This is a cheesy 80's film. In a badly dubbed NYC body parts are going missing and it appears to be the work of people from Kito, a South East Asian island. A small group goes to the island because....if makes a film. The island is filled with cannibals who prefer to eat raw innards or a nice stew. Oh yeah, there is a handful of zombies too. Yes they ransacked Laurie's apartment to steal a knife she had hanging on the wall. Bad rubber parts.Of course when a pretty blonde is capture by a group of "savages" they must be stripped naked like Bo Derek or Ursala Andress. Don't blame me, I don't make the rules. Alexandra Delli Colli is a natural blonde.

Not a bad film was highly amused by the alternative title Doctor Death MD: Medical Deviant. Looked pretty deviant by any standard I know of and this particular plot element actually made the film more interesting, bringing in shades of Victor Frankenstein or Doctor Moreau. Not much use of the zombies until later, actually felt more like a cannibal type movie which may defy what you may expect from the title itself. Of the kills there is maybe only one which I remember in which the poor person ends up dead with his eyes torn out, can't quite shake that one, also I can still recall the final act with the mad doctor but that's about it. Might be worth a re-view but didn't strike me as being that strong.

****SPOILERS**** It's when a number of patients, dead as well as alive, are mutilated and eaten by an orderly named Toran at a New York City hospital, who when caught ended up doing himself in, that it's suspected by staff member Dr. Lori Ridgeway, who and expert on cannibalism, that the person who's been doing these things is a die in the wool cannibal who's arrived on a students visa from the far off Caribbean island of Maluku! In trying to check thing out any more cannibals from entering the states an fact finding expedition to Maluku is organized with Lori in charge to find out if in fact a undiscovered race of cannibals still live in the island. Their soon confronted by Dr.Butcher and his trusted aid Molotto who are more then willing to help with Lori not realizing that the two are really really bad news. Dr. Butcher has been experimenting with the people on the island for years and turning them into walking dead Zombies in an insane effort to increase the lifespan of the human race.Dr. Butcher in trying to steer Lori and her party away from the island of Maluku , and keep the secret of his experiments hidden, has the opposite effect when they, by getting lost at sea, end up being there anyway! It's then when the cannibals come out in the open looking for human flesh and end up killing and eating almost all the members of Lori's expedition except for Lori and her boyfriend Dr. Peter Chandler. It's when a bunch of Zombies, looking like they were just dug up out of their graves, pop up and scare the cannibals away it becomes apparent that Dr. Butcher and Molloto have been secretly been creating them and even worse are planning to turn both Peter & Lori into Zombies themselves!****SPOILERS**** Blood splattering Zombie/Cannibal film that one has to have a strong stomach to be able to watch and sit through without a barf-bag available at hand. Ironically it's the cannibals who turn out to be the good guys by putting and end to Dr. Butcher and his aid Molotto's evil experiments. As if all the people that the cannibals killed and ate, on the island of Maluku as well as in NYC, was nothing more of a crime then picking their noses in public! It's just when Dr. Butcher was about to pick Peter's brain in came or crashed a bunch of hungry cannibals lead by non other then Lori, who convinced them she was on their side, putting an end to him Molotto, who was already did in by Peter, and his crazy experiments in what turned out to be a fiery holocaust: With only the Zombies being the ones holocaust-ed!

The eighties were the golden age of Italian zombie exploitation. This film - directed by genre regular Marino Girolami - is one of the most predictable in the entire sub-genre. The filmmaker's themselves intended the movie as a cash-in - following swiftly on the success of Lucio Fulci's "Zombi 2". Girolami, along with producer Fabrizio De Angelis, decided to combine the basic "Zombi 2" plot with the popular cannibal films of the time and thus "Zombi Holocaust" was born. Right down to the title, a twist on last year's "Cannibal Holocaust", the film was pure exploitation. The film begins grimly in New York (the same setting as "Zombi 2"), where a hospital worker - from the 'Asian Molucca' island - is seen devouring bodies in a morgue. Then an expedition is organized to the island to find out the truth behind the carnage taking place. When the American crew arrive, however, they discover that the island is inhabited by zombies and cannibals. What are the odds? There isn't much to recommend in this gory fright flick aside from the inventively bloody special effects (devised by zombie/cannibal maestro Gianneto Di Rossi), which, although reminiscent of George A. Romero's "Dawn Of The Dead", still retain their shock value. Overall, this film is only worth viewing if you are a die-hard zombie/cannibal fan.