Zombie (1979)

My Rating 6/10

Zombie was a Italian style horror film. Zombie was directed by Lucio Fulci, Lucio was a Italian director. When he made Zombie there were a few difficulties with the films title. Zombie is actually know as it's original title "Zombi 2". The reason why it was called Zombi 2 was because George A. Romero's Dawn Of The Dead was originally called "Zombie: Dawn Of The Dead" in the UK. So basically what had happened was that Zombi 2 couldn't steal the same title as Romero's Dawn Of The Dead known as Zombie in the UK. So they just call it Zombi 2. Why leave the E out in Zombie, I have no idea. Although Zombie also had another title they were going to use which was "Zombie Flesh Eaters". Which would have been a better title then instead of calling it Zombi 2. Well anyway about the film, Zombie is about a sail boat that arrives in New York without a living soul but a zombie that attacks two guards from the Coast Guard. The daughter of the owner of the ship, Anne Bowles (Tisa Farrow), requests information about her missing father that was in the Antilles to the detectives that are investigating the crime without success. She meets the journalist Peter West (Ian McCulloch) and they decide to investigate what might have happened to her father. They travel to Matul Island with Brian Hull (Al Cliver) and Susan Barrett (Auretta Gay) in their boat. Once in the tropical island, they meet Dr. David Menard (Richard Johnson), who is trying to find a cure to a disease that brings dead back to life, turning them into zombies that eat human flesh, increasing the menace against the group.

There were only a couple of awesome scenes in Zombie that I remember and that was one of them were a lady goes deep sea diving near the boat and out of no where a zombie is in the ocean with the girl and the girl escapes and returns to the boat but, the zombie is approached by a shark in the ocean and both the zombie and the shark battle against each other. Both the shark and the zombie are taking bites out of each other. It was really great! Beyond the Shark Vs. Zombie scene there was the most memorable scene in Zombie where a lady is grabbed by a zombie and is forced into a piece of sharp wood and having her eye gouge right into the wood.

Zombie won 1 nomination, It also got #98 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments. Zombie will always remain in the greatest gore horror movies of all time.

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