Hades (/ ˈ h eɪ d iː z /; Greek: ᾍδης Hádēs; Ἅιδης Háidēs), in the ancient Greek religion and myth, is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld, with which his name became synonymous. Cheap, dubbed, and possessing minimal coherence. 'Fear in the city of the living dead') is a 1980 Italian supernatural horror film co-written and directed by Lucio Fulci.It stars Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo de Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Daniela Doria, Fabrizio Jovine, and Janet Agren. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. But when they … Virus: Hell of the Living Dead ( Italian: Virus - l'inferno dei morti viventi) is a 1980 horror film, specifically a zombie movie, directed by Bruno Mattei. A woman goes back to the island where her parents were killed. There are these lazy, extended struggles with zombies where a bunch of guys just stand back and watch nervously. With the woman is a ... See full summary ». An archaeology professor discovers an ancient crypt which contains living dead corpses. There’s a great scene where the “good guys” look around in … The movie was released as an attempt to capitalize on the successes of George A. Romero’s ‘Dawn of the Dead‘ (1978) and Lucio Fulchi’s ‘Zombi 2‘ (1979) that left an audience hungry for more zombie films. The film generally received negative reviews, noting bad dialogue and its obvious derivation of 1978's Dawn of the Dead. Mentally unstable Vietnam vets who were held captive by the Vietcong come back to America after being rescued carrying a dangerous virus that turns people into cannibals when bitten. This leads to a series of grim events, including several supernatural zombies. Directed by Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso. Great gobs of gore to wipe away my care and every trace of mainstream movie madness! Here's why I liked Virus: all the ridiculousness adds together to form a fascinating and impossibly cohesive whole. A French news reporter (Margit Evelyn Newton) and her crew land on the island to investigate. [5] The film was Mattei's first to be made under the name Vincent Dawn, a request made specifically by the film's Spanish production side. In the depths of Papua New Guinea, "Hope Centers" work to help feed impoverished nations - or so they claim. [13] Mattei was a fan of their music and secured rights to it for the film through Carlo Bizio. Hell of the Living Dead. 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. The best GIFs are on GIPHY. Hell of the Living Dead, also known as Night of the Zombies or Zombie Creeping Flesh, is a 1980 zombie exploitation film by Bruno Mattei and Claudio Fragasso. Hell of the Living Dead (Italian: Virus - l'inferno dei morti viventi) is a 1980 horror film directed by Bruno Mattei. While stopping at a native village, they encounter several flesh-eating zombies. The film follows a priest whose hanging opens a gateway to hell that releases the undead, where a psychic and a reporter team up to close it before All … The living will suffer again if trapped into watching. [7] Fragasso felt there had been several zombie films made recently, and wanted to do something different after watching Dawn of the Dead suggesting the film would be like Soylent Green as well as envisioning the film as "an undead epic, a kind of Apocalypse Now". Heaven help anyone who makes the mistake of taking Hell of the Living Dead seriously. 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 Dawn of the Dead but lighter in tone. Hell of the Living Dead is irreverent and nonsensical, throwing in everything from a political motive for the zombies (an attempt to wipe out the citizens of third world countries), stock footage of native ceremonies, and gratuitous breast shots. There is a chemical leak at a factory, inept scientists scurrying around, and a … The film is set in a laboratory in Papua New Guinea that releases a dangerous chemical, turning the technicians and locals into zombies. Technically, Vincent Dawn (aka Bruno Mattei) spewed forth an abortion with Night of the Zombies. Virus has helped me get more work. The simple beauty of the animal stock footage provides a startling contrast to the bleakness it surrounds.I don't mean you have to watch it like it's T. S. Eliot and analyze everything you see for meaning. One of the greatest Italian Horror films of the 80's. Title: Three friends set out to disprove cannibalism on a trip to the Amazonian jungle, where they meet two men trying to escape a vicious cannibal tribe. 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. [10] The film includes stock footage to suggest that the film was set in New Guinea. The film is also known as Virus (which is the original Italian title of the film), as well as Night of the Zombies and Zombie Creeping Flesh. Of course, a leak develops, spreading throughout the plant. At once I was aware of heat, and smoke, and monstrous sulfur-smell. Of course, a leak develops, spreading throughout the plant. After an experiment gone wrong, a virus that turns people into zombies spreads throughout New Guinea, whilst a female reporter and her cameraman and a team of four commandos sent to investigate try to survive the onslaught. There's a laziness to everything that gives the film an appropriate sense of inevitability. An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They run into a TV news crew led by celebrity reporter Lia, who are after the same story, but when they discover that the entire country has been overrun by zombies, what are the chances of them getting the message across? You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. The terrorists demand the closing of all the Hope Centers, which both the government and the military deny exist. Workers are turned into arm-flailing zombies, feasting upon the living like bloody pot pies! [11] Fragasso commented on the use of stock footage in the film as producers wanted to reuse footage they had, which led to Mattei adding footage of a documentary New Guinea, Island of Cannibals into the film. Apocalipsis Canibal; Night of the Zombies; Zombie Creeping Flesh 1983Staff of a scientific research center are killed and then resurrected as cannibals who prey on the living. An entire village is attacked by the undead, leaving blood and guts and body parts everywhere. Search, discover and share your favorite Hell Of The Living Dead GIFs. From Wings to Parasite, here's a look back at all of the Best Picture Oscar winners in the history of the ceremony. Hell of the Living Dead (Italian: Virus - l'inferno dei morti viventi) is a 1980 Italian-Spanish low-budget horror film, inspiried by Dawn of the Dead, and directed by Bruno Mattei. From audiotaped notes and papers left behind in the lab's research offices, Rousseau learns that the chemical, codenamed "Operation Sweet Death", had been intended to curb the Third World population by driving it to prey on each other. How well did this film do in the United States as "Night of the Zombie" [7] The production had this footage from the beginning of shooting the film and had rebuilt some of the locations from the stock footage in Spain, where the film was shot. (Actually, there was one scene in Virus that I thought was really funny. [3] Mattei planned to make a film inspired by 1978's Dawn of the Dead, but wanted a lighter tone for the film. I saw a crowd of dead-eyed people there, a throng disdained by Heaven as by Hell, … The film generally received a negative reviews. [14] Fragasso stated that the music was from other films and from their album Roller as Goblin were too expensive at the time to get for an original score. Section heading. They had been working on a cure for cancer and accidentally raised the dead by angering a voodoo priest. Most of the heroes are soldiers, and there's an officer, but they are all equally helpless and profoundly "alone." Welcome friends to The Hell of the Living Dead! A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves. Land of the Living Dead Lyrics: I see them all around me / You must see them too / Choose your path with care or you become a victim of the fools / Mind your step watch where you tread / … HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD (1980)/RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR (1984) Blu-ray Director: Bruno Mattei (as Vincent Dawn) Blue Underground . Once the mission is completed, the team loses contact with Hope Center #1. Heaven help anyone who makes the mistake of taking Hell of the Living Dead seriously. 1980’s Hell of the Living Dead (Virus: L’inferno dei morti viventi) is an obvious rip-off of George Romero’s genre-changing works Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Dawn of the Dead (1978), right down to the illegal use of Goblin’s Dawn soundtrack. 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