Zombi 2 (1979)
Zombie Flesh Eaters
Island of the Flesh-Eaters
Island of the Living Dead
Zombie
So Romero’s Dawn of the Dead was released in Italy as Zombi: Dawn of the Dead so then Lucio Fulci made Zombi 2, 3 and I think 4. Check out the wiki page for “Zombi Series” it’s hilarious, almost every country has run with it for their own shitty rip off series.
Here we open with a boat in the New York harbor, deserted except for one Zombie that kills a cop before being taken care of. The owner of the ship is a scientist that has gone missing and his daughter wants to go find him. They track him down on an uncharted and tiny island in the Caribbean where he has been experimenting with the dead, the undead, voodoo and all that.
It is excruciatingly dull. You sit around and wait for something to happen. Begging for something to happen.
Then a shark fights a Zombie. Underwater. A shark fights…with a Zombie. That kinda rules.
Then nothing for a while, snooze. Then in the last 15 or 20mins some corpses rise from the grave and there is a showdown.
Good gore effects, well sorta-they are inconsistent, some look really dumb. Lots of gross bugs. The rising from the grave sequences are classic and look really great. Cardboard acting, terrible pacing. Except for some shining moments, this doesn’t live up to its reputation or up to my expectations.
November 1, 2009 at 6:47 pm
I’m glad to see that someone else agrees with me that Zombie is way overrated and boring. I like plenty of Fulci movies, but this one seems to only vacillate between unintentional absurd humor (Shark v. Zombie…) and abysmally boring sequences. True, the zombies look good, and there are a few bright moments, but overall it cannot live up to the aura given to it by its inexplicable cult following. I think the “We are going to eat you” poster is the best thing about it.