Hell of the Living Dead/Rats, Night of Terror (1981)

Synopsis: This double feature contains two films from legendary schlock horror director Bruno Mattei: HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD: This impossibly bad zombie/cannibal movie could only have been filmed by... This double feature contains two films from legendary schlock horror director Bruno Mattei: HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD: This impossibly bad zombie/cannibal movie could only have been filmed by Bruno Mattei, the laughably inept director of films like SS EXTERMINATION LOVE CAMP and RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR. The plot centers around a New Guinea chemical accident that attracts the attention of a SWAT team and a buxom reporter (Newton). When the SWAT team finally penetrates the chemical cloud, they find a race of flesh eating zombies hungry for fresh human food. Full of gratuitous nudity, stock footage of natives, animals, rotting corpses, and inane dialogue, HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD is a hilarious attempt at recreating the magic of the films that inspired it (DAWN OF THE DEAD, ZOMBIE, ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST). RATS, NIGHT OF TERROR: The notorious Bruno Mattei (HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD) directs this post-apocalyptic horror movie. Here, a group of bikers discover an abandoned lab that contains some valuable goods such as food and water, but also is home to a race of super intelligent vermin who feed on human flesh. RATS: NIGHT OF TERROR is. of course, full of its director's trademarks like over the top gore, laughably bad dialogue, and ludicrous special effects making it quite possibly the funniest movie about giant killer rats ever made. [More]

Starring: Margit Evelyn Newton, Ryan Hilliard

Starring: Margit Evelyn Newton, Ryan Hilliard

Director: Bruno Mattei

Director: Bruno Mattei

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