Virus (1980/I)

Calificación de los usuarios:

4.3/10   

Director:

Bruno Mattei

Escritores:

José María Cunillés (writer)
Rossella Drudi (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

20 enero 1984 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Horror | Ciencia-Ficción | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

When the creeping dead devour the living flesh!

Plot:

A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a four-man commando unit in the New Guinea jungle whom are fighting flesh-eating zombies.

Plot Keywords:

Flesh Eating | New Guinea | Chemical | Chemical Leak | Zombie

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Big-time "Dawn of the Dead" rip-off falls flat

Reparto

Margit Evelyn Newton	...	Lia Rousseau
Franco Garofalo	...	Zantoro (as Frank Garfield)
Selan Karay	...	Vincent
José Gras	...	Lt. Mike London (as Robert O'Neil)
Gabriel Renom	...	Max (as Gaby Renom)
Josep Lluís Fonoll	...	Osborne (as Luis Fonoll)
Pietro Fumelli	...	Man on TV
Bruno Boni	...	Josie's Husband
Patrizia Costa	...	Josie
Cesare Di Vito	...	Technician Lawson
Sergio Pislar	...	Technician Fowler
Bernard Seray	...	Barrett's assistant
Víctor Israel	...	Zombie priest
Pep Ballenster	...	Reporter
Joaquín Blanco	...	Professor Barrett

También conocida como:

Apocalipsis caníbal (Spain)
Hell of the Living Dead (International: English title)
Inferno dei morti viventi (Italy)
Night of the Zombies (USA)
Zombi 4 (USA) (pre-release title)
Zombi 5: Ultimate Nightmare (Italy)
Zombie Creeping Flesh (UK)
Zombie Inferno

Duración:

101 min

País:

Italy | Spain

Idioma:

Italiano

Color:

Color (Telecolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Finland:K-18 | Germany:(Banned) | UK:18 (re-rating: 2002) | UK:(Banned) (1984-2002) | UK:X (original rating: 1982) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Italy:VM14 | Italy:VM18 (VHS rating) | Australia:R | Canada:R | Norway:(Banned) | Spain:18 | USA:Unrated | West Germany:18 | Canada:R (Ontario) | France:-16 | Germany:Película restringida en Alemania

Locaciones de Filmación:

Badalona, Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

Compañía:

Beatrice Film

Trivialidades:

Claudio Fragasso, the writer of the screenplay, also directed one half of the movie, he said in an interview.

Errores:

Errores Reales: During the Mask Ceremony scene. The masked celebrant takes off his mask and hands it to Lia. This is not possible in a mask ceremony. In a mask ceremony, a man who takes off his his mask is no longer considered the man he was before he put on the mask. It is not possible that a man would take off his mask in the middle of a mask ceremony, let alone hand it to an obvious stranger.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Discovering 'Evil Dead' (2002) (V)

Big-time "Dawn of the Dead" rip-off falls flat

Horror fans have labeled films such as "Burial Ground", "Zombie", "Cannibal Apocalypse", and others as "Dawn of the Dead" rip-offs. Well, they ain't never seen this atrocity! "Night of the Zombies" COPIES EVERY SINGLE ELEMENT OF "DAWN OF THE DEAD"! It takes too long to list, but here's a few: male and female TV people, SWAT team, hostage situation in the beginning of the movie, stolen Goblin music, a zombie kid, scientists and politicians deciding what to do, a SWAT team member who jokingly shoots zombies, and the list goes on. Plus, the ending rips off "Zombie"!

Now, that doesn't make this movie bad....well, yeah it does, but I mean that it doesn't make the movie unwatchable. Set in New Guinea, there is documentary footage of wildlife every 5 minutes intercut with mindless dialogue sequences (badly dubbed) and ineffective zombie attacks. A lot of the zombies are just people with mud rubbed on their face, while others are genuinely creepy. Unfortunately, their attack scenes are not scary, the gore effects gratuitous and obviously fake (some deliver some jolts, though), and their victims are idiots who stand frigidly as the zombies move in for the kill. The SWAT team members shoot aimlessly into the bodies of zombies even after the fact that they have to be shot in the head is established. Even one of the team members gets fed up with telling his friends to shoot them in the head! Add some meaningless topless scenes (female journalist gets nekkid and puts on make-up to interact with a tribe), some mondo footage (natives wiping dead peoples' blood on their faces, a maggot-eating ritual), and dead-weight characters and you have the final result: a whole lot of fun to watch, yet painfully mind-boggling as to how it could have possibly gotten past the script stage!

Not that I want you to spend $20+ on a copy of this movie, but the uncut letterboxed version is the best to get. The widescreen format gives this trash heap a hint of authority and any uncut print is better than a butchered American print. Otherwise, seek out the out-of-print Vestron Video copy at any mom-and-pop video store. It's guaranteed to be there, along with other bad zombie video standards "Burial Ground" and "Zombie Lake".