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Synopsis: After the population of New Guinea begins turning into zombies, four commandos and two reporters brave hoards of the undead to find the source. Only distrust threatens to make their journey even more difficult. Who's in it? The movie stars Margie Newton, Franco Garofalo, Selan Karay, José Gras and Gabriel Renom. Review: It's another cold, rainy and now stormy night so we ended up staying home and watching a movie again. Since it has been a while since our last zombie movie, I went with Hell of the Living Dead . After watching it, I immediately wished I had picked a different movie. As far as the overall plot is concerned, this Italian film is basically your typical zombie movie, borrowing from (ripping off) plenty of other films. There are zombies created by an experiment gone bad, they eat people and anyone who is bitten turns into one.  It's a proven formula that is hard to mess up. Unfortunately, this movie managed to do just that. One of the fil...

Synopsis: A pair of newlyweds purchase a castle in 19th century Austria, unaware of the vampire that hides in the wine cellar. Soon after, the vampire targets the bride, Louise, turning her and a castle servant into vampires too, leaving her husband, Marquis Wolfgang, and a vampire expert, Dr. Nietzsche, to stop them. The movie is also known by the title Curse of the Blood Ghouls . Who's in it? The movie stars Walter Brandi, Dieter Eppler, Graziella Granata, Luigi Batzella and Genna Gimmy. Review: I started to watch Slaughter of the Vampires a few weeks ago but was only able to get through the first few minutes and then forgot all about it until coming across it again last night. I decided to watch it this morning and, overall, I would say it was a good choice for a vampire movie. One thing I liked most about this movie is it doesn't waste time. Unlike so many other films, the filmmakers seemed to understand they only had a little over an hour to tell the story and got righ...

Synopsis: After a weather station is destroyed in the Himalayas in an apparent Yeti attack, Rod Jackson and Frank Pulasky are sent to investigate both that and a mysterious ray that is melting the polar ice caps. While there, they encounter a race of aliens that are working to change the Earth's climate so they can live there. You can read my review here:  https://wizzley.com/movie-review-snow-devils-1967/