Italian Zombie and Cannibal films on Blu-ray

[caiman]

These controversial Italian horror sub-genres got their start in the early 70s and carried on to the early 90s. Their heyday, spurred by the success of Lucio Fulci's Zombie and Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust, was the late 70s to mid 80s. These gratuitous, gory, often technically inept exploitation flicks are a guilty pleasure of mine (okay, I don't actually feel any guilt) and this is my attempt at compiling a comprehensive list of their Blu-ray releases.

Please let me know if you have suggestions for how the list can be improved.

USA:



UK:



Canada:



Germany:



Italy:



Australia:



Austria:



France:



Spain:



Japan:



Sweden:



Denmark:

[nateynate87]

I've wanted to make a thread like this for so long but have always been too lazy haha

Thanks for this! Gives me a chance to see if I'm missing any.

[TwiStedByDeSign86]

Finally a thread dedicated to my favorite genre of films.

[Spooked]

Your 'lack of guilt' comment made me laugh. Thank you!

[dallywhitty]

Oooooh, I love a cheeky bit of cannibalism.

[caiman]

Do you folks think OOP/limited editions should be included in this list?

[nateynate87]

Originally Posted by caiman

Do you folks think OOP/limited editions should be included in this list?

I vote yes, it's interesting to see all the different versions, to me.

[Deadguy2322]

Might want to check the spelling for one of the country names in the first post...

[El_Fez]

I wound up watching Hell Of The Living Dead/Virus/Zombie Creeping Flesh last night. Oh holy shit was that . . . interesting. If Bruno had trimmed some of the flab out of the middle and dialed back on the stock footage, that would have been an awesome (if terrible) zombie flick. As it was, it was watchable, entertaining, a bit boring in place, and overall fine enough.

It's the least shit Bruno Mattei film I've ever seen!

(Also, did I not see it? I'm 90 years old, blind and senile sometimes)

[caiman]

Originally Posted by Deadguy2322

Might want to check the spelling for one of the country names in the first post...

Good catch. My apologies to Ingmar Bergman.

[nateynate87]

Would Erotic Nights of the Living Dead count?

[RossD]

How about Cut & Run?

Jungle Holocaust (1977) and Green Inferno (1988) are also headed to blu ray.

[caiman]

Originally Posted by nateynate87

Would Erotic Nights of the Living Dead count?

Sure. I've added it.

[caiman]

Originally Posted by RossD

How about Cut & Run?

Jungle Holocaust (1977) and Green Inferno (1988) are also headed to blu ray.

I added the first two but I'm not seeing a listing for Green Inferno yet.

[therealjondoe]

Nice thread.
Gave me some movies to add to my buy list
A witchcraft/ devil worship thread like this would be great too.

[RossD]

Originally Posted by caiman

I added the first two but I'm not seeing a listing for Green Inferno yet.

I think that one was just announced? But I can’t remember what label.

[darkness2918]

I have a few of the Italian zombie films but you can never have enough of those

[caiman]

What are everyone's thoughts on Mountain of the Cannibal God (1978, Sergio Martino)? I watched it last month and was very, very torn on it. It's one of the more technically proficient Italian cannibal flicks I've seen, but the animal violence is so incredibly pervasive that it nearly ruined it for me. I'm almost (almost) tempted to pick up the Shameless version with the animal scenes removed. But then again, government censorship makes me pretty sick too.

[chriskl99]

Hell of the Living Dead seems like it would fit.

[caiman]

Originally Posted by chriskl99

Hell of the Living Dead seems like it would fit.

It's up there. It's the UK release called Zombie Creeping Flesh: . It's also this Austrian version:

I initially had the US double feature with Rats from Blue Underground but removed it because I wasn't sure of its release status. Upon some brief research it seems legit, so I've added it back up there.