Zombie Holocaust (1982)

Strong and Moving!

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

This is a cheesy 80's film. In a badly dubbed NYC body parts are going missing and it appears to be the work of people from Kito, a South East Asian island. A small group goes to the island because....if makes a film. The island is filled with cannibals who prefer to eat raw innards or a nice stew. Oh yeah, there is a handful of zombies too. Yes they ransacked Laurie's apartment to steal a knife she had hanging on the wall. Bad rubber parts.Of course when a pretty blonde is capture by a group of "savages" they must be stripped naked like Bo Derek or Ursala Andress. Don't blame me, I don't make the rules. Alexandra Delli Colli is a natural blonde.

A classic zombie splatter fun spiced up with cannibals, boobs and a mad scientists work, Marino Girolami's "Zombi Holocaust" of 1980 is a true B-movie, pure exploitation, blood, and gore, everything the lover of bad taste craves for. On top you get these 70/80s synthie musicscore. To all the critics, everyone who watches a movie called Zombi Holocaust from the 80s and expects a fine and elaborated story-line, big production and great movie art is a lost cause himself ;)

Zombi Holocaust (1980) ** 1/2 (out of 4)Dr. Chandler (Ian McCulloch) and Lori (Alexandra Delli Colli) decide to try and locate a tropical island, which might hold the secrets to a couple people in New Yor City who ripped the hearts out of bodies and ate them. The group travel to the island where they eventually run into a doctor doing bizarre treatments on people.After the success of Lucio Fulci's ZOMBIE everyone in Italy was trying to cash-in on it. We got countless cannibal/zombie movies and this one here is one of the more entertaining ones. In fact, this film was released in America as DOCTOR BUTCHER, M.D. and included some new footage, a different score and theaters even passed out barf bags for those seeing it. This review is strictly for the ZOMBI HOLOCAUST version.If you're a fan of Italian horror then you know that these films aren't about stories but instead they're all about the gore. The more gore and violence you can put on the screen the more popular your film would be. There's no question that there's some great footage here ranging from body parts being chopped off to cannibals eating whatever falls out of the body after its been ripped open. There's even a great sequence where a man's eyes meets some fingers.For the most part the actors are just fine with McCulloch and Delli Colli keeping you entertained in what's going on. The tropical location makes for a good one and the recycled score is also quite good. Again, the story itself is pretty simple and stupid to say the least but we're not exactly here for that now are we?

****SPOILERS**** It's when a number of patients, dead as well as alive, are mutilated and eaten by an orderly named Toran at a New York City hospital, who when caught ended up doing himself in, that it's suspected by staff member Dr. Lori Ridgeway, who and expert on cannibalism, that the person who's been doing these things is a die in the wool cannibal who's arrived on a students visa from the far off Caribbean island of Maluku! In trying to check thing out any more cannibals from entering the states an fact finding expedition to Maluku is organized with Lori in charge to find out if in fact a undiscovered race of cannibals still live in the island. Their soon confronted by Dr.Butcher and his trusted aid Molotto who are more then willing to help with Lori not realizing that the two are really really bad news. Dr. Butcher has been experimenting with the people on the island for years and turning them into walking dead Zombies in an insane effort to increase the lifespan of the human race.Dr. Butcher in trying to steer Lori and her party away from the island of Maluku , and keep the secret of his experiments hidden, has the opposite effect when they, by getting lost at sea, end up being there anyway! It's then when the cannibals come out in the open looking for human flesh and end up killing and eating almost all the members of Lori's expedition except for Lori and her boyfriend Dr. Peter Chandler. It's when a bunch of Zombies, looking like they were just dug up out of their graves, pop up and scare the cannibals away it becomes apparent that Dr. Butcher and Molloto have been secretly been creating them and even worse are planning to turn both Peter & Lori into Zombies themselves!****SPOILERS**** Blood splattering Zombie/Cannibal film that one has to have a strong stomach to be able to watch and sit through without a barf-bag available at hand. Ironically it's the cannibals who turn out to be the good guys by putting and end to Dr. Butcher and his aid Molotto's evil experiments. As if all the people that the cannibals killed and ate, on the island of Maluku as well as in NYC, was nothing more of a crime then picking their noses in public! It's just when Dr. Butcher was about to pick Peter's brain in came or crashed a bunch of hungry cannibals lead by non other then Lori, who convinced them she was on their side, putting an end to him Molotto, who was already did in by Peter, and his crazy experiments in what turned out to be a fiery holocaust: With only the Zombies being the ones holocaust-ed!