Zombi 2 (1979)

AKA: Zombie

Film details

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DirectorLucio Fulci
Year1979
CountryItaly
GenreZombie
TypeMovie
Runtime91m
CastTisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson, Al Cliver, Auretta Gay, Stefania D'Amario, Olga Karlatos

Review

"The Italian goremeister's breakthrough film features not a single believable character or plot point, no semblance of narrative cohesion or momentum, scraggly editing, horribly dubbed dialogue and a deadening lack of subtext. Yet via a few satisfyingly blood-splattered set pieces and some nice panoramic shots of voodoo-spawned zombies shuffling through a dusty Caribbean shantytown and emerging from the graves of centuries-old Spanish conquistadors, Fulci's film nevertheless achieves a ghastly sort of brilliance. With close-ups of zombie mouths tearing flesh from victims' throats, an eyeball being impaled on a shard of wood, and some hilariously unnecessary T&A, Zombie delivers the grisly B-movie goods." - Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness

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