Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Woodyanders An expedition led by intrepid anthropologist Dr. Peter Chandler (an extremely sour portrayal by Ian McCulloch) to the remote tropical island of Moluccas not only runs afoul of a savage tribe of primitive cannibals, but also encounter lethal zombies created by nefarious mad scientist Dr. Obrero (nicely played with lip-smacking wicked relish by Donald O'Brien).Both Marino Girolami's crass direction and Romano Scandariato's mindless script shamelessly pander to the lowest common denominator in the most enjoyably exploitative manner imaginable (I especially loved the cowardly comic relief porters who are destined to meet nasty untimely ends at the hands of the cannibals). While slinky blonde distaff lead Alexandra Delli Colli's hopelessly acting leaves plenty to be desired, she nonetheless compensates for her woeful thespic abilities by showing off her fine sender figure with pleasing regularity. Fetching brunette Sherry Buchanan brings a winningly perky charm to her role as pesky reporter Susan Kelly. The cruddy dubbing, plodding pace, priceless tin-eared dialogue ("I could easily kill you now, but I'm determined to have your brain!"), and meandering nonsensical narrative all give this fabulously fetid flick a certain endearingly ramshackle charm. The make-up f/x are rather crude, but still deliver the gory goods by the tasty truckload (said gore includes throat slashings, dismemberment, graphic gut munching, and grisly brain transplant surgery). Nico Fidenco's funky-throbbing score hits the right-on groovy pulsating spot. A gloriously scuzzy grindhouse hoot and a half.

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

beyondthegore It's supposed to be a zombie film, it's got a zombie on the box art and on the back cover. However 'Zombie Holocaust' has more cannibals and tits than zombies....and there's not much of that either! I love my cheesy 80's films mainly the reason that drew me to this title even after its poor scores around the net, it definitely has the 80's feel about it, the synthesizer is in full flow the attire is definitely 80's and it does have that classic feel. Shame it's a poor effort at a zombie movie.Its only saviour that doesn't make this worthy of a zero are the few gore scenes it has. They are pretty savage and the effects have the 80's feel which is nice. One scene that stands out is where our team is ambushed by the cannibals and one of the unlucky ones is stabbed and has his eyes gouged out for a little cannibal snack! Nice! However these scenes soon die off and the dribble plot kicks in to full swing!Read the full review at: beyondthegore

geminiredblue If there's anything that Italian horror directors do right, it's making crazy movies! Before Italian horror cinema took off in the mid to late 80s, a "subtle little movie" came along that capitalized on the emerging cannibal and zombie genres. This movie features a lot of the former and a little of the latter. Ian McColluch was even so kind as to return in here, after surviving ZOMBIE! When a string of murders and dismemberments plague New York hospitals, it is discovered that the perps are members of an ancient cannibal tribe. So it's off to a tropical island (that looks remarkably like the same location for ZOMBIE, hm...) where they discover a mad doctor (of course) doing what they do best! Acting is actually pretty good given what later movies would offer. The dialogue is still laughable. My personal favorite is when the good doctor speaks into a recorder, mid-surgery: "Patient's screams forced me to remove the vocal cords." The gore is over-the-top with impalement and disemboweling being the preferred methods. The make-up for the seven or so zombies is pretty unconvincing (just slightly better than BURIAL GROUND.) As with most Euro-trash, this is best watched in the presence of your funniest friends!