- Actors: Mel Ferrer, Hugo Stiglitz, Francisco Rabal
- Format: Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, PAL
- Language English
- Region: All Regions
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 2.35:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Blue Underground
- DVD Release Date: 29 April 2008
- Run Time: 92 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0012IV3SM
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Format:DVD
I stumbled across Nightmare City a few years back, i've always been a fan of Umberto Lenzi's work ( particularly his euro crime films) but had never heard of this. I must say i was pleasantly surprised by just how good this movie was!
Far better than Lenzi's more well known horror films "Cannibal Ferox" and "Eaten Alive", "Nightmare City" pre-dates Danny Boyle's "28 days later" by some 20 years or so, like 28 days,these aren't zombies per-see but infected humans who go on a bloody rampage! they shoot weapons, they bite and eat people and still have some intelligence making them far harder to kill and elude.
Mexican actor Hugo Stiglitz (who makes for a pretty bland lead) is a reporter covering the events as they unfold whilst trying to reunite with his wife who works at the local hospital, meanwhile American actor Mel Ferrer (Eaten Alive) plays an Army General who is planning a major air strike in the city to kill all the infected human's - It's up to the reporter to find his wife and escape the city before the strike happens..but as with all these situations, things don't always go to plan!
There's not much more plot to speak off but the movie zips by in such a lightning pace you'll certainly never get bored and the next kill or scare is just around the corner! There's also not as much gore as in Lenzi's other horor's but there are several scenes where things do get pretty gory and bloody, just don't expect the carnage factor of Ferox.
Someone here mentioned the dubbing is atrocious, it isn't that bad, i'v heard far worse on many italian movies of all genre's, for the most part the dubbing is pretty acceptable and both the leading actors - Hugo Stiglitz and Mel Ferrer dub their own voices anyway.
Lenzi was unfairly thought of in some quarters as a "hack" director because his horror movie's played second fiddle to Lucio Fulci's horror films around the same period of time, but most of Lenzi's horror's were actually pretty good and if you've seen any of his classic "Polizioteschi" Italian crime movies from the 70's, you'll know the guy can direct!
Far better than Lenzi's more well known horror films "Cannibal Ferox" and "Eaten Alive", "Nightmare City" pre-dates Danny Boyle's "28 days later" by some 20 years or so, like 28 days,these aren't zombies per-see but infected humans who go on a bloody rampage! they shoot weapons, they bite and eat people and still have some intelligence making them far harder to kill and elude.
Mexican actor Hugo Stiglitz (who makes for a pretty bland lead) is a reporter covering the events as they unfold whilst trying to reunite with his wife who works at the local hospital, meanwhile American actor Mel Ferrer (Eaten Alive) plays an Army General who is planning a major air strike in the city to kill all the infected human's - It's up to the reporter to find his wife and escape the city before the strike happens..but as with all these situations, things don't always go to plan!
There's not much more plot to speak off but the movie zips by in such a lightning pace you'll certainly never get bored and the next kill or scare is just around the corner! There's also not as much gore as in Lenzi's other horor's but there are several scenes where things do get pretty gory and bloody, just don't expect the carnage factor of Ferox.
Someone here mentioned the dubbing is atrocious, it isn't that bad, i'v heard far worse on many italian movies of all genre's, for the most part the dubbing is pretty acceptable and both the leading actors - Hugo Stiglitz and Mel Ferrer dub their own voices anyway.
Lenzi was unfairly thought of in some quarters as a "hack" director because his horror movie's played second fiddle to Lucio Fulci's horror films around the same period of time, but most of Lenzi's horror's were actually pretty good and if you've seen any of his classic "Polizioteschi" Italian crime movies from the 70's, you'll know the guy can direct!
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There are many great zombie movies from the 80's its hard to keep up, nightmare city is a very unique and cool zombie movie with a good story, great gore and bloody zombie eating people scenes!! The zombies are different to most films as they have super strength and are slightly intelligent and fast moving!! The ending to this movie is unexpected but typical for the 80's, great film to get if your into the cheapy cheesy horrors of the 80's!!
Format:DVD
What really saves this from being another terrible and cheap zombie flick with bad makeup is the gore of course, that one scene where the zombies or radioactive people enter the house of the woman who ends up being a victim of a fire place poker that rips out her eye from the socket and then gets stabbed several times before dying horribly otherwise this film wasn't that good. If your a fan of Italian horror then don't expect this film to be like a Lucio Fulci or Dario Argento film but if you want some trashy fun then you should definitely check this out, Nightmare City also had some unintentionally hilarious scenes with a disco dancing aerobics team being slaughter on live television which was one of my favorites. Anchor Bay didn't provide that many special features just one interview with director Umberto Lenzi who is known to make cheesy gore films like this one and another lousy trailer, what really surprised me though was that in the interview it seems like Umberto was dead serious when he said that the film was based on a true event some where in Italy! he also explains why he made the whole dream sequence thingy at the end, but for me it just felt like a cop out like he couldn't think of a proper ending and with the awful script I couldn't blame him.
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Nightmare City
Was purchased for somebody else - they enjoyed it. Took a little longer to arrive than usual
Published 20 months ago by ZombieRew
Carnage galore
To be honest, the only reason for watching this film is for constant carnage and gore. Oh sure, there are breaks where people talk to each other and officials vainly try and do... Read more
Published on 5 Sep 2009 by Ian Williams
Wonderful trash!
Well what can we say?
Undeniably trashy though this film is, it delivers the funtime groceries in spades. Read more
Undeniably trashy though this film is, it delivers the funtime groceries in spades. Read more
Published on 29 Aug 2009 by Dave
A Dream Of A Movie
This is more of an action movie with sporadic gore moments than a horror movie with Mexican/Spanish movie star Hugo Stiglitz. Read more
Published on 9 Jun 2008 by Peter J. Dooley
The nightmare becomes reality...
Absolutely awful European cheesy B-movie from Umberto Lenzi.
First of all I need to get it out of the way that this is not a zombie film. Read more
First of all I need to get it out of the way that this is not a zombie film. Read more
Published on 10 April 2007 by Lain
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