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Dr. Peter Chandler
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Alexandra Delli Colli | ... |
Lori Ridgeway
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Susan Kelly
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Peter O'Neal | ... |
George Happer
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Donald O'Brien | ... |
Dr. Obrero /
Dr. Butcher (US version)
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Dakar | ... |
Molotto
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Walter Patriarca | ... |
Dr. Drydock
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Linda Fumis | ... |
Med Student #1
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Franco Ukmar | ... |
Zombie #1
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Giovanni Ukmar | ... |
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Angelo Ragusa | ... |
Zombie #3
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The members of an expedition in search for the last faithful of Kito, the cannibal god, land on a small island in the Moluccas (East Indies) and are soon hunted by cannibals and zombies, these being created by a sinister Doctor O'Brien who is experimenting with corpses. Suzan, a sexy lady in the expedition team, eventually takes a hold on things, as she is accepted as queen of the cannibals, and direct them against the mad scientist and his army of zombies. Written by Artemis-9
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He's a depraved, homicidal killer...and he makes house calls! See more »Genres:
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Country:
ItalyRelease Date:
7 May 1982 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Dr. Butcher M.D. See more »Company Credits
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Med Student 2: Why would you say that?
Med Student 1: Well, didn't you say you needed "a hand" to help you study?
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In the catch the mutilator hospital scene, the corpse that has just had its heart ripped out blinks. See more »Quotes
Med Student 1: I bet it was you who chopped that hand off!Med Student 2: Why would you say that?
Med Student 1: Well, didn't you say you needed "a hand" to help you study?
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Another film known by many names (eight, to be precise, that IMDB has been able to track down), Zombi Holocaust is probably best known by American cult-film devotees as Dr. Butcher, MD. I ended up picking this one up because there are a rather large number of crossovers with Lucio Fulci's brilliant splatterfest Zombie-- writer Fabrizio DeAngelis was one of the producers of Fulci's film, male lead Ian McCulloch was the lead in Zombie, character actor Dakkar plays a native guide in both, etc. (Most interesting, one of the film's actors, Walter Patriarca, was Zombie's costume designer. Go figger.)
Simple plot, which should sound familiar to anyone who's seen Fulci's film; a number of deaths occur in New York City, and Ian McCollouch, a beautiful sidekick, and two of their pals end up going to a remote Caribbean island where there's an English-speaking doctor who treats the natives. Sound familiar?
For about the first forty-five minutes of this film, I was too busy thinking that it was exactly like Zombie to be impressed. (No one, these days, is sure which film came out first, and most people also draw parallels to another classic of the genre that came out the same year, Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust.) Then Ian McCollouch disposes of a zombie with a motorboat motor, and suddenly things started getting a whole lot more fun. Rather like The Evil Dead, this is a film where there's a whole lot of setup (though Raimi pulled it off miles better), but when the gore starts, the director lays it on thick, fast, and ugly. And while death-by-propeller is probably the funniest and nastiest scene in the film, there's certainly more than enough blood flowing/spraying/dripping/being drunk/etc. to please most fans of hardcore horror. Pound for pound, though, in comparison to Zombie, the latter stands up as the better film. As one reviewer put it, "Fulci... might have had the sauce, but [he] passed on the cheese." Fulci's obsessive attention to detail, better scriptwriting, and stunning score give Fulci the edge over Girolami. But man, it's fun to be the judge. ***