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How best to summarize the fact that your film is a ripoff both of Dawn of the Dead (Zombi in Italy) and Cannibal Holocaust? Calling it Zombi Holocaust is a good start. Unpretentious and sincerely stupid spaghetti vomit bag movie is for the most part professionally made; you don't expect good acting, and you certainly don't get it. What you do get is gore, which, although more realistic than much in this genre, is handled relatively inoffensively (in comparison with über-pretentious namesake Cannibal Holocaust), and all of which is couched in such a ridiculous and random plot that it's difficult to take any of it seriously.

Take, for example, the heroine, a true tour de force of constant nudity by Alessandra delli Colli. Refreshingly nubile for a joint degree anthropologist/medical doctor, who just happens to have grown up in the southeast Asian islands where the cannibals who just happen to reappear at the very hospital where she works and who go after the ceremonial knife which she just happens to have because she just happens to study the same cannibal group who just happen to have shown up at the hospital in the first place. That, and she has to be told by another anthropologist (the one who they're just waiting to be given the Nobel Prize. You know, the coveted Nobel Prize in Anthropology...) that the island of the cannibals (in the same island group where she spent her childhood, mind you) bears the name of the obscure cannibal spirit, or something. Not that delli Colli conveys anything remotely resembling intelligence anywhere in the movie. But she doesn't have to.

And then there's the plot. It's never really established _why_ the group of people go to find the cannibals, other than to act as human bait. Or why the mad doctor (hate to include a spoiler here) uses the Blofeldian device of slowly sedating the hero with a scalpel within arm's reach. Or why none of the countless eviscerated people seem to have ribs.

Anyway, this movie is so resolutely cheesy that it goes down a lot better than most of its contemporaries in either the zombie or cannibal genres (especially the latter). By no means essential viewing, but pretty harmless garbage.

Man, its a good thing that there's not enough half assed, semi-recycled slow paced, 70's Italian zombie movies circulating out there... oh wait yes there are, and this is the perfect example.

First off, if you're gonna blatantly rip off another movie of the same genre and country, for fuck's sake don't use two of the same actors (Ian McCulloch, and that black dude) from the original movie (zombi).

What else you say? Hmm let's see.. I love when movies have absolutely nothing to do with their title. Save the fact that there are 'zombies' in it, there is nothing holocaustic about the contents herein. Well except for the fact that this is about as painful to watch as the holocaust.

OK OK, there are a few good gore scenes..wait no, there's only one; the part where mcCulloch takes a boat propeller to a zombies face. That was pretty good. Besides that and the eye gouging scene this movie is completely useless. Oh, the music is good, but that is purely circumstantial.

What? It sucks. Let me also say that I'm more of a romero fan than any Italian director. But his idea of zombies are really the only ones that matter right?

Do you have 90 minutes you want to throw in a trash compactor? Then by all means check this one out.

Zombi Holocaust is a Cannible film, Zombie film and Mad scientist film thrown together to make one really gory movie. Some scenes are similar to Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2 such as it starts in New York and then they go into the tropical island, the Zombies in the island's church. Even two of the actors from Zombi 2 are in Zombi Holocaust.

The scenes with the Cannibles killing and eating the people are nice and gory, the Zombie make up is good and kind of similar to Zombi 2's Zombie make up. One problem is that we don't see much of the Zombies at first but halfway through the film they do show up.

The Mad Scientist elements are something new since Zombi 2 didn't have a man trying to create Zombies for his research and uses the Cannibles for his experiments. Zombi Holocaust is a great Zombie flick with some good gore effects. Check this out.

Zombies, brain experiments, and cannibals all in one film! A low budget, plenty of inept special effects, lousy acting and locations...these factors combine to make ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST one of those so-bad-it's-good films. If you have a sense of humour like me, you'll love it, because there are a lot of things to laugh at, such as the jesting students in the morgue. One joke is along the lines of "I thought you might have mutilated the corpse, after all you did say that you needed a hand with your studies." It's so pathetic that you have to laugh at it because of the sheer cheesiness and absurdity. Lots of other immortal dialogue abounds in the film, that's just a sample.

Now, ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST is a truly bad film. Viewers more acquainted with glossy American dramas with high budgets and lavish sets will be disappointed by the badness of it. As the film is Italian, the voices are all badly dubbed, which can be something of a hindrance. But to lovers of the bad film, there's a lot to savour. Firstly, the cast; Ian McCulloch lends wooden charm as the lead, complete with an ill-fitting wig; Alexandra Delli Colli is there for glamour purposes alone, as she's certainly no actress, and Donald O'Brien (who had a life in flicks such as this) is excellent as the over-the-top villain of the piece.

The cannibals run around and shout in high pitched voices. They may not be the most convincing of actors, but they soon get down to a lot of gut ripping and eyeball popping to 'entertain' the viewer. The zombies, who actually don't eat any people in this film for a change, walk around and breathe heavily like an asthmatic Darth Vader. Sometimes they run with knives, too. They're pretty unpredictable. The comedy brain experiment ending is so unconvincing and badly acted that you just have to love it. Lots of gore, a scene of a naked girl being painted by natives, and hilarious dialogue make this one a very enjoyable watch. Okay so it didn't win any awards, but it's fun, and that's what counts in my book. I can think of films with budgets hundreds of times higher which I hated...

There is a scene in the hospital where a man remove and eats the heart of a suppose dead body, he gets cough by a bunch of EMT, when he is taken away you see the suppose dead body blink is eye and jump, not long after the man that was cough decide to kill himself by jumping off a window, you see the dummy jump, and fall on the floor the arm breaks, then you see the actor shoot both arms are ok...

Sometimes they make mistakes in movies but on this one its like they never even bother to re edit those scenes and just left them there. This is how serious this movie is...

Zombie Holocaust (aka Dr. Butcher MD Medical Deviate in the United States) is a film that capitalizes on the success of the now cult classic cannibal and zombie films of the late 70's and early 80's such as Zombi 2, Cannibal Ferox, and Burial Ground etc. The movie begins with a mysterious man stealing body parts from cadavers in a New York hospital for a "late night snack." What is with these Italian zombie films and New York connections anyways? The man is eventually discovered and promptly flings himself out of the hospital window before anyone can question him. Upon investigating his body we discover that he bears markings that link him to a native cannibal tribe on an island off of the South American coast (here we go again) and our leads are sent to investigate. Ian McCulloch (of Zombi 2 fame) plays Dr. Peter Chandler (Peter...also in Zombi 2...weird) and reprises his role as a zombie slayer and travels with anthropologist and medical student Lori Ridgeway (Alexandra Delli Colli) to the island to meet with Dr. Obrero (Donald O'Brien) whose questionable character leads to an interesting twist in the movies latter half. Upoon our characters arrival at the island they encounter cannibal mayhem, zombie carnage, and some crazy doctor antics that make for the aforementioned twist.

Zombie Holocaust falls into one of my favorite categories, Euro-zombie-trash! These movies usually contain an overabundance of gore, nudity, bad acting, and a plot with enough holes to embarrass a slice of Swiss. Zombie Holocaust does not let down in any of these categories except acting; the acting here is fairly solid. GO IAN! The movie was released in America as Dr. Butcher MD as mentioned above and it contains a different opening. Despite common belief, that is the ONLY significant difference between the two films. The Dr. Butcher version contains an R rating but does not lack any of the gore in the Zombie Holocaust version. The Euro-cut is superior to me only because A) it is the original, and B) because the introduction spoils the whole zombie revealing that remains kind of mysterious in Zombie Holocaust until about halfway through the movie. You find yourself wondering how the will fit in them BAM! There they are. Things to look forward to in Zombie Holocaust include some really well done gore scenes including some eyes being ripped out and eaten, graphic disembowelments, a machete to the head, some likely unsanitary surgeries, and the grand-daddy of them all here, an running outboard boat engine propeller to the head of an attacking zombie! Oh... and the nudity, there is plenty of that!

The version of the movie that I own comes from Shriek Show (a division of Media Blasters) and has both crisp image and sound, despite the atrocious dubbing! I still don't understand why we can't just get the original language tracks with English subtitles!? The movie came as part of the highly recommended Zombie Pack 2 (along with Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror and Flesh Eater). Shriek Show, as usual, packed this one with extras including both American and German trailers, an extensive poster and still gallery, an interview with the EFX director, the opening segments of the US release with commentary, and a slew of trailers for other zombie and cannibals flicks of the era. This movie is something that any true zombie/cannibal aficionado should have in there collection. It is comparable to Zombi 2, so don't be surprised if some of the zombies or the sets look the same.

Overall, if you are a fan of zombies, cannibals, Ian McCulloch, extreme gore, movies with mad scientists/doctors, or a combination thereof, you should check this out. An overall excellent flick in my opinion.

How bad was it? Well, for starters, there are only a couple of zombies in the movie, and they're entirely incidental. They could just as well have not been in there at all. For the most part, the story is about some people on an island where there's a tribe of cannibal natives who aren't actually cannibals, since their diet is composed mostly of badly-molded wax dummies filled with pork parts. Sort of somehow leading them is a mad scientist who never took acting lessons.

How bad was it? Well, how about a guy who has been slain and mutilated but can still blink? Or a dead guy missing almost all of his chest cavity that still finds it necessary to breathe? Or a dude who falls out of a 20th-story window and has his arm fly off, but in the next scene has the arm back again? Or the reflection of the entire crew in someone's binoculars in detailed close-up? If your apartment had been burglarized and ransacked, you'd report it to the police, wouldn't you? How about if your friend the cop showed up (coincidentally) and ran around the place looking for the burglar whose footsteps you just heard... surely the cop would report the crime and call for back-up, or at least draw his gun, right? Well, not in this movie. The burglary was simply forgotten right after it happened and is never mentioned again, nor is the reason for it ever worked into the rest of the film. Or hey, how about this... if you found a maggot-ridden head on your bed, right next to an arcane symbol of evil scrawled on your sheets in blood, you'd be upset for at least a few minutes, right? Nah, not in this movie. Again, it's forgotten within a couple of minutes by all of the characters and has nothing to do with anything else in the movie. Maybe on a cannibal island, leaving a decomposed head on your bed is customary in the way that a good hotel in the US leaves a chocolate on your pillow. Nothing in this film makes sense, including the ending, wherein the cannibal natives suddenly decide to turn on the mad scientist for no apparent reason. I guess they were just in a bad mood that afternoon.

The worst part of this flick, though, is its none-too-subtle racist overtones. We can start with the black boat captain whose name is Mulatto (no, really, that's his name). Or we can look at the swarthy natives who are ruled by the one white person on the island, or the fact that the only person they don't kill and eat is a tall, blond, blue-eyed woman. Instead of eating her, they paint flowers on her naked body and worship her as a goddess. Or the dark-skinned cannibal medical student. It goes on and on. Rule of thumb for Zombi Holocaust: the darker your skin tone, the more evil and devious you are. And you still won't be able to act.

Now, I love cheesy horror flicks, but this was the wrong kind of cheese. Natives of Brooklyn may understand when I say that this is pure frummunda cheese. I won't explain that, so don't ask.

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.

Okay the spoiler is: this movie sucks. It is offensively bad. I hated every minute of it. It derived nothing from me but a sporadic eye rolling or snarling. I am an avid collector of B- movies and never, I mean never have I been so tempted to chuck one in the trash. More than anything it was stupid. I obviously expected that considering the synopsis and picture on the back looked as though they were concocted by a 3rd grader. My motto used to be "the crappier the better" and still can be. This films level of trash was noxious. I just had trouble seeing anything in this film. I would not recommend it. I completely understand why it was in the clearance bin at that seedy video store I bought it from. It was neither funny nor scary. I'm nonplussed.