Screening Log
This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.
October 2006 activity
Total Log Entries: 57
- Adam (6)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (3)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (3)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (9)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (16)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (4)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 43
- Don’t Look Now (1)
- Little Children (1)
- Running with Scissors (0)
- The Prestige (2)
- Dumbland (0)
- Art School Confidential (0)
- Aguirre: The Wrath of God (0)
- The Hills Have Eyes (0)
- Brick (0)
- The Host (0)
- Sólo con tu pareja (1)
- Marie Antoinette (0)
- Lighten Up (0)
- Heavy Metal Drummer (0)
- Click (0)
- Poseidon (0)
- Dracula (0)
- Kissed (0)
- The Pit (0)
- Airplane II: The Sequel (0)
- Endless Descent (0)
- Wolf Creek (0)
- The White Diamond (1)
- The Departed (1)
- The Queen (0)
- The Last King of Scotland (9)
- Bobby (1)
- The Science of Sleep (1)
- The Departed (0)
- Storefront Hitchcock (0)
- passage à l’acte (0)
- pièce touchée (2)
- The Spirit of the Beehive (0)
- Death Of A President (1)
- The Da Vinci Code (1)
- The Hard Way (1)
- The Departed (2)
- The Departed (0)
- Frenzy (0)
- The Trouble with Harry (0)
- The Best of Everything (0)
- Purple Noon (3)
- Election (11)
- A Journey to Avebury (0)
- Blue Velvet (1)
- Old Joy (0)
- Blood Sucking Nazi Zombies (0)
- World Trade Center (1)
- Silent Hill (0)
- The Last King of Scotland (0)
- Army of Shadows (0)
- Harlan County, U.S.A. (0)
- 9 Songs (0)
- Shock Treatment (0)
- Children Of Men (1)
- Happy Gilmore (1)
- Manic (0)
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Blood Sucking Nazi Zombies / Oasis of the Zombies / Oasis of the Living Dead / La Tumba de los Muertos Vivientes / Spain / France / 1982
An overlong flashback explicating the particulars of this one-note story transports us to the height of WWII, where we meet a ruthless band of opportunistic German soldiers pilfering heaps of Libyan gold and the doughty British regulars determined to stop them. Ambushing the enemy at a desert oasis, the Brits win the day. But the gold is never found. Legend has it that the Nazi dead, opting to remain forever at the gilded oasis, maintain an unending and unmerciful watch over their ill-gotten treasure—a putrefying regiment rotting for all eternity beneath the African sands.
On the positive side, Blood Sucking Nazi Zombies boasts one of the greatest titles around, swells the ranks of the small but proud subgenre of Nazi-Zombie films, and creatively locates the flesh-devouring fiends in the picturesque North African desert. And the Nazi-zombie horde itself isn’t half-bad either—what with its assemblage of worm-eaten faces and protruding eyeballs; its collective, and unexplained, fear of the sun; and its enviable erupt-from-sand-to-eat-unwary-victim ability.
Sadly, the negative forces at work here—including painfully grainy, at times impenetrably dark, scenes; an insipid, almost nonexistent climax; a dearth of film time devoted to the titular terrors; and inexcusably lackadaisical character development—overwhelm the promising premise and glorious title, and render this a film to be avoided by all but the most passionate zombie devotees.
by Thomas Scalzo | Source: Taurus Film VHS
03 Oct 2006 9:54 PM | Submit Comment