Black magic is used to release the undead on American scientists who came to an island to help find a cure for cancer, securing the wrath of a voodoo priest whose daughter was a victim of their experimental research. The lone survivor, a little girl, will unknowingly return to the island accompanying a group of mercenaries(soldiers of fortune only "working for the good guys")who find themselves on the same island as the voodoo ghouls from the opening of the movie. We also follow three who are on the island attempting to find out what happened to those who were killed on the settlement. You have a Book of the Dead, lit candles, an amulet which supposedly keeps the door to hell closed, four words which will free the undead from captivity, and the non believer who scoffs at the mere notion of such a thing as zombies occupying the earth releasing them to once again terrorize the living by quoting forbidden lines.
Shot in the Philipines, using Filipino actors as the zombies, Claudio Fragrasso(Troll 2)shot "After Death"(tagged as Zombie 4)in two weeks with little budget(a little over 100,000 dollars). He even admits the film carries the typical plot associated with the immensely popular genre and devoted inspiration to the splatter rather than story. Fragrasso admits that it is an empty film and that it was used to recoup loss from another movie(Fragrasso calls "After Death" a "recovery" movie). The characters have no personality and the damaged faces of many of the zombies favored, to me anyway, burn make-up rather than the usual rotted flesh we are accustomed to. To me the zombies, for the most part, resembled the creatures from the wildly popular Argento/Lamberto Bava DEMONS movies than the undead from the Italian ZOMBI series, their ghoulish complexion, grotesque features and hideous teeth. The ending, when two remaining members of those yet consumed by the zombies find themselves in the cave containing the book of the dead, is incomprehensible and bizarre(the physical "metamorphosis" of the girl regarding her face/eyeball). The story itself is essentially pure formula zombie movie..the zombies besiege live humans who are surrounded with little place to escape and no refuge to protect themselves. It looks like a film shot on the cheap and feels as if it was thrown together on the fly with little preparation, except in the gore effects with heavy dependency on prosthetics. Many of the zombies( of those who turn in the film) spit out blood and slime, with lots of icky slobber. Splatter fans might be more forgiving towards this than the casual horror fan who'll find it nothing more than a junk film clearly proclaiming that the ZOMBI series had run it's course. Faces and skin are torn apart and gnawed into. A hand goes completely through a victim. Bodies are shot multiple times by machine guns.
The mercenaries aren't exactly a bright group and it's not surprising they wind up in their predicament..impulsive and irrational behavior/decisions are definitely their undoing(not killing those bitten and visibly changing into the undead; not leaving the island when it was clear that danger was present; engaging the zombies without regard to their advantage in numbers).
Shot in the Philipines, using Filipino actors as the zombies, Claudio Fragrasso(Troll 2)shot "After Death"(tagged as Zombie 4)in two weeks with little budget(a little over 100,000 dollars). He even admits the film carries the typical plot associated with the immensely popular genre and devoted inspiration to the splatter rather than story. Fragrasso admits that it is an empty film and that it was used to recoup loss from another movie(Fragrasso calls "After Death" a "recovery" movie). The characters have no personality and the damaged faces of many of the zombies favored, to me anyway, burn make-up rather than the usual rotted flesh we are accustomed to. To me the zombies, for the most part, resembled the creatures from the wildly popular Argento/Lamberto Bava DEMONS movies than the undead from the Italian ZOMBI series, their ghoulish complexion, grotesque features and hideous teeth. The ending, when two remaining members of those yet consumed by the zombies find themselves in the cave containing the book of the dead, is incomprehensible and bizarre(the physical "metamorphosis" of the girl regarding her face/eyeball). The story itself is essentially pure formula zombie movie..the zombies besiege live humans who are surrounded with little place to escape and no refuge to protect themselves. It looks like a film shot on the cheap and feels as if it was thrown together on the fly with little preparation, except in the gore effects with heavy dependency on prosthetics. Many of the zombies( of those who turn in the film) spit out blood and slime, with lots of icky slobber. Splatter fans might be more forgiving towards this than the casual horror fan who'll find it nothing more than a junk film clearly proclaiming that the ZOMBI series had run it's course. Faces and skin are torn apart and gnawed into. A hand goes completely through a victim. Bodies are shot multiple times by machine guns.
The mercenaries aren't exactly a bright group and it's not surprising they wind up in their predicament..impulsive and irrational behavior/decisions are definitely their undoing(not killing those bitten and visibly changing into the undead; not leaving the island when it was clear that danger was present; engaging the zombies without regard to their advantage in numbers).