how are zombi 3, 4, and 5

[fredkrue4]

just wanted to kno how they are,

[jay o2 waster]

Zombi 3 is a decent follow up to zombi 2 and 4 is alright in its own little way, and i personally havent gotten my hands on a copy of 5 yet, but with a title like "zombie 5: Killing Birds" how can you go wrong?

[ChEEbA]

Since you seem to know about the series Jay, you should be able to help here...
I haven't seen ANY of these movies, yet I want to...as I wnt to see pretty much anything about the undead.

So, I've been TRYING to do some research over at imdb, but it's a fucking mess...what with the renamings..etc, not to mention one film by the same name was like dawn of the dead in italy...??

Anyway, if you could to the sequential explanation, that'd be good...Jay, or anyone that can.

[urgeok]

i have 3 and 5 ...

i watched 3 - thought it was horribly boring ...
and i read so many bad things about 5 i havent been able to bring myself to see it yet ..


knowing me - i'll still probably buy 4 just for completions sake

[jay o2 waster]

Lol, its a hard thing to get straight at first but once you get it it isnt that bad. ok here is how it goes:

In italy, Dawn of the Dead (78 that is ;) ) is known as Zombi. This is because Dario Argento Co Produced the film with Romero and alot of the funding was from Argento (he actualy flew romero to italy and payedfrom his own pocket for him (romero) and his wife to stay there while romero wrote the film) and apparently part of the deal was that argento would be alowed to cut and release his own version of the movie to be released in italy. And instead of calling it dawn of the dead, he titled it "zombi". This version of the movie has a different sound track, done by Goblin (some of their stuff is in the romero us version) and a running time of 117 min. to make it more action packed.

now here is where most get confused. In 1979 Lucio Fulci (R.I.P.) started to make a zombie film. Which in italy came out as Zombi 2 (most likly to help make money by saying its a sequl/followup) but in america it is known as "Zombie". but in actualaty "zombi" (dotd) has really got nothing to do with Zombie (zombi 2)

now zombi 3 is just the 3rd in the series ,zombi4 is the fourth and zombi 5 is the 5th.

the official order goes as follows in american titles:

Dawn of the Dead
Zombie
Zombi3
zombi4
zombi5


and when you look at the order in their us titles you can see why it is so confusing. because it seems like there is no part 2 and that dawn of the dead would have no place in the series

hope this helps:D

[ChEEbA]

Thanks man, it's still kinda confusing, but now I know what's what.
So would you reccomend Darios version of dotd then?

[jay o2 waster]

I personally like the extended cut that is in the ultimate boxset as disc 2, but argento's version is disc 3 and romeros is disc 1. Plus there is a bonus disc. Its my favorite dvd i own. its about $40 at best buy, worth every penny imo.

heres the cover art for it:



and then for Zombi 2 the best version to get imo is the 2 disc put out by shriek show:



and then as for 3 4 and 5 check ebay or:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...s=dvd&n=507846

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...342522-4058521

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...v=glance&s=dvd

[zwoti]

Originally posted by urgeok
i have 3 and 5 ...

i watched 3 - thought it was horribly boring ...

no arguments here

[urgeok]

Originally posted by zwoti
no arguments here

i love how they made things look desolate ... palm fronds everywhere.

the entire budget went to palm fronds.