Hell of the Living Dead
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Movie Reviews of Hell of the Living Dead
Movie Review: Part Mondo and Part Zombo! *** and three-quarters!
Summary: 4 Stars
Bruno Mattei's zombie film Hell of the Living Dead(Zombie Creeping Flesh, Night of the Zombies, Virus) eats the sanity out of it's viewers. Hell of the Living Dead is known for it's gore, inserted stock footage, and soundtrack lifted from other movies. Those infamous characteristics are why people love it or hate it.
Hell of the Living Dead is about an accident at a chemical plant which brings the dead back to life. Meanwhile, domestic terrorists hold a building hostage to get the government to stop it's WMD manufacturing and chemical weapon research. A SWAT team comes in and kills the terrorists. The SWAT team go to Papa New Guinea and meet an athropologist and her cameraman who were attacked by zombies. They are desperate to escape the madness.
The movie is a ripoff of Dawn of the Dead. It has the same score as Dawn of the Dead and the SWAT team are wearing the same suits from Dawn of the Dawn. There is also stock footage inserted so Mattei would save for the budget. The stock footage is of animals and natives. Some of the footage is disturbing showing burial rites and field dressing. Those scenes were probably lifted from mondo films. The stock footage gets annoying. The gore is over-the-top. Plentiful of prolonged feasting and some gore from the stock footage. The gore is out-dated to today's standards but watch out for the stock footage and one of the ending scenes.
Hell of the Living Dead is not the greatest movie but it's not the worst. It's fun and all because of the cheesiness but it's only for those who like cult classics and gore. This movie is also paired with Mattei's Rats on Anchor Bay which is now out of print. Bruno Mattei will remind you as the Ed Wood of Italian horror.
Movie Review: A dancing SWAT guy wearing a Tutu? In a zombie flick? Oookay...
Summary: 4 Stars
That's right. This one SWAT team member stupidly sets his rifles down, dons a tutu and a top hat and cane, and starts dancing! And you can guess what happens next. Yep...He gets chomped on by the zombies. Yikes!
That is just one of the crazy and memorable scenes from this movie. I never heard of this movie before until recently. Being a fan of George A. Romero's zombie films, I just had to have it. Is it as bad as everyone says it is? Yes. But it is still also very entertaining, and creepy too, I might add.
I really liked the actors that they picked to star in this movie. They're all great. The dubbed voice actors are excellent too, and even though I have not heard the actor's original voices, I think they did a really good job matching the dubbed voices to the characters. They just fit really well, in my opinion.
The only downside was that a lot of the movie spent it's time in the jungle. I think that if the movie had stuck with the more civilized areas throughout the entire film that it would have been better. Still, it was a fun zombie movie that was well worth the money spent.
Movie Review: Hell of the Living Dead Review
Summary: 4 Stars
I really enjoy Italian horror movies, most especially zombie movies. "Hell of the Living Dead" and director Bruno Mattei offer a film comparable to Lucio Fulci's Zombie 2. While not as infamous as Fulci's film, this movie offers a decent story line, with good gore and the extraordinary setting of New Guinea. At times my attention was slipping during this film, but there are honestly more zombie movies from 30 years ago that have lost my attention more quickly than this one. At least the gore is good enough to finish it out.
Blue Underground, the company that seems to be releasing this DVD has had some other good releases such as "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie", "Dead and Buried", "Shock Waves", and "Zombie 2"... to mention some of their zombie movies. All of these are good for a watch
Movie Review: Ok, but it looks cheap
Summary: 4 Stars
If you like 80's Italian / Spanish zombie films, you 'll love this. it reminded me a bit of Lenzi's Nightmare City. The scenes with the natives in the jungle are hilarious! Lots of gore and nudity. Don't expect a great story though and the music was taken from Dawn Of The Dead. Only for those who like Zombie flicks like me. AND it 's a region 0 DVD, which makes it easier for me to see because I live in Europe and it's hard to come by things like this that aren't region 1.
It you're looking for a fun, gory and mindless movie, this is the one. If you're looking for depth and things to pounder about, don't touch this!
Movie Review: CHEESY FUN FOR GOUP VIEWING
Summary: 3 Stars
Well, I honestly had no idea what to expect with this one. Its covers like these however that always draw me in. Many reviews on it claim it to be so horrible it's good, and for the most part this is very true. Footage taken from what looks like old 70's or 80's national geographic shots of animals and tribes people are randomly thrown in throughout jungle scenes. The voices are dubbed making it seem quite silly yet there is enough gore for it to keep the ol' horror fan with an appreciation for older foreign flicks (namely the ending scene and some others). Also as usual Blue Underground has made a clean re-cut of the original film so the picture quality better than average. I watched this movie with a larger group of people and almost the whole time we were hysterical over the stock footage added into the film, the cuts of scenes, the zombie effects and the lines throughout the movie. I feel I could watch this film at least 3 more times and still get the same enjoyment out of it. For any zombie movie completest, I'd say go for it!
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