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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: zero stars. the worst movie ever made
Review: and i have seen A LOT of movies. This has to be the most poorly put together film of all time. sure, the badness of it all provides a degree of entertainment. it might even be worth a rental if you are looking for a hilariously bad zombie movie (for maybe 20 minutes) to watch while intoxicated with a group of friends - once. but don't buy it for chrissake. Mostly though, it isn't even very funny. I would say that it is even "offensive" but it isn't worth that sort of label.
watch the documentary and notice how delusional the director is too. the people who will buy this will still buy it because they enjoy that sort of thing anyway but for those of you who are unknowing, you have been warned.
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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: Not as Bad as You Think!
Review: For ZOMBIE MOVIE Lovers Only! Besides the bad acting, plot,
camerawork, and countless stock footage of wild animals,
HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD can be enjoyed, ecspecially if you
like watching how much Director Mattei stole the exact
same soundtrack by Goblin off of George Romero's DAWN OF THE
DEAD. But overall, I laughed and found this movie to be
quite amusing.
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Summary: Have you read the inside sleeve?
Review: I can't believe the insults that the reviewers have written on the inside sleeve of this DVD. I must say that I was afraid at first that I had picked up the wrong film.....I hadn't. This movie may disgust some of you (it should) and thats why I love it. I just had to add this to my Horror collection (filed away in the Zombi genre). I admit there are better Zombi films, but considering 90% of this movie being shot in the light (unlike most horror films besides Shock Waves) you have to give it props.I cracked up when it showed the Zombi's biting legs....you could tell they where holding raw meat on someones leg then gnawing it off, LOL. If you love Italian or Spanish horror and love Zombi's pick this one up.
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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: Thank our lucky stars for Anchor Bay.
Review: I got this DVD for the heck of it. Amazon had put this in my recommendations for a while and I consider myself quite the zombie film buff. So why not? It was my first exposure to Bruno Mattei. And I loved every minute of it. The cheesiness alone makes it worth it. You just have to love the pure cheesiness of the scene where she goes to the New Guinea tribe. Had it not taken itself so seriously, it might have been fuunnier. But the fact it takes itself seriously and has a "message" makes it a great addition to any DVD collection.
The unrated is for great gore, language and brief nudity. If you love cheesy zombie films, this is for you.
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