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	\| name = Zombie Holocaust		\| name = Zombie Holocaust
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	\| caption = ~~Zombie~~ ~~Holocaust~~ ~~DVD~~ ~~cover~~		\| caption = Italian theatrical release poster
	\| director = Marino Girolami		\| director = ]
	\| producer =		\| producer =
			\| screenplay = Romano Scandariato<ref name="archive">{{cite web\|url=http://www.archiviodelcinemaitaliano.it/index.php/scheda.html?codice=AG4554\|publisher=Archivio del cinema Italiano\|language=it\|access-date=5 February 2018\|title=Zombi Holocaust (1980)}}</ref>
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⚫	\| ~~writer~~ = Fabrizio De Angelis <~~br>~~ ~~Romano~~ ~~Scandariato~~
			* ]
	\| starring = ]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>Walter Patriarca
			* Alexandra Delli Colli
⚫	\| music = ]
			* Sherry Buchanan
⚫	\| cinematography = Fausto Zuccoli
			* Peter O'Neal
⚫	\| editing = Alberto Moriani
			* ]
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⚫	\| ~~released~~ = ~~1979~~
	\| runtime = 84 minutes
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		⚫	\| cinematography = Fausto Zuccoli<ref name="archive" />
	'''''Zombie Holocaust''''', (Original title: '''''Zombi Holocaust''''') also known as '''''Zombie 3''''' and '''''Doctor Butcher, M.D.''''',<ref>]</ref> is a ] ] ], directed by ].
		⚫	\| editing = Alberto Moriani<ref name="archive" />
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			\| studio = {{plainlist\|*Flora Film
			* Fulvia Film
			*Gico Cinematografica<ref name="archive" />}}
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			\| gross = 300 million ]{{sfn\|Kay\|2012\|p=113}}
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			'''''Zombie Holocaust''''' ({{langx\|it\|Zombi Holocaust}}) is a 1980 Italian ] directed by ].<ref name="archive" /> The film is about a team of scientists who follow a trail of corpses in New York to a remote Indonesian island where they meet a mad doctor (]) who performs experiments on both the living and dead in his laboratory. The team face both zombies and cannibals in an attempt to stop the doctor. The film was re-edited and released theatrically in the United States in 1982 under the title ''Doctor Butcher M.D''.<ref name="mondo-digital.com">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.mondo-digital.com/drbutcher.html\|title = Doctor Butcher, M.D. / Zombie Holocaust}}</ref><ref>{{Citation \|title=DR. BUTCHER M.D. (1982) \|url=http://archive.org/details/dr.-butcher-m.-d.-1982 \|access-date=2024-01-22}}</ref>

	==Plot==		==Plot==
	In ] a hospital worker is found to have been devouring bodies in the morgue. Morgue assistant and anthropology expert Lori ~~(])~~ discovers he was from the ]n ] ~~islands~~ where she grew up. Dr. Peter Chandler ~~(])~~ investigates, and he and Lori discover that similar corpse mutilations have occurred in other city hospitals, where immigrants from this region are working.		In ], a hospital worker is found to have been devouring bodies in the morgue. Morgue assistant and anthropology expert Lori discovers he was from the ] where she grew up. Dr. Peter Chandler investigates, and he and Lori discover that similar corpse mutilations have occurred in other city hospitals, where immigrants from this region are working.

	Peter leads an expedition to the islands to investigate, where he liaises with Doctor Obrero. Included are his assistant George, George's eager journalist girlfriend Susan, Lori, local boatsman Molotto assigned by Obrero, and three guides. The crew ~~are~~ hunted by cannibals and zombies, the latter created by the sinister Doctor Obrero who is experimenting with corpses.		Peter leads an expedition to the islands to investigate, where he liaises with Doctor Obrero. Included are his assistant George, George's eager journalist girlfriend Susan, Lori, local boatsman Molotto assigned by Obrero, and three guides. The crew is hunted by cannibals and zombies, the latter created by the sinister Doctor Obrero, who is experimenting with corpses.

	Lori is accepted as queen of the cannibals, and sends them off against the mad scientist and his zombie army.		Lori is accepted as queen of the cannibals and sends them off against the mad scientist and his zombie army.

	==Cast==		==Cast==
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	* Peter O'Neal as George Harper		* Peter O'Neal as George Harper
	* ] as Dr. Obrero/Dr. Butcher (US version)		* ] as Dr. Obrero/Dr. Butcher (US version)
	* Dakar as Molotto		* ] as Molotto
	* Walter Patriarca as Dr. Dreylock		* Walter Patriarca as Dr. Dreylock

	==Production==
	Following the success of '']'' (1979) and '']'' (1977), producer Fabrizio De Angelis came up with the idea of cashing in on both films' subjects at the same time. He reused the basic story of ''Zombi 2'' and added elements of cannibal films to come up with ''Zombie Holocaust''. The film depicted zombies and cannibals clashing on a south-east Asian island. The zombies of this film physically resemble those of ''Zombi 2'' but they do not consume flesh. In this film it is the island native people that hunt, kill, and consume humans.

	==Similarities to ''Zombi 2''==
	* Actors ] and ] appear in nearly identical roles
	* In both films the action begin with evidence of cannibalism in a New York mortuary, which the character played by McCulloch begins to investigate, leading to his journey to a tropical island where most of the story takes place.
	* The climax in both movies features the zombies perishing in a hospital/church fire.
	* Some shooting locations are the same (including the church building).
	* Zombie Holocaust reuses footage from ''Zombi 2'', including burning church and the camera panning across the lake with the landrover driving along the side of it.
	* In some markets, ''Zombie Holocaust'' was released as ''Zombie 3''.

	==Release==		==Release==
			The film was released in Italy in 1980<ref name="archive" /><ref>{{cite news\|newspaper=]\|title=Spettacoli\|access-date=May 10, 2019\|language=it\|page=29\|date=8 July 1980\|url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,29/articleid,1445_02_1980_0172_0029_20476324/}}</ref> and grossed a total of 300 million ].{{sfn\|Kay\|2012\|p=113}} It was released in the United States in 1982 in modified form, under the title ''Doctor Butcher M.D.''.{{sfn\|Kay\|2012\|p=113}} The ''Doctor Butcher'' cut features the film uncensored and uncut, but features a new prologue which consists of footage from an unreleased film shot by director ], intercut with footage of the zombies from the film and footage of a swinging sign outside a building that said "Doctor Butcher M.D.".{{sfn\|Kay\|2012\|p=113}} In addition to the title ''Zombie Holocaust'', the film has since been released under various other English titles, including ''Island of the Last Zombies'', ''Queen of the Cannibals'' and ''Zombie 3''.{{sfn\|Kay\|2012\|p=113}}
	The film was slightly re-edited and released theatrically in the ] as ''Doctor Butcher, M.D.'' by ] in 1982.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079788/companycredits\|title=Company Credits for Zombie Holocaust\|publisher=imdb.com\|accessdate=2011-03-31}}</ref>

			===Home media===
	The ~~DVD~~ was released on ~~May~~ ~~21, 2002~~ by ]. It ~~can~~ be ~~purchased~~ separately or in a triple feature package. The Zombie Pack, Vol. 2 contains ''Zombie Holocaust'', '']'', and '']''.<ref></ref> ~~It was~~ released on ] for the first time by ~~] on~~ 28 ~~June~~ 2011 ~~in USA.~~<ref></ref>		The ''Doctor Butcher M.D.'' version of the film was originally released on home video by Wizard Films on VHS. When the film was released on DVD in 2002, ] released the film under its original form as ''Zombie Holocaust''. The US film's prologue and the ''Doctor Butcher M.D.'' trailer would be included as extras on the DVD. The film was made available both separately and in a triple feature package. ''The Zombie Pack Vol. 2'' contains ''Zombie Holocaust'', '']'' and '']''.<ref></ref> Shriek Show released the film on ] for the first time in the U.S. on June 28, 2011,<ref></ref><ref name="mondo-digital.com"/> with 88 Films giving the film its UK Blu-ray debut in 2015.<ref name="mondo-digital.com"/>

			In 2016, ] issued a deluxe edition two-disc Blu-ray that included both ''Zombie Holocaust'' and ''Doctor Butcher M.D.'', as well as a multitude of bonus features. The first 5,000 copies of this edition also included a replica of the "]" given out at some original screenings of ''Doctor Butcher M.D.''<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://severin-films.com/doctor-butcher-m-d-zombie-holocaust/\|title = Doctor Butcher M.d./Zombie Holocaust}}</ref>
	The film was released uncut on UK DVD & VHS on January 29, 2001 by Stonevision. It was reissued on the Dead of Night label in 2004 and again in 2010 by Beyond Terror.

			==Reception==
	==Alternate Versions==
			{{expand section\|date=May 2018}}
	'''''Zombi Holocaust''''' was re-edited for U.S. release as '''''Doctor Butcher, M.D.''''' This version contained a 2½ minute sequence from an unfinished American film, and a different music score. Certain scenes were also re-edited for pacing reasons. This version also contains a 5 minute sequence presented on Shriek Show's DVD as a deleted scene. The deleted scene also appears in certain foreign prints, one of which runs 86 minutes.
			In ''The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia'', academic ] stated that "Some of the gore effects are quite good, but other than that the movie is a stock accumulation of familiar motifs."<ref>{{cite book\|title=The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia\|last=Dendle\|first=Peter\|author-link=Peter Dendle\|publisher=]\|year=2001\|page=60\|isbn=978-0-7864-9288-6}}</ref> ] rated it 5/5 stars and recommended it to fans of Italian gore films.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/108516/dr-butcher-md-aka-zombie-holocaust-2/\|title=Dr Butcher MD (aka Zombie Holocaust)\|author=<!-- Staff -->\|work=]\|date=2004-10-22\|access-date=2015-02-18}}</ref> Author Glenn Kay of ''Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide'' referred to it as "a bad movie; for Italian zombie gore fans only."{{sfn\|Kay\|2012\|p=113}} Danny Shipka, author of ''Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960–1980'', noted that ''Zombie Holocaust'' showed how quickly the zombie subgenre "degenerated into stupidity" and that the film "fuses the cannibal genre and the zombie film into an incoherent mess".{{sfn\|Shipka\|2011\|p=139}}

	==See also==		==See also==
	* ]		* ]

	==~~References~~==		==Footnotes==
	{{reflist}}		{{reflist}}

			===References===
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			\|title=Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide
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			\|isbn=978-1613744253
			\|year=2012
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			* {{cite book\|last=Shipka\|first=Danny\|year=2011\|title=Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960–1980\|publisher=McFarland\|isbn=978-0786486090}}
			{{Refend}}

	==External links==		==External links==
	* {{IMDb title\|id=0079788\|title=Zombie Holocaust}}		* {{IMDb title\|id=0079788\|title=Zombie Holocaust}}
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1980 Italian film

Zombie Holocaust
Italian theatrical release poster
Directed by	Marino Girolami
Screenplay by	Romano Scandariato
Story by	Fabrizio De Angelis
Starring	Ian McCulloch Alexandra Delli Colli Sherry Buchanan Peter O'Neal Donald O'Brien
Cinematography	Fausto Zuccoli
Edited by	Alberto Moriani
Music by	Nico Fidenco
Production companies	Flora Film Fulvia Film Gico Cinematografica
Distributed by	Variety Distribution
Release date	1980 (1980) (Italy)
Country	Italy
Languages	Italian English
Box office	300 million lire

Zombie Holocaust (Italian: Zombi Holocaust) is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Marino Girolami. The film is about a team of scientists who follow a trail of corpses in New York to a remote Indonesian island where they meet a mad doctor (Donald O'Brien) who performs experiments on both the living and dead in his laboratory. The team face both zombies and cannibals in an attempt to stop the doctor. The film was re-edited and released theatrically in the United States in 1982 under the title Doctor Butcher M.D.

Plot

In New York City, a hospital worker is found to have been devouring bodies in the morgue. Morgue assistant and anthropology expert Lori discovers he was from the Maluku Islands where she grew up. Dr. Peter Chandler investigates, and he and Lori discover that similar corpse mutilations have occurred in other city hospitals, where immigrants from this region are working.

Peter leads an expedition to the islands to investigate, where he liaises with Doctor Obrero. Included are his assistant George, George's eager journalist girlfriend Susan, Lori, local boatsman Molotto assigned by Obrero, and three guides. The crew is hunted by cannibals and zombies, the latter created by the sinister Doctor Obrero, who is experimenting with corpses.

Lori is accepted as queen of the cannibals and sends them off against the mad scientist and his zombie army.

Cast

Ian McCulloch as Dr. Peter Chandler
Alexandra Delli Colli as Lori Ridgeway
Sherry Buchanan as Susan Kelly
Peter O'Neal as George Harper
Donald O'Brien as Dr. Obrero/Dr. Butcher (US version)
Dakar as Molotto
Walter Patriarca as Dr. Dreylock

Release

The film was released in Italy in 1980 and grossed a total of 300 million Italian lira. It was released in the United States in 1982 in modified form, under the title Doctor Butcher M.D.. The Doctor Butcher cut features the film uncensored and uncut, but features a new prologue which consists of footage from an unreleased film shot by director Roy Frumkes, intercut with footage of the zombies from the film and footage of a swinging sign outside a building that said "Doctor Butcher M.D.". In addition to the title Zombie Holocaust, the film has since been released under various other English titles, including Island of the Last Zombies, Queen of the Cannibals and Zombie 3.

Home media

The Doctor Butcher M.D. version of the film was originally released on home video by Wizard Films on VHS. When the film was released on DVD in 2002, Shriek Show released the film under its original form as Zombie Holocaust. The US film's prologue and the Doctor Butcher M.D. trailer would be included as extras on the DVD. The film was made available both separately and in a triple feature package. The Zombie Pack Vol. 2 contains Zombie Holocaust, Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror and Flesheater. Shriek Show released the film on Blu-ray for the first time in the U.S. on June 28, 2011, with 88 Films giving the film its UK Blu-ray debut in 2015.

In 2016, Severin Films issued a deluxe edition two-disc Blu-ray that included both Zombie Holocaust and Doctor Butcher M.D., as well as a multitude of bonus features. The first 5,000 copies of this edition also included a replica of the "barf bag" given out at some original screenings of Doctor Butcher M.D.

Reception

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (May 2018)

In The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle stated that "Some of the gore effects are quite good, but other than that the movie is a stock accumulation of familiar motifs." Bloody Disgusting rated it 5/5 stars and recommended it to fans of Italian gore films. Author Glenn Kay of Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide referred to it as "a bad movie; for Italian zombie gore fans only." Danny Shipka, author of Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960–1980, noted that Zombie Holocaust showed how quickly the zombie subgenre "degenerated into stupidity" and that the film "fuses the cannibal genre and the zombie film into an incoherent mess".

Footnotes

^ "Zombi Holocaust (1980)" (in Italian). Archivio del cinema Italiano. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
^ Kay 2012, p. 113.
^ "Doctor Butcher, M.D. / Zombie Holocaust".
DR. BUTCHER M.D. (1982), retrieved 2024-01-22
"Spettacoli". La Stampa (in Italian). 8 July 1980. p. 29. Retrieved May 10, 2019.
The Movies Made Me Do It - FleshEater
Zombie Holocaust Blu-ray
"Doctor Butcher M.d./Zombie Holocaust".
Dendle, Peter (2001). The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia. McFarland & Company. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-7864-9288-6.
"Dr Butcher MD (aka Zombie Holocaust)". Bloody Disgusting. 2004-10-22. Retrieved 2015-02-18.
Shipka 2011, p. 139.

References

Kay, Glenn (2012). Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1613744253.
Shipka, Danny (2011). Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960–1980. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786486090.

External links

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