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Originally posted by urgeok
i took a lot of flack for alluding to that same thing ..
I found that it was all over the place - like a patchwork kilt ..
I love italian zombie horror but this just rubbed me the wrong way.
People will say it isnt supposed to make sense (it's surreal baby!) and it's style over substance .. etc ... and although there are a lot of films that are more style than smart - this one didnt do it for me ...
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It's not all bad. Like most supernatural-style Euro horror movies from that era, it had good cinematography. But since most did have that, it doesn't count for much. The acting was bad, the dubbing was bad, the writing was bad, the makeup was bad, the plot made no sense, the deaths were contrived and went on forever (and too often predictable. I called that the dog would kill the blind chick the second it walked back into frame in that scene), the male lead was completely useless except for looking like the love child of Sean Bean and Henry Fonda, and the ending was stupid. This had neither style nor substance. And that was just the censored version. I can't see any possible way that seeing more of that movie would make me like it any more.
It's even more annoying because Fulci is a good director. He's better than this shit. There are some fantastic shots in Zombi 2.