Anyone seen Umberto Lenzi's Nightmare City?

[urgeok]

Originally posted by Vodstok
According to the commentaries:

28 Days Later, they run fast because they are all raving lunatics. They dont feel much, and all they want to do is kill. Pretty straight foward


Dawn of the Dead 2004. They made the zombies run.... Because the director wanted to be different, and he thought it was scary

There is no mystery or secret inspiration.

Achem's Razor: The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.

its true .. fast zombies are scarier in one sense ... the 'boy am i fucked now' sense


slow zombies are terrifying but thats more atmospheric and heady really.

if they were just people you hated coming at you that slowly - and killing them was legal - hell you couldnt pay enough for that joy !

[Vodstok]

Its funny, the fast zombies changed the "what if" factor quite a bit. Hanging out with freinds, you could kind of bullshit about the advantages of zombies taking over the world, because in Romero's movies, only the really stupid people got hurt.

The fast ones are too intimidating. At least you could run by the slow ones, the fast ones are like pack predators....

[Gelflingboy]

You gotta admit, that diarrea/Oatmeal/Peanut-Butter faced zombies are good for a laugh? and this movie was THE source of all running zombies like we see today.

Dan O'Bannon just loves this movie and it's one of his faves, so it must have been an influence on his "Lifeforce" ( same kind of speedy zombies only without oatmeal faces) and "Return of the Living Dead". No " 28 Days Later" did not influence the new "Dawn of the Dead", it was this movie! the scripting for the remake came in early 2003 BEFORE 28 Days Later and the writer James O'Gunn and director Zack Sydner must have seen "Nightmare City" then got the idea for speedy zombies but without taco meat stuff on their face.

[IDrinkYourBlood]

I liked the movie and thought it was pretty good. 4/5.