Zombies bring chaos to the North of England.
A smashingly effective zombie movie which is distinguished
not only by an intelligent screenplay and strong characterisations but also by atmospheric
location filming in Manchester, the Peak District and the Lake District – although
the Manchester Morgue sadly doesn’t make an appearance. It’s slower paced that
some genre films and takes more time to establish characters which gives strong
opportunities for a good cast amongst which Arthur Kennedy really shines as an
extremely right-wing policeman less concerned with the living dead than the long-haired
hero who keeps getting in the way.
Director Grau’s insistence on an ecological subtext is, at the very least,
distinctive with much emphasis on various kinds of pollution. The horror takes
a while to get going but once the zombies are on the loose, Gianetto De Rossi’s
make-up effects come into their own to utterly stunning effect.
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