Saturday, March 5, 2011

Zombi 1

Zombi 1 (1995)

via The Nether Horror Collection (1996)


Director: Richard Raaphorst
Beer: don't remember [SCU says Fireman's 4]
Game: Left4Dead 1: No Mercy (with L4D2 monster upgrade)

Summary: There's a professor giving a lecture about the real possibility of zombification to a rudely chatty college classroom. MEANWHILE!, his niece brings her friends to the family mansion for some good, old-fashioned teenage frolicking. BUT THEN!, zombies. And then it's over abruptly.

Fun Fact!: Richard Raaphorst was the director for Worst Case Scenario, the best unmade Nazi zombie movie ever. Despite how epic the concept and awesome the aesthetic, he couldn't get it funded. Clearly, the people do not care about neither art, nor Nazi zombie films.
Also, just like Andreas Schnaas did by releasing his Zombie '90: Extreme Pestilence (1991) as Zombie 7, Richard Raaphorst cleverly named his short, black and white film Zombi 1 (1995), so that sixteen years later, nerds like me would have to hunt it down to feel complete about watching all the variations on the Zombie series. Point: Raaphorst.

Lessons Learned:
1. Don't be a woman.
2. Don't do drugs.
3. Don't take your clothes off.
4. Don't be the niece of an evil professor.
5. If you're just going to kill yourself after explaining that the portal to Hell is closed by sacrificing human blood, then why don't you just kill yourself on the portal of Hell and kill two birds with one stone? Those two birds being yourself and the portal of Hell.

Affect on Gameplay: Just like in the movie, no one survived, so, in that sense, there was excellent fidelity between the movie and the gameplay.
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We have not survived a campaign since starting this blog.

Final Analysis: SCU got punched off the roof again and BigSleep666 was mere feet away from the helicopter and being whisked off to safety before being pounced on by a jockey who rode him into the waiting fists of the undead.