Hell of the Living Dead
Hell of the Living Dead is a 1980 film from Spain and Italy, directed by Bruno Mattei and Claudio Fragasso, running 89 minutes. reelscum files it under zombie.
- Year
- 1980 · 1980s films
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Director
- Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (39/100)
- Also known as
- Zombie Creeping Flesh · Zombi 4 · Night of the Zombies · Hell of the Living Dead
- Banned in
- UK
Defined in the glossary: Zombie
A DPP video nasty as Zombie Creeping Flesh, padded out with stock mondo documentary footage.
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.
Filed alongside
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Shock Waves
Underwater Nazi zombies rise off a tropical island. Peter Cushing, John Carradine, and real dread.
A Virgin Among the Living Dead
Franco at his dreamiest. Distributors added zombies later without telling him.
Tombs of the Blind Dead
Eyeless Templars on skeletal horses in slow motion. Best monster design of the 70s.
Zombie Holocaust
Cannibals and zombies at once, reusing the Zombi 2 sets and cast.
Return of the Evil Dead
Blind Dead again, this time besieging a whole village. The best of the four.
Cannibal Apocalypse
Vietnam veterans as cannibals. Sillier and kinder than the jungle cycle.
Nightmare City
Zombies that run and use guns, decades early. Incompetent in enjoyable ways.
Burial Ground
Incoherent even by the standards of the cycle. The Peter subplot is unforgivable.
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Spanish-Italian, shot in England, and much smarter than its stablemates.
Cemetery Man
A cemetery caretaker shoots the returning dead and falls in love repeatedly. Beautiful and deranged.
Night of the Seagulls
The Blind Dead ride out one last time. A quiet, sad closer to Spain's best monster series.