Fantastically Gory...

Rating: 6/10 (7 March 2005)

Well what can i say, i mean what it lacks in script it makes up for in gore in pure 80's horror fashion.
With a small budget, up and coming director Sam Rami did not have a lot to go with, but he certainly did well with some of the camera shots.
Rami, who has since directed hits such as Spiderman and Spiderman 2 used simple techniques to get the right effect. For example the effect of the camera creeping through the bushes was not used as much when this film was made, and the production team managed this by attaching the camera to a plank and they had someone running around with it.
The script isn't great, and to tell the truth there aren't a lot of lines anyway apart in the first half an hour or so while the story is set, but as time goes on there's more bloodshed and less chat, which is good in a way.
There are very few special affects, and the while the appearance of the zombies is good it is basic, but as i said before, where it lacks in story and script it makes up with gore and pure violence.
Shortly after it's release it was banned for many years, and even after it was re-released there were many scenes that were missing, luckily not for ever. For example a scene where this woman is led out into the woods, wherefore the trees and plants come alive and rape here, called " the tree rape scene", or another scene where a woman gets a pencil stuck in her ankle.
Luckily though the full version is being shown on television, as it was last night where i watched it.
Towards the end as the number of characters diminish due to being killed or turned into zombies, the amount of talk lessens which leads the way to a climax of gore and violence.
This is a good film which is enjoyable despite a few faults, and i am looking forward to seeing the two sequels.