Italy, 1979
84m
35mm film, Technicolor, 1.85:1
mono, Italian
Reviewed at The EOFFTV Review
An Italian horror film directed by Marino Girolami using the pseudonym Frank Martin.
Plot Summary
An anthropologist and medical doctor investigate the mysterious island of Kito where they find a mad scientist performing experiments on the local cannibal tribe that turn them into zombies.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Frank Martin [real name: Marino Girolami]
© [not given on screen]
Floria Film, S.r.l., Fulvia Film, S.r.l., Gico Cinematografica, S.r.l.
Produced by: Gianfranco Couyoumdjian and Fabrizio De Angelis
Screenplay by: Romano Scandariato
Based on an idea by Fabrizio De Angelis
Director of Photography: Fausto Zuccoli
Film Editor: Alberto Moriani
Music by: Nico Fidenco
Sound Recordist: Alfonso Montesanti
Costumes by: Silvana Scandariato
Make-up and Special Effects: Maurizio Trani
Hairstylist: Giancarlo Marin
Production Designer: Walter Patriarca
Filmed on location and at In.Cir. De Polis Studios, Rome
Cast
Ian McCulloch [Dr Peter Chandler]
Alexandra Delli Colli [Lori Ridgeway]
Sherry Buchanan [Susan Kelly]
Peter O’Neal [George Harper]
Donald O’Brien [Dr Obrero]
Dakar [Molotto]
Walter Patriarca [Dr Drydock]
Linda Fumis [nurse]
Roberto Resta
Franco Ukmar [zombie]
Giovanni Ukmar [driver]
Angelo Ragusa [zombie]
Alternative Titles
Anthropophage Holocaust: La Terreur des Zombies – French DVD title
Cementerio de los zombies – Mexican title
Doctor Butcher M.D. – alternative US title
Doctor Butcher – alternative US title
Dr. Butcher M.D. – alternative US title
Dr. Butcher, M.D. – Finnish title
Dr. Butcher, Medical Deviate – US video title
Förintelsen – Swedish title
Holocausto de los Zombies – Venezuelan title
Holocausto Zombi – alternative Spanish title
Island of the Last Zombies
To olokaftoma ton zombi – Greek video title
La regina dei Cannibali – alternative title
La terreur des zombies – French title
Zombi Holocausto – Portuguese title
Zombi Holocausto – Spanish title
Zombi holokauszt – Hungarian title
Zombi: Anthropofagoi sti Nea Yorki – Greek title
Zombie 3 – US title
Zombie Death Cult – German DVD title
Zombie Holocaust – Dutch, UK, US title
Zombie Holocausto – Brazilian theatrical title
Zombie Inferno – German Swiss title
Zombie-massakren – Danish title
Zombies Cannibal Ferox – West German title
Zombies unter Kannibalen – West German title
Ζόμπι: Ανθρωποφάγοι στη Νέα Υόρκη – Greek title
Το ολοκαύτωμα των ζόμπι – Greek title
Ад зомби – Soviet Russian title
Остров зомби – Soviet Russian title
Links
Includes extracts from
Zombi 2 (1979)
Extracts included in
42nd Street Forever: Blu-ray Edition (2012)
Blood of the Zombies: Interview with FX Master Rosario Prestopino (2016)
The Butcher Mobile (2016)
Butchery & Ballyhoo (2016)
Cutting Doctor Butcher (2016)
Down on the Deuce: Nostalgic Tour of 42nd Street (2016)
Filmmaker Enzo Castellari Remembers His Father Director Marino Girolami (2016)
Grindhouse Universe (2008)
Neurosurgery Italian Style (2016)
Sherry Holocaust: Interview with Actress Sherry Buchanan (2016)
Voodoo Man: Interview with Star Ian McCulloch (2016)
Zombie Holocaust: New York Filming Locations Then vs. Now (2016)
References
Periodicals
- British Board of Film Censors Monthly List August 1983 – note
- Fangoria no.215 (August 2002) p.66 – illustrated DVD review (DVD Dungeon: Zombie Holocaust by Christine Allen)
- Foreign Sales, Italian Movie Trade vol.5 no.12 (December 1979) p.20 – credits
- The Hollywood Reporter vol.272 no.5 (1 June 1982) p.23 – credits, review
- Sight & Sound vo.11 no.3 (March 2001) p.66 – video review (Homemovies: reviews: premiere releases by Danny Leigh and Geoffrey Macnab)
- Starburst no.272 (April 2001) p.74 – illustrated video review (Videofile by Ian Atkins)
- Variety 5 May 1982 pp.21, 24 – credits, review
Books
- Euro Gothic: Classics of Continental Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.368-69, 383
- Horror and Science Fiction Films III by Donald C. Willis p.75-76 – credits
- Italian Horror 1979-1994 by Jim Harper pp.210-212 – illustrated credits, review
- Zombie by Allan Bryce (ed) pp.14-27; 88-107 – illustrated article (Morti viventi: Zombies Italian-style by Alan Jones); illustrated article (The gross-out factor by Adrian Luther-Smith)
- The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia by Peter Dendle p.60 – credits, review
