Zombies unter Kannibalen

Eines geht mir ständig durch den Kopf – dieser Film wurde im gleichen Jahr wie Fulcis Woodoo - Die Schreckensinsel der Zombies und Deodatos Nackt und zerfleischt gedreht. Es handelt sich nämlich um einen Klon von beiden Drehbüchern, ergänzt durch das Thema eines verrückten Wissenschaftlers, der sich auf einer geheimnisvollen Insel mit der Herstellung von humanoiden Zombies (à la Die Insel des Dr. Moreau) beschäftigt. Dazu eine sexy Blondine, die sich ständig und überall auszieht, ein Held im Stil von Harrison Ford/Belmondo und eine Menge Gore mit vielen Details. Es ist auch nicht schlecht, Kannibalen und Zombies zusammen in einem Film zu sehen! Als italienischer Trash-Film ist Zombies unter Kannibalen unwiderstehlich. Brutal, ungewollt lächerlich und mit typischen Sexszenen. Falls Sie dieses Genre lieben und die Attraktivität von solchen Filmen nach der Frequenz der doofen Dialoge, dem Niveau der Fürchterlichkeit der Musik und der Anzahl der Liter von Blut, der Zombies und der Kannibalen beurteilen, sind Sie hier richtig. (24.01.2003)

If I were to describe the film in one word, I would probably go for inane. It was really horrific, not that it was such a terrifying horror film, the horror was only in the way it was made. The script, direction, editing, dialogue and acting were simply pathetic, yet I can’t boo the film because it worked quite well as an unintentional bizarre comedy. I almost laughed my head off watching certain scenes. For example, when a guy desperately jumps out of a window and the manikin's arm falls off on impact, it’s just priceless. If you add the obviously fake "tattoos," the masks of the undead and a chest cut open with a scalpel to take the heart our, it’s hard not to laugh. Alexandra Delli Colli had the expression of someone undergoing a painful colonoscopy the entire time, but then again, she was also willing to appear in nude scenes typical of these Italian B-movies. The scene with the skull opening and bodypainting follow one another other perfectly, that was really something… (16.04.2020)

If you're a fan of bad movies, you'll be thoroughly entertained. The direction is terrible in an Ed Wood kind of way, the dialogues are hammy, the performances are awful (in this respect the black actor with the artistic name Dakar stands out, in Fulci's Zombi 2 he plays the doctor's assistant Lucas, here he plays the same character, this time called Moloto). The gore effects aren't bad, there are plenty and you don't have to wait long for them. Otherwise, the resemblance to Fulci's Zombi 2 is striking: the same main characters, two women and two men, a blonde and a bearded man, the same weird doctor and his black assistant (Dakar yay!), a similar script, filmed in the exact same location, which is not surprising, given that the same producers and the same make-up and special effects artists worked on it. All in all, it was so bad that I had a pretty good time with it. More than Fulci's "little brother", although the latter is of course two orders of magnitude higher in terms of filmmaking. (22.09.2003)