- Year
- 1980
- Country
- Spain · Italy
- Runtime
- 101 min
- Director
- Bruno Mattei
- Updated
- 9 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (39/100)
- Also known as
- Zombie Creeping Flesh · Zombi 4 · Night of the Zombies · Hell of the Living Dead
Hell of the Living Dead
Bruno Mattei rips off Dawn of the Dead with a Goblin score he also stole. Gloriously shameless.
Bruno Mattei's cheerfully plagiaristic zombie film, which reuses Goblin's Dawn of the Dead score without permission and pads its running time with stock nature-documentary footage. A chemical leak at a New Guinea facility raises the dead, and a commando team and a reporter wade through the carnage.
It is incompetent in ways that are entertaining, a greatest-hits compilation of other, better films. For connoisseurs of Italian zombie trash it is an essential low point.
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Written about
- Gut-munchers: the Italian zombie boom, 1979 to 1983
There was no first one. Argento recut Romero, Fulci forged the sequel, and Italy spent four years feeding the British censors.
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