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Zombie Holocaust, 1980 (aka Doctor Butcher, M.D.) [ ADD ]
Director: Marino Girolami
Availability: Medium (on DVD from Media Blasters)

If zombies are you bag (like they are mine, if you haven't guessed), you've no doubt seen Lucio Fulci's Zombie. But perhaps you haven't seen the movie shot shortly afterwards on many of the same sets with two of the same actors: Zombie Holocaust (aka Doctor Butcher, M.D. -- that's "Medical Deviate"). Think zombies v.s. cannibals, with more cannibals than zombies. With groovy looking undead (though not as cool as Fulci's), Marino Girolami serves up a nasty little piece of gore derivative in every way, but gloriously so. A zombie catches a motor to the face, a woman has her scalp removed, and there are plenty of disembowelments. What more do you need? Bad dubbing? Got that, too!

Though there will never be a sum of Zombie and Cannibal Holocaust that is greater than its parts, Zombie Holocaust smushes the two titles together and acts as a nicely duct taped combination.

"Patient's screams disturbing me, performed removal of vocal chords."