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Black Demons
Black Zombies

Italy 1991
produced by
Giuseppe Gargiulo for Filmakers
directed by Umberto Lenzi
starring Keith Van Hoven, Joe Balogh, Sonia Curtis, Philip Murray, Juliana Texeira, Maria Alves, Cléa Simões, Justo Silva, Rita Monteiro, Felix Lorival, Paul R.Goodman, Tony Martins, Gleis J.Pereira, Sérgio Costa Andrade, Louis Karlson, Domiziano Arcangeli
story by Umberto Lenzi, screenplay by Olga Pehar, music by Franco Micalizzi, special effects by Serge Farjala, visual effects by Franco Casagni

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Kevin (Keith Van Hoven), his girlfriend Jessica (Sonia Curtis) and her a tad unstable brother Dick (Joe Balogh), who shows a bit too much interest in local black magic rites, travel through Brazil when their car breaks down, pretty much in the middle of the jungle - but fortunately they meet José (Philip Murray) and Sonia (Juliana Texeira), who happen to live in a mansion nearby that is supposed to be haunted ... and before long, José's black maid Maria (Maria Alves) is scared shitless of the Macumba symbol Dick is wearing on a chain around his neck, and her terror is justified too, since that very night, Dick revives a sextet of zombies in a trance, black slaves who were executed 100 aears ago, and in no time at all, the zombies have killed Sonia and Maria. Kevin, Jessica, José and Dick - who doesn't know he is actually part of the zombie threat - decide to hightail it right away, but when their car is stuck and Dick is left alone with José, he brutally stabs José and cuts open their car's tires, forcing them to return to the mansion.

During the night, the zombies attack the mansion in full force, but while Jessica does nothing more than being panic-stricken and Dick acts more and more erratic, Kevin starts to take the offensive, building himself Molotov cocktails and burning the zombies to crisp. And somehow, Dick gets killed too in the proceedings by a zombie while Kevin and Jessica can make it out of the place pretty much unscathed ...

Trash of the lowest order and one of director Umberto Lenzi's worst, most boring films. Obvioulsy he only made this film to make some money, because he shows remarkably little interest in either his characters or the story or even tries to create something resembling a creepy atmosphere (admittedly not really his forte). Heck, he doesn't even seem to care in the least about the racist and sexist undercurrents of the script, just about the zombies, the film's raison d'être - and at least they look scary in their scarce makeup.

Ironically, this is a film you will probably immediately hate - but if you are a fan of Italian zombie movies, you will probably also want to watch it, and more than once, too.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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