Nightmare City [Blu-ray]

Overview

A radiation-stricken professor contaminates the other passengers on a plane, and after disembarking, the newly created zombies terrorize the surrounding area. The film, also known as Nightmare City, is an Italian production.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/31/2013
UPC:	0816018010654
Original Release:	1980
Rating:	NR
Source:	Raro Video Usa Ltd.
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:31:00

Special Features

An interview with Umberto Lenzi 49'27" min.; Original English trailer 3'45" min.; Original Italian trailer 3'45" min.

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Eduardo Fajardo	Dr. Kramer
Sonia Viviani	Cindy
Francisco Rabal	Mayor Warren
Laura Trotter	Dr. Ana Miller
Mel Ferrer	General Murchison
Hugo Stiglitz	Miller
María Rosaria Omaggio	Sheila Holmes,Actor
Stelvio Cipriani	Composer

Technical Credits

Piero Regnoli

Jose Luis Delgado

Antonio Cesare Corti

Umberto Lenzi	Director
Diego Alchimede	Producer
Piero Regnoli	Screenwriter
Jose Luis Delgado	Screenwriter
Antonio Cesare Corti	Screenwriter
Luis Mendez	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Fans of psychotronic gorefests will rejoice when the doors of the cargo plane swing back and the marauding horde of hideously mutated zombies, armed with hand tools, plunges into a deliciously target-rich tarmac of helpless soldiers brandishing useless automatic weapons. There's a scene that follows that takes place in a TV studio during the filming of a dance show featuring women in Spandex -- and you know something hideously horrible is going to happen to that Spandex when they won't let reporter Miller (Hugo Stiglitz) break in the broadcast to warn the population about the rampaging zombies. But those are the highlights. After a half hour of the chase, the plot grows wearisome as does the viewer's patience. While there is tension, the horror elements have become comical and the froth falls flat. The ending is a bit of a cop-out, but you have to see the desperate corner director Umberto Lenzi has painted himself into. The makeup effects are okay, the gratuitous nudity is hilarious (Mel Ferrer is a lucky guy), and the low-budget production details are not necessarily distracting for a genre movie.