By Chris Summerfield
I was fortunate to pick this movie up while out shopping and only had to pay £1($1.50) and believe me I thought I had won the lottery, such a bargain for such a classic movie…
The movie, a strange dressed guy, with his face partly covered with a silver mask is giving out tickets for the “Metropol.” Cheryl (Natasha Hovey) is given a ticket and manages to get another, the other being for her friend, Kathy (Paola Cozzo) so they decide to go along…
So the “Metropol,” a cinema house in West Berlin, Germany, becomes the setting for this movie, where the guests go along to see the opening night of a movie, the movie being a demon one.
The guest including George (Urbano Barberini) and his friend, Ken (Karl Zinny) George befriends Cheryl. Other guests include flashy Tony (Bobby Rhodes) and his two female companions, Carmen (Fabiola Toledo) and Rosemary (Geretta Giancario) Rosemary picks up a weird looking mask and wears it, the mask scratching her, she bleeds and continues to bleed as the film as started, so goes to the ladies to treat herself; she becomes the first demon and the second being Carmen who goes to investigate where she is…
The infection seems to spread so fast as those that are infected, scratch or bite those that aren’t, therefore infecting them, and as for the cinema house, it seems they are trapped within it because behind the exit doors there are brick walls…
Meanwhile meet, Nina (Enrica Maria Scivano) and her three punk friends, they are cruising around the streets of Berlin in their car and come across the cinema, they are foolish enough to enter and pay the price for doing so…
There is lots of green slime within this movie as it pours out of the demons mouths and other injuries, and the movie as an eighties soundtrack, with acts such as, Billy Idol, and there are plenty of gore scenes, also scenes with teeth dropping out and scalping…
And as the movie climaxes those that are not infected become even more desperate about how they are going to get out and with their numbers dwindling, tempers become frail and the task of escaping looks more and more impossible, until an helicopter crashes through the roof…
It leaves me to say, I loved this movie as, Lamberto Bava, was very creative when it came to this movie, going all out with his gore effects, plenty of decapitations, limbs being chopped and bodies splitting with demons coming out, eye gouging and possibly the first time to actually see these demon type zombie creatures being fast paced when it comes to moving, in which is quite fashionable now with some modern Zombie movie makers…
Rating: 8/10
