Hell of the Living Dead (1980)

Alternately known by the titles Virus, Night of the Zombies, and others, director Bruno Mattei's Italian-Spanish co-production Hell of the Living Dead (1980) serves up a primo (over)dose of early-'80s George Romero-inspired gore. Kicking off with a zombie rat devouring a dude's face, Hell tracks a SWAT team in the jungles of New Guinea as they blast away at the walking dead, who have risen as the result of a chemical leak. Joining the gunmen is Margrit Evelyn Newton as a reporter who, upon coming across native tribesman, strips completely nude, paints her perfect body, and performs a lusty dance as an offering of peace (or is that piece?). It works on the locals but not the recently deceased, who continue to chomp, stumble, and step in front of machine-gun fire with explosively crimson results.