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This value-for-money Zombie Double Feature is billed as "Flesh Creepers, Volume 1", and offers a double billing of George A Romero’s classic Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Steve Sekely’s rather less fondly remembered Revenge of the Zombies (1943).
Night of the Living Dead is a masterpiece, but it has also slipped through a copyright loophole which means it has been issued on video and DVD by a great many distributors in as many variant versions. This one isn’t ruined by colorisation or dodgy new footage as a couple of rival releases are, but it is soft-looking print, free of censor cuts but very washed-out-looking. The background notes inexcusably get the date of the film wrong, crassly tagging it "think Blair Witch 1964", and mention the existence of extras-filled special DVD editions, which rather rubs in the fact that this no-frills effort has none of the commentaries or documentaries found on other releases.
Revenge of the Zombies is a sluggish hour-long wartime B-picture, with John Carradine underplaying for once as a Nazi scientist creating an army of zombies (ie: a handful of shuffling extras) in the Louisiana swamplands. Comedy relief Mantan Moreland has the best moments and the trudging-around-the-backlot zombies ("things walkin’ ain’t got no business to be walkin’") are fun, but it isn’t especially good of its kind.
On the DVD: The Zombie Double Feature presents both films in "horrorscope", which means letterboxing and blurry image. The only extra is a list-like essay about the habits of flesh-eating zombies in Romero films.--Kim Newman
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Waterfall, 2002 SEALED
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I have never bothered to look at Revenge of the Zombies. I can't get past Night of the Living Dead whenever i put the disc in. The film is that good. It is simply one of the greatest films ever made period, it is the film that defined the zombie genre and also gave the film world its first black male as a lead.
The film is excellent, from the photography to the performances to the excellent mood music George A. Romero's debut feature is a stone cold classic.
This DVD on the ohter hand is not. And that is why it loses a star in this review. The picture on this disc can be very poor in places, especially when the camera makes fast movements. but other than that its all good.
This film is already available on many other formats and labels but this is the first one I ever bought. Night is available as part of the Trilogy of the Dead box set but unfortuneatley someone did a George Lucas on it and added in really crap scenes filmed in 1998, and this feature can detract from the film more so than dodgy picture quality. So my advice is if you want to own Night of the Living Dead then buy a cheap disc like this first then get Trilogy of the Dead, because even if it can be a pain on the eyes, you still cannot beat this 100% Classic original. And you never know Revenge of the Zombies might be good too.
The film is excellent, from the photography to the performances to the excellent mood music George A. Romero's debut feature is a stone cold classic.
This DVD on the ohter hand is not. And that is why it loses a star in this review. The picture on this disc can be very poor in places, especially when the camera makes fast movements. but other than that its all good.
This film is already available on many other formats and labels but this is the first one I ever bought. Night is available as part of the Trilogy of the Dead box set but unfortuneatley someone did a George Lucas on it and added in really crap scenes filmed in 1998, and this feature can detract from the film more so than dodgy picture quality. So my advice is if you want to own Night of the Living Dead then buy a cheap disc like this first then get Trilogy of the Dead, because even if it can be a pain on the eyes, you still cannot beat this 100% Classic original. And you never know Revenge of the Zombies might be good too.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Add this to your movie collection, if you like horrors excellent film and scary night in.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Great zombie fun!
25 Nov 2008
Format:DVD
I had a ball watching this film -- from the moment the first zombie is "yodeled" from the grave, I laughed my head off. The zombies were hysterically funny, but they were skilled -- dig that expertly crafted casket they fashioned early on in the story. Heh. They could barely wield their heavy hammers, so it was a scream that it was implied they had actually built even this crude of a coffin. I love it!!!
Though there was a definite sinister intent, the comedic value of this movie can't be denied. Highly recommended for fans of bizarro horror flicks.
Though there was a definite sinister intent, the comedic value of this movie can't be denied. Highly recommended for fans of bizarro horror flicks.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Zombies get much better revenge in many other movies.
19 Aug 2008
Format:DVD
Revenge of the Zombies (Steve Sekely, 1943)
I've long been a fan of the Nazi Zombie subgenre of horror films, ever since I first saw Shock Waves as a preadolescent. I had no idea, however, that a Nazi Zombie movie had been made during World War II! Prolific director Steve Sekely (who, ironically, would not go on to make a name for himself until his third-last picture, 1962's The Day of the Triffids) and screenwriters Edmond Kelso (King of the Zombies) and Van Norcross (Behind Prison Walls) worked up a story that, in today's society, would be marketed as "ripped from the headlines!", with a German mad scientist (John Carradine) working in the Louisiana bayou to create Nazi Zombies, an unstoppable military force that would win World War II for the Germans. Sometimes, when you get a contemporary plot like this, you generate an immediacy to the material that can't be duplicated with later work; such is not the case here. It's plodding and unscary, with all the best moments provided by comedian Mantan Moreland (Spider Baby). Note that Moreland's performance may be offensive to some of the ultra-politically-correct set (Moreland was well-known for drawing his comedy from contemporary black stereotypes, and has fallen well out of favor for it nowadays), but in a movie this boring, you can sink as low as you want and you'll still liven it up. **
I've long been a fan of the Nazi Zombie subgenre of horror films, ever since I first saw Shock Waves as a preadolescent. I had no idea, however, that a Nazi Zombie movie had been made during World War II! Prolific director Steve Sekely (who, ironically, would not go on to make a name for himself until his third-last picture, 1962's The Day of the Triffids) and screenwriters Edmond Kelso (King of the Zombies) and Van Norcross (Behind Prison Walls) worked up a story that, in today's society, would be marketed as "ripped from the headlines!", with a German mad scientist (John Carradine) working in the Louisiana bayou to create Nazi Zombies, an unstoppable military force that would win World War II for the Germans. Sometimes, when you get a contemporary plot like this, you generate an immediacy to the material that can't be duplicated with later work; such is not the case here. It's plodding and unscary, with all the best moments provided by comedian Mantan Moreland (Spider Baby). Note that Moreland's performance may be offensive to some of the ultra-politically-correct set (Moreland was well-known for drawing his comedy from contemporary black stereotypes, and has fallen well out of favor for it nowadays), but in a movie this boring, you can sink as low as you want and you'll still liven it up. **
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
ZOMBIE SNOOZEFEST! ONLY INTERESTING FOR NOSTAGIA!
23 Feb 2008
Format:DVD
I caught this on MGM's HD channel. The film probably looked better on this station than it ever did! This was another one of those war time films just to take people's mind off of bigger more real horrors. I know it probably gave people the best nap they had in a long time. Silly and boring with the usual white eyed stereotype frightened black guy(comic relief thank you!)running around with some very non scary zombies. Poor John Carradine!.....he deserved better than this!
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