Os Predadores da Noite

Os Predadores da Noite (1980)

Virus

Quando dois técnicos vão investigar um vazamento de gás tóxico, se deparam com um rato morto no "setor" onde estão, logo ficamos sabendo que o tal gás esverdeado faz parte de uma tal "Operação Doce Morte" (Sweath Death). Os caras contaminados pelo gás voltam à vida como zumbis.

Data de estreia
1980-11-17
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (157)
Duração
1 h 41 min
Géneros
Terror, Ficção científica
Realizador
Bruno Mattei

Elenco

Curiosidades

  • Filmado em: Barcelona

Hell of the Living Dead is a 1980 horror film directed by Bruno Mattei. The film is set in a laboratory in Papua New Guinea that releases a dangerous chemical, turning the technicians and locals into zombies. A French news reporter and her crew land on the island to investigate.

Production

When George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978) was released in Italy, it was retitled Zombi for the Italian audiences. Following this release, Italian film production would enter a vogue period of zombie films that would often be hybridized with other popular genres. These would include Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2 (1979), Antonio Margheriti's Cannibal Apocalypse (1980) and Hell of the Living Dead (1980).

Director Bruno Mattei said that the production began as a specific request from the producer. Mattei planned to make a film inspired by Dawn of the Dead, but wanted a lighter tone for the film. He said that initially two screenplays were written, and that the producers rejected the screenplay which Mattei preferred.

Claudio Fragasso said that he wrote Hell of the Living Dead with Rossella Drudi, his frequent co-scripter. Fragasso wanted the film differentiate itself from other zombie films being made during the period. After watching Dawn of the Dead, he tried to make a film similar to other American productions as well, comparing his script to films like Soylent Green (1973) as well as envisioning the film as "an undead epic, a kind of Apocalypse Now".

Hell of the Living Dead was shot in 5 weeks. The film includes stock footage to suggest that the film was set in New Guinea. Fragasso stated that when the crew arrived in Barcelona to shoot the film they found they had no money and had to improvise and rewrite the previous script. The production had this footage from the beginning of shooting the film and had rebuilt some of the locations from the stock footage in Spain, where the film was shot.

Among the cast was Margit Evelyn Newton as Lia. Newton recalled that she felt a great sense of responsibility at the time, playing the film's protagonist and felt nervous in a scene involving nudity in front of the indigenous people. She asked that everyone be removed from the set, with only indispensable cast and crew remaining. The scene was shot in one day.

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