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This movie is not that bad really I think the review you gave it was harsh you have to enjoy Italian zombie films to like this I HATED DEAD ALIVE!!! so I disagree with the rating you gave it dead alive tries to be funny but fails and is optically too stupid I HATE New Zealand flicks anyways Night of the Zombies is a good flick and not as bad as people say it is.Oh before I go GET THE DVD VERSION AVOID THE s**tTY VIDEO RELEASES!!!

Agreed.  This movie sucks marrow and doesn't even have the decency to swallow.  Thanx for the reminder.  I've been lurking your site for a while, but your commentary was enough to make me speak up.

I first saw this... uh... thing during the continuing video explosion in the mid/late eighties.  Amazing.  If someone were to ask me, "What's a bad movie?" I'd show'em this one, 'cause it's technically bad, morally bad, and entertainment bad (as opposed to "entertainingly bad").  Even the white-capped topless jogging didn't make up for it.

Until you ran the review, I could not remember its name.  Funny how the mind will repress the details of some memories to protect the sanity.  Now I know.  My past pain has a name.

Of course, I've been swimming in a lot more cinematic cesspools than I used to (including your fine site -- keep up the awesome work), so I don't know if I would be affected by this Ed Wood wannabe in quite the same way.  It's difficult to use the director's name (Bruno Mattei or whatever alias he is working under this week) and the word "quality" in the same sentence, but let's get honest -- this much badness has got to be the work of more than one man.

Finally, I appreciated your revenge comment.  Tell you what: If you should happen to find out what kind of cars the responsible parties drive, let me know.

regards,

Apostic

I did not, repeat, did not need to see stock footage of a woman eating maggots out of a rotting head!

I strongly disagree with your negative opinion of the movie.  I first saw NOTZ when I was in the 7th grade.  Those who cannot take the heat (gore) should get out of the kitchen (theater).  Yes, the movie was very bloody, had some obvious bloopers and was poorly dubbed, but the story was excellent.  Not once during the film did I want it to hurry up and be over.  Instead, I was silently cheering the interpol group on and was seriosly hoping they would win the day somehow.  In the end my only disappointment was that all the good guys died.  

I didn't know Night Of The Zombies was the name of this til you mentioned that part about the chick running around naked,but now it has a name.I'll be sure to look for it now so I can burn every copy in existence

This is the best zombie movie ever made! It dose'nt have bad acting and cheap special effects like stupid movies like Dawn Of The Dead! THIS IS A CLASSIC,A MUST SEE! GO RENT NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIES NOW!

This movie is really bad.  It's a ripoff of Dawn of the Dead and some of Goblin's music.  Your review made me realize how cheap the makers of this film were.  I STILL LIKED IT, THOUGH

As far as i know this movie is the responsibility of Joel Reed (BLOODSUCKING FREAKS), which really explains heaps about it. It's great, especially for torturing your friends (why else would you rent out many of these bad movies?)

Actually...
Night Of The Zombies (or as it is more commonly monikered "ZOMBIE CREEPING FLESH") is one of the finest in the glut of post Dawn Of The Dead Italian copies/unofficial 'sequels' to Romeros masterwork.  
Not only does the film have a suitably bizarre storyline (dig the scene where one of the army guys - for no reason - suddenly decides to play dress up in a pair of silk panties and a skirt right before getting torn apart by the living dead...), but the soundtrack features actual outtakes from Goblins Dawn Of The Dead sessions!  Now thats dedication to your art!
This film is EXTREMELY gory in its uncut form (the Japanese print entitled, again, Zombie Creeping Flesh runs a full 15 minuites longer than any US print, and featues exploding heads, eyeballs torn out of their sockets, throats bitten out, etc etc.)  Also, there is something really f**king CREEPY about this movie.  Maybe it is the surrealistic script which throws the viewer off every ten minuites, or the ending which is truly a low budget version of the apocalypse...  This runs rings around Zombie/Zombi 2/Zombie Flesh Eaters (call it what you will), Lucio Fulci's much lauded sequel to Dawn which started off the whole craze...  Ignore the negative review!  ZOMBIE CREEPING FLESH ROCKS!

This is like cinematic junk food.  I know it's bad for me, but I watch it anyway.  I've seen NOTZ about four times through the years--I usually watch it every four or five years when I forget how bad a movie can be.  And now I own the DVD, which is actually one of the better horror DVDs I've seen recently, maybe because the people who put it together make it clear that they don't think this is a good movie.  I have a fondness for NOTZ I can't explain--maybe it's the way the idiots continue to take body shots at the zombies even after being told to aim for the head, or the way some of the scientists wear protective masks, but no gloves of any kind, or maybe it's the stock footage that takes up about half the film's 100-minute [!] running time.  

I like NOTZ better than Dead Alive, which I hated [it was more like a Monty Python sketch than a real horror movie.]  
I think the attempts at social commentary in NOTZ were probably no worse than George Romero's fumbling attempts in DAWN.  The plot is probably not any worse than some of Fulci's stuff.  And CITY OF THE WALKING DEAD isn't a decent zombie movie, they use guns and knives!  Don't cry, NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIES!  There's at least one person out here who loves you just the way you are!

But I'm still chortling over the Bruno Mattei interview on the DVD where he says that the stock footage "worked great."  

Seen one zombie flick, then you have seen them all. How many more living dead type films can Hollywood make? The makeup used in this film was effective enough. Of course, the plot is very thin, but what do you expect from these type of movies? For other zombie thrills, see Oasis of the Zombies, Zombie Lake, White Zombie. Heck, even see King of the Zombies. How about Revenge of the Welfare Zombies, a rare gem made in Brantford, Ontario. Where the people are more frightening than any zombie film preceeding it.

NOTZ is one of the better italian zombie/gore flicks of the 80's.The dubbing is bad I agree,but the effects and story are pretty cool...and definately better than Dawn of the Dead.Don't get me wrong, I liked "Dawn",but it wasn't what I was expecting.Good story,and effects,***out of *****.

I was thrown off at first, between the obvious "Italian-ness" of the flick and the ripped Dawn of the Dead music, I thought "This can't be half bad." Oh man, I want two hours of my life back. When they got to the powerplant and became soilent green I was cheering.

Disco music uhhh what... thats Goblin (did the soundtracks for the most of Dario Argento's movies etc). "Night of the zombies" has some of the same exact songs that were played in "Dawn of the Dead." originally titled "Hell of the Living Dead" its not really that bad there are tons of worse zombie flicks then this by far. You really have to like zombie flims to enjoy this movie. I woud give it 6 out of 10 stars.

The Goblins have done a lot of crappy Italian flick music.  They also did the soundtrack for the non-Zombie pile of crap called Buried Alive.  Unless you REALLY love Italian cinema, run away from that movie.

Jesus, why bother with having a f**ked up nuclear/chemical reactor to create millions of undead....go watch this film and it will do the same thing at a fraction of the cost!

Yeah, this is a pants film, even the Jap print I was fortunate enough to see along with all the extra gore shots, didn't help matters along.

BUT it doesn't deserve the Big Fat Zero Badmovies, seems to think it deserves. When one considers the budget of this film you have to make allowances. In anycase I personally think it stands head & shoulders above Argentos over-rated and totally s**te Susperia and all the other crap he's produced ever since (Demons excluded)

NOTZ is a film with no irony but loads of cheap style. If you managed to watch the entire film it can't be all that bad, can it!

Wow.  I had no idea there were herds of ELEPHANTS in New Guinea!  :)

 Dude, this one sucks! Not even the uncut versions decent gore FX could save this! Hell, it should be called "The Geographic Dead", due to its obsession in stock footage. Still, it's not the worse, but its one of the worst.

Wow! With all of these positive and negative reviews, I'm really glad I bought the movie. That's right, I actually found a copy for sale! W000T!

-Scott-

Just to clear up any confusion on this movie:

Buno Mattei's "Night of the Zombies" was also distributed by a variety of other distributors under a plethora of alternate titles such as:
* Virus
* Hell of the Living Dead
* Zombies of the Savannah
* Zombie Creeping Flesh [UK]
* Die Holle der Lebenden Toten [German]
* Apocalypsis Canibal
* Virus Cannibale
and about a half-a-dozen others........................
The same goes for virtually every-other European horror/exploitation movie, with the worst 'offender' being Antonio Margheriti's "Cannibal Apocalypse", which can be found under about 15 or so other titled versions, namely the "Invasion of the Flesh Hunters" copy which was released by the Vestron, which was the same label that distributed "Night of the Zombies" in North America, along with the Creature Features copy...........
Anyhow, for anyone wishing to do so, I pesonally wouldnt advise ditching [aka. throwing out] any older vhs copies of horror movies from Vestron Video, Wizard Video, Lighting Video etc for the newer DVD copies from Anchor Bay, because to 'true' horror-enthusiasts these are the 'true' collectors-items to seek out and bag............

Before I knew who Romero was I knew the name Vincent Dawn. I saw this when I was ten and well... Hell of the Living Dead started my journey into zombie films so I can't very well badmouth it. Sure, as I got older and realized the dubbing was awful and the stock footage took away rather than enhanced the film. I guess I'm screwed up because I saw Mattei's film and then saw Dawn of the Dead later as well as Night. I'm forever ruined on zombie films as I saw most of the Italian stuff first.

Whoever thought this movie was even remotely good is sub-human.  It should be used as punishment for our world's criminals.  Force them to watch this movie 3 or 4 times and we won't need capital punishment, they'll kill themselves.  

How the DIEW got into NOTZ:

Foley artist) Whoops! Sorry about that. I must've stepped on a cat...

Director) It's ok...nobody will notice.

Foley artist) You sure? I could take that right out...

Director) You're fired.

As a fan of genre films, I must say that NOTZ is an easy contender for the worst film ever CONCEIVED, let alone MADE.  Blantant rip-off of DotD, with some of the dumbest, most unlikable characters ever put on film.  Also extremely depressing--one could be hating life for a long time after seeing this terrible exercise in filmmaking.  Bruno Mattei has to be one of the most worthless, piece-of-s**t directors of all time.

Night of the Zombies is the film of the year. The overall plot, if any is still unclear. There's mutilation, and death, to add to the gore. To some horror addicts, this can still be a bore. So if you seek flesh eating mayhem, here's some of the best. Rent Night of the Zombies it'll rip your heart from your chest.                    

Call me crazy,but I enjoyed this movie! I had seen this movie on VHS a long time ago,but the DVD is much better. This movie is also known as "Hell Of The Living Dead". I know it's a bad movie,but fun as hell to watch! If you are a collector of zombie films,you have to pick this up. Like I said,it's a bad movie but strangely appealing. I CAN name 2 zombie flicks worse than this(Zombie Lake and Children Of The Living Dead). But since my goal in life is to own every zombie movie, I will buy those as well!

I thought this was about Soilent Green. I was greatly disturbed to find a whole page about Night of the Zombies.  That movie was so bad, I'm surprised you people wasted your time making comments about it...Wait a minute what am I doing?

This has got to be the absolute worst movie in the history of FILM! What did they do, run out of talent or something? I still couldn't pay nobody to buy the movie from me, let alone give it away!

I walked around like a zombie for days after seeing this wretched excuse for a film. There should be some sort of Ed Wood award for most obvious and gratuitous use of stock footage. This film would win in a landslide.

THEIR HEADS DAMN YOU!!!! YOU KNOW IT ALREADY!!! YOUVE BEEN TOLD 500 TIMES THEIR HEADS!!!!!!! arrrrrr I give up...

I saw this when I was a kid and I'd love to see it again.  Sure, it's bad but there is something really creepy about inserting reality into a nihilistic film.  I think that some grey market places have it as "Hell of the Living Dead"... but is it worth purchasing?

What the hell is this? This is a very poor rip-off of George Romero's Dawn of the Dead. George Romero shhould sue the director of Night of the zombies. The title is just about a copy of night of the living dead.

   So why, oh why, does everyone hate this movie?  I love it!  Sure the plot is outrageous but that is what makes it so much fun.  Think about it . . .a project sanctioned by several world governments to de-populate Third World nations by exposing the people to a gas that turns them into flesh eating zombies!  Does the United Nations know about this?  Don't miss that scene of the horrendously dubbed African diplomat declaring "You have treated my people like human larvae!  Nothing will be left but the bare earth soaked in putrifying flesh!" Oh and that TV interview at the end where dialogue is liften almost verbatim from NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.  Yow!  
   Some good gore effects (better than the papier mache heads in Andrea Bianchi's NIGHT OF TERROR at least) and the character of Santoro provides tons of comic relief.
   The DVD release of this is amazingly clear and offers scenes left out of the domestic video release.

I love italian zombie movies. I love good italian zombie movies. I love bad italian zombie movies. I HATED this movie. The part where the zombie plantworkers are "eating" a guy looks like they're picking up raw bloody steak off the guys chest - funny. Sound cool? Don't ever bother. Get City of the Walking Dead for a cool 'bad' zombie flick instead.

well, all i can say is "ouch." as i am positive that just by watching this movie i have taken a solid 2 years off my life. But like the creator of this site said (somewhere) "no-one ever said it was a healthy habbit" and i have to agree. i had just seen "galaxy invaider" before this and last weekend saw "Billy the Kid vs. Dracula" so anyway...this movie is the cruise missle that broke the camels back, I think im taking a week off. ( plus the movie was my idea, not Roberts)

Not only do I want to murder the writer, the director, the editor, hell, everyone responsible for this movie (except the chick), but I will personally strangle all of you who like this movie!!! What it wrong with you?!  NotZ is the worst movie ever made.  EVER.  My friends and I watched it for s**ts and giggles, but twenty minutes into the movie, I felt like killing my friend Robert, because it was his idea.  What I've learned:  Italian people are all retarded (even hot painted chicks).

I liked the movie and I agree with Ed it was a shame all the good guys got killed in the end. I wished all of them survived and won the battle. I plan to purchase the movie on DVD . Well Mike London , Osbourne, Vincent , Zantoro , Max , and Lia better luck next time it is a shame you lost the battle in the end I was on your side.

Hell of the Living Dead (AKA: NIght of the Zombies, Virus) is one of the greatest of all zombie movies and one of the most entertaining. The only reason why any of you hate this movie is because of the 'supposed' rip-offs Bruno Mattei took from Romero's Dawn of the Dead and put into this movie. All of you are too hung-over for your love of Dawn of the Dead to give Hotld any kind of commendation. I wish for once you morons would get your facts straight when complaining about this movie. The only 'rip-offs' Mattei used from Dawn of the Dead for this movie are "some" of Goblin's score for DotD; when I say some, I mean Mattei only used a small piece from that score, but because it is one of the most recognizable pieces from DotD all of you naturally assume he ripped the entire musical score from DotD, which is the stupidest s**t that I hear most.

The other thing Bruno used from DotD is making all of the main characters in HotlD reporters and swat team members, and in the latter the characters wear identical uniforms as the swat members from DotD. That's all Mattei supposedly stole from Dawn of the Dead; oh, if you want to include the opening terrorist raid you can, but they are both entirely different. Besides these "Rip-Offs" you dumbasses keep complaining about, the rest of this movie is very original. I dont know of what other zombie movie was made before where the plot has a chemical research plant that has a gas leak and a team of commandos are sent to New Guinea to find out what the Hell is up. And this is one of my favourite reasons for zombie plaques, "Chemical gas/Nuclear Meltdowns".

Another inconsistency that derails you idiots' complaints that Mattei stole the score from DotD is the fact that Mattei didn't just use music from DotD, he used music from many other movies Goblin scored music for. There's also the story of how Mattei gained rights for using Goblin's music before DotD was even made. I dont know if this is true or not, but because this movie is being allowed print in the US today, I'd say the legality is in Bruno's favor. Lets see, more complaints? Oh yeah, "Bad Dubbing"! Okay, in what foreign horror movie of the time was the dubbing ever good? "Bad Acting"? While the dubbing is somewhat bad in this movie, and the voices are probably not those of the actors in the movie, I'd say the actors actually did a good job of portraying their roles soley by reading the expressions on their faces.

Then there's the stock footage! WHO GIVES A s**t! So what, the director didn't have the money so decided to plug in documentary film. In the new DvD version of Hotld the stock footage is hardly noticeable; besides, this is what I've always liked about this movie. The stock footage adds eeriness to it.

It could be me. It could be because I watched this movie before Dawn of the Dead and saw it at a young age. That could be why I love it so much. But I have placed myself in the shoes of others and pretend that I never saw this movie, but I can still not see why anyone hates it so much.

P.S. for those of you hoping you can burn every copy of this movie in existence, it'll never happen baby!

Amung the worst movies that I have ever seen. The movie was so painful that I thought of suicied during it and then turned homocidal toward everyone involved with the film.

Your right, pure shyte! Bad acting, directing (whats up with all those wildlife shots anyways?), script and special effects (although there were a few cool looking zombies). I hoped that all the characters would die, and they did, yay! This movie made "The Video Dead" look like "Night of the Liveing Dead". Stick to "Zombi 2" and "Dawn od the Dead".

A skull

I own the original copy released from Vestron Video (one of my old fav vid labels, who released other cool horror flicks such as THE MUTILATOR, PIECES and HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK), and I must say I have enjoyed this film, it excretes bad charm all over the place. This is just one of those  film where you gotta check your brain at the door and just go along with the ride

fav gore scene(s)
- The killing in the elevator shaft  of Zantoro & Max, Lia's "eyepoping" demise and the elimination of the two necking lovers near the  park bridge at the end (Fairly brutal stuff, courtesy  of FX guy Giusseppe Ferrantini)

Movies that had music "lifted" for this movie:
- Joe D'Amato's "Beyond the Darkness", Luigi Cozzi's "Toxic Spawn" and of course Romero's "Dawn of the Dead".

PS. Bruno Mattei also re-used all of "Beyond the Darkness's" soundtrack on his other film L'Altro Inferno (aka. THE OTHER HELL)

I saw this movie when I was in high school. At the time, it was advertised as "so shocking" that "absolutely no one under 18 will be admitted." So two friends and I, all around 16, had absolutely no trouble getting in at a local dive theater (which was notorious for sticky floors).

I must say it was one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. Tears were rolling down my face I was laughing so hard. My friends were laughing too. This seemed to really creep out the few other people in the theater--more so that the movie. Got more than a few head turns with looks of, "I can't believe you find this funny." I recall especially liking the scene where the zombie child takes two rounds from a 45 caliber pistol in the chest and keeps on coming--until being taken out with a head shot.

When the movie was over, we were the only ones left in the theater.  

Highly recommended! Not that it was supposed to be a comedy . . .

I'm confused, the movie reviewed is Night of the Zombies (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082815/), but the movie most people seem to be discussing here is Virus AkA Hell of the living dead (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082559/)
But the pictures on the review appear to be from Virus.
Virus is the funniest zombie movie ever, how can you not love a film where, upon seeing a "horde" of zombie stagger out of the woods, the protaganists exclaims that "maybe they're drunk!!" and later wearing a tut and doing a bizzare song an dance routine whilst being torn to pieces by zombies. Comic genius :D

I come from Italy and I would just like to take this as an oppurtunity to apologize on behalf of all the italian people for creating these countless zombie rip offs.
However, please dont think of these films as representations of Italys creativity. I mean, check out the Dario Argento films. They are masterpieces.

Bought the movie from anchor bay and it came with Night of the rats.

less then 20$ for theses 2 features was quit a bargain cause if you look at it on amazon.ca i live in Canada night of the rats cost 24$ and Hell of the living dead pertty much the same thing.

Night of the rats and Hell of the living dead are 2 funny yet gory movies i dont mind having in my collection.

They are not the best movies but still pertty funny to watch.

Night of the Zombies is awesome!, my favorite zombie film after the Romero trilogy.

I bought this baby for $1.99 on good ol classic VHS. One of the worst of the worst zombie flicks to come out of Italy. A montage to plot holes, ripoffs, and bloopers. If you really love zombies, and really love crap movies, this one is for you. Deffinately a Plan 9 level of crappy, except without the charm.

One of those movies you can´t take too serious. Its just the right footage for a video-party with lots of beer and potato-flips. Obviously a rip-off Romeros "Dawn of the Dead" with bad acting but funny to watch after all.

Also, I should mention that I saw this when an ex of mine and I purchansed this packaged together with "Rats: Night of Terror".  (at the time it was labeled as "Hell of the Living Dead") and we, being terrible fools and gluttons for punishment, watched them both...in a row.

Besides the fact that most of the costumes and all of the music is stolen from the much better "Dawn of the Dead" is still enjoyed this piece of crap on a "boy....I can't believe that just happened kind of way."  

also, who can forget the INSANE dialogue (probably from the words being meant to match the lips with no thought to content) we get to hear the crazy twitchy guy scream "Shift your ass or you'll get your balls wasted!!!!"

Gold Jerry, Gold.

Actually I think people mention the dawn of the dead rip off thing, cause they kind of all wear the same uniforms as the two heroes from DOTD and they kinda stole the soundtrack...I mean like the ENTIRE soundtrack.  like every piece of music in that movie is ripped right of romero's.  anyway, just sayin...

I'd heard plenty of bad reviews, including this one, before watching this movie, and I was prepared for the worst. But when this movie ended, my only thought was 'That was awesome'. Lots of zombies, lots of gore, pointless nudity, it's everything a zombie movie should be. The stock nature footage is annoying and stupid, sure. But I'd rather watch a fox eat a rabbit than I would the director's lame attempt to make me connect with the zombiebait (Although Santoro's one of my favorite zombie movie chracters of all time.)

I'd be interested to find out how many of the people who commented have actually seen this movie. For one, THIS IS NOT A DAWN OF THE DEAD RIP-OFF. DAWN OF THE DEAD DID NOT TAKE PLACE ON A TROPICAL ISLAND, NOR DID IT INVOLVE COMMANDOS. Honestly, aside from the fact it has zombies there's almost no similarity, and if being a zombie movie makes this a DotD rip-off, well I guess that makes every movie where a character wears shoes a Wizard Of Oz clone. Secondly, the 'Arrgh, why don't they shoot them in the head?' complain is a little, well, stupid to make, since Santoro yells at them 3 or 4 times for it in the movie.

This is better than Zombi 2. Believe it.

 This is one of my favs. I saw this flick at the a Sepulveda Drive-in, San Fernando Valley Ca. on a Triple bill with "Dawn of the Dead" and "Gates of Hell". The night I saw this flick the valley was hit by a freak super storm. Lots of flooding, Few streetlights or traficlights were working. Most of the cities were without power. Some how I got my mom to take me [I think I was 11 0r 12] by convincing her the drive-in would have a back-up generator. They did. It took 2 1/2 hours to go what would normally take 30 minutes! I remember the Rem. 870 shotgun in the back seat just in case a riot or something broke out! I grew up at So-Cal drive-in"s, and this is one movie that brings back the memories. Night of the Zombies is a"GREAT" bad movie. When the Reporter goes "NATIVE" bouncing in front of the range rover, I knew was watching a GREAT trash film. Heck! The rain stopped as so as this flick started! You can get this flick on DVD under the title; Hell of the Living Dead. If you Flip the Paper jacket over it has the U.S. Release Title "Night of the Zombies"! Way Cool!!! See this movie! and Check out "Chosen Survivors" [There's Bats in the Bomb Shelter! In the name of Bradford Dillman SAVE US!]while your at it!

Is it me, or does this movie smack of ripoff? I saw this piece of trash when i was a kid and even then it seemed like a ripoff of Return of The Living Dead. A noxious gas turns plant workers into zombies? Eh? They talk of destroying them with fire? Anything yet? OK, well what about all the good guys biting the bullet at the end? Bruno Mattei is known for ripoffs. Just like all Italian horror directors. This movie seems like ROTLD on a tropical island. Don't bother unless you're really bored. Pass.

Night of the Zombies (aka Hell of the Living Dead, Virus, etc.) is undoubtedly a rip-off of the majority of zombie oriented gore films to come before it (all the way down to stealing soundtrack cues from Italian prog-rock band Goblin).  But it was released in 1980, whereas Return of the Living Dead was released in 1985.

Kindest regards,

Kevin P.
http://www.wtf-film.com

TooManyZombies wrote:



Yes, the plot was different than Dawn (for example, in none of the Romero films it is ever clear what causes the zombies in the first place, unlike this movie, where the "culprit" -a man-made gas- is quickly established for the viewer) but it did borrow a number of other things from the Romero films: The Goblin music, the flesh-eating, the "destroy their brains in order to kill them" thing, and one sequence in the movie is even taken practically verbatim from Night of the Living Dead!!! (the scenes where the scientist explains that he was examining a cadaver with amputated limbs and it started to move.)

Goreign wrote:


No, as someone else has pointed out, this movie came out several years before Return of the Living Dead. It seems some people are quick to point out the elements from previous zombie movies this film has borrowed but not point out some of the elements other zombie movies seem to have borrowed from this one. As far as I can remember (and please feel free to remind me if there is a previous example), this and Toxic Zombies (also from 1980) are the first flicks to feature chemically-induced cannibal zombies.

"Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" (1974) contains zombies created from experimental pest control measures.  They're not quite the same, but it an interesting older idea.  Also, and these really are not cannibals, I know that some of the older voodoo zombie movies involve poisons in the voodoo.

Quite frankly, who gives a damn if it was a ripoff of any other movie or not.

I like the Romero/Fulci type zombie movie, and this fits the mold just fine for this type of film.

If we are so damn concerned about ripoffs in horror film, or b-movies in general, then we might as well not watch any movies whatsoever as every vampire movie would then be a ripoff of Dracula, every mad scientist movie a ripoff of Frankenstein, and according to some theory out there just about every movie made has one of like 7 core plots that is just rehashed over and over again.

There is comfort in familiarity. We have our favorite foods, candy, toys, people, and we tend to gravitate that way in most things we do, including in the movies we like.

If you are looking for originality, you may want to avoid zombie movies. Include horror movies as well. Hell, you might just want to avoid movies altogether.

I saw this movie once many years ago when I was probably around the age of 7 or 8 and all I remembered were the boobs. For some reason I decided to go hunting for the movie that contained those funbags, and I'm glad I found it. But based on your comments I'm not sure if I want to watch it. Actually it can't be any worse than that movie I saw of Jesus fighting lesbian vampires in mid 90s LA. I'm gonna take a look, and thank you for reconnecting me with my pre-adolescent memories of bouncing tits.

That "up your ass" line is possibly the most hilariously bad line I have ever heard.

This rates in my top ten truly awful movies of all time. But I love it, in a way, because it's so mind-numbingly stupid.

Hot as a horse's ass?  Exactly how hot is a horse's ass? Has anyone actually done scientific experiments to find out?  Has anyone empirically discovered that "hot as a horse's ass" = "fly time" (whatever that is)?  I'm going to guess the answer is no.

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