Francisco Rabal, Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter

An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.

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R, 1 hr. 32 min.

Directed by: Umberto Lenzi

Release Date: December 11, 1980

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DVD Release Date: August 6, 2002

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  • August 8, 2007
    Sit down and watch 80s Italian horror with me and I'll be your best friend. How could you hate something so blissfully inept and campy? I mean, unless you're a terrible person.

    The zombies look like someone shat all over their faces, but the only people really getting shat on ar...( read more)e those expecting good acting, a logical script, or coherence in general. This one is utterly brainless popcorn fun and I want to watch it every day.
  • September 13, 2006
    Oddball zombie epic. If you're a zombie fan, you have to at least check it out.
  • February 16, 2008
    Goddammit.
    This film is really brilliant and amazing. This is for sure a zombie film and really sucks that it hasn't got it's rightful dues. My second Lenzi film, didn't and did dissappoint.
    For about 90% of the film it is quite good. Once it gets started it doesn't really let...( read more) up, and the zombies get these burns on them and can move as fast and as agile as normal humans (they are more of the Planet Terror or Last Man on Earth creatures). This film has definitely taken some cues from Dawn of the Dead, but what Italian zombie flick didn't.
    Umberto Lenzi, has proved himself to be a decent director once again.
    This is basically a great zombie film. But why the low rating?
    The last 5-10 minutes, really cheaps out and frustrates the hell out of the viewer who is really along with the ride.
    I would said that any so-called zombie fan should see this, it's great, bad end or not. But still can't get a better rating (also in my book at 6/10 is the rating for a good solid film)
    What kind of gets me while writting this is I see that the film on here says it's 92mins, the one I watched was 88mins. I feel there was 4mins edited out. I'll have to look into that.
  • November 2, 2007
    One of the first examples of running zombies, plus these zombies are flat out insane. They use weapons and fighting moves, which makes them worthy adversaries for our hero, a block of wood. See our hero watch calmly as zombies terrorize the hospital, then watch him stare calmly...( read more) as the zombies destroy everything he loves, then watch him run calmly as he is chased by the terrifying zombies! He truly is a hero in every sense of the word.
  • November 3, 2009
    This has to be 1 of the WORST zombie films Ive ever seen
  • September 8, 2009
    Standout in the genre of zombie flicks. Lots of action,gore and plenty of frights abound. It's all just a dream, or isn't it? Also known as City Of The Walking Dead.
  • August 3, 2009
    La conocí como a los 8 años con el nombre de "La invasión de los zombies atómicos". Muchos años traté de encontrarla, pero no sabía quienes actuaron en ella y además tuve el problema de no saber el título real.
  • January 25, 2009
    No thankyou - Not interested
  • January 15, 2009
    hmm not sure if I want to give this movie one star or 5 I'd say 5 for the sheer cheesiness and one for the actual film which rounds out to 4
  • December 4, 2008
    This rules for all the wrong reasons

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