Night of the Zombies

1983 "When the Creeping Dead Devour the Living Flesh!"
4.9| 1h41m| NR| en
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A rat causes a chemical leak at a Papua New Guinea research facility, leading a group of eco-terrorists to demand the closure of all facilities. When a team of Interpol commandos are enlisted to eliminate the terrorists, they find themselves embroiled in a zombie outbreak.

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Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
Cody One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.
koroxx "Virus" ("aka Hell of the living dead" or "Zombie Creeping Flesh") is a fun rip-off of "Dawn of the Dead", with also some typical stuff we can find in Italian cannibals movies, but without the cannibalism (there is a tribe in the jungle composed mostly from stock shots of "The Real Cannibal Holocaust" - aka "Nuova Guinea, l'isola dei cannibali" - and stock shots of animals from documentaries too). The director is Bruno Mattei so it's not really a big surprise, he used a lot stock shots and work done by others in his movies (for example his "Zombi: La creazione" AND "Shocking Dark" are copies of James Cameron's "Aliens"). I kinda like his movies, because most of them are really fun to watch (the "so bad it's good" kind). But for this one, I think it's just an OK movie. Funny in many scenes, but also boring in many others. There is a nice variety of zombies, some looks like the blue ones from "Dawn of the Dead", others have a more "gory" look, as in "Zombi 2" of Lucio Fulci. The characters from the Swat are fun, lot of crazy men in the team with totally irrational reactions! Unfortunately, the movie is too long, should have been cut by at least 20 minutes.
MonsterVision99 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.
callanvass Prepare yourself for nothing but negative thoughts, so if that isn't your cup of tea, I'd suggest you read reviews elsewhere. To lambaste this film simply isn't enough. How about all the musical scores it borrowed? Dawn of The Dead, Beyond The Darkness, Alien Contamination, and City of The Living Dead among others. It doesn't have a pulsing score of its own! One of the characters is even a direct carbon copy of Roger's character in Dawn of The Dead! This was around the time where Zombie films were coming out like flies. Some of them were entertaining, others were virtually unwatchable. This is one of them. The dubbing is abhorrent. We get dubious lines such as "Hold it! That's not polite! I get the first shot!" "These mothers have more lives than a cat!" It could have realized how awful it was by adding fun cheese, but it takes itself incredibly seriously with a mundane approach. We get pointless shots of animal's at the most random times which I guess Bruno Mattei (Aka. Vincent Dawn) thought would be symbolism of sorts. The abundance of scenes with characters doing inexplicably idiotic things is uncanny. Things back then weren't so prohibited, so we do see some controversial violence. A kid gets shot in the head; a tongue gets yanked out of someone's mouth while her eyeballs pop out; countless scenes of natives and zombies doing some gut munching; many, many bullet wounds. The gore is plentiful if you're a gore hound. But since the movie is so boring, you probably won't care. It's hard to describe a performance with such atrocious dubbing, but I'll give it a go. Margit Evelyn Newton is our heroine, and she does OK. She provides a lot of screaming, and a failed tough girl act in the middle of the film, but that's about it. Final Thoughts: Please, please, please! I implore you to avoid this like the plague. If you are the die hardest of Zombie fans, you still won't get any satisfaction. If you wanna check out a good zombie movie; Dawn of The Dead (remake as well) Night of The Living Dead (original) or Zombi are pretty safe choices. 1.5/10
Scott LeBrun Bruno Mattei's "Virus", a.k.a. "Hell of the Living Dead", a.k.a. "Night of the Zombies", is an agreeably gory and ridiculous Italian zombie shocker that unfortunately goes on a little too long for it to completely hit the spot, but it's packed with enough laugh out loud moments to make it consistently palatable.The story is nothing new: an accident at a chemical plant unleashes a virus that infects the recently deceased and turns them into shambling, flesh craving zombies. An elite SWAT team is hired to get to the bottom of things and they travel to New Guinea where the plant is located, hooking up with a bombshell reporter (Margit Evelyn Newton) and her cameraman, and encounter danger every step of the way."Virus" benefits from a couple of elements. First off, it's got the standard hilariously terrible vocal performances that we know we'll often get with these things. It's also got a hell of a hammy, delicious, eye rolling performance by Franco Garofalo, playing Zantoro, a member of the SWAT team who loves to taunt the zombies when he gets the chance. The goofy screenplay was co-written by Claudio Fragasso, whose credits include "Zombi 3", "The Other Hell", and..."Troll 2". It includes one hysterical, memorable sequence wherein another member of the team finds some clothing and decides the time is right for a little cross dressing, and launching into a Gene Kelly routine. The music by Goblin is great fun. Newton bares her flesh in one sequence, knowing this is one thing that the local tribe (and viewer) will appreciate. And the action is often intercut with utterly pointless - and thus very amusing - stock animal footage.It doesn't have the atmosphere of Fulci's horror films of this period, but it's a nice diversion just the same. The faithful will be satisfied if they stick with it. It would be just about impossible to resist any zombie flick where one of the last characters standing gets their face ripped apart in loving close-up.Overall, not bad.Seven out of 10.