La Terreur des zombies

Je ne peux pas dormir - car ce film a été tourné la même année que Zombi 2 de Fulci et Cannibal Holocaust de Deodato. Il s'agit en fait d'un clone des deux scénarios, complété par le thème d'un scientifique fou qui crée des créatures zombies humanoïdes sur une île mystérieuse (comme L'Île du Dr. Moreau). Ajoutez à cela une blonde sexy qui se déshabille constamment et partout, un héros de type Harrison Ford/Belmondo et beaucoup de gore très détaillé. C'est aussi agréable de voir des cannibales et des zombies ensemble dans un seul film ! En tant que "trash" italien, Zombi Holocaust est irrésistible. Brutal, involontairement drôle et avec une dose inévitable de sexe. Si vous appréciez ce genre et jugez l'attrait de films similaires en fonction de la fréquence des dialogues stupides, du niveau d'atrocité de la musique et du nombre de litres de sang, de zombies et de cannibales, vous êtes au bon endroit. (24/01/2003)

If I were to describe the film in one word, I would probably go for inane. It was really horrific, not that it was such a terrifying horror film, the horror was only in the way it was made. The script, direction, editing, dialogue and acting were simply pathetic, yet I can’t boo the film because it worked quite well as an unintentional bizarre comedy. I almost laughed my head off watching certain scenes. For example, when a guy desperately jumps out of a window and the manikin's arm falls off on impact, it’s just priceless. If you add the obviously fake "tattoos," the masks of the undead and a chest cut open with a scalpel to take the heart our, it’s hard not to laugh. Alexandra Delli Colli had the expression of someone undergoing a painful colonoscopy the entire time, but then again, she was also willing to appear in nude scenes typical of these Italian B-movies. The scene with the skull opening and bodypainting follow one another other perfectly, that was really something… (16/04/2020)

If you're a fan of bad movies, you'll be thoroughly entertained. The direction is terrible in an Ed Wood kind of way, the dialogues are hammy, the performances are awful (in this respect the black actor with the artistic name Dakar stands out, in Fulci's Zombi 2 he plays the doctor's assistant Lucas, here he plays the same character, this time called Moloto). The gore effects aren't bad, there are plenty and you don't have to wait long for them. Otherwise, the resemblance to Fulci's Zombi 2 is striking: the same main characters, two women and two men, a blonde and a bearded man, the same weird doctor and his black assistant (Dakar yay!), a similar script, filmed in the exact same location, which is not surprising, given that the same producers and the same make-up and special effects artists worked on it. All in all, it was so bad that I had a pretty good time with it. More than Fulci's "little brother", although the latter is of course two orders of magnitude higher in terms of filmmaking. (22/09/2003)