Hell Of The Living Dead [Blu-ray] [2023] [Region A & B & C]

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I think I would recommend this movie only to the people who are able to turn off their brains and just get some tasty fun with those old garbage films, if you can't do that, I'm sorry but this is definetly not for you so, don't even mind watching it, you're probably not going to like it since, well, it's NOT good. A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a four-man commando unit in the New Guinea jungle whom are fighting flesh-eating zombies. Co-directed by Bruno Mattei and Claudio Fragasso, architect of the infamously bad 'Troll 2,' the movie is hilariously plagued by various other distractions. Working under the pseudonym Vincent Dawn and co-written by Hervé Piccini, the story supposedly takes place over two centuries after nuclear war but everyone and everything remains trapped in 1984, from the clothing and hair to the technology. A computer the size of a living room with a 12-inch monitor is nothing more than a wall of buttons, and a rotary pay phone still stands intact on a sidewalk. Even funnier is that these relatively young characters actually know what these devices are and how to use them. One Hare Krishna dude spews encyclopedia-like verbiage as if comically adding another futuristic air. Altogether, however, it makes for a fun time with a side-splitting twist at the conclusion. (Movie Rating: 3/5)

Mattei later expressed that he felt the film's dialogue was "pretty stupid" and that like all his films, he would reshoot it if possible. [6] When asked how she felt about the film in 2013, actress Margit Evelyn Newton responded that "Obviously seeing it now, I would change some things. But that is okay. Virus has helped me get more work." [9] Fragasso commented on the film later saying that the film "designed with lots of love, but in the end it came out a test tube baby, a kind of abortion [...] But I'm satisfied with the end results." [12] See also [ edit ] Hell of the Living Dead was a project developed by producers and given to director Bruno Mattei, who attempted to create a film similar to Dawn of the Dead but lighter in tone. It was shot in five weeks in Spain with a script that was not Mattei's first choice and a score by the band Goblin, taken from other film scores that the band had performed. Horror fans have labeled films such as "Burial Ground", "Zombie", "Cannibal Apocalypse", and others as "Dawn of the Dead" rip-offs. Well, they ain't never seen this atrocity! "Night of the Zombies" COPIES EVERY SINGLE ELEMENT OF "DAWN OF THE DEAD"! It takes too long to list, but here's a few: male and female TV people, SWAT team, hostage situation in the beginning of the movie, stolen Goblin music, a zombie kid, scientists and politicians deciding what to do, a SWAT team member who jokingly shoots zombies, and the list goes on. Plus, the ending rips off "Zombie"! I found the whole set up very stilted and really quite boring.There are some absolutely ludicrous scenes. For example when the female journo has to lose her clothes and paint her boobs so that she can go and parley with the natives!. There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Zantoro yells that all it takes is a headshot... right after emptying the entire magazine into the zombie child's head!

After an experiment gone wrong, a virus that turns people into zombies spreads throughout New Guinea. A female reporter and her cameraman, and a team of four commandos sent to investigate try to survive the onslaught. Hell of the Living Dead was released in Spain in November 1980 and in Italy in August 1981 and released in the United States in 1983. [15] [16] It was described as "moderately profitable" in Glenn Kay's book Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide. [17] It has been released under several titles, including Virus, Night of the Zombies and Zombie Creeping Flesh. [18] Critical reception [ edit ]

But we got 88 Films here telling us the pink blood looks red to them. So that seems to me either an error or their monitors are all calibrated wrong! Break the Cutie: Lia, the journalist, after finding out that developed nations had created the zombie plague to thin out the populations of Third World Countries. Chewing the Scenery: Zantoro, and the film is all the more entertaining for it. Actor Franco Garofalo did most of this by improv, according to the DVD bonus feature documentary on the blu-ray. Hell of the Living Dead ( Italian: Virus – L'inferno dei morti viventi) is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Bruno Mattei. The film is set in a laboratory in Papua New Guinea that releases a dangerous chemical, turning the technicians and locals into zombies. A French news reporter ( Margit Evelyn Newton) and her crew land on the island to investigate.

The film follows a pair of journalists and a unit of soldiers who travel round in a Jeep and experience a variety of encounters with zombies after an accident at a chemical plant.

From here on it should have been an awesome film but the Directors, Bruno Mattei (who used the name Vincent Dawn) - this action speaks volumes - and Claudio Fragasso (who also co-wrote the story with Jose Maria Cunilles) decided to go an entirely different route than you would ever imagine. Meanwhile, a group of terrorists hold the US Embassy in Spain hostage, demanding the Hope Centers be shut down. A SWAT team is sent in, consisting of four members in blue suits (much like Roger and Peter from Dawn… plus two), and they shut down the terrorists and are then sent to Papua New Guinea. Now add in a group of civilians already in Papua New Guinea – Lia, a television reporter, and her cameraman, as well as Josie and her husband and son. They stop at a village hoping to get some help for their boy, who was bit by one of the locals. The SWAT team comes to the same place just in time to find the boy eating his father and Josie killed by a zombie priest. After finding safety, they all make their way toward their similar goal, the Hope Center, but with very different objectives.

Would someone please explain to me why the hell anyone would consider something like Dawn of the Dead or Lucio Fulci's Zombie's 2 superior to Bruno Mattei's masterpiece, Hell of the Living Dead. What I've mostly read about this movie is criticism. Hell is ten times better than anything Lucio Fulci ever did, bold statement? I don't think so. Lucio Fulci's work is boring, the gore scenes are literally the only positive thing. Most Italian horror is a bit on the boring side anyway, even Beyond the Darkness, the grim masterpiece that it is, is a tad boring, Hell of the Living Dead is not boring, for 70's standards, as well as todays. The fact that the score is very "borrowed" means nothing to me, I mean, who the hell cares? Stealing Goblin tunes was a stroke of genius. So, don't believe the nay sayers, Hell of the Living Dead is quality horror. Downer Ending: All of the main cast is eaten by the zombies. Meanwhile, the zombie plague is spreading across the world. The twist at the end is a nice one and again if they hadn't gone the wrong direction with the story then, it could have been an outstanding Zombie movie. I WILL say that if you're even looking at this title, then you should KNOW what you're in for, and for what this movie IS, it's GREAT.