Doctor Butcher M.D.

1982 "He's a depraved, homicidal killer...and he makes house calls!"
5.2| 1h29m| R| en
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After Malukan immigrants engage in a string of corpse mutilations at various New York City hospitals, a doctor and a morgue assistant travel to the Maluku Islands to investigate.

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Also starring Alexandra Delli Colli

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GamerTab That was an excellent one.
Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?
AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Tweetienator A classic zombie splatter fun spiced up with cannibals, boobs and a mad scientists work, Marino Girolami's "Zombi Holocaust" of 1980 is a true B-movie, pure exploitation, blood, and gore, everything the lover of bad taste craves for. On top you get these 70/80s synthie musicscore. To all the critics, everyone who watches a movie called Zombi Holocaust from the 80s and expects a fine and elaborated story-line, big production and great movie art is a lost cause himself ;)
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?
Xlyfindel This was sooooo bad. I thought it would be a bit of a campy horror flick with great (for the time) practical effects, but I was disappointed on almost all fronts. It started off promising, in a student hospital with plenty opportunity for interesting characters and exciting re-purposing of settings, but got super bland and boring almost immediately. So bad that I think I actually fell asleep sometime between some guy jumping out a window and a bunch of randos calling for help on a cannibal island. The effects were over the top, but far from being good enough to make me think watching the film was worth it. The lead actress is beautiful though, so at least one part they got right. But aside from that I really feel like I wasted my time watching this movie.
tomgillespie2002 A common occurrence with film titles, particularly in the international horror genre, is that many territories have different names - this film is on our grindhouse project list as Doctor Butcher M.D., but is also (exhaustively) known as: Island of the Last Zombie; Medical Deviate; Queen of the Cannibals; and even Zombie 3. The version of this film had the original Italian title. And boy is it a standard, generic cannibal/zombie film. After a series of strange mutilations and amputations in hospitals, a team make an expedition to the East Indies, in search of the answers to the strange ritualistic symbol left at each "murder".The film is essentially two previous Italian schlock movies, Slave of the Cannibal God (1976) and Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979), combined. The team encounter what turns out to be a "crazy" doctor who has been experimenting on the dead local cannibals, manipulating them to his power. It's not a particularly memorable inclusion into a very crowded market. There are some effective gore sequences, but it doesn't at all save a very tired, predictable, and often clumsy narrative. There is one piece of dialogue that amused me, that occurred towards the beginning of the film, after a hand has been severed and stolen from a body used for medical education. A conversation between two medical students goes as follows: Student 1: "I bet it was you who chopped that hand off". Student 2: "Why would you say that?" Student 1: "Well, didn't you say you needed a hand to help you study?"www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com