I enjoy Italian horror - but this was dreadful!

Hell of the Living Dead (AKA Virus, AKA Night of the Zombies, AKA Zombie Creeping Flesh ~ 1980)

Directed by schlockmeister Bruno Mattei, and starring Margit Evelyn Newton. TV news reporter Lia Rousseau (Newton) and her crew arrive in Papua New Guinea to investigate an accident at a top secret research laboratory. Soon afterwards a team of commandos arrive; they recently neutralised a terror threat at an embassy and believe the disaster at the research lab may be the work of the same terrorist organisation. When they discover that the accident released a chemical which has turned all the lab workers into bloodthirsty zombies, Rousseau and her crew join forces with the commandos and eventually escape the complex. As they make their way through the surrounding New Guinea jungle they realise that the chemical has reached that area, which is now teaming with zombified indigenous hunters. As Rousseau and the others try to fight their way out they start falling victims to the zombies.

Nearly everything here is bad; acting, direction, story, dialogue, makeup... One reviewer at the time said, 'the possibility of a subversive subtext involving Third World victims corrupted by scientific research was truly buried here in an orgy of flesh chewing and vomiting, as well as dialogue that beggars belief' - which still makes it sound better than it is. The score by Goblin is good, but even that's cobbled together from pieces they wrote for other films; and whilst there's plenty of gore, it's so badly done. Newton being very pretty, the (second hand) Goblin music, and some unintentional laugh-out-loud moments scrape this a 3/10