Wonderful character development!

Stylish but barely mediocre overall

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

This is a cheesy 80's film. In a badly dubbed NYC body parts are going missing and it appears to be the work of people from Kito, a South East Asian island. A small group goes to the island because....if makes a film. The island is filled with cannibals who prefer to eat raw innards or a nice stew. Oh yeah, there is a handful of zombies too. Yes they ransacked Laurie's apartment to steal a knife she had hanging on the wall. Bad rubber parts.Of course when a pretty blonde is capture by a group of "savages" they must be stripped naked like Bo Derek or Ursala Andress. Don't blame me, I don't make the rules. Alexandra Delli Colli is a natural blonde.

A classic zombie splatter fun spiced up with cannibals, boobs and a mad scientists work, Marino Girolami's "Zombi Holocaust" of 1980 is a true B-movie, pure exploitation, blood, and gore, everything the lover of bad taste craves for. On top you get these 70/80s synthie musicscore. To all the critics, everyone who watches a movie called Zombi Holocaust from the 80s and expects a fine and elaborated story-line, big production and great movie art is a lost cause himself ;)

Zombies, brain experiments, and cannibals all in one film! A low budget, plenty of inept special effects, lousy acting and locations...these factors combine to make ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST one of those so-bad-it's-good films. If you have a sense of humour like me, you'll love it, because there are a lot of things to laugh at, such as the jesting students in the morgue. One joke is along the lines of "I thought you might have mutilated the corpse, after all you did say that you needed a hand with your studies." It's so pathetic that you have to laugh at it because of the sheer cheesiness and absurdity. Lots of other immortal dialogue abounds in the film, that's just a sample.Now, ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST is a truly bad film. Viewers more acquainted with glossy American dramas with high budgets and lavish sets will be disappointed by the badness of it. As the film is Italian, the voices are all badly dubbed, which can be something of a hindrance. But to lovers of the bad film, there's a lot to savour. Firstly, the cast; Ian McCulloch lends wooden charm as the lead, complete with an ill-fitting wig; Alexandra Delli Colli is there for glamour purposes alone, as she's certainly no actress, and Donald O'Brien (who had a life in flicks such as this) is excellent as the over-the-top villain of the piece.The cannibals run around and shout in high pitched voices. They may not be the most convincing of actors, but they soon get down to a lot of gut ripping and eyeball popping to 'entertain' the viewer. The zombies, who actually don't eat any people in this film for a change, walk around and breathe heavily like an asthmatic Darth Vader. Sometimes they run with knives, too. They're pretty unpredictable. The comedy brain experiment ending is so unconvincing and badly acted that you just have to love it. Lots of gore, a scene of a naked girl being painted by natives, and hilarious dialogue make this one a very enjoyable watch. Okay so it didn't win any awards, but it's fun, and that's what counts in my book. I can think of films with budgets hundreds of times higher which I hated...

It could have been made by Bruno Mattei. Zombie 3, aka Dr. Butcher MD (Medical Deviate!) is a supremely trashy attempt at cashing in on the Zombie craze, started by George A. Romero in 1978. Alas, Marino Girolami (to whom Tarantino paid a nice little tribute in Inglourious Basterds) needed more than just zombies, so, he decided to combine two shlocky genres into one. Thus, Zombies Vs. Cannibals was born. If you think about it, this kind of film would be a huge success on DVD nowadays, but back in 1980, it got a limited theatrical release, mostly in sleazy redlight cinemas. And that was the whole point of these kind of films! I refuse to believe, that anybody expects a film called Zombie 3 to have good camera work, solid acting or a decent script. Naturally, Zombie Holocaust has none of these things. The writing is.... abominable. Completely wooden and ridiculous. This can mostly be attributed to the ensemble of bad actors. Yes, that includes Ian McCulloch, playing virtually the same role he did two years before in the vastly superior Woodoo. But this is what makes a zombie film either unwatchable or good fun. The latter goes for Zombie 3. There are such glaringly obvious goofs (a suicide jumper loses a limb, only to grow it back in the next shot!!!) the gore is over the top and completely irreverent (which is great!) and the climax will have you in stitches, quite like the zombified subjects of the titular Doctor. In a nutshell, this film is bad, really bad, but it should not be taken too seriously. Sometimes, these flicks ripe like a fine wine and turn out to be worth much more than the initial value. This is one of those films. Buy some beers, invite a few shrewd friends over and tear it apart, you will have a glorious time.