A meltdown at a chemical factory releases a deadly virus into the air that proceeds to turn people into flesh-munching zombies and it's up to a Swat team to try and get to the factory through an Amazonian-like wilderness to stop the madness.

I admit I enjoy most zombie movies, but this cheap import knock-off has got to be one of the worst ever made. Inept in every department with lots of unintentional chuckles, low-grade effects (at times the zombies just look like people with shoe polish on their face) and plenty of oddly placed nature stock footage. And if you're looking for a plot you'll be searching right up until the end credits because it just doesn't exist.

Director Mattei (under his Dawn pseudonym) gives good proof as to why he's considered one of Italy's worst directors. Choice moments to watch for: the whole part with a guy saying the zombies "could be drunk", a swat team scene stolen directly from Dawn Of The Dead, the chewing tobbacco scene, a native woman eating maggots from an eye socket, the fact they tell each other they can only kill the zombies by shooting them in the head but they continue to pump the bodies with bullets, why one member in a moment of seriousness dons a dress and top hat to do a little dance number; and when the heroine gets blood dripped all over her face from an elevator.

Godawful.

Directed By: Vincent Dawn (Bruno Mattei).
Written By: J.M. Cunilles, Claudio Fragasso.

Starring: Margit Evelyn Newton, Frank Garfield, Selan Karay, Robert O'Neil.

aka: Cannibal Virus; Zombie Creeping Flesh; Zombie Inferno.