Good start, but then it gets ruined

Fresh and Exciting

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Lucio Fulci brings us perhaps his most famous horror film to wrap up the 1970s. And if I am wrong than that is just what I used to think before I had seen any of Fulci's films. This was the first Fulci movie I ever seen and I first saw this when I rented it with the equally as good 'House by the Cemetery' (also by Fulci) over a pizza. Right after the short intro the credits start rolling and we hear quite an amazing score from Fabio Frizzi. With the pounding bass drum and eerie keyboards. Great stuff! The story to the film though starts with zombies being found on an abandoned boat in the NY harbour. The daughter of the man who owns the boat Anne Bowles is played by the beautiful Tisa Farrow (sister of Mia Farrow). After she meets up with news reporter Peter West (Ian McCullough) they go in search of her father in Caribbean Island of Matul. Within I believe every one of Fulci movies I have seen to date (8 in total) there is some odd things going. Right to the point of it being ridiculous. He hits the high of ridiculousness here when a zombie (who incredibly comes out of nowhere) fights a shark in the ocean. You would think a moment like that would hurt a fight...badly. But not here. It actually goes along quite well with the film. The film is dripping with memorable gore, so if you are not into gory zombie movies steer clear. If so dive right in.

This film has dated badly, as special effects have improved, but its easy to see why it was so shocking at the time. The story is reasonably well told, and it harks back to the old Voodoo roots of zombies, which gives it a slightly different edge. There are plot holes and flaws throughout, but as an early example of the genre its worth seeing for completists.

In 1979 "The Grandfather of Gore" Lucio Fulci hit it out of the park (with a bullet) on this film. Zombi 2 has been one of my favorite zombie films for quite a few years now, and every time I watch it I like it more. Fulci oozes style in this one, displaying that, although he's known mostly as a gore-meister, he really knew how to ramp up the tension when he wanted to. The scene with the door and the broken wood (you know which one I mean), is not only exceptionally well paced and satisfying when that climax is reached, but it was also quite artistically photographed. One of the many highlights in this film, and a high watermark of Fulci's career as a whole. Hell, it's now an icon of Italian Horror in general...it's that good.Apart from Fulci's now iconic sequences (Zombie vs shark!), this film just wouldn't be the same without Fabio Frizzi's brilliant score! Frizzi does not get the praise he deserves for some of the incredible scores he provided in his day, and the work he did on this film is no exception. If you like Italian horror, watch it...immediately. If you like Zombie films--understand that you're in for a different flavor of entertainment, but definitely give it a shot. It's a film that has earned at least one viewing. Watch it!

The name itself is synonymous with the "video nasty" craze of the 1980s, when the lucky residents of the UK found that their favourite gory horror films were being taken from the shelves of the local video shops and put in a dark, damp cellar with the word "BANNED" on the door. ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS is perhaps the most notorious film of that era, and even non-horror fans are sure to come across the title some time in their lives. It certainly is Lucio Fulci's most popular film, even if it is not his best. The film is simply known as ZOMBIE in America and as ZOMBI 2 in Italy, due to the fact that it was partly intended as a spin-off following on from the success of Romero's DAWN OF THE DEAD, released a year earlier in that territory as simply ZOMBI.Most modern people who view the film find themselves disappointed. It's slow moving, badly made, and with shoddy production values. However, opinion amongst horror fans is divided. Half of us think that it's rubbish and not worth watching due to the fact that it is simply too boring. The other half (of which I am included) see through the sometimes mundane nature of the film and see that it is in fact a good, old-fashioned adventure romp, harking back to the days of Lewton's I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, a Caribbean-set zombie film, with extra lashings of gore. Sure, I am ready to agree that the film is a little slow, that the acting is rather amateur, and the production values leave something to be desired. But rising above all these factors is the fact that the film's heart is in the right place, it's fun, and it was never meant to be taken too seriously. And that's why I love it.There's a lot to like about the film. It's one of those ones which grows on you. I didn't think much of it myself the first time I watched it, but after a few more viewings it now holds a special place in my heart. The music, for instance, is excellent. I once heard it described as "fairground" music but that's not the case. It starts off with a slow beat which lasts for ages and then becomes a drawn-out haunting score which appears whenever the zombies too. The acting isn't up to much but the cast includes a whole load of notable names. First off is Tisa Farrow, the sister of Mia. Then there's Ian McCulloch, who appeared in a number of cheesy horror films around this time. Al Cliver also appears and he too was in a number of Italian horror films. The final name is Richard Johnson who shot to fame in the 1963 Robert Wise classic THE HAUNTING. Johnson is the most believable character here, as the helpless doctor trying to find a cure for the sickness. The rest of the cast is adequate.The gore on offer is from one of the most respected names in Italian SFX history, Giannetto De Rossi, and is literally eye-popping. It's certainly realistic and also quite sickening in some instances (the infamous eye-piercing springs to mind!) The make up on the zombies is excellent, and these zombies are my favourite from any film you care to think of - they beat Romero's pasty-faced wisps into the ground! They're rotted, they've got worms coming out of their eye sockets, they're superb. So if you go easy on this film you'll find yourself enjoying it despite its many faults. Watch out for the scene at the end in the hospital where the survivors are throwing Molotov cocktails - one piece of footage is re-used four times! The budget obviously wasn't up to much but director Fulci succeeded in creating a memorable, much talked-about infamous classic in the genre.