God-awful zombie movie that very well might be the WORST Italian horror production ever, and that's saying a lot with all those numberless "Dawn of the Dead" rip-offs and Lucio Fulci wannabes. This movie is incompetent in every possible aspect. It's so bad that it even comes close to ruining the memory of all the good movies it's inspired on! The story: a factory, strategically located in the middle of the New Guinean jungle, suffers from a complete meltdown and the poisonous gas that escapes causes the native tribes to transform into walking flesh-eating corpses. Two journalists team up with a S.W.A.T team that is sent to the jungle and together they have to kill a whole lot of zombies before they can reach the factory. Naturally, this zombie romp is extremely gory, with brutal massacres and other types of pure filth every 5 seconds. But the make-up effects are pitiful and evoke more chuckles than feelings of disgust. Inspired by the almighty "Cannibal Holocaust", director Bruno Mattei (who's my pick for Italy's worst horror director) stuffs his film with images and footage of real jungle wildlife, only here it's very misplaced and completely pointless. In all honesty, there is ONE good scene involving a child-zombie that effectively illustrates the infection and the impact of the virus on human beings. The acting is terrible and the script contains a countless amount of stupidities like, for example, a detailed course of how to properly chew tobacco. Avoid, unless you're looking for a good laugh and don't mind wasting 100 minutes of your precious life with it.
Review of Hell of the Living Dead
