Dr. Butcher, MD

No filming until Sunday night, weather permitting, so no news on the filming front. Instead, tonight, we watched Italo-trash classic Dr. Butcher, MD (1982).

Made on the coattails of Lucio Fulci's massively successful Zombie the previous year - and promoted as a sequel in certain territories, Dr. Butcher MD piles on the (usually unconvincing but often creative) gore, violence and nudity to an absurd level, which makes for generally entertaining, although most definitely throaway, viewing.

Zombie Holocaust, the European title of the movie, was written by Fabrizio de Angelis, who penned all of Fulci's zombie classics of the early 1980s as well as working on his mysogynistic opus The New York Ripper (1982), and the rare giallo movie Sette scialli di seta gialla (1972), or Seven Crimes of the Black Cat, which features perhaps the most elaborative murder method ever seen on celluloid - a black cat with its claws dipped in curare.

Here's the (totally misleading) American trailer for Zombie Holocaust.

A generally rambling post, but it's Italian cinema chat, so it's all kind-of related.