Kind of like Giallo...kind of. Italian horror film with some babes in it who are in much peril. Still, the 1960s and 1970s Euro-Babes were so arousing with miniskirts, go-go boots, or maybe nude. Not today, the babes of today do not know how to be babes. The movie-makers do not know how to make them into babes. Still, in a movie about gamers, it is nice our filmmaker restrained from giving us Goth-like creatures. Today we look at 2014's "Virtually Dead" (aka "Dead Gamers"), directed by Paolo Bertola.
Robert (Stefano Guerriero) is a nerdy gamer who has invented a bizarre one utilizing Virtual Reality and AI. Yep, he summons his buddies over for dinner, and after dinner, they will play the game. Arriving is the babe Laura (Alessandra Angeli) and her boyfriend Loris (Francesco Testa). Loris hates Robert as he knows the nerd is in love with his girl. Also arriving is the babe/cocaine addict Ellen (Chiara Alivernini) and her boytoy Simon (Alessio Cherubini). Then a fifth-wheel, the thug Mark (Alex Lucchesi), who hates everyone. The friends chow down ignorant that Robert has placed a capsule in their food. The capsule has millions of nanobots in them and takes control of their senses and nervous systems. The guests pass out and now Robert can see their thoughts on his computer. He places them all in some VR world where he can throw zombies at them, but not before arming his buddies with machine guns.
The guests wake in the weird VR world and are irate. They grab their weapons and initially have success felling the zombies attackers. Robert pays special attention to Laura, in the VR world, and also asleep at the dinner table. Then a virus hits and the system's antivirus protection fails. Robert doesn't have control of the game and the attackers are more capable and have the capability to bite and murder. Nazi zombies arrive. Mark is bitten and begins changing. Laura struggles to carry her semi-gatling gun around. Then Ellen meets her deceased mother. Robert, in the real world, struggles to figure out how to get control back and pull his buddies back into their bodies at the dinner table. Then, by accident he figures out a way, but the cure may be as deadly as the zombie onslaught.
Will Robert end up with Laura as he makes sure Loris is eaten by the VR zombies? Will Robert ever get control of the game back or are his buddies forever doomed to the VR zombie-world? Can Robert do us all a favor and put Ellen and Laura in bikinis instead of the military fatigues he has them in? A techno-thriller which, from Italy, may not have any resemblance to reality in it, but it is fun. For some neat 21st century Italian horror, see "Virtually Dead."
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