Old Review: Zombie Holocaust

Submitted by corwin on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 3:53pm

Zombie Holocaust is an Italian zombie horror movie from 1980. It was straight formula, with terrible happenings in New York City (and Dustin assures me it's almost always New York) leading a team of scientists to travel to the far corners of the earth, where they find zombies in the jungle. People die in gruesome ways. Exactly the kind of thing I enjoy watching, and I had a blast with this one. While sometimes awfully racist (I mean, the black character is named Molotto, which is pronounced just like "mulatto") it was in some ways ahead of its time by making the little Asian bearers the redshirts of the movie. in the 80s, it was always the black guy that was the first to die, but these days it seems to be Asians who have that role. Many of the effects were laughable, as was some of the gratuitous nudity the Italian filmmakers are so fond of, and the resolution was ludicrous as expected, but it was definitey a more entertaining pile than Doom. I didn't think it would be, and I'm glad Dustin didn't suggest we make a wager on it. In the end, this stinker gets 0.4 Bolls for not giving us enough zombies to really classify as much of a holocaust.