Porno Holocaust is a 1981 Italian sexploitation horror film directed and lensed by Joe D'Amato and written by Tito Carpi under the pseudonym "Tom Salina".

[3] A group of scientists is taken to a secluded island where nuclear weapons testing occurred in 1958, in order to investigate sightings of mutated animals, and allegations of a monster.

Dying due to severe injuries, Benoît tells Herbier that he was attacked by an "ape man" that is holding Annie captive in a nearby cave.

Back at the camp, Antoine strangles Professor Lemoine, and kills then rapes Countess de Saint-Jacques, leaving Herbier to try to rescue Annie on his own.

[1] A German softcore version titled Insel der Zombies uses a number of musical tracks taken from Erotic Nights of the Living Dead.

Stine observed "awful make-up prosthetics" and "no-budget gore", whose existence he ascribed "to mak[ing] sure the viewer hasn't fallen asleep to the rather uneventful screwing".

Stine also noticed that the girl the mutant does not rape, but instead abducts and gifts with flowers, "doesn't seem to be terribly upset over her predicament, despite the bodies piling up around her".

The film was "exasperatingly slow" and the acting was sub-par, but Lupi saw these weaknesses as elements that even added to the myth of a "home-made cinema of the extreme".

He wrote that the scenes of hardcore pornography were "well attended to" and "shot with craftsmanship and pioneering spirit", keeping in mind that these were the first of their kind in Italian film.

[12] In his book Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960-1980 published in 2011, assistant professor Danny Shipka of Louisiana State University gave both Porno Holocaust and Erotic Night of the Living Dead negative reviews, criticizing the acting, gore, and sex scenes, and concluding that the merging of "hard-core sex and extreme violence is disturbing".