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16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
the price is great, September 18, 2005
You get 6 movies,Hell of the Living Dead,Dead Heat,Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, House by the Cemetary, City of the Living Dead and Nightmare city.
The reason I brought this set is because I didnt have "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie", plus I didnt have Dead Heat. I figured If i was to buy both on DVD it would be about the same price as the set so I did, I will just have to seel the doubles I have of the rest no big deal.
Anyway I wont go into great detail about every movie but If you are to buy each one individually It will probably run you close $80 or so and for the price of this set its a must to get and I cant believe the price, they could have released "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" for $20-$25 its self.
If anything just buy this set for City of the living dead, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie and Hell of the Living Dead ( which is good not great but a decent Zombie flick with a nice amount of gore). As for House by the cemetary is good as well,not great but an ok addition to this collection of discs, but I didnt like Dead Heat at all and I dont like Nightamre city, they both suck, IMO.
Let sleeping corpses lie its the best out of them all it drags and gets slow a bit but be patient the zombies are great and the gore is there and it actaully gives you a very creepy feeling and does bring a nice feel of horror, a well done flick. Get this box set its worth it as a die hard fan of Zombie Cinema and NYR Hockey : ), its worth having.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
ZOMBIES..........ALL MY LORD WHAT SHALL I DO?, September 12, 2006
These are my ratings for the following six (6) movies out of five (5) stars: HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD, City of the Living Dead, The House By The Cemetery, Nightmare City, Let the Sleeping Corpses Lie, and Dead Heat. All God save me please.......from these flesh-eating zombies!!!!
HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD (1984)- 3.5 -Directed by Bruno Mattei, After a chemical leak at the Hope Centre in Papua New Guinea (an organisation devoted to feeding underdeveloped countries) turns its staff into flesh-eating zombies, a four-man commando squad led by Mike London are sent to investigate. They run into a TV news crew led by celebrity reporter Lea, who are after the same story, but when they discover that the entire country has been overrun by zombies, what are the chances of them getting the message across? Unlike most zombie films, this actually tries to make a serious point - that if we don't feed the Third World, they'll come and feed on us!
City of the Living Dead (1983)- 4.0 -Directed by Lucio Fulci, In the small New England town of Dunwich, a priest commits suicide by hanging himself in the church cemetary which somehow opens the gates of hell allowing the dead to rise. Peter, a New York City reporter, teams up with a young psychic, named Mary, to travel to the town where they team up with another couple, psychiatrist Jerry and patient Sandra, to find a way to close the gates before All Saints Day or the dead all over the world will rise up and kill the living.
The House By The Cemetery (1984)- 3.5 -Directed by Lucio Fulci, A deranged killer lives in the basement of an old mansion and pops out occasionally to commit grisly murders that include be-headings, ripped throats, and stabbings with a fireplace poker. The killer needs fresh body parts to rejuvenate his cells. He also has maggots for blood.
Nightmare City (1983)- 3.5 -Director: Umberto Lenzi, Airplane exposed to radiation crash lands. Out of the wreckage, blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting thier way across the italian countryside.
Let the Sleeping Corpses Lie (1975)- 3.5 -Directed by Jorge Grau, A cop chases two young people visiting the English countryside, suspecting them of a local murder; unbeknownst to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a thirst for human flesh by radiation being used by area farmers as a pesticide alternative. Is one of the best zombie shockers of the 1970s, this Spanish-Italian coproduction (also known as The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue and Don't Open the Window, among other titles) is a real international affair. Inspired by George Romero's genre-shattering American hit Night of the Living Dead, it was shot in England by a Spanish director with a largely British cast, and supplemented by Spanish zombies and American character actor Arthur Kennedy as a bitter Irish police detective (with only a hint of a brogue). He's investigating a sudden rash of violent murders (the work of Satanists, he's convinced) and closes in on a pair of newcomers to the sleepy Northern England town, longhaired antique dealer Ray Lovelock and his nervous traveling companion Christine Galbó. Only they know the real culprits: newly deceased corpses, revived by agricultural experiments in ultrasonic radiation that are also turning newborns into vicious little monsters. Director Jorge Grau delivers all the stumbling zombies and gory flesh feasts you could hope for in a 1974 movie, but more importantly he creates the rare zombie thriller that manages to be both scary and smartly done. Some of the twists are a bit more far-fetched than others (why does dabbing blood on the eyes of long-dead cadavers magically bring them to life, and how would a zombie even know to try?), but it's a minor quibble in the face of the startling blood frenzy and Grau's satisfying dark dramatic twists. The DVD also features an introduction and a 20-minute interview with Grau ("I hope you will suffer profoundly," he jokes in the opening), as well as a gallery of posters and stills, TV ads, and radio spots. -Sean Axmaker
Dead Heat (1988)- 1 -Directed by Mark Goldblatt, Roger Mortis and Doug Bigelow are cops that are chasing crooks that are dead serious about crime. Or should I say they are chasing dead crooks perpetrating serious crimes? Seems some nutcase has learned how to bring back the dead and is sending them on crime sprees. Now these indestructable goons are in the way of officers Mortis and Bigelow. To even things up, when Mortis is killed (in the line of duty, of course) he gets a jump start from the Resurrection machine and takes the fight to the zombie bad guys.
Four (4) of the movies that I just named off for you and rated are 100% completely Uncut, Uncensored and Unrated in Remastered Anamorphic Widescreen (for the best picture quality) and they are HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD, City of the Living Dead, The House By The Cemetery, and Nightmare City.
These movies are a great collection to anyone's horror collection and to any fan of Euro-Horror movies. This is the best deal for all of these movies together in a walking dead bear case design, that also includes a walking strap for you can take your movies with you were ever you go. This one deal that you cannot pass up.
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10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun, but could have been better, April 9, 2006
While most of these movies are truly horrible, they are enjoyable in their own essential way. The only real mistake is Dead heat, which just doesn't fit the mood of this set. They should have included "Zombie Lake" instead, as it is more similar to the other films. Here's a movie by movie review, in the order I picked to watch the movies:
1. City of the living dead- 3 out of 5 stars. While relatively talky and boring, this one still has some good gore effects, as well as a few creepy zombie scenes, but the gut-puking scene is almost too much. Also, I really don't like the fact that the zombies are more like ghosts, and there really aren't enough zombies. Re-watch factor: 2 out of 5
2. Hell of the living dead- 4 out of 5 stars. While technically the worst movie in this boxset, it is also the most fun to watch. The most funny part is the horrible acting, but particularly the awful dubbing, which is evident in 5 of the 6 movies in this boxset (Dead heat being the exception). Hell of the living dead is basically a rip off of Dawn of the dead, and even has some of the same music. But the machine gun scenes are very effective, and the gore effects are up there with Tom Savini, if I may be so bold. Re-watch factor: 5 out of 5
3. Nightmare City- 2.5 out of 5 stars. This one is hampered by a poor picture quality, and horrific dubbing. The zombies arent even very zombie like. These zombies run, something that was later perfected in Return of the living dead. The zombies look more like humans with skin disease than the walking dead. Still, it is watchable the first time. But the mind-numbingly stupid ending is just a little too much. Re-watch factor: 1 out of 5.
4. Let sleeping corpses lie- 4 out of 5 stars. Technically the best zombie movie in this boxset, it still isn't my favorite (that one would be Hell of the living dead) but it is really well made, with excellent photography. The plot revolves around 2 travelers being accused of murdering several people, while it was actually zombies. It ends too short and there arent enough zombies, but it's a slow burning that works.
Re-watch factor: 4 out of 5
5. The house by the cemetary- 2 out of 5. This is easily the worst of this boxset. It is incredibly tedious and mind-numbingly dull. However, I could tell that a few of the scenes later influenced such flicks as Nightmare on elm street, particularly when the creature in the basement reaches out to grab Bob as he escapes. Re-watch factor- 1 out of 5
6. Dead heat- 3 out of 5. I was dreading this because I knew it was more of a comedy than a zombie flick. It was ok, but it's mood really doesn't belong here, and for that reason, I think that the 1980 film Zombie Lake would have fit in better. The plot makes no sense, but I think things are intentionally cheesy. Re-watch factor: 1 out of 5
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