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Summary: When there's no room in Hell, the DEAD will walk New Guinea
Review: Also known as "Night Of The Zombies", this is possibly the very worst in the countless Italian zombie films. It has many of the same concepts and ideas from a number of other zombie films and also "borrows", without shame, some of the musical score from DAWN OF THE DEAD. Bruno Mattei was clearly fascinated by the work of Romero and Lucio Fulci but sadly could not re-create the masterpiece that was DAWN or even the lesser ZOMBIE 2. HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD involves a chemical spill that causes a zombie plague across the world. An elite but poorly-dubbed SWAT team is sent in to handle the problem. With the help of a female reporter who decides to take it all off in an attempt to communicate with a group of islanders, the team attempts to take on the walking dead. There is a whole lot of "stock footage" used for absolutely no reason, which really helps push the odd level through the roof. If that's not enough, we got random cross-dressing and some psycho SWAT guy who won't stop teasing the zombies. The memorable ending is also worth the price of admission but I won't spoil it for you. If you're not a fan of either gore, Italian zombie films, or just all-around bad movies, you may want to avoid this one but if you are, this one sure is a treat. This one is like "Lucio Fulci meets Ed Wood". If you enjoyed it, you may want to upgrade to the similiar but superior ZOMBIE 3. It's not as entertaingly terrible but it still works.
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Summary: What a bad movie....
Review: Boring, boring and yep, boring. The beginning and the very end were the only good parts. The end, had good scenes of gore. Anyway, the whole movie was dragging and lame. The zombies were extremely boring like and motionless. You have bad acting and pointless scenes of jungle people dancing and a going no where story and u got urself a very bad zombie flick. I believe its also called " Night Of The Dead ", so watch out for that name aswell as " hell of the living dead " dont even bother to rent it.. -2 stars
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Summary: A MIX BETWEEN DAWN OF THE DEAD AND CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST
Review: Classic italian zombie/cannibal movie,bad dubbing, so so plot, but lots of gore. It kind of makes you wonder why one zombie movie becomes a classic and another zombie movie becomes just mediocre. Maybe it was just the Goblin soundtrack that gave this zombie film the feel of a classic but all in all I would have to say that it was definitely worth adding to my zombie movie collection.
P.S. I LOVE THE ENDING!!!
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Summary: Get Hell Of The Living Dead instead!
Review: For those who know the history, Night Of The Zombies is one of the many names for Hell Of The Living Dead. The transfer for this DVD appears to be the same master tape used by Vestron Home Video in 1985 and Creature Features in 1996. Both versions has tape creases in the same spots during the opening credits. And, for those who have seen the 10,000th generation copy version of Vestron's release (I have not personally seen Creature Feature's version on tape.) it is so dark you really cannot see what is going on during a scene! This transfer is, for sure, Creature Feature's release because the end copyrights state: "Copyright 1996 Creature Features." As stated, get the Hell Of The Living Dead DVD from Anchor Bay. That one has the exact same cut, with the different titles, plus an untruncated closing credits sequence, BUT most importantly, an original vault film print was used. It was cleaned up and letterboxed. FAR superior to this one... which, somehow, is even DARKER! The color even fades in and out almost as if Macrovision was detected during the transfer! I got this DVD because I'm a Night Of The Zombies completist. And, even at that, I can't recommend this DVD over Hell, because for the same price or less, you can get the better DVD. This DVD does have a few extras not on the Hell DVD, but, they are not worth the price of admission: a TV trailer, which consists of the exact same text used in Dawn Of The Dead advertising, 3 "newspaper ads," even though they're the same ad just edited down and truncated, and a stills gallery which has some pictures not in Hell's gallery, including unused scenes or shots entirely for publicity modeled after existing scenes. There are also two trailers for The Gates Of Hell, interestingly also released by Creature Features in 1996 with Night Of The Zombies, but, one of them is just a shorter version of the other. All in all, not even this Night Of The Zombies completist can recommend this DVD transfer. It's worse than the Vestron VHS; I could make a better one with my VCR and a DVR! The extras just aren't worth enough to own it and Hell Of The Living Dead. Lastly, just to address the other question I had had over this DVD. Yes, this is the Night Of The Zombies directed by Bruno Mattei (As Vincent Dawn.) and not the one starring Jamie Gillis. So, for anyone else wondering, the front cover art is correct, despite some sites that have listed this exact same DVD as the Jamie Gilis release. (BTW, interestingly enough, the text on the back cover of this DVD release is exactly the same text used on the Vestron VHS home video release!)
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Summary: Get Hell Of The Living Dead instead!
Review: For those who know the history, Night Of The Zombies is one of the many names for Hell Of The Living Dead. The transfer for this DVD appears to be the same master tape used by Vestron Home Video in 1985 and Creature Features in 1996. Both versions has tape creases in the same spots during the opening credits. And, for those who have seen the 10,000th generation copy version of Vestron's release (I have not personally seen Creature Feature's version on tape.) it is so dark you really cannot see what is going on during a scene! This transfer is, for sure, Creature Feature's release because the end copyrights state: "Copyright 1996 Creature Features." As stated, get the Hell Of The Living Dead DVD from Anchor Bay. That one has the exact same cut, with the different titles, plus an untruncated closing credits sequence, BUT most importantly, an original vault film print was used. It was cleaned up and letterboxed. FAR superior to this one... which, somehow, is even DARKER! The color even fades in and out almost as if Macrovision was detected during the transfer! I got this DVD because I'm a Night Of The Zombies completist. And, even at that, I can't recommend this DVD over Hell, because for the same price or less, you can get the better DVD. This DVD does have a few extras not on the Hell DVD, but, they are not worth the price of admission: a TV trailer, which consists of the exact same text used in Dawn Of The Dead advertising, 3 "newspaper ads," even though they're the same ad just edited down and truncated, and a stills gallery which has some pictures not in Hell's gallery, including unused scenes or shots entirely for publicity modeled after existing scenes. There are also two trailers for The Gates Of Hell, interestingly also released by Creature Features in 1996 with Night Of The Zombies, but, one of them is just a shorter version of the other. All in all, not even this Night Of The Zombies completist can recommend this DVD transfer. It's worse than the Vestron VHS; I could make a better one with my VCR and a DVR! The extras just aren't worth enough to own it and Hell Of The Living Dead. Lastly, just to address the other question I had had over this DVD. Yes, this is the Night Of The Zombies directed by Bruno Mattei (As Vincent Dawn.) and not the one starring Jamie Gillis. So, for anyone else wondering, the front cover art is correct, despite some sites that have listed this exact same DVD as the Jamie Gilis release. (BTW, interestingly enough, the text on the back cover of this DVD release is exactly the same text used on the Vestron VHS home video release!)
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Summary: Hell Of The Living is just pure comedy....
Review: I can't see why so many people call this horrible. People, if you take this movie seriously of course it's going to be horrible! The things about movies like this, is that you just have to sit back with an open mind and let it just rip! Evene if the acting is bad, and the dialouge is horrible, it's still great comedy in my mind. I've never seen a more funny Zombie movie in my life than this one. I still have my old 1988 VHS version "Night Of The Zombies" in the non-widescreen, dark, grainy, gory glory. I love this movie. One of my favorites. The stock footage itself it worth the movie, not to mention the gory FX, and the ending sceen with the repoter getting nher tounge ripped-out and her eyeballs gouged out of the sockets from the inside is PURE GENIUS!!!! Obviously you have to think a lot before you have a good Zombie death scene. I love the DVD version. Much more clearer, the sound is better, and the lighting, oh my god, you wouldn't believe how much better it is from the old 1988 VHS version. Hey, if you like horror movies for laughs, then this is the right one for you. If you don't, pick it up anyway.
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Summary: NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIES is a cooler name
Review: Movie starts off when a factory filled with toxins is let loose and everyone in the factory is killed and turned into zombies. Meanwhile a Swat team, a chick and a camera dude go to an island to investigate bizarre stuff there, and eventually run into zombies. Later on they find out that the natives there are turning into zombies which later reveals that the factory with the toxic [stuff] polluted their water supply. So it goes on to the end with the battle between the living and the dead. I love this movie alot, but I felt that 3 stars was a fair enough score for it for this reason. The picture was really bad. There are some scenes in the movie where you can't figure out what's going on in the movie cuz it was way too dark. The acting was a bit annoying to where one guy tells the others about a thousand times to shoot the zombies in the head and the others act dumb and don't shoot them in the head. All in all, the gore was creepy and sick and the plot is actually not that bad. If it had better picture it would of been a classic film.
(plenty of zombies)
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Summary: "Why the long face, something eating you?"
Review: So far most people reviewing this film are pretty much picking out its flaws, which are many indeed, so I won't bother re-listing them. I will say this though; Bruno Mattei's blatant and shameless ripping off of Goblin's Dawn of the Dead and Alien Contamination soundtracks would have certainly made Edward D. Wood Jr. proud. From reading the reviews I was prepared for the worst when I purchased this dvd. I was actually surprised that it was better than most people seem to give it credit for! Sure it has an amazingly inept "Ed Wood-ian" sort of quality... ok yes, it IS in fact a terrible film, but it does have a lot going for it. #1 - The entertainment value. Like Ed Wood's "classics" this film remains totally enjoyable and even has a certain lovable quality despite the fact that it's such an awful film. It's lots of fun and there's never a dull moment.
#2 - There are some truly effective Zombie sequences. The scenes involving the zombie priest at the mission, the zombie kid coming to life in his fathers arms, the dead native coming to life after his "funeral ceremony". Also the zombie hag with a cat inexplicably ripping out through her stomach made me laugh. It made no sense, but it was still cool. #3 - Last but not least, the gore. As the producers said, without blood and entrails, a film like this would be pointless. This film will make your stomach turn. It goes far beyond Dawn of the Dead as far as blood and guts. Even farther than Lucio Fulci's Zombie. The gore is probably not as disturbing as in Day of the Dead because Tom Savini's fx were just so realistic in that one. However the use of real raw meat and pig guts definitely helped "Hell" live up to the splatter genre and then some. The extreme close-ups of maggots crawling through rotting flesh and a native picking them off and eating them were absolutely nasty! Also there are some well done exploding zombie heads. The zombie attack and gut munching scenes are hit or miss. Sometimes they come off as startlingly realistic, other times they are obviously fake. But this film doesn't skimp on the blood and guts. Also towards the end, there's a facial "violation" scene that rivals Fulci's "splinter through the eye" sequence.
Overall, if you're looking for Zombie crème de la crème, stick to Romero and Fulci, but if you're just in the mood for something gross and fun, check "Hell" out.
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Summary: Great Cheese, Great Gore, Stupid but Good and Fun!!!!!
Review: The acting is bad, There is alot of stock footage that ruin a bit the movie, we get lost sometime in the movie, but its still funny, the Zombie make up is great, the Gore is excellent but well done, its fun to watch..
Sure its stupid and cheesy but gore and Zombie fans should enjoy this one, the ending gore scene is very nice, well done but good...I think i`m too much of a zombie fan i like every zombie movie just because its gore, sometimes if the story is bad it doesnt matter as long as there is gore and good looking Zombie..But this movie is still a cheesy, stupid, gory, classic Zombie movie..
You should enjoy this one if your an hardcore Zombie movie, but if you want a good horror movie with a good story and with great actor, just pass this one!!
4/5.
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Summary: Comical
Review: This is a classic B-grade zombie movie. The dubbing into English is as bad as I've ever seen, the plot is borderline incoherent, and the actual film footage makes plan 9 from outer space look decent. The key actors comprise a commando unit who look and act more like a 70's heavy metal band. Then there are two reporters, including the female lead, (who takes her top off in order to get in sync with the natives). The movie has most of its action set in New Guinea but the location is simulated with the constant inter-splicing of safari/nature movie scenes. These cut shots are just so different from the main part of the film that they do not work at all and just seem laughable. The horror is pretty gore-filled without being over the top. The soundtrack by Goblin is somewhat of a highlight in terms of professionalism and ads value to this film. Overall this is worth a look and a laugh, but it does not have enough shock or horror value to keep you riveted. Worth having if you collect these sort of films, but not one of the top shelf examples.
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