The Horror Film Watch

[Lemmy]

So why not review Creepshow 2 and 3? I haven't seen the third one (and from what I've heard that's just as well), but the second is pretty good.

[Caledfwlch]

Has anyone on here ever read the original script for Day of the Dead?

It is brilliant. The film we did get, brilliant as it also is, was only a little part of Sir George of Romero's vision, I believe it was budget issues, because it required a far larger cast, etc tha meant it was stripped of a lot.

There are a lot of rumours that the guys who remade Dawn, want to do a sequel, but "not Day" but I think they should have a read of the original script, because frankly, how the Dawn remake ends, those last camcorder shots on some island is how the original Day began

[Kiercoria99]

One of the actors in Creepshow 2, Dan Beer, went to my little bitty high school in upstate NY. I think he was in The Raft story.

[zray13fu]

Thank you

[zray13fu]

This is very useful

[zray13fu]

Which highschool

[Starbeast]

Zombie 2 (1979)

Lucio Fulci's unauthorized sequel to Romeros's Dawn of the Dead. In this zombie cult film, actors Tisa Farrow & Ian McCulloch battle against the rising dead which were resurrected by voodoo. The movie has some very shocking and disturbing zombie violence which may put you off your popcorn, that combined with an effective haunting soundtrack and continuous ritual drums gives this island horror movie a chilling atmosphere.

a.k.a. - Zombie

[j. d. worthington]

Question: Which version of this did you see? The original American theatrical release, or the restored version? There is a surprising amount of difference, including the fact that the damned film actually makes some sense in the latter version... and manages to be a genuinely eerie (as well as unsettling) experience a fair amount of the time.... (I still think his The Beyond and House of Clocks are better films, though....)

[dask]

I like Fulci but Zombie 2 was so bad I never finished it. The guy who could do so much with so little tripped on his shoe string this time.

[j. d. worthington]

Again, I have to ask: which version did you see? From the title, most likely the original (American) theatrical release, which is (in my view) simply bad. (Though there were about four or five films in that series, including a couple which used tiny bits of footage from Fulci and were completed by others.)

[dask]

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

Again, I have to ask: which version did you see? From the title, most likely the original (American) theatrical release, which is (in my view) simply bad. (Though there were about four or five films in that series, including a couple which used tiny bits of footage from Fulci and were completed by others.)

My mistake, J.D. I checked my "grue view" stash in the garage (my wife hates that stuff) and found it wasn't Zombie 2 I couldn't finish, but Zombie 3 which came in a 3-pack along with Zombie's 4 & 5. I really liked the first Zombie by Fulci but am not sure whether I've ever seen #2.

[dask]

Well, according to Amazon.com Zombie 2 and Zombie are the same film. There is no Zombie 1. Releasing it as Flesh-Eaters, Zombie 2 was a business decision to capitalize on Romero's Dawn Of The Dead. Interesting. Rue Morgue ran a special Fulci issue a few years back and if this was mentioned I have since forgotten it. Anyway, so there's no confusion, Zombie --- or Zombie 2 --- was a great film. But it's not for everyone.

[Starbeast]

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

Question: Which version of this did you see? The original American theatrical release, or the restored version? There is a surprising amount of difference,(I still think his The Beyond and House of Clocks are better films, though....)

In 1979 I saw the American version while working at a movie theater, it was easy to follow the story. Basically a daughter searches for her father and discovers her dad was working to stop a "zombie" outbreak on an island. Unfortunately the rising dead get out of hand and she escapes back to New York only to discover that the city is overrun with the flesh eating cadavers.

However, I have heard of other versions of the movie where all of the horror was edited because the film was too shocking, which of course leaves the movie with nothing to see. This film was also banned in some parts of the world too.

But over here in America, I can still remember the screaming audience and patrons squirming in their seats when the zombies were eating and killing people. Today I own the special 2-disk edition.

And The Beyond (1981) is an awesome movie because of a bigger budget which was generated by the money that was made by Zombie 2.

Originally Posted by dask

My mistake, J.D. I checked my "grue view" stash in the garage (my wife hates that stuff) and found it wasn't Zombie 2 I couldn't finish, but Zombie 3 which came in a 3-pack along with Zombie's 4 & 5. I really liked the first Zombie by Fulci but am not sure whether I've ever seen #2.

Originally the film was called Zombie, but since Lucio was inspired by Romero's Dawn of the Dead (even though it was a sequel to Night of the Living Dead, which technically would had made Lucio's film Zombie 3. But that's another film.), he wanted to make a follow up film to it, so he retitled it Zombie 2. However the film told it's own story about how the nightmare began. I think Mr Fulci should have left the title as Zombie.

[dask]

I've yet to see The Beyond but I've heard about it and, yeah, would like to see it.

[j. d. worthington]

From my understanding, it got the Zombie 2 title because Romero's Dawn of the Dead was released in Italy as Zombie; and, as this was intended as, if not a direct sequel, at least a film in the same set-up...

SB: It may be there was more than one American theatrical release. I've seen an earlier version, which was released on videotape (before the advent of DVD), and it wasn't the gore which was cut... it was the bulk of the storyline and character-development. Hence, it became little more than a series of gore scenes with a little nudity thrown in for good measure. Once the other material is replaced, while it is still over-the-top in the gore department for my taste (as is The Beyond, for that matter), it is nonetheless a rather good film, and one of the few of that extreme sort of cinema which I like having on my shelves...