So, Greek zombie flick Evil In The Time Of Heroes. Where to start? It's ridiculous, frequently abandons any pretence of making logical sense, sticks two fingers up at audience expectations and includes Billy Zane, for no apparent reason. It's also one of the most purely entertaining genre films in years. That's a rather more subjective judgement than usual, given Heroes comes with some nasty flaws, but it's so consistently, hysterically audacious and stupidly excessive it's very difficult not to love it regardless.
Confusing, perhaps, but let's shorten it to Heroes as technically this is the sequel to the earlier Evil - no subtitle, little seen outside of Greece. (Though it's really not necessary to have seen the first to appreciate the second.) So to be fair to Heroes, it makes no bones about being a work of absolute fantasy where plot is practically superfluous, and once it's got the opening...
Confusing, perhaps, but let's shorten it to Heroes as technically this is the sequel to the earlier Evil - no subtitle, little seen outside of Greece. (Though it's really not necessary to have seen the first to appreciate the second.) So to be fair to Heroes, it makes no bones about being a work of absolute fantasy where plot is practically superfluous, and once it's got the opening...
- 11/3/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Carl reviews Greek zombie horror Evil – In The Time Of Heroes. Is this the Greek Shaun Of The Dead? And why is Billy Zane in it?
When you read in the brochure for a film festival that there is a Greek zombie film in the line-up, it turns into a ‘must-see'. Then you read a little more and find out that Billy Zane makes a cameo in this fairly low budget flick as a time-travelling zombie-killing monk, it goes from 'must-see' to 'definitely cannot miss, even if zombies attack'.
It picks up where the first film Evil (To kako) left off, which, for most of the crowd at this showing, was potentially confusing. Roughly two people in the Cameo had seen the original, so for the rest of us, the little bit of back story we get is greatly appreciated.
One of the characters is shown to die somewhere in the first film,...
When you read in the brochure for a film festival that there is a Greek zombie film in the line-up, it turns into a ‘must-see'. Then you read a little more and find out that Billy Zane makes a cameo in this fairly low budget flick as a time-travelling zombie-killing monk, it goes from 'must-see' to 'definitely cannot miss, even if zombies attack'.
It picks up where the first film Evil (To kako) left off, which, for most of the crowd at this showing, was potentially confusing. Roughly two people in the Cameo had seen the original, so for the rest of us, the little bit of back story we get is greatly appreciated.
One of the characters is shown to die somewhere in the first film,...
- 6/27/2010
- Den of Geek
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