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It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Also known as Zombi Holocaust, the American version of this film features a sequence from an unfinished film called Tales That'll Tear Your Heart Out, a different music score and some edits for pacing. It's also got a much better title: Doctor Butcher, M.D. (Medical Deviate). And let me warn you right here and now. This is a film that takes no prisoners. It's everything horrible about horror films, the kind of Satanic panic nightmare that your clergyman warned you about. It is vile, reprehensible garbage. And it's entertaining as hell.New York City in the late 70's is a bad place to be. Even in the hospitals, a maniac is caught cutting off body parts and escaping with them. All the higher ups want to keep the story out of the paper, but morgue assistant and anthropology exert Lori (Alexandra Delli Colli, New York Ripper - imagine having those two movies on your IMDB history!) grew up in the Moluccan islands, where the cannibal came from. Let's forget what a coincidence this is and just savor the madness that is to follow. As soon as she learns the truth, a journalist named Susan (Sherry Buchanan, Escape from Galaxy 3, Tentacles) breaks into her place. And right after she kicks her out, her ceremonial dagger gets stolen! How could this happen!? And how coincidental - again - that a killer who works in the same hospital as Lori would steal it, get caught and give chase before falling to his death from a rooftop (and magically turn into a mannequin before crashing to the pavement)?Maybe Lori's hospital isn't that unique because this is happening all over town, all with hospital workers baring the same tattoo. Dr. Pete Chandler (Ian McCulloch, Zombi, Contamination), Lori's anthropologist friend, suggest that she join him and his friend Pete on a trip to the islands. And oh yeah - Pete's girlfriend is Susan, in another coincidence. God only plays dice in Italian zombie films.Once they arrive, they meet Dr. Obrero (Donald O'Brien, Ghosthouse, Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals), who warns them that the natives are more like wild animals and will not take kindly to strangers. To prove his point, one of them leaves a maggot-ridden severed head in Lori's room. At this point, any sane person would just go home. But then, we would not have a movie. Obrero sends Moloko, his assistant along with them on their journey. Is it weird that he has the same name as the island?Within minutes of the running time of the film, all of the party's guides and porters are dead, other than Moloko. Soon, George and Susan are raw meat and the rest of the party seem like they are soon to be dinner, too. That's when zombies attack, sending the cannibals off into the jungle. And strangely, Dr. Obrero gets to them faster than they expected with help.Let me spoil this one for you - Dr. Obrero is Dr. Butcher. He got the natives to rediscover their cannibal ways and they provide him with the raw material that he needs to create his zombies. He uses them for experiments, moving science forward as he works on the same set as Fulci's Zombi. He's a decent fellow, though. He lets the natives keep the scalps, after all.After killing a zombie with a boat motor, Chandler breaks into the doctor's office, where he is transplanting Susan's brain, who is bald because, you know, they took her scalp. Also, she's still alive. The doctor takes Chandler captive and Lori is taken by the cannibals, who the natives see as some kind of god. You know, blonde hair and white skin and all that. They paint her with flowers as if she were Goldie Hawn on Laugh-In and she lies in a body shape on the altar that looks like the tattoos we saw earlier. Somehow, again through total coincidence, she fits perfectly into the impression.Lori uses her power over the cannibals to attack the doctor and his zombies, freeing Chandler and allowing them to head back to civilization. Where, you know, they'll both get over this with no issues at all.The ad campaign for this film, such as the stolen image of Salvador Dali and lurid copy on the poster, push this movie into a transgressive art experience. And that's before the Butchermobile hit the road. A rented truck with posters plastered on every side that dripped blood, it cruised the streets of downtown New York City promising that Dr. Butcher, M.D. could deliver an experience that other lesser films could not.You can learn all of this and more with Severin's jam-packed blu ray release. From interviews with Aquarius Releasing's Terry Levene, the men who drove the Butchermobile, Ian McCulloch and Sherry Buchanan to a tour of today's Times Square, you could almost make the case that the extras are worth a release of their own. Throw in two versions of the film - both the American cut and the original Zombie Holocaust Italian version - and you have a release that simply cannot be beat.If you ever watched a movie and wondered, "I wish that people got eaten and torn to bits every twenty seconds while loony synth music played," I have some good news for you. Your horrifying prayers will be answered by this movie.

As you may expect; it has dubbing, and most of it is awful, but this actually has some semblance of fun once in a while. The clever title is actually true in this case. Not only does it provide zombies (Zombie, rather) it has cannibalism! Now; it didn't quite take advantage of its potential; because it succumbs to the low budget, but I didn't have that bad of a time with it. The sets that are used are eerily similar to the one used in Lucio Fulci's Zombi. There is a subplot with a crazy Doctor as well with all of this going on. It throws in everything but the kitchen sink. That does make it convoluted somewhat, and a bit discombobulated, but I still had a bit of fun with it. B-Movie king at this juncture; Ian McCulloch plays it straight faced as per usual, and I have to give him credit for it. I wouldn't say it's a "good" performance, but due to all the budget restrictions and the situation surrounding it, he did well. Alexandra Delli Coli (Lorri) & Sherry Buchanan (Susan) are so-so in their respective roles. Bad dubbing doesn't help. Donald O'Brien overacts tremendously as the crazed doctor.Final Thoughts: I kinda had trouble conjuring up things to say about this one. It is what is , you know? I felt that it was disappointing in ways because of the immense potential in having both Zombies and Cannibals in films, but there is a little bit of cheesy fun to be had as well. If you love gore, and zombies, this might do for a night of cheesy fun. You won't be missing anything if you decide to leave it alone either4.5/10

Shambling hot on the decaying heels of Lucio Fulci's seminal "Zombie Flesh Eaters" came "Zombie Holocaust", featuring the same lead actor, the same filming locations, and same of the same behind the scenes crew.Known in its US release as "Dr. Butcher, Medical Deviate", this is a film that truly throws everything at the wall and sees what sticks. After an opening sequence featuring some nicely gruesome corpse eviscerations in a New York hospital, Ian McCulloch of "Flesh Eaters" and TV's "Survivors" fame teams up with lovely looking, wooden acting and seemingly clothes allergic doctor Alexandra Delli Colli (of Signor Fulci's "The New York Ripper") to investigate. After a bizarre scene in which a cannibalistic hospital employee is caught quite literally "red handed" eating a patient's guts - whereupon he flings himself out of the window and plummets to his doom - Ian and Alexandra decide to take their investigation to the "Molacca" islands in Indonesia, home of a cannibalistic cult.Upon arrival, we are plunged into all kinds of fun and frolics involving a mad doctor experimenting on the local cannibals to create a zombie slave race that numbers about four. Much enjoyment ensues from various disembowellings, eye gougings and general dismemberment. Our rugged hero Ian mashes a zombie's face using the outboard motor from a boat, the lovely Ms. Della Colli disrobes to show off her impressive body at regular intervals, and many racial stereotype native guides get gotten by the cannibals and zombies. One of said guides even seems to yell "Macarena, he went to de boat, he deed not come back" at one point. I watched that bit about five times til i almost blacked out from laughing.I am still baffled by the ending, however: Lori (Della Colli) is captured by the cannibals, who strip her (wahey!), paint her with flowery tattoos, and prepare to sacrifice her on an altar. Then, for no apparent reason at all, the cannibal chief changes his mind, does a little dance, and the next thing we know the cannibals accompany Lori and help her save Ian and battle the zombies. Why?!? It seems like there's whole scenes missing here, but i'm certain my copy is uncut. Maybe the cannibal chief was just a nice guy, and was just mucking around with all that sacrifice stuff. Answers on a postcard, please.

What to do when your competitors are pocketing millions of lira making cannibal and zombie movies - naturally, you make an amalgam of both concepts. Disjointed attempt at fusing two cinematic themes that were at the height of their popularity at the time. Here McCulloch as a detective, fresh from escaping Fulci's "Zombie Flesh Eaters" teams up with the statuesque and immensely striking Delli Colli as an anthropologist desperate to discover why expired patients at the local morgue are being dismembered and partially consumed. Inexplicably, their investigation takes them to a remote island on which a homicidal maniac (O'Brien) is experimenting on live native specimens, with disastrous results.Gory in the extreme, but lacking the narrative continuity of its peers, "Dr Butcher" relies solely on shocks without making an effort to develop a cohesive plot line. McCulloch's character is essentially no different from "Flesh Eaters", while O'Brien often looks disconnected from the project, in stand and deliver mode, affecting his inane dialogue on cue with little emotion or interaction. Delli Colli is an impressive-looking woman (particularly sans safari suit), and director Girolami's devotion to showcasing her "attributes" is generous to say the least. Buchanan is perhaps the only other recognisable face, but her character is shallow and expendable - like most of her other filmography.There's limb severing, entrails devouring, lobotomising galore, not to mention an eye gouging scene that might promote dry reaching. Ever wondered what someone's face would look like if you force-fed it a propeller? Enquire within. You won't be left wondering why the film was deported by censors in most countries on its initial distribution, and the make-up effects it must be said, are quite disturbingly realistic at times (no surprises that Gianetto De Rossi was involved). If you salivate at the prospect of cannibals vs zombies, then this will be your cornucopia; others should heed the viewing recommendations accordingly.