Nightmare City

1980 "Now They Are Everywhere! There Is No Escape!"
5.6| 1h31m| R| en| More Info
Released: 11 December 1980 Released
Producted By: Televicine S.A. de C.V.
Country: Spain
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In a nameless European city, a local reporter and his doctor wife try to escape from hordes of blood thirsty zombies, undead people exposed to nuclear radioactivity, while the military leaders fight a losing war of attrition against the relentless atomic zombies.

Genre

Horror, Action

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Director

Umberto Lenzi

Production Companies

Televicine S.A. de C.V.

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Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.
Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
orangehenryviii Sure it may seem ridiculous to modern audiences, but it is important to remember this film was made several years before the Geneva Convention outlawed the use of knives and hatchets by zombies, as well as such zombie subterfuge tactics as cutting phone lines and sneaking up on people and choking them with a bit of rope, and the implementation of spear-guns. This is actually all quite historically accurate.
quridley OK, so the zombies look ridiculous and the film is not scary in the least. But what you have is a very well-directed action-thriller with plenty of blood, beautiful women and locations and a fast plot.Zombies are on the loose in Italy and a couple do their best to survive and stop the epidemic. I was reminded of Brad Pitt's World War Z a bit. Its a good movie even if its not a real zombie movie.Nowhere near as interesting as the films of Lucio Fulci but a definite watch for fans of low budget Italian action.
Andy Clark Considering many of the films out of that era, this is one of the better genre rip-offs. Can't say the story is all that gripping, as the characters are pretty much stock zombie movie fodder.Acting is middling to poor. Camera work is decent, makeup and effects are a joke at times.It was fun to watch, but it really is just pretty much a bunch of hide and seek set pieces. That being said, I didn't dislike this movie. It was gripping and well worth a viewing every so often. It hasn't aged as well as some other movies in the genre, however.Definitely a movie for genre completionists and hardcore zombie flick fans.
gavin6942 An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.Director Umberto Lenzi felt the film was not as much as zombie film but a "radiation sickness movie" with hints of an anti-nuclear and anti-military message. Quentin Tarantino has even said he was criticized by Lenzi for calling it a "zombie" film rather than an "infected people" film. (Tarantino further points out, perhaps correctly, this is the first zombie or infection film where the bad guys run instead of walk.) John Kenneth Muir referred to the film as a "cobbled together disaster", but went on to say it was not the worst zombie film of the 1980s -- that honor goes to Bruno Mattei's "Hell of the Living Dead". Danny Shipka described the film as "absolutely terrible in every way" as well as referring to poor make-up effects, poor acting and a plot that "makes no sense". Are you guys missing the point?