1988
Director- Claudio Fragasso

Once again, this is not the same movie as Jesus (Jess) Franco’s A Virgin Amongst the Living Dead,
AKA Zombie 4

On a remote island a group of research scientists who all carry submachine guns, confront and kill a silly voodoo priest, but not before he is able to lay a curse on them and release some zombies. One of the scientists flees with his wife and infant daughter, only to be pursued by the zoms, and killed. Only the daughter survives. Now, my question is, if you’re going somewhere that you feel the need to carry a submachine gun, why bring your wife and infant child?

20 years later, for no apparent reason, the now all woman daughter is cruising around the same island with a group of Vietnam Vets turned mercenaries and another dumb girl. They all (except the main girl of course) smoke some pot man, and are trying to get mellow, but the orphan chick keeps harshing their buzz with her spooky negative attitude man. At the same time another, new group of research scientists are on the island checking things out. A black clad ninja zombie bites one of the mercenaries, and their group flees to a little village that was used by the original team of researchers.

The new scientist team discovers a cave containing the prize that they have come to find. The book of the dead, with title printed on the cover in English in big ass block letters, from which they decide to read aloud. Duh, this calls forth some more ninja-zombies and they all get like, totally munched and zombified. The mercenary group holes up in the village hospital, but they too are soon besieged by zombies. Several of their number are bitten and become zombies initiating a hilarious scene in which one of the ‘Nam vet zoms tries to talk his old buddy into becoming a zombie with him for old times sake. Only two people survive, one of them, the orphan girl from the beginning, and they go back to the cave where the girl throws her voodoo charm into the volcano hoping to somehow end the horror, but all it does is turn her into a zombie. Throw your sobriety into the volcano and become a drunken zombie to enjoy this bonafide, certified grade-A head shaker.

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