This Italian movie was filmed in the UK and features mostly dubbed actors. However, Arthur Kennedy provides his own voice...and that's a real shame! THis is because you assume he's supposed to be Irish but his accent comes and goes...and often he just sounds like an American. It also is a movie with 16 different titles!The film is set in a rural part of the UK. Some folks from the Department of Agriculture have deployed a machine that kills bugs by using sonic waves or the like. However, folks don't realize it also causes gestating babies to be born evil and the dead become flesh- eating zombies. Some people witness this but, of course, the police are too stupid to listen. In fact, no one seems to learn anything from all this and it ends of a very downbeat note!The film is a mixed bag. On one hand some of the characters act like inexplicably like idiots. For example, in one scene Martin is being killed while his girlfriend just stands there screaming (a bad movie cliché) and when the zombie comes after her, her reaction is unintentionally funny! There's also a stupid scene where a guy can't start his car and his girlfriend is driving off...and he never bothers to honk the horn, just yell! Duh. Despite people being dummies now and then, the film IS pretty exciting. The blood, gore and other effects are excellent for the early 1970s and the movie does have a very scary aura about it. Worth watching...just make sure NOT to think too much while watching this gore-fest....and it really IS awfully gory.

On his way from London to a meeting in the northern part of England, "George" (Ray Lovelock) has his motorcycle damaged when a young lady named "Edna" (Cristina Galbo) accidentally backs her car into it at a gas station. Since she is at fault she reluctantly accedes to George's request to drive him to his meeting but manages to convince him to drive her to her sister's house first. However, when George stops to ask for directions she is attacked by a strange man and barely manages to escape. Unfortunately, George doesn't believe her and they continue on. Not long afterward, Edna's sister "Katie" (Jeannine Mestre) is also assaulted and her husband "Martin" (Jose Lifante) is killed by the same person who attacked Edna. When the police arrive "the Inspector" (played by Arthur Kennedy) immediately considers George and Edna to be his prime suspects and becomes even further convinced as the death toll increases and both of them blame "dead people" as the culprits. Anyway, rather than detail the rest of the movie I will just say that this was a pretty good zombie movie which resembled "Night of the Living Dead" in several ways. Admittedly, there were some parts which were pretty slow and some of the lighting in certain scenes could have been better but by and large it was still an enjoyable film for the most part. Accordingly, I rate it as slightly above average.

Splendid zombie film – a little slow starting but the photography and location scenery (mostly of the Peak District – although its supposed to be set around Lake Windermere) is striking as is the early 70's details – all shop fronts, petrol stations, emphasis on film developing and Lions Maid ice cream adverts. There are some obvious scenes of Winnats Pass, Castleton and Dovedale. Once it gets going is very tense although the acting is a little off key (down, I think to this actually being an Italian production made in the UK). There's a splendid sequence in a crypt two thirds of the way through the film which rivals a scene in the 1958 Hammer 'Horror of Dracula' and is I'm sure itself paid homage to in the Doctor Who story 'The Unquiet Dead' (2006). The zombies in this film are practically unstoppable until our hero discovers that fire can destroy them. These zombies cannot be harmed by bullets in the head. Zombie make-up is very effective and they utilise excellent and striking contact lenses. The film ends very unhappily – this is one movie where our heroes do not go off into the sunset to live happily ever after! Although a particularly obnoxious police inspector does get his comeuppance. There is an ecological theme in this film with man's tampering of nature with a sort of ultrasonic radiation device (laughably looks like a cross between a metal detector and a vacuum cleaner) which can effect the brainwaves of underdeveloped new-borns or newly dead people. Very good – I'd say this is my third favourite zombie film after 'Dawn of the Dead' (1978) and 'Fido' (2006).

The Good News: When this one came out, everyone was trying to generate the buzz that came from earlier films, and this Spanish film is one of the better ones. The first attack, while being threatening and scary in it's own right, is a complete influence from the opening attack to those movies, and it plays out pretty much the same as well. It's very thrilling, and really gets to you. The film also contains another throw- back to another earlier film in that the subliminal themes undercurrent in the film are present in the film. The cause of resurrection for the zombies is blamed on an environmental problem, and the undercurrents gathered from it are directly responsible. We bump up the gore significantly from the previous films, and it makes it much more interesting to see. There is the usual disemboweling, a couple of amputations, and several giant blood-spurts from other kills involved. There's much more gore in here as well, too much to mention, so it doesn't need it. Also, this is the main cause from all the zombie action in this film, and we get a large amount of it as well. The entire last half-hour is completely full of action, including an entire part taking place inside a morgue. That just ups the action a lot, and it sends the movie out on a high. Which is exactly what is needed in a film like this. Even better, the zombies get a couple of creepy scenes. The first attack is one, and a later sequence about them rising up from the ground is practically dripping with suspense, and it even gets a cheap jump as well that actually works with the way the movie was heading. There is a lot more, but I can't spoil anything else.The Bad News: The film does have two things I wasn't that impressed with: the zombies, and the detective story. The zombies don't have a large amount of facial distortion to give them their look, and instead just use the standard make-on the face to create the overall look. Later in the film, they look much better, but there still are the other kind as well. They just don't look like how zombies should look. Then, the detective story is pretty preposterous, and it doesn't really gel that well with the rest of the movie. It's creative and such, but it seems weird to the rest of the movie.