Michael_Elliott Zombi Holocaust (1980) ** 1/2 (out of 4)Dr. Chandler (Ian McCulloch) and Lori (Alexandra Delli Colli) decide to try and locate a tropical island, which might hold the secrets to a couple people in New Yor City who ripped the hearts out of bodies and ate them. The group travel to the island where they eventually run into a doctor doing bizarre treatments on people.After the success of Lucio Fulci's ZOMBIE everyone in Italy was trying to cash-in on it. We got countless cannibal/zombie movies and this one here is one of the more entertaining ones. In fact, this film was released in America as DOCTOR BUTCHER, M.D. and included some new footage, a different score and theaters even passed out barf bags for those seeing it. This review is strictly for the ZOMBI HOLOCAUST version.If you're a fan of Italian horror then you know that these films aren't about stories but instead they're all about the gore. The more gore and violence you can put on the screen the more popular your film would be. There's no question that there's some great footage here ranging from body parts being chopped off to cannibals eating whatever falls out of the body after its been ripped open. There's even a great sequence where a man's eyes meets some fingers.For the most part the actors are just fine with McCulloch and Delli Colli keeping you entertained in what's going on. The tropical location makes for a good one and the recycled score is also quite good. Again, the story itself is pretty simple and stupid to say the least but we're not exactly here for that now are we?

Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki Variously known as both Zombie 2 *and* Zombie 3(!) , film begins by going from hand-hacking to autopsy footage, to pompous philosophising about "are we really any better than savages?" to more cannibals than zombies in the first few minutes of this one. Oh yes, we're watching another low budget '70s grindhouse/ cannibal/ mad doctor/ zombie flick, one of the better of its kind, actually.Body parts are being stolen from a local med school by men with a similar tattoo, a tattoo which leads investigators to Kito, Tonga, a small island chain in the south Pacific. After travelling there and hiring a boat and men, they realise their guide is scared and tries to take them to the wrong island, to avoid zombie cannibals on Kito. Film has several lulls in action early on, until about 45 minutes into the film, when eyes are gouged out and people have their insides ripped out in one of the goriest scenes in recent memory. Scenes and ideas (as well as actual footage itself) are ripped off from various other films, all piled up into a stitched-together cannibal flick masquerading as a zombie movie, with Alexandra Delli Colli Titti Fulli nude throughout the rivetingly familiar looking climax. There is something to be said of the American re-edited release of the film, amusing retitled Doctor Butcher, M.D., with its surreal (and completely irrelevant) opening insert of zombies rising from the ground, its goofball synth score, and the addition of a couple of scenes probably filmed just to pad out the film's running time in the US. But the European release has a better music score, and is more of a horror flick, and the US version is more of a cheeseball, "so bad it's good" ordeal, using footage from an unfinished New York-lensed flick to further extend the running time.And remember: "We really have nothing to worry about as long as we stay alive"

zombietackle I like this movie, i remember it like i watched it yesterday, but there's something about it that some might not like, it has a weird pacing, sort of like zombi 2, just not as good, it is gory, and the effects are very good, but it does end very abruptly, with no falling action. the alternate name for this movie is very misleading, the "dr. butcher" is not a rapist, and the only person in the film that is called a "medical deviate" dies in the first ten minutes. the people in the film do not react in any way that makes sense. "what do you do when you see a maggot infested severed human head in your bed, hours after you get to an island? ahh, who cares, it's just something the natives do." i would watch this film again, but not for the story, only for the gore. my rating: 5/10

Chase_Witherspoon What to do when your competitors are pocketing millions of lira making cannibal and zombie movies - naturally, you make an amalgam of both concepts. Disjointed attempt at fusing two cinematic themes that were at the height of their popularity at the time. Here McCulloch as a detective, fresh from escaping Fulci's "Zombie Flesh Eaters" teams up with the statuesque and immensely striking Delli Colli as an anthropologist desperate to discover why expired patients at the local morgue are being dismembered and partially consumed. Inexplicably, their investigation takes them to a remote island on which a homicidal maniac (O'Brien) is experimenting on live native specimens, with disastrous results.Gory in the extreme, but lacking the narrative continuity of its peers, "Dr Butcher" relies solely on shocks without making an effort to develop a cohesive plot line. McCulloch's character is essentially no different from "Flesh Eaters", while O'Brien often looks disconnected from the project, in stand and deliver mode, affecting his inane dialogue on cue with little emotion or interaction. Delli Colli is an impressive-looking woman (particularly sans safari suit), and director Girolami's devotion to showcasing her "attributes" is generous to say the least. Buchanan is perhaps the only other recognisable face, but her character is shallow and expendable - like most of her other filmography.There's limb severing, entrails devouring, lobotomising galore, not to mention an eye gouging scene that might promote dry reaching. Ever wondered what someone's face would look like if you force-fed it a propeller? Enquire within. You won't be left wondering why the film was deported by censors in most countries on its initial distribution, and the make-up effects it must be said, are quite disturbingly realistic at times (no surprises that Gianetto De Rossi was involved). If you salivate at the prospect of cannibals vs zombies, then this will be your cornucopia; others should heed the viewing recommendations accordingly.