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The world died and he is getting through one day at a time. I saw this movie several years ago. The ending where he gets a spear thrown through him by the fountain always stuck in my mind. Anthony Zerbe was great as the leader of the Zombies. He went from being a journalist to being a zombie master who was himself a zombie. I liked the part where Charleton Heston's character makes contact with some noninfected people and tries to solve their problem. When people work together to solve a common problem, you never know what they might accomplish.

I thought that it was a compelling story of totally unrelated people working together for a common purpose - survival. A sad note is when the pregnant woman got infected and turned into a zombie as well as her child and then her husband got killed as well. Special effects were great. The ending was totally miserable for the participants who thought that they were escaping to freedom, but instead found that the infection had spread, including to their bait box on the boat. Ugh. The part about the sporting goods store guy looking over old movies of his wife and child was especially sad considering that they probably had gotten infected and came after him, whereupon he killed them. The remorse and grief with which he was stricken must have been unbearable. Yes, this is a fiction movie just the same. I felt empathy with the characters who would normally have gone about their regular business.

I saw this movie a few days ago. It was good. Ancient evil, cannabalistic cult, possession. It was a hoot. My favorite was the acting by people who were so convincing that it felt as if I was there. Also, people kept getting killed by a long dead evil that most of them had probably never even heard about. This along with Dagon are up there in the Spanish Horror genre involving water and general bad stuff for any town. :)