Ammetto che guardare di proposito un film che ha preso 2.4 su
IMDb e che è fin dal titolo un insulso
rip-off di una delle serie horror di maggior successo di sempre, è un po' come giocare alla roulette russa con una semiautomatica: non ci sono molte speranze di uscirne vincitori...
Ad usare violenza sull'opera di zio
Romero ci pensa
Day of the Dead 2: Contagium, che ha la pretesa d'essere un prequel (non autorizzato) all'intera saga degli zombie.
Nel '68 un pilota militare russo precipita in territorio statunitense; sul luogo dello schianto vengono ritrovate alcune strane fiale di origine ignota che, una volta aperte, trasformano i contagiati in gradevoli zombie affamati di carne umana.
Come prevedibile, l'esercito risolve il problema a modo suo: l'intera base viene sterminata, ma... quale disattenzione: una fiala sfugge alla distruzione!
Anni dopo, la sostanza
zombante viene ritrovata da alcuni pazienti di un manicomio, che presto subiscono l'infausta mutazione.
Un tentativo riprovevole di agganciarsi all'altrui popolarità, l'ora e mezza di questo filmaccio sembra non finire mai, tanto è dolorosa l'estenuante parte introduttiva (almeno 60 minuti) ai personaggi del
matticomio, tra pazienti fuori di testa e medici non meno scoppiati.
Un po' di gore c'è, ma tutto scompare coperto da una sceneggiatura idiota ed una regia inetta. Velo pietoso sulle interpretazioni.
Voto: 1. Trashometro
® 2/10:
(alla larga!)
Tags: zombie, horror, ospedale psichiatrico, contagio, prequel, esercito, virus, trash.
Day of the Dead 2: Contagium (2005) (V)
Scrittore: Ana Clavell Genere: Drama, Horror
Valutazione: 2.4/10 (841 voti)
Durata: 103 min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English, Russian
Cast: Trivia random: When the bus arrives back at the Mental Hospital, as the patients are walking in there is a sign on the wall that says "Romero Ward", a reference to George A. Romero.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Romero, George A. (I)
Nome di battesimo: Romero, George Andrew
Data di nascita: 4 February 1940
Altezza: 6' 5" (1.96 m)
Coniuge: Christine Forrest::(1981 - present), Nancy Romero::(1971 - 1978) (divorced), Kate McNeil::(? - ?) (divorced)
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:George A. Romero never set out to become a Hollywood figure; however, by all indications, he was very successful. The director of the ground-breaking "Dead" tetra-logy was born February 4, 1940, in New York City. He grew up there until attending the renowned Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.After graduation, he began shooting mostly short films and commercials. He and friends formed Image Ten Productions in the late 1960s and they all chipped in roughly $10,000 apiece to produce what became one of the most celebrated American horror films of all time: Night of the Living Dead (1968). Shot in black-and-white on a budget of just over $100,000, Romero's vision, combined with a solid script written by him and Image co-founder John A. Russo (along with what was then considered an excess of gore) enabled the film to earn back far more than what it cost, became a cult classic by the early 1970s and was inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress of the United States in 1999. Romero's next films were a little more low-key and less seen including There's Always Vanilla (1971), The Crazies (1973), Hungry Wives (1972) (where he met his future-wife Christine Forrest) and Martin (1977). Though not as acclaimed as Night of the Living Dead (1968), or some of his later work, these films had his signature social commentary while dealing with issues, usually horror-related, at the microscopic level. Like almost all of his films, they were shot in, or around, Romero's favourite city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.In 1978, Romero returned to the zombie genre with the one film of his that would top the success of Night of the Living Dead (1968): Dawn of the Dead (1978). He managed to divorce the franchise from Image Ten, which screwed up the copyright on the original and allowed the film to enter into public domain, with the result that Romero and his original investors were not entitled to any profits from the film's video releases. Shooting in the Monroeville, Pennsylvania, Mall during late-night hours, Romero told the tale of four people who escape a zombie outbreak and lock themselves up inside what they think is paradise before the solitude makes them victims of their own, and a biker gang's, greed. Shot on a budget of just $1.5 million, the film earned over $40 million worldwide and was named one of the top cult films by Entertainment Weekly magazine in 2003. The film also marked Romero's first work with brilliant make-up and effects artist Tom Savini. After 1978, Romero and Savini teamed up many times.Dawn of the Dead's success led to bigger budgets and better casts for the filmmaker. First was Knightriders (1981), where he first worked with an up-and-coming Ed Harris. Then came perhaps his most Hollywood-like film, Creepshow (1982), which marked the first, but not the last, time Romero adapted a work by famed horror novelist Stephen King. With many major stars and big-studio distribution, Creepshow was a moderate success and spawned a sequel, which was also written by Romero.The decline of Romero's career came in the late 1980s. His last widely-released film was the next "Dead" film, Day of the Dead (1985). Derided by critics, it did not take in much at the box office, either. His latest two efforts were The Dark Half (1993), (another Stephen King adaptation) and _Bruiser (2000/I)_ . Even the Romero-penned, Tom Savini-directed remake of Romero's first film, Night of the Living Dead (1990), was a box-office failure. Pigeon-holed solely as a horror director and his recent films no longer achieving the success of his earlier "Dead" films, Romero has not worked much since, much to the chagrin of his following. In 2005, 19 years after Day of the Dead, with major-studio distribution, he returned to his most famous series and horror sub-genre he created with Land of the Dead (2005), a further exploration of the destruction of modern society by the undead, that received both excellent and indifferent reviews and even topped the United States box-office in its first week of release. He still resides in Pittsburgh.
Trivia random: In 1968, he reinvented the horror genre with his Night of the Living Dead (1968), a cult classic that made its way onto the prestigious National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
Citazione random: [On his fourth installment of the "Living Dead" series, Land of the Dead (2005)]: The idea of living with terrorism - I've tried to make it more applicable to the concerns Americans are going through now.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb. 
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