Anyone seen "Nightmare City"?

[Gelflingboy]

It's a great 1980 Italian-Spanish-Mexican sci-fi horror movie about a radioactive spill that causes a plane full of passengers to turn into deadly, cruddy faced bloodsucking vampire-esque, weapon weilding semi-intelligent mutant zombies that begin to attack a large city causing death and destruction.

It's an action-packed and fun entry of the foreign horror genre that started the running zombie genre, it's also got some good gore like breasts being cut off with knives and exploding heads and the make-up is hilarious especially for the crud faced zombies.

If you like movies like Romero's Zombie saga, Return of the Living Dead 1 & 3, Lifeforce, 28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead remake, The Stuff, Zombi 3, Hell of the Living Dead, Demons, Resident Evil ( games and movies) and The Beyond then this movie is for you.

Anyone thinks this movie inspired last year's Dawn of the Dead remake?

[DevilMan]

Originally posted by Gelflingboy@Aug 25 2005, 10:00 PM
Anyone thinks this movie inspired last year's Dawn of the Dead remake?
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If you're refering to the fact that the zombies in this flick are of the running variety, then you may just have a point. Predating RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD by about four years, NIGHTMARE CITY might be the very first running-zombie movie.

-Steve

[42nd Street Freak]

Well, Umberto Lenzi say's they are not Zombies, just contaminated people.

But the Zombie rules apply...they look like shit (COFTZ..'Chocolate oatmeal Faced Toxic Zombies' [tm] beardy enterpirses ltd), attack Humans for 'food', can only be killed by shots/damage to the head ("Aim for the brain"!!) and don't feel any pain....

So they are not Zombies, but they act and are treated like Zombies, so.........I guess it's up to you. :D

t is "Nightmare City"...It is 80's, it is Euro, it is trashy, it is cheesy, it is cheap, it is....perfect.

Undeniably trashy though this film is, it delivers the fun-time groceries in spades.
We have copious amounts of zombie action tarted up with wonderfully gratuitous topless shots and barking mad dialogue.
Action highlights include an attack on the TV station that results in the wholesale slaughter of a troop of appalling workout dancers (dubbed with outrageous Bronx accents) jumping about in leotards while filming something called "It's All Music". It's all rubbish more like.
As well as exploitative breast baring, this scene has some great gory violence as our prancing fools are sliced up.
Also look out for an hysterical scene where a contaminated women is shot and whole back of her head including all of her hair flies off into the camera!

The music by Stelvio Cipriani is wonderful stuff. Filled with those familiar bass beats and electronic goodness that is uniquely Italian. Yet again listen out for Al Clivers ("Zombie") iconic dubbing artist (a staple of great Italian exploitation cinema) doing not one but three dub jobs! A character at the airport, a voice over the hospital speakers and a radio announcer. Whatever happened to this guy when Italian horror films dried up!?

Lenzi moves the story and action along nicely and piles in more gore and violence in the first 20 minutes than he did for almost the entire first hour of "Cannibal Ferox".

Films like this exist for one reason only (well two if you count making money) and that's to entertain, and entertain is what "Nightmare City" certainly does. Simply and unpretentiously as only 80's Italian exploitation cinema can.

[DevilMan]

Originally posted by 42nd Street Freak+Aug 28 2005, 08:33 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(42nd Street Freak @ Aug 28 2005, 08:33 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'>Well, Umberto Lenzi say's they are not Zombies, just contaminated people.[/b]
I didn't know that. I'll have to pop the DVD in now and watch the interview featurette, "TALES OF THE CONTAMINATED CITY" to see what else he had to say about the movie.

<!--QuoteBegin-42nd Street Freak@Aug 28 2005, 08:33 PM
But the Zombie rules apply...they look like shit (COFTZ..'Chocolate oatmeal Faced Toxic Zombies' [tm] beardy enterpirses ltd), attack Humans for 'food', can only be killed by shots/damage to the head ("Aim for the brain"!!) and don't feel any pain....

So they are not Zombies, but they act and are treated like Zombies, so.........I guess it's up to you. :D [/quote]
Maybe he went that route since he had them running around and using weapons to kill their victims? Or maybe he didn't want to break any traditional "zombie rules" because the fans would pick it apart?

But then again, the older 1988 ZOMBI 3 zombies did that without regret. I mean, any traditional "zombie rules" in that film are thrown right out the window and the folks responsible for all that didn't seem to care.

-Steve