Ca 1979-1981
Zombi Holocaust, a film with both cannibals and zombies.
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| George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead was called Zombi in Italy and a big enough success to inspire a home-made sequel (or prequel), Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2. The zombies in Fulci's film are created on a secluded island by a mad doctor using voodoo, and later Fulci-zombies are fulfilling Lovecraftian prophecies in his atmospheric gothic masterpieces. Umberto Lenzi's Nightmare City has more in common with Romero's film, suggesting that environmental pollution is to blame for the horrors. In Hell of the Living Dead by our old favourite Bruno Mattei a team of reporters and soldiers investigate an accident in a research facility on an island off the African coast. The truth they finally discover is quite gruesome, but most of the film is regular Mattei stuff with lots of stock footage. Mattei is also the man that finished the Fulci project Zombi 3; a film that is pretty forgettable. Not quite as forgettable is Andrea Bianchi's Burial Ground (Zombie 3 on Dutch video); the film with infamous breast-bite and people that have really bad luck. Ca 1979-1981 |
Zombi Holocaust, a film with both cannibals and zombies. |