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After Death (Oltre la Morte)
Zombie 4: After Death
Zombie Flesh Eaters 3 / After Death: L'Isola Maledetta / After Death - Zombi 4 / Return of the Living Dead 3 / Das Böse ist wieder da
Italy 1989
produced by
Franco Gaudenzi, Bruno Mattei (executive) for Flora Film
directed by Claudio Fragasso (as Clyde Anderson)
starring Jeff Stryker (as Chuck Peyton), Candice Daly, Massimo Vanni (as Alex McBride), Jim Gaines, Don Wilson, Adrianne Joseph, Jim Moss, Nick Nicholson, James Sampson, Fausto Lombardi, Alberto Dell'Acqua, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua
written by Rosella Drudi, music by Al Festa, special makeup effects by Franco Di Girolamo
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Jenny (Candice Daly) hires a bunch of mercenaries to accompany her to
the island where her parents were killed by zombies 20 years ago, zombies
sommoned in an effort to find a cure for cancer. She of course expects the
zombies to be long dead (or dead again), but of course she doesn't know
that a professor (Alex McBride) on an excursion trip has just revived the
zombies when reading an old incantation, only to be torn into pieces and
eaten alive, and of his two students, only one, Chuck (Chuck Peyton),
survives. Now it doesn't take long before the first of Jenny's
mercenaries, Tom (Don Wilson), gets bitten, but soon they all get to the
abandoned hospial of Jenny's parents. But while her mercenaries are
capable enough to guard the protect the place against the zombies on the
outside, Tom gradually turns into one of them, and when our heroes find
out (the painful way), there's a zombie in their midst, all hell breaks
loose. Ultimately, only Jenny and Chuck survive the ordeal, and Chuck
leads Jenny to the place where the professor has summoned the zombies, and
she reads the incantation to counter it - but the effect is questionable
... Zombie 4: After Death is great fun in a
so-bad-it's-good sort of way - which is to say with a few beers you'll
laugh your way through the movie ... and that's about the best thing to
say about this one: While well enough directed regarding pure
craftmanship, the movie lacks any directorial imagination to bring the
bottom-of-the-barrel script to life, as all the characters lack depth and
are portrayed by wooden actors (well, at least Philippines veteran Nick
Nicholson is fun to watch), character motivations or even simple reasons
for things to happen are held at a minimum, spectacle always triumphs over
narrative efficiency, but then again the special effects are not always up
to it, and an actual narrative arc or so is largely absent. It's fun for
sure, but for all the wrong reasons, and does its bit to show why the
Italian schlock film industry was on a decline in the late 1980's (there
were multiple reasons, and not all had to do with the quality of the films
as such for sure, but a sloppy effort such as this one sure doesn't help).
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