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A Christmas Tale – Paco Plaza

You’ll know the name Paco Plaza. If you don’t, seek out [REC] immediately. Before he, with Jaume Balagueró, directed one of the best zombie movies of recent times he worked on an episode of Películas Para no Dormir (Films to Keep You Awake, the Spanish Masters of  Horror.)

The result of a bet that you could take the screenplay for Aliens, replace the xenomporphs with zombies and still get a good movie.
First of all, I made up the bet. I hope. And second of all, if the bet was real, it would have been lost. Big time.

There’s certainly some talent involved in this movie. The writer is responsible for the Final Destination films and the director for House and Warlock (among others.)
But after watching the movie, whatever small amount of talent involved must have been absent during this movie. Maybe the producers/director behind Day of the Dead 2: Contagium being [...]

John Russo, Tom Savini, Zombie and Pennsylvania are all words that can be found on the box for this movie. All things that tie in to Romero’s Dead movies. Must be good, huh? Well, keeping in mind this was made before Land and Diary, you’d think it might be worthwhile.
But then, you realize that “Bred [...]

What to say about this one…
Well, it starts on a remote island where a bunch of scientists are trying to create a cure for cancer. Unfortunately for them the cure didn’t work (for us too, as we’d have been spared this movie if it did) and the local Voodoo priest’s daughter died. Blaming them, he [...]