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

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I am only mentioning these things as the immediately stood out to me as looking wrong the first time i watched it. I thought it could be my setup but if that is the case why is this the only disc that i have where i have noticed it?

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). was an interesting year in the world of horror films. The cannibal subgenre was building up steam, expanding on the previously released Ultimo Mondo Cannibale and The Mountain of the Cannibal God with Cannibal Apocalypse, Cannibal Holocaust, and Eaten Alive all hitting the big screen that year. At the same time, capitalizing on George Romero’s success with Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, zombie films were gaining popularity as well, especially in Italy, with Fulci giving us City of the Living Dead and Zombie and Girolami delivering Zombie Holocaust. Meanwhile, Bruno Mattei had just gotten his filmmaking career started and was about to start churning out the exploitation: 1980 saw him release a sex-based mondo film, a nunsploitation film, a hardcore adult film, and a zombie movie with hints of the cannibal film influence, Hell of the Living Dead.Hostage Situation: A group of terrorists take hostage of Consulate, demanding closure of the Hope Centers. Co-directed by Bruno Mattei and Claudio Fragasso, architect of the infamously bad 'Troll 2,' the movie is hilariously plagued by various other distractions. Working under the pseudonym Vincent Dawn and co-written by Hervé Piccini, the story supposedly takes place over two centuries after nuclear war but everyone and everything remains trapped in 1984, from the clothing and hair to the technology. A computer the size of a living room with a 12-inch monitor is nothing more than a wall of buttons, and a rotary pay phone still stands intact on a sidewalk. Even funnier is that these relatively young characters actually know what these devices are and how to use them. One Hare Krishna dude spews encyclopedia-like verbiage as if comically adding another futuristic air. Altogether, however, it makes for a fun time with a side-splitting twist at the conclusion. (Movie Rating: 3/5) Rousseau and London's men battle their way to a beach, escape by raft, and finally arrive at Hope Center #1, where they find all of the workers either dead or roaming the facility as zombies. The zombies kill Max and Zantoro and infect London. Rousseau and Vincent learn about the experimental chemical accidentally released, which is causing the zombie infestation. Rousseau theorizes that the chemical, codenamed "Operation Sweet Death", has been invented to curb the Third World population by driving it into eating each other. She vows to tell the world, but a horde of zombies – including their now zombified comrades – close in and devour the last survivors of the team. Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie.

And yes, it's AWESOME for those of us who sift through the detritus of the horror genre looking for that little gem that makes us retch and laugh at the same time.

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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. The story takes place somewhere in New Guinea where a research facility called "Hope" is developing some type of chemical that accidentally leaks out thanks to an infected rat turning most of the scientist into flesh eating zombies and the others into their happy meals. Meanwhile, somewhere else, a team of trigger happy commandos are sent to stop a group of environmental terrorist that have taken hostage an American Embassy, I think it was the American Embassy, and are demanding that all the Hope facilities be shutdown. The team storms the embassy eliminating the entire terrorists without much effort but not before the leader of the group says his last prophetic words about them being devoured or something like that. Then that same team of commandos is sent to New Guinea where they meet a group of reporters investigating, God knows what. There they find that the world has been overrun by zombies as they make their way to the Hope facility to find the answer of this Virus. The soldiers know the zombies can only be killed by a head shot, yet steadfastly refuse to do this simple thing.

I sort of understand what you say which is why i made it clear they are phone images but i have tried it HDR on, Dolby vision on and off and it looks just about the same all ways - the 88 blu ray also looks the same as the 4k colour wise so why would that also look the same as I would have thought that HDR would not affect the colour on the blu ray? Why would the Blue Underground blu ray look completely different to the 88 films one playing them on the same setup and why would the colour on the trailer that is on the 88 films blu ray look different to the colour on the film itself on the same blu ray? An entertaining movie that's filled with cheesy gore effects and bad acting. Even if this wasn't in dubbed English, the acting would still have been bad. Bruno Mattei is an average film maker at best, but he does created a watchable movie. Music by Zombie. After an experiment gone wrong, a virus that turns people into zombies spreads throughout New Guinea. A female reporter and her cameraman, and a team of four commandos sent to investigate try to survive the onslaught.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] But ignore the plot and don't sweat the minor details leading to a gorily sensational conclusion. What makes the film, which cult enthusiasts also know as 'Zombie Creeping Flesh,' such an awesomely crap-tastic horror feature are the characters' absurdly asinine behavior and the hysterically lame justifications for them. Most memorable, as well as overtly sexist, is the dumbest excuse for Newton's Lia to expose her breast. And there is absolutely no narrative reason for this other than to simply relieve the actress of her blouse, made all the more absurd when Mattei's camera suddenly pushes in for a close-up, like she were Superman. Topping off the entertainingly oblivious badness is the unauthorized use of Goblin's music, making this a wonderfully memorable "so-bad-it's-good" cult piece. (Movie Rating: 3/5) Break the Cutie: Lia, the journalist, after finding out that developed nations had created the zombie plague to thin out the populations of Third World Countries. 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. From the infamous Terminator II in 1989, the brilliantly rubbish Cruel Jaws in 1995 to stepping into Lucio Fulci’s shoes on Zombi 3 in 1988 when the great director fell ill, Mattei has long been a purveyor of cinematic tat. And add in Fragasso’s own solo contributions which include the legendary Troll 2, this not-so-dream team of bargain basement Italian genre fare have been delighting fans for decades. And while both toiled away in the 70s on a handful of ‘women in prison’ movies, this 1980 zombie effort is perhaps the start of the long-line in beautifully charming horror dime store disasters that they produced throughout the next two decades. And if you’re going to rip off a zombie film, there’s only really one place to start…

When I first saw this movie on Cinemax nearly 20 years ago, I thought it was very gory and scary. Having seen it again just recently, it's still gory, but it is quite possibly the worst movie ever. I'm convinced it would draw ridicule from Ed Wood. Yet, I can't help but watch this without laughing. Yes, it's bad, but it really is so bad it's good, as it actually feels more like a parody of the living dead than the zombie movie it wants to be. A perfect example of this is when a commando finds a ballerina outfit, and decides to put it on. Yes, you read that right. Also, the gore effects are actually pretty damn good, especially a bit involving both a torn out tongue and gouged out eyes. Hell of the Living Dead (also known as Night of the Zombies, Virus, or Zombie Creeping Flesh) is a 1980 Italian-Spanish zombie horror film written by Claudio Fragasso and directed by Bruno Mattei.Kill the Poor: The zombies are the product of a cruel experiment by a secret cabal of the elite to cull the population of the third world by releasing chemicals that will cause the impoverished to eat each other alive.