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In this woeful "zombie" film, an accident occurs in a scientific lab in Papua-New Guinea sending out a dangerous chemical in a cloud of green smoke and turning the technicians and locals into ghouls r... read more read more...avenous for human flesh. An Italian news reporter (Margit Evelyn Newton) and her crew land on the island in search of the story, quickly followed by a search-and-destroy mission of soldiers. From that point onward, highly unreal dialogue ("something eating you?") would classify the movie as a cult-camp favorite. When the mismatched or unmatched sequences in the film are combined with ugly color and moronic dialogue, it is difficult to tell whether the living-dead or brain-dead dominate the film. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 41 min.

Directed by: Bruno Mattei

Release Date: December 31, 1981

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DVD Release Date: March 29, 2005

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  • WrenchLT
    January 22, 2011
    WrenchLT
    This is one bad film, so bad it makes you stay the distance just to see how ludicrous it gets! But like with so many of these cheesy Italian Zombie-fests they are fun and amusing and GORY - and this one is no different. An eventful ride right up until the eye-popping finale.
  • matertenebraum
    September 3, 2009
    matertenebraum
    Hell of the Living Dead is a gory Zombie flick that's actually very good. The gore is brutal and the action is great, the music from Dawn of the Dead was nice since that's one of my other favourite Zombie flicks, the S.W.A.T uniform was identical to the S.W.A.T uniform in Dawn of... read more the Dead.

    The stock footage is interesting since some of them doesn't have any plot like a monkey jumping to a tree or a group of fruit bats flying about but Bruno Mattei explained on the interview that the stock footage was used to make it seem more like the New Guinea jungle, the footage of the tribe had a plot to the film since they was in the village with them.

    The Zombie make up was good and looked effective, the whole singing in the rain bit was a laugh especially when the Zombies get him. Hell of the Living Dead (Zombie Creeping Flesh, Virus, Night of the Zombie) is a great low budget gory Zombie film that does not disappoint on the violence, check this one out.
  • briandeguelle
    March 29, 2008
    briandeguelle
    terrible in the fun but shit sence.
  • jimbotender
    February 15, 2009
    jimbotender
    Arguably placed amongst the delicious buffets of the zombie massacres of early 80's,the screaming heralds or/and the aggravating,conscientious ecological matters remove the gory element.The bare necessities as they are,enjoyable anyhow.
  • cacutshaw
    February 4, 2007
    cacutshaw
    Wonderful film that I must have rented 20 different times under it's various titles before the DVD release. It was a pleasant surprise every time. Hard not to enjoy.
  • ZombieMario
    September 14, 2009
    ZombieMario
    Only good for a few tit scenes. Some people will like any film as long as you put the words "Dead, Undead, or Zombie" on the cover.
  • RCMerchant
    March 28, 2009
    RCMerchant
    Wow. This movie is unbelievably stupid.It's also extremly gory,so who cares? It's an Itailian zombie flik,whadda you want? CITIZEN KANE? Recommended for fans of euro gore junk.
  • todayandalways
    December 3, 2008
    todayandalways
    Don't expect something groundbreaking when you watch this film. Hell of the Living Dead is good clean fun. Hell is a Dawn of the Dead rip-off, the SWAT team members have identical outfits to the ones in Dawn and it even has the same Goblin soundtrack that Dawn used. Hell's zombie... read mores don't act like it, they can climb through windows, open doors to get inside a car while it is in motion and even move out of the car's way. Hell does manage to put a smile on your face with it's bad dubbing, terrible acting and even worse unrealistic gore. All imperfections aside, Hell has the best quote in a zombie film when an onlooker claimed the zombies were just drunk. You will not be disappointed with this film, it is so bad that it's good.
  • jk2two
    August 10, 2008
    jk2two
    Obviously influenced by the success of Dawn of the Dead, HOTLD starts with a chemical accident caused by "rat attack" - this creates zombies throughout the region. A special forces team is dispatched to deal with the issue. The plot skips around and gets quite confusing at times.... read more (I can hear Tom Servo shouting: "It's just a simple matter of WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?" At 75-80 minute running time, this would be a much better movie. Unfortunately Mattei saw fit to drag this sucker to over 100 minutes, the greatest insult coming in the last 15 minutes when he introduces completely new characters, separate from the main ones. The Zombie makeup is excellent and the gore is plentiful, but over-the-top and painfully low budget at times. It is laughable, and certainly not the Zombie epic Mattei was gunning for, but it's not a complete waste of time.
  • capkronos
    September 24, 2007
    capkronos
    Hope Center 1, a secret laboratory on a secluded island working on a new form for population control, instead accidentally release a toxic green gas into the air that cause the dead to rise from their graves. The zombies, just like in almost every other post-Romero movie, feast o... read moren human flesh and are killed by smashing the brain.

    After an extremely blatant rip-off of the tenement scenes in DAWN OF THE DEAD (complete with soldiers in blue uniforms versus unlawful citizens with guns against the same exact Goblin score used in DAWN!), four television reporters show up in a deserted town in New Guinea. One of the guys is eaten by a zombie kid and a woman is killed and strung up. Only Max (Selan Karay) and Lia (Margit Evelyn Newton) survive. They are joined by four of the blue garbed infantrymen and venture off toward Hope Center 1 to find out what's going on. On the way, they come across a primitive tribe and Lea (who has formal native training) opens her top, paints her body and goes undercover to investigate. This is when we get mondo footage of real dead bodies (scenes were snagged from the documentary DES MORTS/OF THE DEAD), a real alligator gutting and real maggot eating (it's brief, dark and hard to see). Yum!

    We also get nonstop nature footage of monkeys, lots of birds and other animals doing their thang in slow motion to pad out the running time. After lots of close calls, the group (who behave like morons the entire time) finally make it to their destination only to be slaughtered by zombie lab technicians. Serves 'em right.

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Tim Brayton
August 15, 2010
Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy

More than any of its myriad names, the truest is one that has never, as far as I know, been given to it in any release in any country: That F---awful Bruno Mattei Zombie Flick. Full Review

Emanuel Levy
August 11, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Michael Szymanski
July 9, 2003
Michael Szymanski, Zap2it.com

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