Nightmare City
by Umberto Lenzi
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Actor: Francisco Rabal, Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Mel FerrerDirector: Umberto Lenzi
Brand: WEA DES Moines Video
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-04-29
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: 827058113991
Studio: Blue Underground
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- When a radioactive spill causes mass contamination, thousands of infected citizens are transformed into bloodthirsty undead fiends. But these are not your standard stumbling gut-munchers; this is an all-out attack by fast-moving, flesh-ripping, ass-kicking maniacs that can only be stopped by a bullet to the brain. Get ready for an all-you-can-eat buffet of gunfire, gore and gratuitous aerobics whe
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DVD Review: This Film Will Certainly Put You To sleep
Summary: 2 Stars
Like a great number of his contemporaries working within the environs of the low budget/exploitation arena in 1970's Italy, Umberto Lenzi is a director with a competent degree of generic utility. It's perhaps most appropriate to view Lenzi as a journeyman director; his `giallo' productions such as "So Sweet...So Perverse", "Seven Bloodstained Orchids" and "Eyeball" are serviceable without being distinguished. His major contributions to the horror genre include two cannibal films - "Deep River Savages" from 1972 and 1981's circus of depravity "Cannibal Ferox", as well as "Nightmare City." Lenzi's efficient but workmanlike style left behind a cinematic legacy that lacked personality and any sense of stylistic coherence. This is perhaps why his contributions to Italian horror are regularly overlooked. The films of Argento, Bava and Fulci despite their myriad faults still seem to possess a sense of stylistic and thematic coherence. And it is perhaps because of this lack that Lenzi has on a number of occasions (as in the aforementioned "Cannibal Ferox") sought shock value.
"Nightmare City" is one such film that lacks any sense of coherence. It suffocates under layers of Fulci and Romero inspired polemics. The film doesn't seem to know whether to go all out in terms of its violence and gore or to adopt a more symbolic and allegoric approach. The results are uneven and unbalanced. The attempts to ape Fulci fail in large part to pathetic make up and unconvincing gore and its efforts at an allegory of the fears of radiation and nuclear factories are rushed and are quickly forgotten as Lenzi indulges in his customary profusion of topless shots. We see a multitude of buxom Italian extras killed in gory close up, as for the male victims; well they are killed with little or no fanfare. It is this sort of thing that makes the film boring and tasteless, it also undermines the screen action - suggesting as it does that for all their radiation riddled deadness the zombies are still horny and motivated by naked breasts.
The writing at times is particularly bad, especially at the level of characterisation. The dull lead played by Mexican actor Hugo Stiglitz goes from feckless TV journalist to gun toting action hero all too quickly. And his wife undergoes an even more bizarre character transformation; from a doctor pedalling all kinds of philosophical statements and living by rationality to a mindlessly superstitious individual that starts rattling on about vampires! This becomes too silly to countenance. But its not all bad, the zombies are energetic, intelligent and use any weapon they can get their hands on (a major influence on "Zombi 3" and "28 Days Later") and Lenzi succeeds in creating a palpable mood of despair and nihilism. The film also has an enjoyable cynicism and paints the military as being particularly ineffectual. However Lenzi shows no alternative to military rule, and there is no sense of a wider government. This brings me nicely on to the films ending, which is a nightmare within a nightmare. This seemed rather pointless and unnecessary to me, and a not a little clichéd. It had been done a lot better in Ealing's 1945 production "Dead of Night", where it had meaning and purpose.
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