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  • No Holocaust: Still Great

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    Zombie Holocaust  (1980)

    I watched Zombie Holocaust (aka Dr. Butcher M.D.) again recently just to make sure it's still the masterpiece I remember it being. And it is!

    This movie's so nutty, I just love it. Favorite part is still the suicide who jumps out the window and when the dummy hits the pavement, its arm pops off. Yet, when they cut back to the actor lying dead on the ground, he has both arms attached.

    Zombies, cannibals, a mad scientist, nude female sacrifices. What doesn't this great film have? Ok, good acting, for one thing, but the plot's all over the place, the gore is over-the-top, so it's a classic. A minor one, but still...


  • Carpenterian dread

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    Halloween  (1978)

    Having re-watched Escape From New York after not having seen it all the way through in years, I was really struck how similar in tone this is to Halloween, particularly in how from when Snake first lands to the end there's that great sense of Carpenterian dread that death is lurking just outside of the frame, due to the figures dashing around in the shadows and the quick zinger music cues.

    I was also struck by how much good-natured fun the movie is. It's a fairly dark film, but filled with some really corny jokes, e.g. the recurring "I heard you were dead" line that almost make it a light-hearted romp.


 

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