mattei to direct.

The end result is about 60% Fulci's work and 40% Mattei's, a strange scattershot of a movie stuck between two different visions of zombies. In some scenes, the zombies are slow shamblers intent only on biting people, while in others they move quickly, know how to fight, and can even talk. One particular zombie head even flies. Generally speaking though, the shamblers were Fulci's work, while the runners were Mattei, though the flying zombie head was Fulci's idea. Also, Mattei starred as the general's bald right hand man, Tracey(the other one, Cheney, was actually played by Claudio Fragasso). As a result, the response from Fulci to the film was to distance himself from it. He even tried unsuccessfully to have his name removed from the credits, and he has gone on record as saying that he only really enjoys the flying zombie head scene. Conversely, Mattei still considers Zombi 3 to be Fulci's film, with him just stepping in to help out. Ultimately Zombi 3 was a loss, and Gaudenzi had Mattei and Fragasso work together on another zombie movie called After Death to make up for the money. After Death is sometimes labeled Zombie 4.

As for my opinion, even with all of the problems, I found myself enjoying it. It feels more like Mattei to me, despite Fulci having filmed the majority of it. Hey, Mattei got final edit. Zombi 3 is more than a little ridiculous and over the top, but between its weird history, its environmentalist message, and its complete lack of character development, it's still a pretty creepy piece of cheese with an awesome soundtrack. Just don't think about it too hard. It is a bit of a mess.

Also, ivy apparently grows really fast in the Philippines. There is a rundown hotel in Zombi 3 that the heroes hide in which is completely overgrown and in ruins...despite only having been closed a week before. Wow.

My progress so far:

1/31

Zombi 3

[BoneSnapDeez]

I did not know there was a Zombi 3.

I saw Zombi 2 about 15 years ago after I told a friend I couldn't stand to watch any horror movies with eye trauma. He was like "lol lets just watch this then lololol" I'm still mad.

[TSTR]

Yeah buddy, he got you good there.

Always been fascinated by the production of Zombi 3. Wonder what it would have been like if Fulci had done the whole thing. Ack, are you gonna do Zombi 4 and 5?

[Ack]

Yeah buddy, he got you good there.

Always been fascinated by the production of Zombi 3. Wonder what it would have been like if Fulci had done the whole thing. Ack, are you gonna do Zombi 4 and 5?

Maybe. I have access to Zombi 5, but 4 is currently a no go. I'm debating if I should skip it for now and do 5 anyway since it's only a loose series and the films have nothing to do with each other. I have a bunch of other movies to check out too though.

[TSTR]

Eh, skip 5 if you got better stuff waiting.

[Ack]

..I wouldn't say "better." It's really just a matter of taste. I don't know if you could really think of Amityville 6 as "better" than anything...

[TSTR]

Whoo, those Amityville flicks. That's a hole I never went down. Although I did see Amityville 2, which is pretty demented--I recommend.