Virus (1980)
Genre: Action / Horror
Duration: 99 minuten
Alternative titles: Hell of the Living Dead / Night of the Zombies / Zombie Creeping Flesh / Zombie Inferno / Virus: L'Inferno dei Morti Viventi
Country:
Italy / Spain
Directed by: Bruno Mattei
Stars: Margit Evelyn Newton, Franco Garofalo and Selan Karay
IMDb score:
4,8 (6.548)
Releasedate: 17 November 1980
Virus plot
"They Eat the Living"
After a leak at the 'Hope Center' chemical factory in Papua New Guinea, all employees turn into flesh-eating zombies. Four commandos investigate. They run into a team of reporters, led by the famous journalist Lea, trying to uncover the same story. However, they are overrun by the zombies. Do they have a chance to escape? And can they get their story out there?
Actors and actresses
Lia Rousseau
Zantoro (as Frank Garfield)
Vincent
Lt. Mike London (as Robert O'Neil)
Pierre (as Gaby Renom)
Osborne (as Luis Fonoll)
Man on TV (as Piero Fumelli)
Reporter
Woman in Bar
TV Speaker
Reviews & comments
scorsese
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- 13232 messages
- 11124 votes
Disappointing film in which two journalists witness a zombie outbreak in the jungle. Not exactly exciting or funny and only sporadically entertaining (and then mainly because of the non-acting, such as the many startled reactions of the leading actress. The many archive images of the jungle and the native population take the pace out of the film and are edited in an ugly way.
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bugels
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- 115 messages
- 551 votes
These titles used to be often found together with Cannon Group action films and Kung-fu classics in the Everything for 1 guilder (VHS) bin at the flea market. Yet another one has been put on and man oh man... what a mess.
This is a true Italian low-budget horror from trashmeister Bruno Mattei. The kind of run-of-the-mill one-take B-movie that would have been stolen shot by shot if the budget would allow it. What's more, the soundtrack is from 'Dawn of the Dead' by Romero. Not even imitated but simply copied without permission. And that is exactly what Mattei was known for, the man had no pretensions about the work he delivered and could therefore pull off these kinds of jokes without scruples. 'Guilty pleasure' for the enthusiast combined with 'benchmark for absolute 0 in taste' for the rest of the world. The camerawork in the film is ugly, the editing follows the logic of a toddler, the cheap makeup works on your funny bone and the dubbing is even worse than in the average kung-fu film.
Fortunately, Bruno Mattei keeps you interested with enough hardcore explicit violence and unnecessary nudity. This mixed with overly enthusiastic acting (which leads to very absurd characters) and the kind of vulgar politically incorrect titillation that many a Troma film would be proud of like that special forces dude putting on a dress or that old woman with her pussy or that bloodthirsty child makes 'Hell of the living dead' the kind of tragic mess that only a fan would want to watch.
1 star for enthusiasm.
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jordandejong
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- 4774 messages
- 1432 votes
Revisited on the truly magnificent Bluray release from 88 Films and very glad I gave this one another chance. 1.5 point increase from last time.
This is ultimately very fine trash from Bruno Mattei. Not a dull moment, there is always something happening. Here and there also nice gory. The 'borrowed' soundtrack does its thing. I found the whole scene around that abandoned village excellent this time.
There are still some sore points: The choreography of the zombies is sometimes really unbelievably bad. The SWAT team consists for half of acting weirdos and the scene with the play in the dress and with the stick remains a painful piece of infantile Italian humor.
But actually everything else is very, very enjoyable for lovers of Italian trash.
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