Every week the Zombie Cookbook shows you why the world would be a better place if it had more zombies in it. But this week, we thought we'd mix things up a little. Shambling our undead selves around Amsterdamn restlessly as per usual, we stumbled into a brewery and encountered a lone zombie with an opinion on well... zombies!
Allow us to introduce to you: Lucio Ruggoro. He'll be posting stuff on zombie-flics from now on. Giving you the latest insights and bestest reviews you're ever going to read, and helping you to be a tad more selective in your viewing pleasures. So if you're torn about what you should see, we suggest you see us first. The first movie up on the chopping block? La Horde, where the zombies parlez frog. Read on...
There's something rotten in the city of Paris
It's not often that I watch a movie in French, without subtitles, but being the zombie-flic
afficionado that I am, I made an exception for “La Horde”.
It all starts out at a funeral, where a French team of cops bury their colleague and plan to
avenge his death, caused by aNigerian gang in Paris. So after dark they head for the Nigerian headquarters which is (of course) based in some desolate suburb, where the high-rises haven't seen any maintenance since the mid 80's.
At first the plan goes well. They sneak into the building until they're at the door of the gang lord's dwelling. However, something goes wrong leaving the Nigerians with the chance to act first and capture "Les flics". They are tortured, but in the process the gangsters kill off one of their own. Then the fun really begins...
After hearing noises from the room where they put the corpse, someone opens the door. Releasing a very gruesome zombie, who immediately attacks everyone in sight. The Nigerians try to contain the threat, but let's just say that aiming at the chest isn't the best approach for killing a zombie and people get infected.
Everyone runs off to the roof of the building, where the gangsters and cops decide to hold a truce, and fight the zombies together. From there on out non-stop action in claustrophobic hallways ensue.
The scene that I liked the most is where the female cop has to fight off a female zombie in a kitchen, and uses everything available (pots, pans, a kitchen cabinet door) to kill her adversary. When she finally accomplishes to do just that, she spits on the zombie corpse , followed by a healthy "Pute!!". That's what I also liked so much about this movie, the constant swearing in French; "Putain Merde" galore!
Finally our team finds a new member in René, a veteran of the French foreign legion, who (oh coincidence) has a heavy machine gun stored in his cupboard, which comes in very handy. And the killing goes on! But not after they all enjoyed some healthy French hard liquor.
One cop offers to be a decoy and ends up on top of a car, surrounded by hungry zombies, shooting them down like flies and then using a machete to cut off body parts to no avail, because soon he too is overrun. This movie does not end well for humanity, Paris in flames, the population all changed but what can I say?
Yes, I'll just say: See it!!!
Allow us to introduce to you: Lucio Ruggoro. He'll be posting stuff on zombie-flics from now on. Giving you the latest insights and bestest reviews you're ever going to read, and helping you to be a tad more selective in your viewing pleasures. So if you're torn about what you should see, we suggest you see us first. The first movie up on the chopping block? La Horde, where the zombies parlez frog. Read on...
There's something rotten in the city of Paris
It's not often that I watch a movie in French, without subtitles, but being the zombie-flic
afficionado that I am, I made an exception for “La Horde”.
It all starts out at a funeral, where a French team of cops bury their colleague and plan to
avenge his death, caused by aNigerian gang in Paris. So after dark they head for the Nigerian headquarters which is (of course) based in some desolate suburb, where the high-rises haven't seen any maintenance since the mid 80's.
At first the plan goes well. They sneak into the building until they're at the door of the gang lord's dwelling. However, something goes wrong leaving the Nigerians with the chance to act first and capture "Les flics". They are tortured, but in the process the gangsters kill off one of their own. Then the fun really begins...
After hearing noises from the room where they put the corpse, someone opens the door. Releasing a very gruesome zombie, who immediately attacks everyone in sight. The Nigerians try to contain the threat, but let's just say that aiming at the chest isn't the best approach for killing a zombie and people get infected.
Everyone runs off to the roof of the building, where the gangsters and cops decide to hold a truce, and fight the zombies together. From there on out non-stop action in claustrophobic hallways ensue.
The scene that I liked the most is where the female cop has to fight off a female zombie in a kitchen, and uses everything available (pots, pans, a kitchen cabinet door) to kill her adversary. When she finally accomplishes to do just that, she spits on the zombie corpse , followed by a healthy "Pute!!". That's what I also liked so much about this movie, the constant swearing in French; "Putain Merde" galore!
Finally our team finds a new member in René, a veteran of the French foreign legion, who (oh coincidence) has a heavy machine gun stored in his cupboard, which comes in very handy. And the killing goes on! But not after they all enjoyed some healthy French hard liquor.
One cop offers to be a decoy and ends up on top of a car, surrounded by hungry zombies, shooting them down like flies and then using a machete to cut off body parts to no avail, because soon he too is overrun. This movie does not end well for humanity, Paris in flames, the population all changed but what can I say?
Yes, I'll just say: See it!!!
