![]() The US version, called Doctor Butcher, M.D., added a newly shot fight with two natives, plus a new, unrelated opening title sequence featuring a zombie rising from a grave taken from an unfinished film called Tales To Rip Your Heart Out, cut lots of dialogue from the first half, and added a new score where you can still hear the original music muffled under the replacement score.Īfter some rather non-descript title music involving a low sustained note over which whooshing sounds and thumps are played – a track that is then played over and over again even when it seems incongruous – we have a quite well done opening scene of a man, face unseen, walking down a hospital corridor at night to enter a morgue and cut of the hand of a corpse before wrapping it up and putting it in a case. Not a box office success, it was never listed in the UK as an official video nasty but the pre-cert video was seized by Cambridgeshire Police and the dealer was tried under Section 2 of the Obscene Publications Act 1977, though eventually found not guilty. Filmed largely on the same sets a s Zombie Flesh Eaters, the film was made as quickly and cheaply as possible and reused most of Nico Fidenco’s Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals soundtrack. In fact he was so prolific, distributors asked him to credit some films to pseudonyms, lest the market grow over-saturated. He wrote the story from which Romano Scandariato wrote a screenplay, while the director was Marino Girolami, a little known filmmaker with an extensive filmography stretching all the way back to the 40s encompassing most of the popular genres. However, I must have been in the mood for some silly trash, because I had quite a good time watching it, albeit a time where I was laughing more than anything else, though I will say right now that this picture really is extremely gory and should satisfy any gore hound desperate for a quick fix.įollowing the success of Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals and Zombie Flesh Eaters, producer Fabrizio De Angelis came up with the idea of reusing the basic story of the Lucio Fulci classic and adding elements of cannibal films to come up with Zombie Holocaust. Neither is it really a good film in most respects, being full of sloppily staged scenes, bad lines and other flaws. Watching it now, it really doesn’t make the most of its premise and must have sent many moviegoers in 1980 out the exits feeling rather let down. I don’t know why I never attempted to obtain this particular picture, which supposedly combined the Italian zombie film and the Italian cannibal film into one ultra-gory fest, but maybe I had a feeling that it would be a major disappointment. Zombie Holocaust is one movie that passed me by until now, even when I was a budding horror fan in the late 1980’s and I was doing what many folk of similar inclination also did – going through a phase of trying to track down all those Italian zombie and cannibal movies which horror magazines spoke about with a kind of awe, and were either banned or legally available only in a form so mutilated that the whole point of the exercise seemed to be missing. Peter Chandler, reporter Sherry Buchanan and her aide Peter O’ Neal, plus local boatsman Molotto and two guides, she heads for Keto where a certain Dr Obrero is working but seems to have something to hide…. When a hospital worker is found devouring a body and throws himself from a window, and another person of similar ethnic origin is shot to death in another hospital after being discovered indulging in similar cannibalism, anthropology expert Lori Ridgewat notices that both men sport the same red tattoo, the symbol of Keto, which tells her that they are from the island of Keto in the Asian Molucca islands where she grew up. In New York City, parts of bodies in morgues are going missing. ![]() REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Starring: Alexandra Delli Colli, Ian McCulloch, Peter O'Neal, Sherry Buchanan Written by: Fabrizio De Angelis, Romano Scandariato
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