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disclaimer: obviously, if you don't have a pre-existing love for zero-budget Italian horror, this won't be your cup of tea.But if you do! My, what a treat! I overlooked this film for years because I confused it with "City of the Living Dead." I otherwise exhausted the genre's offerings. When I realized I hadn't seen this one, I was very excited, but I didn't expect much. I was in for a pleasant surprise.Ugh, I'm no good at paragraph format.The Pros: 1. The title, "City of the Walking Dead," is appropriate. This really is a city-wide infestation. This is not a board-up-the-windows movie. The scale is epic. So often, low budget zombie films restrict themselves to a few characters on a farm or something to save money. This one doesn't. I can't imagine how he was able to use some of the locations. (Actually, I suppose the title isn't quite appropriate, because the antagonists are neither walking nor dead. They run, and they're sort of still alive.)2. Breasts are present.3. I usually don't like zombies that deviate from Romero's mold, but Lenzi takes a risk and scores. These creatures combine the hypnotic element of Romero's zombies with the overwhelming danger of running zombies. According to an interview on the DVD, Lenzi did not want to just do another Romero rip-off, and insisted on coming up with his own sort of creature. He did it well.4. For the first 2/3 of the film, the characters are sufficiently believable for the viewer to care about them. For example, a reporter finds himself in the middle of the zombie outbreak, and desperately tries to get a hold of his wife, a doctor, who can't be reached because she's in surgery. This is a realistic, human element absent from most films in the genre.Cons: 1. 2/3 of the way through, it kind of falls apart. The characters who haven't died reveal themselves to be one dimensional after all.2. The special effects are really inconsistent. Sometimes killings are mimed bloodlessly. In other scenes, heads explode.3. The soldiers are pathetic.In short, highly recommended.

The wonderfully wretched apotheosis of almost preposterously bad cheap'n'cheesy Italian/Spanish rip-offs of George Romero's classic (and undeniably influential) "Living Dead" movies, specifically "Dawn of the Dead" with some blatant "borrowings" from "The Crazies" tossed in to further enhance the all-out frenzied wackiness.The plot's strictly one of those "stop me if you haven't heard this one already?"-type affairs: A radiation leak at a nuclear power plant causes all the workers there to mutate into bloodthirsty, rot-faced, butt-stompin' fast and ferocious zombies. An army plane containing the zoms lands at an air force base, the ugly buggers come pouring out in savage droves, kick some major league human ass (the zoms brandish axes, crowbars, and tire irons!), and before you know it an unnamed teeming city (it's supposed to be American, but the Spanish language license plates and signs successfully destroy any remote semblance of verisimilitude) has been completely overrun by the lethal, murderously marauding plasma-gulpin' undead fiends!There isn't much in the way of earth-shattering cinematic scares to be found here, but this fun-filled piece o' crap splatterfest offers plenty of unintentional hilarity: the zombies raid a TV station while a tacky "Solid Gold"-style disco show is being aired on live television (the zoms tear the clothes off the toothsome distaff dancers, thereby proving that even zombies with an insatiable appetite for human hemoglobin have carnal urges just like normal people), a hospital (in one terrifically tasteless scene a zom sticks his pus into the exposed cut-open abdomen of a patient who's being operated on!), and, funniest of all, even a dilapidated abandoned amusement park (would you believe zombies running up roller coasters?). A conspicuously embarrassed Mel Ferror as a stern, grim-faced army general gets to say lots of choice godawful dialog (sample line: "We'll follow emergency Plan H and keep Plan B in reserve if things get out of hand"). Imperishable Mexican B-pic institution Hugo Stiglitz portrays the earnest TV newscaster hero Dean Miller with side-splitting stolidness, somehow keeping a straight (or is that blank?)face amidst the film's rampant inanity (Hugo's finest moment occurs when he bashes in a zombie priest's head in with a large candlestick!). Laura Trotter as Hugo's panicky physician wife cuts loose with these shrill, piercing screams whenever the zombies attack; she's essentially the movie's Official Zombie Siren.Umberto Lenzi directs the whole stupid shebang with remarkable seriousness, maintaining a swift, unflagging headlong pace (however, at one point Hugo and Laura stop off at a roadside café for a quick bite and a drink prior to resuming their mad flight from the zoms!, pausing occasionally for a few heavy-handed debates concerning mankind's flagrant arrogant abuse of the environment (yes, there's a sincere ecology message articulated within this laughably ludicrous picture), and holding nothing back during the outrageously gory zombie carnage. And the hopelessly trite and obvious "it ain't over yet!" conclusion is a genuine gut-buster (Lenzi actually has the amazing gall to have the allegedly terrifying exclamation "The nightmare becomes reality!" splash across the screen in huge bold letters)! A great, idiotic, frequently hilarious, shamelessly derivative, and thus wholly enjoyable Grade Z dumb fun fright film corker.

Nightmare City

1980 [ITALIAN]

Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Nightmare City

1980 [ITALIAN]

Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

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The best of the best!! spectacularly entertaining and surprisingly original.

A hilariously horrible Grade Z Italian zombie howler

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