There is another side to this story, and it centers on party hunting soldiers on a day pass who meet up with a group of girls in an RV looking for a good time. All the fun and games are put on hold when they are attacked by a flock of zombie birds. Yes, you read that right, birds. This leads them to take refuge in a nearby resort hotel, yes, the same one that played host to the rapidly zombiefying thief from the opening. The only difference is that now, for some unknown reason, it is deserted and overgrown even though there has been no indication of time passage. I guess it just looked cooler to have the extra foliage.
Anyway, in this groups search to find help, they continuously run into zombies. Meanwhile, the white suited soldiers are put on orders to shoot anyone and everyone they come into contact with. This while a radio alert is sent out alerting everyone to run to these white suits, that they can help you with a cure for the infection. Yes, the cure is a bullet to the head.
The story is thin, and the action is a little zany, but there is an odd amount of fun to be derived from the movie. It does have a suitably apocalyptic conclusion, it has plenty of deaths, and plenty of inexplicable events and sights to offer up some comedy. Is it a good movie? No, but man does it provide some weird zombie fun. The zombies themselves, are a mix of the shuffling style and the kung fu hoppy zombies that are quite assertive in their desires to inflict harm on our heroes. Again, I did miss nearly a third of the movie, I wish I could have seen the zombie goodness in there, but I doubt it would have changed my opinion, or the outcome.
Now, the movie has an interesting history. The screenplay is attributed to Claudio Fragasso, although it was primarily written by his wife, Rossella. Fulci took the script and ripped out any of the tougher scenes to make and shot the rest, without much input from Fragasso or his wife. The resutling movie clocked in at one hour and ten minutes, which proved to be too slow for the producer, and subsequently another twenty minutes was edited out making the final movie a much too short fifty minutes. Fragasso and Bruno Mattei were brought in to write and direct more scenes, since Fulci was uninterested in working on it any longer. So, the two were not interested in expanding what was Fulci's film wrote a second story that could be blended in. This was also due to the original stars no longer being under contract. So, the story about the thief and the soldiers in white suits, and the argumentative scientists tale was written and shot. Neither Fragasso nor Mattei are credited, both agree that this was Fulci's film and did not wish to take that away.
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