Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Michael_Elliott Zombi Holocaust (1980) ** 1/2 (out of 4)Dr. Chandler (Ian McCulloch) and Lori (Alexandra Delli Colli) decide to try and locate a tropical island, which might hold the secrets to a couple people in New Yor City who ripped the hearts out of bodies and ate them. The group travel to the island where they eventually run into a doctor doing bizarre treatments on people.After the success of Lucio Fulci's ZOMBIE everyone in Italy was trying to cash-in on it. We got countless cannibal/zombie movies and this one here is one of the more entertaining ones. In fact, this film was released in America as DOCTOR BUTCHER, M.D. and included some new footage, a different score and theaters even passed out barf bags for those seeing it. This review is strictly for the ZOMBI HOLOCAUST version.If you're a fan of Italian horror then you know that these films aren't about stories but instead they're all about the gore. The more gore and violence you can put on the screen the more popular your film would be. There's no question that there's some great footage here ranging from body parts being chopped off to cannibals eating whatever falls out of the body after its been ripped open. There's even a great sequence where a man's eyes meets some fingers.For the most part the actors are just fine with McCulloch and Delli Colli keeping you entertained in what's going on. The tropical location makes for a good one and the recycled score is also quite good. Again, the story itself is pretty simple and stupid to say the least but we're not exactly here for that now are we?

tomgillespie2002 A common occurrence with film titles, particularly in the international horror genre, is that many territories have different names - this film is on our grindhouse project list as Doctor Butcher M.D., but is also (exhaustively) known as: Island of the Last Zombie; Medical Deviate; Queen of the Cannibals; and even Zombie 3. The version of this film had the original Italian title. And boy is it a standard, generic cannibal/zombie film. After a series of strange mutilations and amputations in hospitals, a team make an expedition to the East Indies, in search of the answers to the strange ritualistic symbol left at each "murder".The film is essentially two previous Italian schlock movies, Slave of the Cannibal God (1976) and Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979), combined. The team encounter what turns out to be a "crazy" doctor who has been experimenting on the dead local cannibals, manipulating them to his power. It's not a particularly memorable inclusion into a very crowded market. There are some effective gore sequences, but it doesn't at all save a very tired, predictable, and often clumsy narrative. There is one piece of dialogue that amused me, that occurred towards the beginning of the film, after a hand has been severed and stolen from a body used for medical education. A conversation between two medical students goes as follows: Student 1: "I bet it was you who chopped that hand off". Student 2: "Why would you say that?" Student 1: "Well, didn't you say you needed a hand to help you study?"www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

William Swayne 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.

imad_jafar The eighties were the golden age of Italian zombie exploitation. This film - directed by genre regular Marino Girolami - is one of the most predictable in the entire sub-genre. The filmmaker's themselves intended the movie as a cash-in - following swiftly on the success of Lucio Fulci's "Zombi 2". Girolami, along with producer Fabrizio De Angelis, decided to combine the basic "Zombi 2" plot with the popular cannibal films of the time and thus "Zombi Holocaust" was born. Right down to the title, a twist on last year's "Cannibal Holocaust", the film was pure exploitation. The film begins grimly in New York (the same setting as "Zombi 2"), where a hospital worker - from the 'Asian Molucca' island - is seen devouring bodies in a morgue. Then an expedition is organized to the island to find out the truth behind the carnage taking place. When the American crew arrive, however, they discover that the island is inhabited by zombies and cannibals. What are the odds? There isn't much to recommend in this gory fright flick aside from the inventively bloody special effects (devised by zombie/cannibal maestro Gianneto Di Rossi), which, although reminiscent of George A. Romero's "Dawn Of The Dead", still retain their shock value. Overall, this film is only worth viewing if you are a die-hard zombie/cannibal fan.