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

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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 ] Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. For those of you who take films far too seriously, you'd probably want to reverse that ten to a one. For those of you out there who want pure cheese entertainment, then this film is for you. Removing the Head or Destroying the Brain: "Cut it out! Stop wasting your damn bullets, you jerks! You need to hit their heads! I told you! See, like this!" (shoots zombie in the head)

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.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. Among the cast was Margit Evelyn Newton as Lia. [8] Newton recalled that she felt a great sense of responsibility at the time, playing the film's protagonist. [9] Newton felt nervous in a scene involving nudity in front of the indigenous people. [9] She asked that everyone be removed from the set, with only indispensable cast and crew remaining. [9] The scene was shot in one day. [9]

Hostage Situation: A group of terrorists take hostage of Consulate, demanding closure of the Hope Centers.An entertaining movie that's filled with cheesy gore effects and bad acting. Even if this wasn't in dubbed English, the acting would still have been bad. Bruno Mattei is an average film maker at best, but he does created a watchable movie. Music by Zombie. In Papua New Guinea, secret research laboratories called "Hope Centers" work to help feed impoverished nations... or so they claim. Unfortunately, one of the labs' projects, Operation Sweet Death, has a chemical leak that causes the facility—and the country—to be overrun by zombies. 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. Eye Scream: A zombie forces its hand into its victim's mouth, and pops her eyeballs out from the inside.

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)Whilst the special effects were pretty good, I couldn't get past the storyline, script and acting problems.

Think: Italian horror cinema, and genre legends such as Mario Bava and Dario Argento spring instantly to mind. From the heyday of the late 1960s with the birth of the Italian gothic that evolved Hammer’s own brand of fog-shrouded chills and of the infamous ‘giallo’ that spawned the entire slasher craze of the 80s, Italian cinema is rightly renowned for paving the way artistically for so much of what modern horror became. Zombie Creeping Flesh stands out amongst other Italian movies like Andrea Bianchi's Zombie Dead and Umberto Lenzi's Nightmare City as THE most hilarious and ridiculous zombie movie made. Bruno isn't out to comment on anything, he's not sliding us a sly allegory on modern life, he's simple churning out a gore movie for the green, and supplying us with ninety-five minutes of utter, utter madness. was an interesting year in the world of horror films. The cannibal subgenre was building up steam, expanding on the previously released Ultimo Mondo Cannibale and The Mountain of the Cannibal God with Cannibal Apocalypse, Cannibal Holocaust, and Eaten Alive all hitting the big screen that year. At the same time, capitalizing on George Romero’s success with Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, zombie films were gaining popularity as well, especially in Italy, with Fulci giving us City of the Living Dead and Zombie and Girolami delivering Zombie Holocaust. Meanwhile, Bruno Mattei had just gotten his filmmaking career started and was about to start churning out the exploitation: 1980 saw him release a sex-based mondo film, a nunsploitation film, a hardcore adult film, and a zombie movie with hints of the cannibal film influence, Hell of the Living Dead. Hell Of The Living Dead (1980) is Italian sci-fi horror film from director Bruno Mattei. The film stars Margit Evelyn Newton, Franco Garofalo, Selan Karay and José Gras.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. Is there anything besides the cover art that was done well? It seems like to fix this to meet expectations they would literally have to start over from scratch. Rousseau and London's men battle their way to a beach, escape by raft, and finally arrive at Hope Center #1, where they find all of the workers either dead or roaming the facility as zombies. The zombies kill Max and Zantoro and infect London. Rousseau and Vincent learn about the experimental chemical accidentally released, which is causing the zombie infestation. Rousseau theorizes that the chemical, codenamed "Operation Sweet Death", has been invented to curb the Third World population by driving it into eating each other. She vows to tell the world, but a horde of zombies – including their now zombified comrades – close in and devour the last survivors of the team. When someone says a movie is so-bad-it's-good, they usually mean that it's unintentionally comedic. "Virus" is so inept that it is enjoyable in a way it was not intended to be, but it doesn't fit the traditional so-bad-it's-good classification. (Actually, there was one scene in Virus that I thought was really funny. It involves breasts--you'll know it when you see it.) Here's why I liked Virus: all the ridiculousness adds together to form a fascinating and impossibly cohesive whole. The final product is sort of like a surrealist meditation on human insignificance. 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.