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Zombie 4 - After Death
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List Price: $24.95
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Manufacturer: Shriek Show
Starring: Jeff Stryker, Candice Daly, Massimo Vanni, Don Wilson (IV), Jim Gaines
Directed By: Claudio Fragasso
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781586553876
Format: Color
ISBN: 1586553879
Label: Shriek Show
Manufacturer: Shriek Show
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Shriek Show
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2002-11-26
Running Time: 85
Studio: Shriek Show
Theatrical Release Date: 1988
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Another Extremely BAD Zombie Movie!!!
Comment: Sometime back in either February or March, we had a big snow storm and got out of school for a about a week. I watched ZOMBI 3,4,and 5 during that time! The only one I sort of liked was Zombi 3! I didn't like this one because it took place on some kind of tropical island. I don't like zombies on an island! I didn't like that it dealt with Voodoo. I didn't like the depressing ending! The gore effects were ok! DO NOT WATCH ZOMBIE 4!!!
p.s. I wish we had another big snow storm!!!
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Summary: Claudio Fragasso could give Uwe Boll a run for worst director
Comment: By this time the Italian horror film industry was on a major decline and Zombie 4: After Death was one of the very worst from the late 80s. Obviously we are watching this movie to see a so bad it's good movie. Well you sort of get that, but for the most part you simply get a bad film, while there are some moments that are so bad they are fun they are few and far between. Zombie 4: After Death is billed as a sequel to Fulci's Zombie AKA Zombie 2 and Zombie 3. But I think the Zombie 4 title was just thrown on for a marketing ploy.
When you have Claudio Fragasso as the director you should know what to expect. He is what would be labeled as a hack. Granted he never had much of a budget, but in the horror genre does that really matter? There are filmmakers out there who aren't good storytellers, but can put together a well made movie. Sometimes it's the luxury of a budget. But in the horror genre, some of the very best were made on low budgets. And they were very well made. You could give Fragasso 100-million dollars and his movies would still look poor.
The script by Rossella Drudi is lousy, but has she ever written a good screenplay? The script is just really poor and not in a good way where it's fun. The characters are total idiots and often do the most idiotic things. Sometimes that is part of the fun, but not here. It's kind of funny, Claudio Fragasso is best known for working with the late Bruno Mettei. Who in his own right was also a bad filmmaker, it was a match made in bad movie heaven. And Rossella Drudi is actually the wife of Claudio Fragasso. Kind of fitting they would marry each other isn't it?
Director Claudio Fragasso (under the name Clyde Anderson) fails at pretty much every turn. It's obvious he had no passion for this project and it very much shows. There are moments when Fragasso attempts some suspense and scares, but they don't work very well. Bottom line is Fragasso isn't a good filmmaker. He lacks any storytelling skills and his movies are also poorly made. But he does have his fans; he's one of those guys that can craft a so bad its good movie. Though for me, his movies are just often just bad.
The zombies look and move terrible. They range from fast moving to really slow, some talk and some don't. Seems like Fragasso couldn't make up his mind on what he wanted to do. Actually the zombies aren't very zombie like. They at times come out more demonic, think Evil Dead and others seem more like humans infected with some kind of disease now think George A. Romero's The Crazies.
I understand the budget was low, but horror fans should realize that a budget in the horror genre doesn't mean much. Again most of the all time greats were done on very low budgets. The production values are really poor. Zombie 4: After Death is simply a hack job.
One of the main reasons to watch this is for the gore, but the gore is actually tame and when there is gore it's not very well done. The make up F/X were done by Franco Di Girolamo and I was rather un-impressed. He has done some solid work in the past, but he has also done some very poor work as well and here outside of maybe 2 or 3 gore scenes they look really poor. Franco Di Girolamo seems to be very hit or miss and here he was pretty much always missing. The gore was really weak.
While, After Death does have some fun moments in how bad the movie is for the most part it's just bad and quite boring. The fun moments are few and far between. I'm a big fan of zombie movies and even some of the very worst I can sometimes enjoy. But I found very little to enjoy with After Death. This isn't the worst zombie movie I've ever seen, but it rates as one of them.
I understand the appeal After Death has, but for me it was mostly just a badly made movie with very little good going for it. There were just times when nothing was happening and even the terrible dialogue can't make up for it. After Death is gonna be hit or miss. You'll either think it's so bad it's good. Or you'll just think it's so bad it's just terrible. Overall Zombie 4: After Death just didn't do anything for me. While it does have it's fun moments just not enough.
If you must buy this movie I suggest the Zombie Pack. You get 3-movies for the price of one.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Better than Zombie 3
Comment: Some cool deaths espessially the first one (face mutalation ouch) Half decent story, can't complain too much for what it is.
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Summary: Zombies lost even more brains
Comment: Zombie 4: After Death
Review by Nickolas Cook
What do you get when you mix Rambo style soldiers of fortune, Philippine zombies, a volcano full of green lights and voodoo candles, and lots of fog?
Hopefully a better movie than Zombie 4: After Death.
This time the writer of Zombi 3 took the reins and proved himself even less capable than Mattei--if there such a thing is possible.
The prologue takes a few minutes to muddle through the back-story as a pissed off voodoo priest does his juju and curses the island full of badly dubbed scientists who he blames for his wife's death. As the violence and bloodshed ensue, one doctor and his wife and their five-year-old daughter try to run away. Mom and dad get it zombie style, but not before they pass off a "secret amulet" to the little girl. How the hell she escapes the island while all of the adults have become zombie munchies, no one ever explains.
Flash-forward several years and the little girl is all grown up and hanging with a group of half articulate soldiers of fortune. Oh, and for good measure, we also have a trio of scientists traipsing through the jungle, searching for why the original scientists died in the first place. These boneheads find a voodoo spell book and proceed to read the "great and forbidden four words of zombie power", which makes a lot of hooded Philippino zombies push up from the "depths" (read: lumps in the ground) of their "graves" to get up and shamble around.
Bad goes to worse, the soldiers get killed off one by one, become zombies, dribble copious amounts of dark green goo, and, well, you know the rest of the story...
The acting gets worse by the scene, the fog gets thicker, and the plot runs out of steam. It's the kind of silly fun where someone stumbles across a trunk full of M16s and lots of ammo, zombies stagger and moan, and then break into sudden bursts of badly choreographed Kung Fu fights, candles are mysteriously alight in caves and deserted houses all over the place, and a black hougan presides over Philippino zombies. For folks like me, this is the cheddar for which I live.
The music is the highlight of the whole affair; it has a great Goblin-esque feel to it, and adds a level to the proceedings that might have fallen flatter than usual.
Thankfully, there is no commentary, as I'm sure no one would have known why he or she did any of it.
--Nickolas Cook
Customer Rating:
Summary: okay for what it is.
Comment: People should stop hating this movie. You got to consider it was made to make up the difference for another "real" movie that flopped and for its non-existent budget, it isn't really that bad of a zombie movie. The gore is pretty good-gnarly face ripping, some nightmarish daylight scenes, and a great special effects blow-out for the ending. Everybody should seriously lay off of their criticism of Jeff Stryker's performance. His role is basically to just beat up zombies until they kill him in the end, and on those terms, he does just fine. I thought this movie has a lot of good gore moments and some atmosphere, and of course a lot of camp value too. Just make sure you get it cheap, like with the zombie pack.
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