Other Titles • Zombie • Island of the Flesh-Eaters (1979) • Island of the Living Dead • Ultimi zombi, Gli (1979) • Zombie 2: The Dead Are Among Us • Zombie Flesh-Eaters (2004) • Woodoo (1979) • Woodoo - Die Schreckensinsel der Zombies (1979) • Gli Ultimi Zombi • Sanguelia • Zombie Flesh Eaters (1980)
Synopses for Zombie (1979)
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In Lucio Fulci's genre classic Zombi 2, the dead rise once again to terrorize and consume the flesh of the living, this time Caribbean style! Those new to Fulci should note Island of the Flesh-Eaters, Zombi 2, and the more commonly known Zombie all refer to the same film. Though there is no Zombi 1, Fulci's film was titled Zombi 2 to capitalize on the commercial success of Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Though marketed as a sequel in Italy, the only similarities to Romero's classic are the title and the fact that the dead rise to eat the flesh of the living. Instead of being a metaphor for consumerism, Zombi 2 is a straight-out adventure story that ends in a horrific, apocalyptic nightmare. The plot is fairly straightforward, and more or less exists simply as a structure to hang scenes of extreme gore and terror on. Dr. Bowles's boat floats into New York Harbor missing its crew and carrying an undead passenger. The doctor's daughter (Tisa Farrow), dead set on finding out what happened to her father, teams up with journalist Peter West (Ian McCulloch) and heads to the cursed island of Matool, where a zombie epidemic is growing and Dr. Bowles's friend, Dr. Menard (Richard Johnson), is desperately trying to find a cure. Will Anne find her father? Will Dr. Menard find a cure? Will our heroes escape? In all honesty, who really cares? Because those in the "know" already know you don't come to a Fulci film looking for Shakespeare. What Zombi 2 lacks in plot development and continuity, it more than makes up for in atmosphere, intensity, and of course the trademark Fulci gore. Some of the unique high points are the never-duplicated zombie-versus-shark vignette, the rising of the Spanish zombie conquistadores, and Fulci's trademark eye shot. Fans of Italian/apocalyptic/cannibal/zombie films should not miss Zombi 2. Along with The Beyond, it defines the genre. --Rob Bracco
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A sailing-vessel enters the New York harbor without permission. Aboard is a zombie, who gruesomely kills a policeman and can only be stopped after being shot repeatedly. This mysterious occurrence arouses the curiosity of adventurous journalist Peter West (Ian McCullough), who goes on to investigate with the aid of Ann Bowles (Tisa Farrow). The trail leads to the Caribbean, where a strange plague makes the dead rise from their graves. The epidemic spreads rapidly and escape from the bloodthirsty zombies seems impossible.
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After a zombie is discovered on a boat in the New York harbor (and destroyed), curious journalists Peter and Ann head to the boats origin, the Caribbean Islands, where Ann's father is a scientist. When they arrive, along with some new friends, they discover that the dying islanders are returning to life...as indestructible, human flesh devouring zombies!
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After a New York harbor patrolman is murdered at the hands of a flesh-hungry ghoul aboard what was believed to be an abandoned yacht, Anne (Tisa Farrow)--the daughter of the ship's missing owner--teams up with a newspaper reporter named Peter West (Ian McCulloch) for a private investigation. With the help of a pair of sightseers, they travel to the secluded Caribbean island of Matul, where Anne's father was last seen conducting medical research. There, they meet his colleague, Dr. Menard (Richard Johnson), who frantically attempts to find a scientific explanation for a phenomenon that has plagued the island; it seems as if the dead refuse to stay dead. The locals believe a voodoo curse is at work as scores of animated corpses rise from their graves to hungrily seek out live flesh. Anne learns her father has died, but before she and the others can return to civilization, they are forced into battle with a plethora of bloodthirsty zombies.
Italian maestro Lucio Fulci's most lucrative outing features an abundance of shockingly gruesome sequences filmed in the director's regular close-up style, wasting none of frequent collaborator Giannetto De Rossi's amazing makeup effects. The ominous synthesizer soundtrack by Fabio Frizzi splendidly shrouds the action with simplistic, yet catchy hooks that are sure to continue buzzing in viewer's mind long after the film's spine-chilling ending. Released abroad as a sequel to George A. Romero's DAWN OF THE DEAD, produced by Dario Argento in Italy as ZOMBI.
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The Dead Are Among Us!
In Italy, it was considered the "unofficial sequel" to Dawn Of The Dead, In England, it was known as Zombie Flesh-Eaters and banned as obscene. In America, it was known as Zombie and advertised with the depraved tag line "We Are Going To Eat You!". Tisa Farrow (Manhattan), Richard Johnson (The Haunting) and Ian McCulloch (Contamination) star in this worldwide splatter sensation directed by the maestro of gore Lucio Fulci (Contraband, The Conquest, The Beyond) that remains one of the most eye-skewering, skin ripping, gore gushingly graphic horror hits of all time!
Now Zombie has been remastered from it's original camera negative. Each flesh-eating frame has been lovingly restored to skull-rotting perfection. This is Zombie like you truly never heard or seen it before!
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...The Dead Are Among Us!
Zombie has some of the most gut-wrenching scenes of bodily violation ever seen. From slow motion tracheotomies to exploding heads and the agonizing scene of the lovely Olga Karlato's beautiful eye being pulled into a wooden splinter. There is even an underwater battle between a zombie and a shark--guess who wins.
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In 1979, director Lucio Fulci (The Beyond) set out to create a movie experience that would become the ultimate in flesh-eating terror. Fulci's film quickly became a worldwide sensation and more than two decades later remains one of the most graphically depraved shockers in horror history.
Tisa Farrow (Manhattan), Ian McCulloch (Zombie Holocaust), Richard Johnson (The Haunting) and Olga Karlatos (Keoma) star in this carnage classic about an onslaught of ravenous corpses that threatens to devour an island in the Caribbean and head straight for the streets of New York City.
This is the notorious disc that DVD Review says "belongs in every horror film collection." This is the bloody mother of all Italian zombie epics presented in all its eye-gouging, throat-ripping, gut-munching glory.
This is Zombie!
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A Zombie is found aboard a boat off the New York coast which belongs to do a famous scientist. Peter West,a journalist, travels to the Antilles with Ann, the daughter of the scientist. On the way, they meet with with Brian, a ethnologist, and Susan. When they arrive at Matul Island, they find Dr. Menard, and discover a terrifying diease which is turning the Islanders into horrifying Zombies which devour human flesh and seem indestructable....
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