Zombie Holocaust
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, kinetic, extreme zombie / cannibal, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →After Malukan immigrants engage in a string of corpse mutilations at various New York City hospitals, a doctor and a morgue assistant travel to the Maluku Islands to investigate.
Our read · Zombie Holocaust (1980) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive zombie · cannibal · island entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Zombie Holocaust
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