Margit Evelyn Newton, Franco Garofalo, Selan Karay

A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a four-man commando unit in the New Guinea jungle whom are fighting flesh-eating zombies.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 41 min.

Directed by: Bruno Mattei

Release Date: December 31, 1981

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DVD Release Date: March 29, 2005

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  • September 3, 2009
    Hell of the Living Dead is a gory Zombie flick that's actually very good. The gore is brutal and the action is great, the music from Dawn of the Dead was nice since that's one of my other favourite Zombie flicks, the S.W.A.T uniform was identical to the S.W.A.T uniform in Dawn of...( read more) the Dead.

    The stock footage is interesting since some of them doesn't have any plot like a monkey jumping to a tree or a group of fruit bats flying about but Bruno Mattei explained on the interview that the stock footage was used to make it seem more like the New Guinea jungle, the footage of the tribe had a plot to the film since they was in the village with them.

    The Zombie make up was good and looked effective, the whole singing in the rain bit was a laugh especially when the Zombies get him. Hell of the Living Dead (Zombie Creeping Flesh, Virus, Night of the Zombie) is a great low budget gory Zombie film that does not disappoint on the violence, check this one out.
  • March 29, 2008
    terrible in the fun but shit sence.
  • September 18, 2006
    Pure trash, with no redeeming social values at all. It also rips off Goblin music from a number of films, to boot. You got to admit, it has nerve.
  • February 15, 2009
    Arguably placed amongst the delicious buffets of the zombie massacres of early 80's,the screaming heralds or/and the aggravating,conscientious ecological matters remove the gory element.The bare necessities as they are,enjoyable anyhow.
  • February 4, 2007
    Wonderful film that I must have rented 20 different times under it's various titles before the DVD release. It was a pleasant surprise every time. Hard not to enjoy.
  • October 5, 2009
    The dead are coming back to life & are ready to munch on you. Borrows heavily from Romero's dead series even lifting the commando unit from Dawn & using the music of Goblin. If you're a fan of zombies you could do much worse (even if this entry is sorta stupid). The zombies ar...( read more)e menacing & take nice big gory bites of their victims & there is even a little maggot eating to put you off your chowder
  • March 28, 2009
    Wow. This movie is unbelievably stupid.It's also extremly gory,so who cares? It's an Itailian zombie flik,whadda you want? CITIZEN KANE? Recommended for fans of euro gore junk.
  • March 15, 2009
    zombie creeping flesh
    One...( read more) of the better Italian zombie flicks. I enjoyed it more then Lucio Fulci's zombie flicks. Like other italian zombie movies the film is set mostly in africa and the zombie is explained by voodoo with dodgily real tribe footage, dead body footage which is confusing what is real, stock and staged. The same zombie rules apply, zombies are afriad of fire and only shots to the head can kill them, and this film has some great head shots! The most memorable thing about this movie is the use of Dawn of the Dead (Goblin) music, and music from the film Contamination. Even the tall crazy long haired specail officer and the midget guy with blonde hair look alot like Peter and Roger from George Romero's DOTD. The dubbing in this movie is great, but there is some scenes which are hilarious such as the puke scenes and the dubbing for the african people at the converence scene which don't have African voices but Australian,British and grouchy American accents! The scene where the cat burtst from the old lady zombies stomach is odd, they shouldn't have added that, just plain weird. The cheesie gore right at the end was like something you'd see in The Dead Next Door. I noticed this movie seems longer then other zombie movies. Some of the music is fitting, but some of it isnt. Oh last note we got the Troll 2 director working on this movie Claudio Fragasso aka Drako Floyd.
  • February 15, 2009
    Good Italian zombie movie by the late Bruno Mattei. A rip-off of George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978)
  • December 3, 2008
    Don't expect something groundbreaking when you watch this film. Hell of the Living Dead is good clean fun. Hell is a Dawn of the Dead rip-off, the SWAT team members have identical outfits to the ones in Dawn and it even has the same Goblin soundtrack that Dawn used. Hell's zombie...( read more)s don't act like it, they can climb through windows, open doors to get inside a car while it is in motion and even move out of the car's way. Hell does manage to put a smile on your face with it's bad dubbing, terrible acting and even worse unrealistic gore. All imperfections aside, Hell has the best quote in a zombie film when an onlooker claimed the zombies were just drunk. You will not be disappointed with this film, it is so bad that it's good.

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