Dr.Kelvinstein
08-06-2004, 11:43 AM
It's finally here after being delayed for months...yes, I'm talking about the Zombi 2 25th Anniversary 2-disc Special Edition (yes, that is a mouthful). Blue Underground released a single-disc version with no extras a few weeks ago, and now we have the two-discer from Shriek Show. It has a long documentary (over ninety minutes) that interviews just about every surviving person associated with the production (very few actors, though , but we do see Al Cliver and the guy who played the famous worm-eyed zombie from the poster). The transfer itself is no better than Anchor Bay's or Blue Underground's (which are anyway impossible to beat) and has the same ol' Ian McCulloch commentary we remember from the original Anchor Bay disc.
Zombi is one of my favorite movies of all time, probably in my top-ten of horror list, and I was very excited to get this sucker in today--but the interviews on the docu are all stuff genre fans have heard over and over. If you've subscribed to Fangoria, Gorezone, Deep Red, etc, and have read Jay Slater and Spaghettie Nightmares, then you will probably learn nothing new. But granted, anyone who is that big of a fan will buy the disc no matter what. Newbies will probably learn much, but will also probably be bored with the talking heads and zip through most of the docu.
It also comes with a mini-poster and a sample of the new Flesh of the Beast comic--yes, FotB as in the horrible, unwatchable movie Shriek Show made last year (the movie that somehow made both zombies and nekkid women boring, a talent I thought only Jess Franco possessed).
Zombi is one of my favorite movies of all time, probably in my top-ten of horror list, and I was very excited to get this sucker in today--but the interviews on the docu are all stuff genre fans have heard over and over. If you've subscribed to Fangoria, Gorezone, Deep Red, etc, and have read Jay Slater and Spaghettie Nightmares, then you will probably learn nothing new. But granted, anyone who is that big of a fan will buy the disc no matter what. Newbies will probably learn much, but will also probably be bored with the talking heads and zip through most of the docu.
It also comes with a mini-poster and a sample of the new Flesh of the Beast comic--yes, FotB as in the horrible, unwatchable movie Shriek Show made last year (the movie that somehow made both zombies and nekkid women boring, a talent I thought only Jess Franco possessed).