![]() ![]() Cool opener, but soon forgotten as the plot shifts to some no-name island in the Antilles where zombies drive a huge wood shard into a woman's eye (in CU, natch) and automatically chow down on anything that moves. ![]() In "Zombie," an elegant, apparently unmanned sailing yacht drifts aimlessly past the New York skyline (in shots eerily emphasizing the Twin Towers), as out of place as a racing horse in a traffic jam. Little substance or subtlety gets in the way of these F/X-heavy banquets of blood and, yes, sex-in the form of naked, busty girls getting knocked off in titillating ways.įanboys as smart as Tarantino crave the grisly gruesomes delivered by Italy's Lucio Fulci. No surprise then that movies about the ravenous resurrected are often little more than gore- and munch-fests, designed to appeal to the unsavory appetites of teenaged boys and older, solitary fellows who devour DVDs in their parents' basements. Mostly zombies just shamble and chomp, activity that falls somewhat short of the meat-and-potatoes of high-class drama. ![]() Ambulatory corpses are rarely pleasant to look at, and it's devilishly difficult to project personality through all that putrefaction, what with your fleshy bits constantly dropping off. ![]() In the hierarchy of horror movies, zombies usually come in dead last, behind glam monsters like vampires and demons, witches and werewolves. ![]()
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