When I first saw this movie on Cinemax nearly 20 years ago, I thought it was very gory and scary. Having seen it again just recently, it's still gory, but it is quite possibly the worst movie ever. I'm convinced it would draw ridicule from Ed Wood.
The plot involves a reporter and her crew of morons meeting up with a crew of moron soldiers to figure out what zombies are doing on a remote island (don't you dummies know you NEVER go into the jungle, unless you want to be attacked by zombies or cannibals (and sometimes tigers)?). Then the zombies show up, and bad things happen. whoopee.
At least zombie movies in the 70's had the sense to be derivative of Dawn of the Dead (if you copy a good movie, you're bound to at least do something right). This movie doesn't bother with any of that; it's just a cannibal movie with zombies instead. And a bad one, at that! The huge, canyon-like gaps in logic are enough to make one commit suicide during a viewing of this film. One of the soldiers mentions that to kill a zombie, you have to shoot it in the head. Does anybody do that? NO!! They waste 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition shooting zombies everywhere but in the head!! And why don't they leave the island? They have a boat!! And why do they just stand there and let the zombies attack them!! The FX are not special, the dubbing is awful (the guy who does the voice of the lead soldier is in every English-dubbed Italian movie), and the lighting is often non-existent. This movie has two highlights: when the heroine decides to get naked for no reason, and her particularly gruesome death. The rest is all lowlights. Avoid at all costs, and destroy every copy you see. You'll be doing everyone a favor.
The plot involves a reporter and her crew of morons meeting up with a crew of moron soldiers to figure out what zombies are doing on a remote island (don't you dummies know you NEVER go into the jungle, unless you want to be attacked by zombies or cannibals (and sometimes tigers)?). Then the zombies show up, and bad things happen. whoopee.
At least zombie movies in the 70's had the sense to be derivative of Dawn of the Dead (if you copy a good movie, you're bound to at least do something right). This movie doesn't bother with any of that; it's just a cannibal movie with zombies instead. And a bad one, at that! The huge, canyon-like gaps in logic are enough to make one commit suicide during a viewing of this film. One of the soldiers mentions that to kill a zombie, you have to shoot it in the head. Does anybody do that? NO!! They waste 5,000,000 rounds of ammunition shooting zombies everywhere but in the head!! And why don't they leave the island? They have a boat!! And why do they just stand there and let the zombies attack them!! The FX are not special, the dubbing is awful (the guy who does the voice of the lead soldier is in every English-dubbed Italian movie), and the lighting is often non-existent. This movie has two highlights: when the heroine decides to get naked for no reason, and her particularly gruesome death. The rest is all lowlights. Avoid at all costs, and destroy every copy you see. You'll be doing everyone a favor.