good back-story, and good acting

Absolutely Fantastic

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Quite simply the worst acting of any Italian Zombie film I've seen. From the onset the cast have a habit of staring. The gore is pretty good, but not on a par with the better known classics.

After stopping a terrorist organization, a special anti-terrorist group arrives in Guinea on vacation where they run across a reporter and her crew who are on the run from zombies created by a radioactive leak from a chemical plant and must find a way to stop the zombie outbreak.This one wasn't all that bad and is quite fun. What really makes this one so much fun is the fact that this one goes for the utterly demented and bonkers route of the Italian zombie films at the time. There are numerous sources for this, ranging from the sheer absurdity of the storyline that is carried out here to the low- budget, rushed tone. There is a pretty fair amount of action which can seem pretty nonstop, from the opening assault on the consulate, the first encounter with the zombies in an abandoned village which features plenty of good times with the slowly-approaching zombie hordes coming out of the buildings or featuring plenty of zombies advancing on them forcing the group to shoot their way out of trouble. The later village sequences are also full of action as the creatures come shambling into the area dining on the participants in huge swarms, and it gets nonstop deeper into the movie which is rather fun as this one generates plenty of fun encounters with the zombies as the increasingly desperate group is whittled down one-by- one in the jungle. There really isn't all that much when looking at the total time of stock footage used and doesn't distract from the gut-munching, the real reason for this one since the film does have some great moments of flesh-ripping which produces some good gore moments. From bites that cause blood spurts to shoot out to some nice full-body corpse devouring, the gore gets moving and flowing once the zombies get in on the action. The last plus here is that the zombies on display are quite passable with the usual rotting faces complete with large facial wounds typical for the scene. However, none of these factors can override the fact that the film is really shoddily made in most regards. Most of the film looks borrowed from other films and used as stock footage, there are shots of animals randomly thrown in to pad out the running time and on the whole, things don't make sense at all. These can all be distractions at times making them all the more obvious as to which ones are included and why they are there in the first place. Many times the animals shown aren't even in the New Guinea, and the stock footage of regular scenes are not in the slightest made to blend in with the normal film and just come off as padding, while the fact that the soldiers continually shoot the zombies full of holes despite learning in their first encounter that a headshot is an ideal way of dealing with the creatures makes them come off as incompetent more than anything. The last big flaw here is the utterly clumsy story that is way too low-budget and shoddy to have this kind of ambitious story be told throughout since this severely bungles the social commentary aspect and just comes off as too weak to really matter. These flaws really hold this one down.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity and scenes of children-in-danger.

I first watched Hell of the Living Dead on BETA tape in the 1980's and I always thought of it as a kind of snuff movie because of the gritty video and realistic gore effects (i.e. bullet wounds). Plus, experiencing this movie on a poor quality tape only adds to that effect. Watching it on streaming channels in much higher quality doesn't really eliminate the snuff aura, at least when it comes to viewing the gore in higher detail. I am very impressed with it and I'm not even that much of a gore hound. A horror movie has to entertain me on the eerie level before anything and HOTLD delivers there, especially when the focus is on a small jungle village and what is revealed to be hiding inside an abandoned laboratory. Let's just say, a certain professor knows it's lunch time. I also very much liked the scene where a little boy who was bitten by a zombie dies and comes back to life, then is shot down by heroic commandos after taking a bite out of his exhausted papa. Not many horror films are gutsy enough to mix children and violence in this manner. Also interesting is when we meet a Barbara Bush look-alike grandma ghoul and her undead kitty kat, burrowing inside of her tummy until kitty's rest is disturbed by our uniformed heroes. Very original and just plain creepy. Sure, the acting is laughable, but I think it's mostly due to the awful voice-overs. The funniest character has to be the Yanni look-alike cameraman, he alone is worth the price of admission! These characters are a hoot to observe, one must admit. So basically, this is an entertaining Italian "date night" zombie movie for those who appreciate the trashy side of horror. An underrated gross out gem that will curb your appetite for anything red and squishy.

This is definitely one of the best zombie movies ever made, its gory, it has nudity and its entertaining fun, Bruno Mattei its great again and Claudio Fragasso just makes it even better, there are different types of zombies on this movie, every extra just kinda of does their own thing, one of the truly remarkable elements in the film is its pacing with the zombies, at first you just see a couple of zombies, then it becomes a group of zombies, then a whole village, then a city and it goes on and on, there's also a sense of traveling in the film since it goes from one location to the other by the time it ends it leaves you feeling like you were on a journey, the dialog its great, Claudio wrote all the characters to be sleazy bastards with interesting pasts, its one crazy fun movie, definitely a watch for horror fans.