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Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki Good female butt shot in opening minutes, leads to story about zombies waiting for a trio on an island, scouting out possible locations for a new hotel. (Oh, who are they kidding? It was just an excuse to get laid on a tropical island!) They encounter a strange, seven foot tall old man and his adult daughter, and a black cat. The black cat being first shown in cemetery was an amusing touch. Good effect, also, of a small amulet being picked up from a candle lit altar, being thrown to the ground, and turning into the black cat, which immediately jumps back at the guy throwing it and attacks him.Oooh, a machete! That should up the gore. One zombie gets their googley eyes gouged out, ala The Three Stooges, then decapitated with the aforementioned machete, and their head then kicked like a soccer ball. Attempted escape from the island (where the zombies are buried under what appears to be no more than an inch of sand) in a raft proves futile, no surprise there. Later holding the cat amulet hostage saves their lives, briefly at least.The brutally violent zombie gore clashes with the variably good porn/ sex scenes; did this film start out as a horror movie which had hardcore sex scenes added, or a sex flick with gory horror scenes added? Good island locations, decent sex and nudity, and the added twist of most of the action taking place in broad daylight is unique, but the film overlong and painfully slow, and it is marred by a really awful ending, in which everything is explained away as being imagined by a mental patient, as he is banging the nude nurse in opening minutes of the film, before he is carted away, back to his padded cell.

Michael_Elliott Erotic Nights of the Living Dead (1980) ** (out of 4) XXX versionInfamous Joe D'Amato film that mixes Italian gore with Italian sex. Three people head for a deserted island to have a lot of sex and to see if a hotel could be built on the island. They should have listened to all the rumors because zombies are there waiting. This is an extremely weird and bizarre film because the producer's wanted two films made. One a porno and another a horror film so the director just combined the two elements. Running at nearly two hours this thing goes on for way too long, which is why I wish the hardcore sex scenes would have been removed. There's a "soft" version out there that I keep meaning to see because I'm sure I'd like the film better minus the sex scenes. The zombie footage on the other hand is wonderfully done with a lot of great atmosphere and gore. D'Amato was a master behind the camera and the cinematography here is terrific as is the music score. Laura Gemser, George Eastman and Mark "Wart Nuts" Shannon star. This here is a lot better than the director's first horror/sex film Porno Holocaust, which was filmed at the same time with the same cast of this one.Sexy Nights of the Living Dead (1980) ** (out of 4)The version under this title is the pure horror version, which is missing all of the XXX scenes. For years I had been wanting to check this version out because I felt that the hardcore scenes in the uncut version were all rather ugly and did nothing erotic and instead they just dragged the film down. It was interesting watching the film without the porn scenes because you realize that the Joe D'Amato film has more problems than just the porn stuff. For starters, even without the hardcore sex there's way too many softcore scenes that are also not erotic. I was really surprised to see how silly the majority of the scenes are because it's clear that the main intent was just to show sex. Another major problem with the picture is that it just takes them way too long to finally get to the island where the zombie stuff happens. The zombies, as great as they are, are pretty much wasted because outside a couple scenes early on, the majority of their screen time happens at the very end of the movie. It's really a shame that they weren't given more screen time because I felt the horror elements were quite strong and they keep the movie interesting. Even though he was unable to make anything erotic, D'Amato did do a good job building up a rather bizarre atmosphere. This version clocks in at 100-minutes, which means it is missing twelve minutes worth of hardcore scenes. So, is this version better? I would say that it is simply because it's shorter and as I said, the hardcore scenes were rather ugly and added nothing to the picture.

Ky-D For a film to have 'erotic' in the title, the film should have erotic scenes. If a film has 'living dead' in the title, there should be some good gut munching. And finally, if a film has 'night of' in the title, the film should be shot at night. But then again, this is a Joe D'Amato flick.Story: people go to investigate an island,come across some creepy natives, have lots of sex and get eaten.There is plenty of nudity and hard-core sexual escapades on display (if you have the uncut version), but not a bit of it is erotic or arousing. Some male/female, female/female, pick your poison. Matters are further complicated by the obvious fact that some of the actors are not at all comfortable with bearing it all, taking the blandly shot scenes and making them all the more dull.For a film like this, violence is the answer, or should have been. D'amato is unusually thin-skinned about laying on the gore. There are a couple of choice bits, but nothing spectacular. If it weren't bad enough that the zombies don't do a whole hell of a lot, it's worse that they take forever to finally start reeking havoc. I suppose the intention was to build suspense, but with a film like this what's the point.So how well is it made then? For a film supposedly occurring mostly at night it is readily apparent that most all of the movie was shot during then day then given the day-for-night treatment. The dubbing is dubious and the limited effects some what suspect.A mid-range rating for a bad movie that will undoubtedly find a niche audience; you know who you are.5/10

DJ Inferno Contains story + **spoiler**An American millionaire wants to build a hotel on a paradisiac Caribbean island. An old man who lives there with his beautiful daughter gets an army of zombies onto his neck...The film starts with a camera angle on George Eastman´s insane eyes, accompanied by the great score of Pluto Kennedy. The rest is peculiar mixture between soft porn and zombie horror, that only one man could have made possible: Joe D´Amato, the undisputed master of Euro-trash. Now everybody should know what that means: the people in this flick f**k around at the first opportunity and with George Eastman and Laura Gemser two of the most popular Italian exploitation actors were casted. However, "Erotic Nights of the living dead" has truly its great moments! Especially the last 1/2 hour when the dead are rising is excellent, although this movie is quite similar to Lucio Fulci´s "Zombi 2". Nevertheless director Joe D´Amato created a spooky atmosphere in combination to the idyll of the Caribbean island. Highly recommended to all those people who are looking for a perfect mixture between horror and sex...