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I did not see one single scantily clad, sexy Italian lady in this promo and I was looking. I call false advertising!
It’s just one scene where she’s topless for 5 minutes, and even that stretch of time is repeatedly cut into by documentary footage. All the other flesh (well, 99%) is male and/or rotting. I just hope they don’t edit this one for content like Alien Contamination, which the other half of its Goblin music is culled from.
Just watched this again last fall, and I’ve wanted to see it riffed for years! It is sort of a classic, inept but more entertaining than your average Romero rip-off, partly because the gags are so stupid they’re funny, and it’s that rare Zombie movie that’s structured like a quest rather than just survivors hunkering down or fleeing.
The most incompetent part is that the cover story for the Hope Centers isn’t established until 3 seconds before the revelation of their true, sinister purpose, so the ending should be gut-busting if MK&B really gave it their all.
And then the epilogue, which I so hope contains the following riff: “Yes, this ENTIRE APOCALYPSE could have been averted with pre-marital sex. Thanks Bruno!”
Trivia from IMDb:
Bruno Mattei’s original plan for Hell of the Living Dead (1980) was to make a film inspired by Dawn of the Dead (1978) but with a lighter tone.
Stock footage from the film Nuova Guinea, l’isola dei cannibali (1974) was used for the native scenes.
In the first draft, Claudio Fragasso had followed the idea of an entire Third World made up of an army of zombies, who the armed forces of the industrialized nations would have had to fight, but the script had to be altered considerably due to budget limitations.
Margie Newton played the leading role. She was so nervous to play the lead that she was unable to sleep to begin with. The first scenes shot show this as her eyes show noticeable fatigue than in the later scenes where she became more comfortable in the starring role.
Although proud and happy with the film she starred in, Margie Newton finds it hard to watch the violent scenes, she was shocked at the violence when she first saw it in the cinema.
Margie Newton was originally apprehensive about doing the big nude scene where she strips off and runs around topless in tribal paint.
Claudio Fragasso, the writer of the screenplay, also, allegedly, directed half of the movie, he claimed in an interview.
Initially two screenplays were written for Hell of the Living Dead (1980), one that Bruno Mattei preferred and one that the producers preferred. Ultimately, the producers chose their preferred script.