You damn skippy!

I had a good feeling as soon as I hit play with this one. I'm not sure why, but the air cleared, the drink in my hand tasted better, and I thought I heard God give a resounding "Hell yeah!" (though I probably just had gas).

Zombies, gore, a great story, good acting, more gore, good camera work, man oh man.

The zombies in this movie reminded me a lot of the zombies in the movie Burial Ground. Yeah, I know that movie came like 100 years later...the reason I say that is because the zombies were a little smarter than the average...zombie, I guess. Beating down doors (and people) using tools (and gravestones), making more zombies, setting traps, etc. They're hungry and they don't stop at nuffin' to get what they want.

The humans, on the other hand, are pretty dense. The team of Edna and George seems to work pretty well, but those cops are dumb as hell. I know it's par for the course for these movies, but it gets a little annoying when they look right past the obvious and go with what they "think." We don't pay you to think!

Back to the zombies; since the idea is that they are freshly dead, the zombies aren't in any sort of decay, so they are able to work past the typical cheesy special zombie effects that usually plague zombie movies. The gore effects are great; a zombie munches on an eyeball and really eats the thing, a woman gets her breast ripped off and her intestines pulled out of her skirt...it sounds weird but it looks cool as hell. Everything is really well done, and very satisfying for any gore hounds out there.

The movie basically just moves along at a nice clip, never really lets up, and has a kick in the teeth message as its core base. According to the DVD, director Jorge Grau wanted to keep things more in the "real" part of sci-fi/horror, so the twist that the zombies are being created by ultra-sonic waves emitted by an agricultural machine isn't all that far-fetched...which makes it more scary, in the long run.

The craziest part is, in the interview on the DVD, Grau says he modeled the heavy breathing of the zombies after his own father's corpse releasing gas. Now that's hardcore, bitches.

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Believe what many say about this fucking intelligent use of film, time, money, and everything else associated with "grrrawesome!" Anyone else who hates can shuteth the fucketh upeththth! This film came very, very close to getting the "L" in my book. It's that damn good.

Enough rambling! On to the meat and brussel sprouts! I've been hunting this bitch down for as long as I can remember because, for some damn reason, it was so hard to obtain in the states! Yet, I end up with two copies. *laugh* Joy set in when I popped this puppy in my DahVahDah player and let the utopia commence! Finally, after all the ranting about how great this film is and now! Harrr!!! I would really trade all th' gold in Davy Joneses locker for this one, me hardies!

I chose the flick, but Fox basically laid it out for you. I, myself, was taken abasque at how wonderfully shot this film was. Cripes all Fridays if Grau knew how to exploit the beauty of rural England! My favorite (as I am sure with many) is the sequence with Kitty's husband taking pictures near the waterfall. MmmMmmm, great! Kudos and then some to'em!

As visually stunning as this film is, the two 'heroes' were fun to watch together. Especially Mr. lovelock as 'George'. That pimp was hiiilarious and knew what he was doing. Definitely worthy of sailing the high ship of the Seven Seas says'aye! That is, of course, only next to Cristina Galbó. She is very much fucking-make-you-break-up-with-your-girlfriend-hot! The two mesh well together given the cirumstances in which they meet. Very much humbled how they end up as our two meddlin' kids. Take in mind all of this is complimented by a great writing and a interesting "sci-fi" approach to how the dead are resurrected. Score!

SFX was very kick ass as well. Yes, it does take a while to be seen, but you shant be disappointed. The 'living dead at manchester morgue' *hehe* were portrayed as such. As Fox stated, their appearances match well for their times of death. So no puppets be 'roun heyah! Fucking hell if these weren't ravenous bitches, either!

So now to my 'fouls'. Gotta cry 'wolf' for the typical "we don't take to kindlah to your kine' roun' heyah' apporach to the situation. That fucking bonehead "we don't believe what you say, so you're all guilty cause it ain't possible" apporach way deserves the bittersweet ending to the film, as far as I am concerned. (Don't worry, I did not spoil it for you) Damnit all if you get caught up in jive like that in a small town. Figures...The way some of the victims went out were kind of weak, too. Then again, they are just the average folk, so who knows. Now maybe it's just me, but the film did get a bit long in the tooth. Maybe it was a case of the film feeling longer than what it really is. I'm not sure, but it did drag and should have been cut a bit shorter, in my opinion.

Sheesh! One would think not to be caught in a situation as such in a major city because there may be too many zombies. On the other hand, lest ye end up in the same scene in a small town and you have fewer zombies, but more bonehead jackasses to screw everything up for you. Can't win for losing I guess.

Then again, you win if you look to own this masterpiece. You lose if you don't. *wah wah*

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