[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Zombie Creeping Flesh (1980)

With the opening to this i thought i'd put Zombi 3 (1988) on by mistake seeing as they are pretty much identical involving scientific types in research facilities. Still that's Claudio Fragasso's screenplays - Why use an idea once when you can do it multiple times - To be fair Claudio probably never thought film bores like myself would be watching his films on high definition discs weeks apart and comparing them.

Anyway Zombie Creeping Flesh is a lot of gory fun. Not up there with Fulci's Zombi 2 (1979) nor indeed 1978's Dawn of the Dead which inspired much of this film, but still fun.

A couple of the set pieces are memorable. In particular a death at the end of the film featuring a head and a zombie's hand and also some crazy moments with the seemingly unkillable Franco Garofalo running around in and among the zombie hordes.

What lets it down a bit is the use of stock footage. There's so much of it, mostly low quality and other parts frequently seen in the Tarzan tv series with Ron Ely, which frequently prove distracting.

Oh and there's the dialogue. To be brutally honest it's f*cking terrible. But for the most part Zombie Creeping Flesh or Hell of the Living Dead as it's also known is fine popcorn entertainment.