Zombie (1979)
Directed by Lucio Fulci
Genres - Horror, Fantasy, Mystery |
Sub-Genres - Supernatural Horror |
Release Date - Jul 18, 1980 (USA) |
Run Time - 91 min. |
Countries - Italy |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Robert Firsching
This audaciously disgusting spectacle from the late master of gruesome horror, Lucio Fulci, was posited as a semi-sequel to George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, which was released in Italy as Zombi. Tisa Farrow and a group of vacationing tourists travel to an island where they find a doctor (Richard Johnson) who is attempting to cure a condition that reanimates the dead. Things quickly get out of control as undead Spanish conquistadors crawl from their graves hungry for human flesh. The nauseatingly graphic set-pieces by Gianetto de Rossi include a close-up of a woman's eye being pierced by a large shard of wood and a zombie fighting a Great White shark underwater. This relatively well-made shocker was enormously popular worldwide and led to the zombie-gore film becoming the dominant motif of 1980s Italian horror.
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zombie, flesh-eating, island, investigation, killing, scientist, missing-person, voodoo, investigator, journalism, murder