Greece Hotels Travel - Evil
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Manufacturer: Danger After Dark
Starring: Themis Katz, Mary Tsoni, Daphne Larouni, Argiris Thanasoulas, Meletis Georgiadis
Directed By: Yorgos Noussias
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: TLA RELEASING
EAN: 0807839002638
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Danger After Dark
Manufacturer: Danger After Dark
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Danger After Dark
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-01-30
Running Time: 83
Studio: Danger After Dark
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Today, the streets will be bathed in delicious human blood as a plague of walking undead invade downtown Athens. It's up to a group of random strangers-including a wise-cracking cab driver, a teenaged girl who just lost her parents, a tough-guy soldier, a tougher young woman - to save the day as the flesh-eating hordes sink their teeth into fresh meat. Drenched in blood-soaked action and complete with exploding heads, flying intestines and more household object impalements one could desire. Evil delivers the goods and satisfies the inner gore-hound in all of us while delivering twisted, wry comedy in the tradition of Peter Jackson's Dead Alive and Sam Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy.
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Summary: Feta zombies!
Comment: To Kako (Yorgos Noussias, 2005)
Well, I guess it was inevitable that every country on the planet would eventually try its collective hand at making a zombie movie. This one comes from Greece, which I've always thought of as a land of olive-skinned bathing beauties, feta cheese, and excellent seafood. Now, it seems, it's also a land of the undead.
It's got your basic zombie-movie plot-- all the sudden, there are zombies everywhere in Athens, and a small band of survivors have to fight them off. The difference between To Kako and so many other low-budget zombie flicks is that it's actually a comedy, but at least someone behind the camera was taking things seriously; there's enough well-done gore here to satisfy all but the most jaded of gorehounds, while the dialogue is rapid-fire witty. Still, you can tell it's a low-budget production; very few of the actors have any credits at all, and in the true Romero tradition, at least half the cast are also members of the crew. It's a labor of love, and it's certainly not a bad one. I've seen many worse zombie movies, some in the past week. This one's a great deal of fun, as long as you go into it not expecting brilliance. ***
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Summary: First greek zombie flick ever...
Comment: Evil is the first ever greek horror film which deals with...zombies and because i'm a zombie fan and also a greek u can imagine my happiness when i heard about this movie so i went straight and watched it in a greek theater with many expectations but unfortunately although it was a nice try it had nothing to do with the superb romero series and it suffered with the disease that all greek productions are suffering. The lack of experienced actors but that's another topic.
Anyways, if u are a zombie fan check this out BUT i warn you u will be tired as time passes by.
There are some good scenes like the last one with the soccer field but that won't save the movie.
A Cult movie because it's the first ever greek zombie flick but it will never be a classic one.
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Summary: pretty good
Comment: "EVIL" is a good film with everything pretty much done right. We've got great characters, we've got zombies, we've got nice gore, and we've got a nice touch of humor and humanity thrown in too. There's definitely some great memorable scenes, but the problem is that they're not any more memorable than other films.
I wouldn't say this film is necessarily a "by the numbers" zombie film, but there just wasn't anything to it to let it stand out from others(unless you want to count that it takes place in Athens, which I don't). It's definitely worth seeing, and I'd have no problem viewing it again, it just seemed to lack a style all its own.
It's great, but felt to me a mashing together of styles and themes from other zombie films. So four stars instead of five, but this movie is still worth buying for any zombie fan.
Considering that a lot of other zombie movies that take themselves more seriously wind up either boring or awful, it really was a huge relief to me that "EVIL" was neither.
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Summary: Reminds me of 28 Days Later...
Comment: ...this is a pretty cool flick. However, don't let the cover art fool you. The zombies look nothing like that, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. The undead behave more like those from 28 Days Later, in that they run and move pretty quick, and they are not the decaying and rotting type since they have been infected by some sort of epidemic. I don't want to ruin the story for you, but I will tell you that there is plenty of blood, gore, and humor to keep you entertained for its one and a half hour duration. I didn't find the movie to be boring during any part, its nice that we get a foreign flick like this in its original language track (with english subtitles). It will make a worthy addition to your horror collection.
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Summary: Four stars for zombie lovers, three for the horror fans
Comment: Evil is a low-budget Frankenstein of a zombie film. Writer-director Yorgos Noussias clearly loves the genre, and he exploits it crazily. His zombies roaming Athens, Greece, are, in turns, shambling George Romero flesh-eaters, horrifyingly speedy 28 Days Later living dead, and wacky Army of Darkness targets for obscene violence. The main characters are, in turns, frightened victims, butt-kicking video game-like heroes, and the butts of Shaun of the Dead-like jokes.
If it sounds schizophrenic, it is. I found myself yearning to care about the characters, but then puzzled by the film's biggest battle scene, where our intrepid gang of strangers kill zombies by pushing axe handles through the backs of their skulls and tearing their heads off nearly with their bare hands. The film also falters in the nitpicky subject of zombie film's science is the question of how to kill what's dead already. Sometimes a bullet to the chest does the trick, other times these shamblers have to be thoroughly separated into their parts.
It's necessary viewing for for zombie-film fans thanks to unique moments-- a funny, sexy zombie-filled nightmare; zombie soccer hooligans; and a great closing shot. Others, though, should know this Greek salad is pretty inconsistent as a satisfying dish of horror.
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