the audience applauded

Purely Joyful Movie!

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Erotic Nights of the Living Dead (1980) ** (out of 4) XXX versionInfamous Joe D'Amato film that mixes Italian gore with Italian sex. Three people head for a deserted island to have a lot of sex and to see if a hotel could be built on the island. They should have listened to all the rumors because zombies are there waiting. This is an extremely weird and bizarre film because the producer's wanted two films made. One a porno and another a horror film so the director just combined the two elements. Running at nearly two hours this thing goes on for way too long, which is why I wish the hardcore sex scenes would have been removed. There's a "soft" version out there that I keep meaning to see because I'm sure I'd like the film better minus the sex scenes. The zombie footage on the other hand is wonderfully done with a lot of great atmosphere and gore. D'Amato was a master behind the camera and the cinematography here is terrific as is the music score. Laura Gemser, George Eastman and Mark "Wart Nuts" Shannon star. This here is a lot better than the director's first horror/sex film Porno Holocaust, which was filmed at the same time with the same cast of this one.Sexy Nights of the Living Dead (1980) ** (out of 4)The version under this title is the pure horror version, which is missing all of the XXX scenes. For years I had been wanting to check this version out because I felt that the hardcore scenes in the uncut version were all rather ugly and did nothing erotic and instead they just dragged the film down. It was interesting watching the film without the porn scenes because you realize that the Joe D'Amato film has more problems than just the porn stuff. For starters, even without the hardcore sex there's way too many softcore scenes that are also not erotic. I was really surprised to see how silly the majority of the scenes are because it's clear that the main intent was just to show sex. Another major problem with the picture is that it just takes them way too long to finally get to the island where the zombie stuff happens. The zombies, as great as they are, are pretty much wasted because outside a couple scenes early on, the majority of their screen time happens at the very end of the movie. It's really a shame that they weren't given more screen time because I felt the horror elements were quite strong and they keep the movie interesting. Even though he was unable to make anything erotic, D'Amato did do a good job building up a rather bizarre atmosphere. This version clocks in at 100-minutes, which means it is missing twelve minutes worth of hardcore scenes. So, is this version better? I would say that it is simply because it's shorter and as I said, the hardcore scenes were rather ugly and added nothing to the picture.

Anyone who has seen Porno Holocaust will know exactly what to expect from Erotic Nights of the Living Dead, as the two films feature basically the same cast and plot lines. Joe D'Amato is often held in high regard by cult horror fans, and he has made some excellent classics in the genre; but to be honest, I really don't know where he's coming from with the whole porn/zombies thing. Last time I checked, the living dead aren't sexy and mixing an average zombie film with a load of porn isn't exactly a guaranteed recipe for success. As mentioned, the plot is basically the same as the one in Porno Holocaust and focuses on an isolated island. A group of sex starved (or not) people travel to the island for some reason or another, but naturally the island is infested with zombies. This doesn't stop the travellers having sex with each other every five minutes, the zombies do prove to be a bit of a nuisance. That's about the long and short of the plot really...This film is slightly better than Porno Holocaust, but only slightly. The two films suffer from the same main problems: Erotic Nights of the Living Dead is also far too long, and it takes too long for anything to happen too. The sex is mostly quite boring too, which obviously does the film no favours. The film features two of exploitation cinema's biggest stars in George Eastman (also the writer) and Laura Gemser. Gemser, however, doesn't turn up until we get over the halfway point. There's a fair bit of gore in the film, some of it quite hardcore, but it's clear that the sex is the main focus. The zombies themselves are the typical Italian style crusty looking things; not very convincing! As mentioned, the film is far too long and the plot really drags on numerous occasions, which is a shame. There really isn't much to this film; it's very much what you'd expect, so if you're looking for something substantial then look elsewhere! I can't really say that I found Erotic Nights of the Living Dead all that enjoyable so I won't be recommending it, but I guess some sleaze fans may get a kick out of it.

EROTIC NIGHTS OF THE LIVING DEAD is a sleazy, smut-filled endeavor from trash director, Joe D'Amato - but of course, I live for this garbage, so although this one was pretty silly - I still got a kick out of it. Unfortunately though, don't expect any cool undead-copulation as the title would suggest, you won't get it here. But you will get plenty of living people's tits and ass, so I guess that counts for something...This one concerns a businessman who buys an island to put up a big resort hotel. Of course, the island has some local lore around it involving zombies that live there. Before embarking on his journey to check the island out, Mr. Business bangs two hookers in his hotel room. Pretty decent hardcore sex action, if you dig big 70's puss-fro's and protracted, semi-erect blow-jobs featuring a guy that looks like Magnum P.I. Then he bones the lady that's staying next door (seems that Magnum is quite a pimp...). The next day Magnum and The-Girl-Next-Door head to the docks to commission a boat and sailor to take them to the island. The boat ride is just another excuse to show some more extended tits and ass scenes, but unfortunately, other than the hooker-sandwich in the beginning, there's no more "hardcore" sex to be had in this film (unless you consider one VERY amusing scene where a stripper graphically uncorks a bottle of champagne without use of her hands "hardcore"...). The adventurous three-some begin exploring the island, and find that it's not completely uninhabited. There's a real old guy with a big lump on his head, and his grand-daughter (played by an anorexically thin but still smokin' hot Laura Gemser...), and a grave yard where a bunch of "epidemic" victims died (the epidemic is never explained, naturally....). Ol' Bump-Head tells the trespassers that they should probably roll-out, but Magnum ain't hearin' it. Bump-Head gives the sailor some kind of little statue that's supposed to protect him against the zombies, and somewhere along the line, we find out that Gemser is some sort of ghost or something (that obviously doesn't like to give head, which is proved in one particularly hilarious penis-chomping scene...), because you don't see her in photographs and she keeps disappearing. Sound hard to follow? Trust me it's not - it's just poorly written. Anyway...of course our adventurers pay no head to Bump-Head and Ghost-Girl, so the epidemic victims decide to be a little more "persuasive"...Basically, ENOTLD is a film whose main purpose is to cram as much gratuitous nudity and sex as possible into it, while still straining to maintain some sort of "plot" as a horror film. The sleaze is hot-and-heavy, although I wish that there would have been some more XXX scenes, as seeing them in the very beginning and then not at all through the rest of the film was kind of "anti-climactic". As a horror film ENOTLD doesn't really hold up well. Actually, as a porn film, it doesn't really either - but the combination of the two make this one somehow work out to be pretty entertaining. Not nearly as memorable as D'Amato's super-sleazy EMANUELLE IN America or his horror "classic" BUIO OMEGA - but still worth a look to the trash fans out there...or those that dig hot 70's chicks with big 70's bushes...7/10

its been quite a while i watched the movie. i rented it because i thaught it would be some funny trash like "zombie holocaust", but i was wrong. theres nearly no gore, no story, 3 zombies (or something), no FX, JUST PLAIN NOTHING! just stupid disgusting hairy (!!!) 70-ish porn. (i watched the full uncut version by astro). that was no fun.