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of the Living Dead (2006)

Bruno Mattei was what they most accurately by the term " Tinker describes. The former editor has directed and wrote with verve pretty much turned everything that was just asked and trending slightly from much higher quality models made: whether zombie movie or women's prison drama, whether action thriller or Mondo shocker, the good Bruno was burning low, and delivered normally starting with the smallest budgets wondrous Audibles - bumpy stages and zusammengestöpselt, happy times together stolen from American models complete dialogues and plot lines, and then dressed up sometimes snappy with archive material from all other films. In his last years, Mattei with producer Gianni Paolucci was suddenly again a very active around the world, he turned to Winzbudgets and digital camera, a number of cheap genre goods that were virtually the Italian Exploitationkino once more: zombies, torture, sex, cannibals and women's prisons. What a legacy.

ICELAND OF THE LIVING DEAD is Matteis penultimate film, and it is admittedly rather clumsy made, that bares a moldy zombie on the cover of the teeth and below, "director Bruno Mattei is as if it were a celebrity photo from the Bunte. In the shot on the Philippines Untotenspektakel a boat crew stranded on a sinister island where attacked 400 years ago English soldiers under the zombie epidemic around. The crew takes refuge from the conquistadores resurrected into a fortress ruins, but where the mysterious things going on ...

Now Bruno was indeed always been more their own ideas more embarrassed than his movie counterparts - Matteis CONTAMINATOR example, does not just vague memories of Cameron's ALIENS - and it also surprised at the ICELAND OF THE LIVING DEAD unlikely that several scenes and sequences almost 1:1 from the movie GHOST SHIP was written off. Right at the beginning of the sequence, when the rescue crew comes suddenly, with their boat to the island, is solved exactly like the moment where is the ghost ship ghost ship found. Later we see for example the sequence again, where the captain in a quiet little room with a glass of a high percentage of a spirit lifts (in GHOST SHIP was the captain of the ghost ship, here it is The former leader of the conquistadors), and also the scene where the black crew member from a seemingly spirit seduced musically and then killed is (because there is in the fortress no elevator shafts like the ghost ship is here inexpensive legally simply brandished only the knife). Although there are actually about zombies and not about ghosts, the difference is simply not taken as accurate, and thus is haunted just simply a bit in zombie fort. If you had not seen any ghosts scene before, it would be an almost charming idea.

Luckily steals Mattei, not only for GHOST SHIP. At one point a zombie grabs a woman and drags them towards the doorway, where her eye then approaches a large wooden splinter. But maybe it's just coincidence that the sequence is very reminiscent of Lucio Fulcis ZOMBIE - but where only meet the latter film in the eye and actually splinters! Still early in the film can Mattei, two people about the conquistadors cemetery walk, and while the woman shudder, calls the man: "They're coming to get you!" - Whereupon also appears good, the first zombie. (If one is benevolent, one can understand the Romero-time course, as intertextual reference.) And at one point Mattei takes even a scene from his own zombie movie LIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (where even a brave man came dangerously close to the zombies and wants to annoy with hingehaltenem arm). to steal from himself called a "style", it says so, and when Bruno's style includes the excessive Abfrühstücken cinematic role models, then one can confidently say that he remains entirely faithful here.

But we entertain us a little about the acting characters. Put it this time friendly: nice group would probably have their difficulties early in the morning so, a packet of breakfast cereal to open and the milk will not pour directly into the box. The intellectual challenge starts at the first zombie attack, where an individual is angewankt undead, while two people standing around helplessly, trying a third party to get at the decaying figure with a few karate kicks. "We have to help him," the woman decides, and then they run away and leave her alone dude with the zombie, rather than to any third attack. "We have to go back and help him" are somewhere in the forest they hear a scream, stay discuss and the woman says, "No, he has given his life for us and we must seize the opportunity," says the guy, and while they are in the background Ausdiskussion already various zombies angestolpert. A little later the boy alone on the boat tried to repair the machines attacked by zombies, and just press a red button on the safe side, after which the ship passed in a huge explosion. I say it's always: On these buttons should at least be marked "Caution" in clearly legible.

After the occupation has brought to the undead in the fortress in supposed safety, the individual people spend much time trying to sneak through the halls alone, and to show always surprised anew when wavering somewhere Figures hide. The blacks from the Force, was able to observe just a kind of zombie apparition tells his colleagues about it who promptly doubt his sanity: supernatural occurrences? Here? On this small island zombie? Meanwhile, one of the boys found in the cellar several large barrels of wine and immediately begins to seek drunk with good wine (good opportunity by the way, the set scene from GHOST SHIP warm). Eventually, the troops found a valuable treasure Déjà vu and understood the plan to build a raft to leave the island. Various film borrowed from a previously mentioned complications but make sure that the captain is crazy and then imprisoned. Was that before or after one has announced the figures, he must go out and grab some fresh air? Oh, it's all so complex.

in the introductory paragraph to hide itself already two words may be inferred that the technical quality of the film: "cheap" and "digital camera". In fact, ICELAND OF THE LIVING DEAD has a wonderful student video camera look, which will of course by the cheap sets (we use the word in the most generous sense) and the equally weltspartagsinspirierte facilities adequate correlation. It is a cameraman Luigi Ciccarese still the undisputed hero of the day. After all, he manages to illuminate the pictures full of atmosphere do right effort, however, the performer, grimace and gesticulate a lot and it really just a little bit of work remaining. Actress Yvette Yzon filled her resume by the way next to a small handful of Phillippi African productions mainly from the late work of Bruno Mattei, what you really can only be described as brave.

Who has not noticed the way that ICELAND OF THE LIVING DEAD is a wonderful, tearful pleasure, can not be helped really. Rest in Peace, Bruno. We miss you.

More Bruno Mattei:
The Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
Roboman (1988)

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Iceland of the Living Dead (Italy 2006)
Original title: L'isola dei morti viventi
Director: Vincent Dawn (Bruno Mattei =)
book: Antonio Tentori
Camera: Luigi Ciccarese
Starring: Yvette Yzon, Alvin Anson, Ronald Russo "(= Gaetano Russo), Ydalia Suarez, James L. Gaines Sr., Miguel Franco, Thomas Wall
word length: 94 minutes Rated
: 16

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