Graveyard Alive: A Zombie Nurse in Love

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Audience Member nice classical zombie movie. i like the style :D a nurse got bit by a zombie n she fell in love with the doc, then infected to the rest of the hospital. wat did it induced? lol nice black n white movie in 2003 Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Doesn't really work... unfortunately. The concept wasn't bad, but it fails to find it's footing. It isn't really funny, but is also too goofy to be taken seriously. Also, the poorly synced audio is sometimes unbearable to watch. I think they could have been going for an effect... but it just looks like poor production values. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Wow. Very unique, campy, corny with a sick sense of humour. Yep, my kind of movie. The black and white works very well in this type of movie. There are similar themes as Ginger Snaps of a woman getting infected then becoming oversexed and murderous. Great running gag throughout 'please don't bite anyone' haha Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Graveyard Alive: A Zombie Nurse in Love startled me. I expected it to be one thing, took its early moments to be something else, and came to see it as a third thing by the time I finished. 1. A titillating stupid zombie movie. The netflix description of the movie used the phrase "sex kitten." It's hard to think this film will be anything but juvenile sex jokes. The decolletage and come-hither smile on the poster doesn't undercut that feeling. 2. Early on, the style of the film is pretty disconcerting. Graveyard Alive is shot in black and white and the entire soundtrack is looped, making the early scenes seem particularly amateurish. The early scenes also have a mysterious monster that eludes the camera--another element that makes the film seem a bit off. The acting style plays into this as well (see below). 3. As the film progresses, it becomes clear that the cinematographic style (lingering, odd angles, crisp shadows) and the dreamy quality of the sound (enhanced by the Caligari-like soundtrack and the looped dialog) are being used intentionally. The effect of the film hypnotizes and mesmerizes, much the same way good silent film does. The relatively small amount of dialog in the film amplifies this effect. A few more thoughts: * All the actors overplay their emotions in the ways silent film actors used to. This is somewhat amplified by the studio-perfect sound effects that sound dubbed and give the film a disconnected aesthetic. * The zombies in this film have an interesting quirk -- they only rot if they aren't eating human flesh. They also have an increased libido, which makes them more inclined to spread the zombie-ness. * One of the characters, Goody Tueschuze, starts out the film as a jerk whom we hate. As the film progresses, we still don't like her, but more and more of the narrative shifts to her perspective. It's a weird phenomenon you don't see much in American movies (but it seems like I've seen it in Japanese movies a lot). * Facial cream helps hide the unsightly blemishes of zombiehood. * This film doesn't have a very positive view of men--the guys at the hospital go ga-ga for nurse Patty when she dons black stockings and unbuttons her nursing uniform. At one point, it shows her emerging from a tryst in a closet with a doctor. He seems happily disheveled and unconcerned about the gaping wounds on her cheeks and neck. * I have no idea why the film has this title. It should just be Zombie Nurse Falls in Love or something. In the end, I wasn't amazed by the film, but I'd grown to appreciate it for its scope and shape, in much the same way I felt about Call of Cthulu. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member It is overdone and quite corny, but I really enjoyed it either way. One of those movies that a single person out of the bunch will love, and be sure to make everyone else suffer through! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member A good parody should make some kind of statement about its subject, instead of just "Hahah, the 50s were funny. And so is bad dubbing and over-acting." The main character, a zombie, was far too devious to be a zombie. A zombie should never, ever be able to outsmart a human, no matter how stupid the human is. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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