Hell of the Living Dead (1980)

Original title

Virus

Directed by

Claudio Fragasso, Bruno Mattei

Genre

horror film, science fiction film, cannibal film, zombie film

Country

Italy, Spain

Runtime

1h 29m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 152 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A chemical leak at a Papua New Guinea lab creates zombies. A French news crew arrives to investigate and tries to survive.

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What happens

Hell of the Living Dead (Italian: Virus) is a 1980 horror film directed by Bruno Mattei (credited as Vincent Dawn). The film is set in a laboratory in Papua New Guinea that releases a dangerous chemical, turning the technicians and locals into zombies. A French news reporter (Margit Evelyn Newton) and her crew land on the island to investigate. Hell of the Living Dead was a project developed by producers and given to director Bruno Mattei, who attempted to create a film similar to 1978's Dawn of the Dead but lighter in tone. It was shot in five weeks in Spain with a script that was not Mattei's first choice and a score by the band Goblin, taken from other film scores that the band had performed. The film generally received negative reviews, noting bad dialogue and being derivative of Dawn of the Dead. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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