10 Zombie Films Livelier Than Fear The Walking Dead

Sure, there are better movies than Zombie Holocaust, but they don’t feature a “brilliant” female scientist with degrees in medicine, anthropology and gratuitous nudity or a mad scientist who says, “I could easily kill you now – but I’m determined to have your brain!”

On a Caribbean island lurks Dr Obrero (Donald O’Brien), one of those B-movie boffins seeking the key to eternal life, and if he accidentally creates a few zombies, well, who’s to know? Unfortunately for him, journalist Ian McCulloch has just arrived on the island, eager to learn how someone operating out of a hut could hope to “traverse a new frontier in science.”

Combining elements of Italian cannibal and zombie movies, Zombie Holocaust is really a synthesis of two earlier successes: Joe D’Amato’s Emmanuelle And The Last Cannibals and Lucio Fulci’s Zombie Flesh Eaters. In fact, Fabrizio De Angelis might as well have edited the two together as the film recycles story elements, music cues, footage, cast members and locations from both pictures, for which the economy-loving producer awarded himself story credit.