LUCIO FULCI'S ZOMBIE DVD HELP

[#1dvdfan]

I just got this on dvd and this was a blind buy. I dont know what it's about noyhin at all. I want to know how good this movie is and the sequels as well.

[ParileseMonster]

Good movie, good score, and one hell of a scene featuring an eyeball that will have you squirming in your chair! I actually saw the most recent restored print of this at a theatre downtown. Beautiful!!! This print is not currently on DVD yet....

[Cronos]

Great movie, loads of gore. it also has a great soundtrack and some excellent scenes

i havent got a clue about the sequels though, i havent yet seen them

[EVILxxx]

It's definetly in the top 5 zombie movies.
The special edition is coming out soon, you probably should have waited.

[blacksnake]

Zombie, is an Italian film dubbed in English. The film is about a woman who finds out that her father was found dead on a tropical island. A male reporter than comes and helps the woman to get information on her father's death. They meet a couple who take them over the seas to the island which the natives called cursed. While on the island they find a doctor whose experiments have been bringing the dead back to life and hungry for human flesh. The woman, the reporter and the couple then have to fight off the zombies and make it back to their boat so they can save themselves. Zombie, has good direction and good zombie and gore makeup. When the film was shown in theaters the audience was given barf bags due to the amount of blood and gore in the movie. The film was also written before Dawn Of The Dead (which came out in 1978) and Zombie came out in 1979. The opening and closing scenes of the movie were however added to the script to seem close to Dawn Of The Dead, to cash in on Dawn Of The Dead's theatrical success. Zombie, is followed by Hell Of The Living Dead, After Death and Zombie: Flesh Eaters 2. Zombie, isn't exactly a smart movie or anything like that but it is fun and enjoyable and for those who like gore you even get some of that. After seeing this film I can see how much this year's film House Of The Dead borrowed from it. Overall, Zombie is an entertaining rental. Also for those confused this film is listed as Zombi 2, on the internet because of the Italian title. Dawn Of The Dead, came out a year before this film and in Italy was called Zombi, so this one there is called Zombi 2.

[SAI]

Here is review I wrote of this film some time ago

ZOMBIE

Note: This review is of the UNCUT version of this film, under its US title of ZOMBIE. The British print, rated 18, cuts out some of the most visceral, and most memorable, moments of the film and is all but worthless compared to the uncut version.

Dir: Lucio Fulci

Stars: Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Al Cliver, Richard Johnson

Alternate Tiles: Zombie Flesh Eaters (UK Title) Zombi 2 (Italian Title. This was an attempt to pass the film off as a sequel to George Romero's Dawn Of The Dead which, in Italy, bore the title Zombi)

Plot Summary: A reporter (Mc Culloch) joins a young woman (Farrow) on a journey to the island of Matul where she hopes to find her father. When they arrive on Matul it is to find that the dead are rising from their graves to attack the living.

Review: In his attempt to sequelise, and cash in on, Dawn Of The Dead Lucio Fulci makes a film that surpasses Romero's in all respects.

The first thing that must be mentioned in regard to Zombie is its technical brilliance on what was probably a very low budget Fulci and make up artist Gianetto Di Rossi have created the best zombie make up yet seen on screen. It is also worth remembering that this film was made in 1979 and the make up remains unsurpassed, even a quarter of a century on. There are several sequences in this film that rank among the very best in horror cinema. Perhaps the most famous is the sequence of a zombie walking on the sea bed and fighting with a shark.

Okay the shark looks a little decrepit but it is clearly real and this can't have been a comfortable stunt to perform. Helped by a hypnotic score by Fabio Frizzi and the almost slow motion effect created underwater Fulci crafts a beautiful sequence which will lodge itself in your memory. The most notorious scene in the film is the one in which Dr Menard's (Johnson) wife has her eye put out on a sharp piece of wood, the effect is absolutely horrific, you can almost feel the moment. It looks shockingly brutal and real and is yet another moment that lifts this film above the many other exploitation horror films of the late 70's.

Fulci, as director, crafts some memorable shots such as the moment where the camera finds a lone zombie in the village and tracks 360 degrees around him, this shot also shows off Gianetto Di Rossis make up to the best effect and it stands up well to the close up inspection we can give it in this scene. What really makes these zombies superior to those in Romero's film is that here they really look dead, the zombies Romero and Tom Savini created were simply discoloured. This makes Fulci's lumbering, decaying corpses far more frightening than any other movie zombie.

As is often the case with Fulci the script and acting go by the wayside a bit, Tisa Farrow (yes, she's Mia's sister) in particular shows exactly why she was replaced by Catriona MacColl when City Of The Living Dead came around in 1980. McCulloch and Johnson, both Shakespearean actors, compete to see who can chew more scenery (Johnson, constantly wiping his brow, wins). The script though has an interesting circular stucture, beginning and ending on a boat, and indeed on very similar shots. The final revelation, via radio, of the spread of the zombies is a trademark of Fulci's, his films don't really appear to end, they simply stop and allow us to imagine where the rest of the story might take the characters. This can, as in City Of The Living Dead, be an annoyance but in Zombie it provides the film a final moment of real horror as we see that the characters will not, despite escaping Matul, survive.

Having seen a good amount of the "video nasties" which were banned in 1984 I can honestly say that Zombie is the best of them, and probably the one that will stand the test of time best.

It's a real shame that Lucio Fulci, and Zombie in particular, are not better known. Fulci certainly didn't make films for the squeamish among us but if you can handle gore you won't find it done better than by this man.

5/5

[Joe Turtle]

I thought Zombie was a great movie. I saw it at a drive in when I was little. I bought the DVD last year. It has a lot of great effects. Fulci was a great director but the scripts were usually bad. The sequels Zombi 3 and 4 were ok,not as good as the original but worth watching If you like zombies.I rented them from Blockbuster. I would rent first.

[Murderous Squad]

Originally posted by EVILxxx
It's definetly in the top 5 zombie movies.
The special edition is coming out soon, you probably should have waited.

The special edition is for zombie 2 not the first

[Murderous Squad]

Originally posted by Murderous Squad
The special edition is for zombie 2 not the first


Shit man zombi 2 is the original zombi isn't it?? Damn it now i gotta get rid of my original version to upgrade

[countchocula]

Yeah, Zombi 2 is the European title for Zombie (the first "Zombi" being Dawn of the Dead).