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

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Horror fans have labeled films such as "Burial Ground", "Zombie", "Cannibal Apocalypse", and others as "Dawn of the Dead" rip-offs. Well, they ain't never seen this atrocity! "Night of the Zombies" COPIES EVERY SINGLE ELEMENT OF "DAWN OF THE DEAD"! It takes too long to list, but here's a few: male and female TV people, SWAT team, hostage situation in the beginning of the movie, stolen Goblin music, a zombie kid, scientists and politicians deciding what to do, a SWAT team member who jokingly shoots zombies, and the list goes on. Plus, the ending rips off "Zombie"!Claudio Fragasso stated he wrote Hell of the Living Dead with Rossella Drudi, his frequent co-scripter. [7] Fragasso felt there had been several zombie films made recently, and wanted to do something different after watching Dawn of the Dead suggesting the film would be like Soylent Green as well as envisioning the film as "an undead epic, a kind of Apocalypse Now". [7] Hell Rats of the Living Dead (8:40, SD) – This interview with Mattei was conducted as part of the older DVD double feature and remains one of the only on-camera interviews with the director (he isn’t even quoted in print all that much). If it had been shaved down to about 75 Minutes without all the unnecessary footage of elephants , bats, cranes and all other inconsequential diversions I might have given it another star. 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.

There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Zantoro yells that all it takes is a headshot... right after emptying the entire magazine into the zombie child's head! The story is nothing new: an accident at a chemical plant unleashes a virus that infects the recently deceased and turns them into shambling, flesh craving zombies. An elite SWAT team is hired to get to the bottom of things and they travel to New Guinea where the plant is located, hooking up with a bombshell reporter (Margit Evelyn Newton) and her cameraman, and encounter danger every step of the way. Director Bruno Mattei noted that the production began as a specific request from the producer. [3] Mattei planned to make a film inspired by 1978's Dawn of the Dead, but wanted a lighter tone for the film. [4] Mattei said that initially two screenplays were written, and that the producers rejected the screenplay that Mattei preferred. [5] The film was Mattei's first to be made under the name Vincent Dawn, a request made specifically by the film's Spanish production side. [6] Having said that, the film is an entertaining enough affair; in the sense that the comedy and violence is enough to keep most horror fans interested, if not glued to the screen. The idea that zombies, and cannibalism, are a sort of metaphor for Third World hunger is a somewhat unusual idea for a zombie film and I guess this is a sort of reflection surrounding the anxieties in the era in which it was made. 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.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. Hell of the Living Dead ( Italian: Virus – L'inferno dei morti viventi) is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Bruno Mattei. The film is set in a laboratory in Papua New Guinea that releases a dangerous chemical, turning the technicians and locals into zombies. A French news reporter ( Margit Evelyn Newton) and her crew land on the island to investigate. Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. It looks like this new remaster is also used for the accompanying 1080p blu-ray, with the image of the film there aligning closely to the colour timing of the 4K disc. 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.

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. 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 ]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. Eye Scream: A zombie forces its hand into its victim's mouth, and pops her eyeballs out from the inside. I think I would recommend this movie only to the people who are able to turn off their brains and just get some tasty fun with those old garbage films, if you can't do that, I'm sorry but this is definetly not for you so, don't even mind watching it, you're probably not going to like it since, well, it's NOT good. Films says this version is a “Brand new 4K Remaster from the Original Negatives presented in High Definition (2160p) in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio”. Before we begin, note that this reviewer has only seen 88 Films’ previous blu-ray release of this film and used that as a basis for the comparisons noted below. No other versions, including the one from Blue Underground, have been seen and used to compare against this new 4K release.