Showing posts with label Blue Underground. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blue Underground. Show all posts
Monday, January 2, 2012
Monday, October 24, 2011
Get the ZOMBIE Blu-ray or Die, Fucker!
I don't know why, but the idea of Dr. Menard (Richard Johnson) being interviewed at the Cinema Wasteland convention for the Zombie Blu-ray got my engines whirring this afternoon. It was like fantasy becoming reality.
The man who immortalized "The boat can leave now, tell the crew," is interviewed on this superb disk.
Al Cliver, too. He's also interviewed.
Does it get any better?
Hell, yeah!
Guillermo del Torro goes nuts over Zombie!... and shows us he's a big fan of on-screen nudity, too. Kudos to him for his honesty and passion.
Cinematographer Sergio Salvatti speaks, and he gives us a true sense of the love he brought to this movie. That love imbues every frame! Behold the new transfer. Finally, we can appreciate Salvatti's fine work.
The writers reminisce, too. Dardano Sacchetti, in particular, discusses the script at great length, and demonstrates his affection for Fulci.
Even producer Fabrizio De Angelis shows up for a great interview. Keep in mind that this bloke produced Violent Naples, The Beyond, Zombie Holocaust, The New York Ripper, and The House by the Cemetery, to name just a few. He gets plenty of respect from me.
This new Blu-Ray from Blue Underground, with stellar technical production work from Red Shirt Pictures (great audio and lighting on the interviews, boys!) is a fucking goddamn revelation
It gathers the creme de la creme of the folks who brought this classic to the big screen, and asks them all the right questions -- even Fabio Frizzi, who composed a theme that I've hummed and whistled and played in my car more than anything else I can remember.
Incredible. The wooden shard in the eye has never looked better or more beautiful.
The fat zombie's first appearance on the boat has never looked this awesome, or been quite this impactful.
Salvatti's night cinematography of the zombies shambling down the center of the village has never been more atmospheric or richer.
It's like a Haitian nightmare springing to life with its toasty golden sheen and swirling, dancing fog.
The rotting bastards feasting on the innards of Olga Karlatos has never been redder, more garish, and clearer.
The ripping of flesh, the throwing of zombies at the church doors, the zoom in to the bloody ear of the shambling dead man... these sequences have never looked so brilliant... or felt so damn right.
Zombie did not look this good at the drive-in. Not through a dirty windscreen, anyway.
What about the shark? What about about the shark???!!! WHAT ABOUT THE FUCKING SHARK???!!!
It's absolutely incredible. The images of Mexican stuntie Ramon Bravo wrestling that shark and taking a bite out of him have never looked more pristine, more dangerous, and more surreal. Bravo, Fulci, you nailed it, son!
And that teeny weeny bikini of Auretta Gay is even sexier on Blu-ray, and you just wish you could rip the damn thing off and start feasting on what it almost fails to contain (Zombie-style, of course, without the teeth!).
Unfortunately, the Blu-ray won't help you to do that, but you can sure enjoy this horror classic on Blu-Ray like you've never enjoyed it before... or not since you saw it on its first run at a hardtop or a drive-in.
If you don 't buy the Zombie Blu-ray, you might as well kill yourself... because life without the Zombie Blu-ray is just eating, shitting, and dying.
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