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Zombie Holocaust
DVD/APPROX. 90 MINS/1979/ITALY UNRATED
DVD/APPROX. 90 MINS/1979/ITALY UNRATED
9.5
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As yet another piece of Italian exploitation trash, Zombie Holocaust is barely distinguishable from other Italian classics such as Fulci's Zombie,
Lenzi's Cannibal Ferox or D'amato's Emmanuelle and the Last Cannibals. Really its only discerning factor is that there's cannibals AND zombies in
this one.
When parts of corpses start to disappear from a New York morgue, it is discovered that there is some kind of cannibal cult active in the city.
Anthropologist Alexandra Delli Colli (New York Ripper) recognizes a marking on one of the corpse-munchers as being the symbol of the Kito tribe,
so she and Ian McCulloch (Zombie, Contamination) go to Kito Island in search of an explanation. On their way there they meet up with their
colleague Dr. Obrero who is living on a nearby island conducting research, he loans them a few of his men to assist and they move on to Kito
Island. Once on the island the team slowly gets killed off by the cannibalistic natives (cue loads of gore and gut munching), leaving only McCulloch,
Delli Colli and their guide Molotto. In the middle of yet another cannibal attack, some rotten-looking zombies turn up and scare the pansy cannibals
away. After putting the clues together the couples soon discover that their good friend Dr. Obrero (aka Dr. Butcher) is actually living on the island
turning the natives into brain-dead zombies!
The producers basically used Fulci's Zombie as the template for this film and then added some cannibals. It was even filmed on the same
sets/island as Zombie. Director Marino Girolami has now since disowned the film. Italian exploit fans may recognize a couple familiar faces- Sherry
Buchanan (What Have They Done to Solange, Heroin Busters, and Last House on the Beach) and Donald O'Brien (Emmanuelle and the Last
Cannibals, Django Rides Again, The New Gladiators)
Overall this is a must for fans of Italian cannibal/zombie flicks, it has a totally flimsy plot that is basically just an excuse to show loads of gore, and
that it does. This flick has pretty much everything a gorehound could wish for - eye gouging, decapitations, impalements, a particularly nasty
death-by-outboard-motor, and plenty o' gut-munching'! There's also a classic scene where a chick is being operated on by Dr. Butcher and she's
screaming and screeching so he removes her vocal chords because she was being ''particularly irritating''.
Lenzi's Cannibal Ferox or D'amato's Emmanuelle and the Last Cannibals. Really its only discerning factor is that there's cannibals AND zombies in
this one.
When parts of corpses start to disappear from a New York morgue, it is discovered that there is some kind of cannibal cult active in the city.
Anthropologist Alexandra Delli Colli (New York Ripper) recognizes a marking on one of the corpse-munchers as being the symbol of the Kito tribe,
so she and Ian McCulloch (Zombie, Contamination) go to Kito Island in search of an explanation. On their way there they meet up with their
colleague Dr. Obrero who is living on a nearby island conducting research, he loans them a few of his men to assist and they move on to Kito
Island. Once on the island the team slowly gets killed off by the cannibalistic natives (cue loads of gore and gut munching), leaving only McCulloch,
Delli Colli and their guide Molotto. In the middle of yet another cannibal attack, some rotten-looking zombies turn up and scare the pansy cannibals
away. After putting the clues together the couples soon discover that their good friend Dr. Obrero (aka Dr. Butcher) is actually living on the island
turning the natives into brain-dead zombies!
The producers basically used Fulci's Zombie as the template for this film and then added some cannibals. It was even filmed on the same
sets/island as Zombie. Director Marino Girolami has now since disowned the film. Italian exploit fans may recognize a couple familiar faces- Sherry
Buchanan (What Have They Done to Solange, Heroin Busters, and Last House on the Beach) and Donald O'Brien (Emmanuelle and the Last
Cannibals, Django Rides Again, The New Gladiators)
Overall this is a must for fans of Italian cannibal/zombie flicks, it has a totally flimsy plot that is basically just an excuse to show loads of gore, and
that it does. This flick has pretty much everything a gorehound could wish for - eye gouging, decapitations, impalements, a particularly nasty
death-by-outboard-motor, and plenty o' gut-munching'! There's also a classic scene where a chick is being operated on by Dr. Butcher and she's
screaming and screeching so he removes her vocal chords because she was being ''particularly irritating''.
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