Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Steineded How sad is this?

GazerRise Fantastic!

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Leofwine_draca Trust VIPCO to dig up a pristine print of this utterly worthless Italian zombie rip-off flick, shot on the cheap in the Philippines (what a surprise) and featuring mainly a cast of Filipino extras and US actors who had spent the previous five years shooting unknown Vietnam movies that the world mostly didn't get to see. Following on from previous movies in the (unconnected) series, these sees a group of hasbeens trapped in a hospital on a jungle island (not the one in ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS, surely?) and surrounded by malignant hordes of the living dead. However, the main inspiration here seems to be the EVIL DEAD films, as the zombies have that crusty deadite makeup look and spurt icky red/green blood from their mouths at every opportunity. The film was directed by master hack Claudio Fragasso with typical recklessness and the only good technical aspect is the music (credited to Al Festa); there's a snappy rhythmic synthesiser score to keep you bopping as the action unfolds.The film is actually pretty colourful, if extraordinarily cheap, and begins well as an extra from DEMONS goes around ripping faces off in some splendidly gory shots. Soon after we descend to the usual zombie level, with a group of survivors being picked off one by one as they do increasingly stupid things. There are plenty of non-sequiters to keep fans of this kind of rubbish entertained and some usual bad dubbing. The gore is plentiful and concentrates on mutilating the head, with eyeballs being pulled out, blood spurting, and plenty more stuff happening. The zombie makeup is literally caked on and, utilising a cheap costume budget, all the zombies wear black ninja-style costumes that usually cover most of their faces.The cast – including that Vietnam veteran, Jim Gaines, and plenty more others you didn't hear of – is headed by none other than Jeff Stryker, a German gay porn star who shows off his pecs but hasn't a spark of genuine acting ability. Stuntman Massimo Vanni shares the limelight as a heroic soldier but the female leads are particularly hopeless here. The zombies are fast-moving and there are some good fight scenes, including Stryker basing a head into a tree and a guy performing a neck-break on a dead man. The outrageous downbeat finale makes little sense and has a hilarious shot of a zombie puncturing Stryker's oiled chest with its hand, then repeatedly pushing it in and out, ad nauseam. You certainly won't be seeing that anywhere else in the flicks!

amesmonde A woman inadvertently goes back to a zombie infested island where her parents were killed.Writer /director Claudio Fragasso wild abysmal sequel has very little link to Fulci's Zombi. Fragasso's film seems predominantly like Mattei's Virus/ Hell of the living Dead / Night of the Zombies (1980). Like Night of the Zombies was a Dawn of the Dead wannabe, this is another bad cheese festival of zombie nonsense.While the phrase so bad it's good can be be applied to Night of the Zombies, Zombi 4 is plain borderline with a few redeeming features. Mainly some make up effects and lead cast. There's awfully executed effects, shoddy lighting, sub-par directing, illogical storytelling and coupled with daft exposition dialogue in every scene, at times its simply cheap but not cheerful. While fun, talking zombies, guns, candles falling over and jumping undead add up to very little.The 80's rock soundtrack of is probably its best redeeming feature. As another cash-in follow up to Zombie Flesheaters it's slightly disappointing.

nicholson-nick I would like to thank all who left comments here, good or bad.After all publicity of any kind is good publicity! For those of you who enjoyed the film, I have a blog where i am working on a book called Fish Heads and Rice. I have written a short story about the behind the scenes of Zombie 4 - After death. http://nicknicholson.blogspot.com/ It was fun to work on this film, and I am sure a lot of viewers found it funny to watch. None of us had a script to work from, but what the heck, when you know you will be probably be dubbed in another language you don't really care. It was the only film of the Horror genre that I have ever worked on. I wish i could do another one as these are a real gas to do!If you are bored and want a funny read, please do visit! Thanks to you all!

Paul Andrews After Death is set on some remote Caribbean island where a team of scientists have decided to carry out experiments on curing all sorts of diseases using the local natives knowledge of Voodoo, unfortunately things go wrong & after accidentally killing the main Voodoo priests (James Sampson) child he open the gates of hell in order for the living dead to take revenge on the scientists. Jump forward twenty years & two group of people arrive on the island, some soldiers for hire & their girls & three backpackers who are there investigating the legends that surround the island. It's not long before both sets of travellers run into the living dead who are hungry for human flesh...This Italian production was directed by Claudio Fragasso under the pseudonym of Clyde Anderson & one has to say it's pretty awful. Also known as Zombie Flesh Eaters 3 in the UK to cash in on the Lucio Fulci flick Zombi 2 (1979) which was called Zombie Flesh Eaters over here & After Death is more commonly known under the title Zombi 4: After Death pretty much everywhere else to cash in on Fulci's zombie flick which was called Zombi 2 everywhere else. But what about Zombi 3 (1988) I hear you all say? Well Zombi 3 was another Italian zombie flick credited to Fulci but doesn't have any connection to his Zombi 2 or this. Phew, got that? Good. Anyway, there's a general rule of thumb with regard to the Italian zombie film that the later it was made the worse it is & After Death proves that assumption rather nicely. Without wishing to get too technical After Death is awful in every regard. The script by Rossella Drudi makes no sense & feels more like a random collection of scenes than a proper coherent story. For instance at the start when the little girls mum tells her to run why does she stay behind to fight the zombie who was happily eating her husband & ignoring both of them? Woudn't her young daughter stood more of a chance with her? That also leads to the question who did a six year old girl manage to escape an isolated island in the middle of the sea? The very fact that the script then suggests she forgot what happened, found herself back on the island twenty years later by a coincidence complete with the amulet her mother gave her & then suddenly remembers everything! The character's are awful, the whole film is inconsistent with a scene of someone getting attacked by a zombie before they read from the Book of the Dead (very Evil Dead (1981)...) which what supposedly brings the dead back to life, some of the zombies can run, jump & know karate while others seem only able to shuffle along while one even manages to speak! After Death is rubbish, when a film is so poor & random it's impossible to care about anything or anyone.Director Fragasso, sorry I mean Anderson doesn't do much to liven things up & After Death feels somewhat fragmented in the sense that it feels like several different zombie films edited together. There's lots of ugly wide shots, pans & zooms which gives it a cheap look & feel. There isn't much gore either, someone face is ripped off, a zombie puts it's hand through someone back & it exits through their chest, there's some bullet wounds, a few zombie bites & some fake blood but not much else. I mean there's nothing here to rival the splinter in the eye scene in Zombi 2 for instance & there isn't even any intestine eating. The whole thing is so poorly made & staged that it's impossible to take seriously & therefore it's not scary in the slightest.Technically After Death is poor, shot on location in the Philippines it looks cheap & ugly throughout with poor special effects & some of the worst music ever. The main theme is awful & that living dead pop song left my ears aching. The acting is poor as well as is the dubbing. Jeff Stryker is better know as a gay hardcore sex film actor & the Don Wilson in the cast is definitely not Don 'The Dragon' Wilson (has been) action star!After Death has nothing to do with any Fulci zombie flick & is retitled Zombi 4 purely to cash in on the success of the Fulci films, do yourself a favour & avoid this one as it's rubbish. This isn't even any good for laughs or over the top gore.