Saw this for the first time about 11 years ago on late night TV and kind of fell in love with the film. It's the movie that really got me into Italian Horror. We never had a proper DVD release of the film in this country so I was absolutely ecstatic yesterday when the film was shown as a surprise during a horror festival. It's a fantastic film anyways, but seeing it on the big screen with a great crowd (half loved it, half thought it was hilariously bad) was amazing.
I think what makes the film work is Rupert Everett who just brings this wonderful energy to the film. He's verbose and laconic at the same time, and there's something about his calm boredom with everything that is happening which is just hilarious. It's a genuinely funny film anyways, I love the fact that after a schoolbus full of boyscouts is involved in a fatal accident you have a choir singing a song about how 'they should never have gotten on that bus'.
I can see why some people aren't fans. It feels very dreamy and vignette like. There's very little interconnectivity between what happens and as such it almost starts to feel like a series of sketches at times. But for every moment where the film can become a little plodding, there's a sequence where the camera pulls out on Everett as he sits in his office, talking on the phone whilst casually shooting zombies as they line up at his door.
I think what makes the film work is Rupert Everett who just brings this wonderful energy to the film. He's verbose and laconic at the same time, and there's something about his calm boredom with everything that is happening which is just hilarious. It's a genuinely funny film anyways, I love the fact that after a schoolbus full of boyscouts is involved in a fatal accident you have a choir singing a song about how 'they should never have gotten on that bus'.
I can see why some people aren't fans. It feels very dreamy and vignette like. There's very little interconnectivity between what happens and as such it almost starts to feel like a series of sketches at times. But for every moment where the film can become a little plodding, there's a sequence where the camera pulls out on Everett as he sits in his office, talking on the phone whilst casually shooting zombies as they line up at his door.
