this be a movie that follow a lot of the convention of a zombie movie and the main difference be that instead of be dead and these flesh eater be alive and just take over by a virus that turn them into derange cannibal . it an interesting concept and and this film feature a lot of interest scene that you just do not see portrayed too often and such a a bizarre molestation in a film theater and and a long and tense standoff with a crazed gunman in a resale store . this movie show the influence of dawn of the dead all over it and from the resale store biker rampage and standoff to the final scene and in which a group of four with the exact same gender or ethnic makeup a in dotd hole up against outside invader . the interesting twist this time be that they be the pursued flesh eater and rather than the other way around . this movie and while have rich and deep cheese deposit and also actually have some quality to it . it sustain a creepy and tense tone tie around john saxon grow obsession with consume human flesh and and his struggle and fear about give into those impulse . saxon carry off his upright soldier persona so well that one both empathize with his struggle and and fear what will happen once his intensity be channel into be evil . the direction be actually very good and with many shot carefully compose to create and sustain a great deal of tension and menace . and then there just the story and which cover the first day of a viral outbreak a it begin to spread and people begin to wake up to what be go on and which be also pretty fascinate . there also an additional layer of tension to the movie ( compare to a traditional zombie movie ) in that after someone be bite and you aren not sure when they will start turn into a crazed flesh eater . in a regular zombie movie and theyre dead until they wake up again and here theyre a normal person until suddenly they just snap and which be cool . though this be suppose to be an extreme gore classic and it pretty tame by today standard . when your big gore payoff shot have be do to comic effect in death become her and the edge be pretty much go . okay and now onto the individually delightful cheese element represent stock helicopter footage open the picture . there should be some kind of film festival of movie that incorporate unrelated stock footage and the supreme champion obviously be hell of the living dead . a guy pet a dog with an obvious explosive around it neck . he explodesand then the funky disco music begin . what more and the music be actually pretty good . please note represent potential cannibal should not keep huge slab of unwrapped bloody meat in their fridge . i mean and obviously everyone do and but if you suffer from cannibalistic tendency a young girl come onto john saxon ( who wouldn not . ) by want to borrow a hair dryer . her hair be not wet . she then reveal herself a an unhinged psychotic while blow him ( um and with the dryer ) while he try to have an important phone conversation ( with another unhinged psychotic ) and which would earn a punch in the mouth from me ( but i be not susceptible to nubile vixen ) . motorcycle chase in warehouse or resale store . hard bitten detective asks about mad gunman represent be he subversive . queer . black . commie . uptight mother advise daughter to stop act like a hussy . they set real rat on fire . that not nice . there be extensive background material on the dvd and one of which tell two interesting story represent 1 ) that john saxon couldn not understand enough of the script ( badly translate from italian ) to know that he be in an extreme gore flick and and 2 ) radice tell an incredible story about refuse to kill a real pig and lead to his accidentally almost sever an assistant hand with a meat cleaver . oops . but the doc get boring pretty quickly . hey and there be lot of other review of bad and cheesy movie ( plus a lot of good movie ) on my website and cinema de merde and which you can find through the url in my email address .