Taking the `gorier-than-thou' approach to horror, director "Frank Martin" (aka Italian helmer Marino Girolami) strands some city folk on a remote island with an ethnically mixed population. In other words, they've got to dodge cannibals and a mad doctor as well as the zombies.
DVD Extras:
Deleted scene, stills gallery, poster art, three trailers, filmographies.In America, it was retitled Dr Butcher MD (Medical Deviate), and in Italy, they'd recognise some of the footage from a flick called Queen Of The Cannibals. Previously banned in the UK, Zombie Holocaust crawls out of the archives like a maggot from the nostril of a rotting corpse. This version is stomach-churningly complete: if the length (81 minutes) looks short, it's because a dull five-minute episode has been snipped (it's in the extras).
Verdict:
Low on real frights, high on munched intestines, this one is more offal than awful.
