| Zombie Holocaust | |
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Zombie Holocaust DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Marino Girolami |
| Written by | Fabrizio De Angelis Romano Scandariato |
| Starring | Ian McCulloch Alexandra Delli Colli Sherry Buchanan Peter O'Neal Donald O'Brien Dakar Walter Patriarca |
| Music by | Nico Fidenco |
| Cinematography | Fausto Zuccoli |
| Editing by | Alberto Moriani |
| Release date(s) | 1979 |
| Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | English |
Zombie Holocaust, (Original title: Zombi Holocaust) also known as Zombie 3 and Doctor Butcher, M.D.,[1] is a 1979 Italian zombie movie, directed by Marino Girolami.
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In New York City a hospital worker is found to have been devouring bodies in the morgue. Morgue assistant and anthropology expert Lori (Alexandra Delli Colli) discovers he was from the Asian Molucca islands where she grew up. Dr. Peter Chandler (Ian McCulloch) 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.
Lori is accepted as queen of the cannibals, and sends them off against the mad scientist and his zombie army.
Following the success of Zombi II (1979) and Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (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 II 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 II but they do not consume flesh. In this film it is the island native people that hunt, kill, and consume humans.
The film was slightly re-edited and released theatrically in the United States as Dr. Butcher, M.D. by Aquarius Releasing in 1982.[2]
The DVD was released on May 21, 2002 by Shriek Show. It can be purchased separately or in a triple feature package. The Zombie Pack, Vol. 2 contains Zombie Holocaust, Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror, and Flesheater.[3] It was released on Blu-ray for the first time by Shriek Show on 28 June 2011 in USA.[4]
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.
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 edited for pacing reasons also in the Dr. Butcher Version. 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.