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Ian McCulloch (Zombie, Alien Contamination) plays Peter Chandler, who together w/ the lovely Dr. Lori Ridgeway (Alexandra Delli Colli), assembles a team to venture to the remote island of Quito in order to find a mysterious cannibal cult. Much nudity ensues since Dr. Ridgeway can't seem to keep her clothes on for very long at all. Oh yeah, there are about 20 hungry cannibals running around as well. These pesky natives begin turning Chandler's party into dinner right away by stabbing, gouging, and disemboweling them. There are also a handful of zombies wandering about. What purpose they serve is uncertain, as the cannibal tribe causes all the bloody mayhem. The zombies spend most of their screen-time lumbering aimlessly through the jungle, while making strange grunting sounds. So, the zombies just aren't all that frightening. This movie does have a mad scientist performing insidious experiments on the island. So, we get to witness some unnecessary (very unrealistic) brain surgery in the bush. ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST is a gorehündts dream! Blood pours and sprays, hearts are torn (rather easily) from chest cavities, and various other organs are messily devoured! Oh my! While not as serious as ZOMBIE, ZH has moments of gut-slinging abandon that rival movies like CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD in their audacity! I'm not a big gore fan, but I found enough to enjoy in this film to recommend it to fellow horror maniacs...

This is a very misleading name.

There is no "holocaust" of zombies, unless you consider a group of 4 shuffling zombies a holocaust.

This move should be called Cannical Holocaust...With Zombies, because that is exactly what it is. Although Cannibal Holocaust isn't a grand movie, it is still actually better than this title, which is attempting to rip it off in a way.

Back in the late 70's/early 80's, zombie films and cannibal films were making big money. Zombie Holocaust is a lame attempt to cash in on BOTH genres at the same time by throwing zombies in what is basically a cannibal/mondo movie.

But the most important fact here: this movie just isn't that great. It is boring, with bad acting, bad zombies, silly tribal cannibals and people somehow managing to get eaten by cannibals who barely comprehend something as complicated as the wheel.

Your money would be better spend elsewhere