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Title: Zombie
Post by: The Vomitstomper on October 04, 1999, 04:24:22 AM
In response to review:

Right well, Donald O'Brien was Dr Butcher, not Richard Johnson, but Ian McCulloch (Peter) was in Dr Butcher, he was called Peter in that as well.
Notice that the bit where they drive down the deserted street past a donkey, and the distance shots of Matul were all stolen to be used in the original version of Zombi Holocaust (Dr Butcher).

And, I liked those breasts just fine.

Ever wondered what happens to the zombie shark?


Title: Zombie
Post by: teachbug@ipa.net on October 04, 1999, 10:31:27 AM
Oh man this brings back fond fond memorys.....awwwwwyes i rememeber it well one summer day! I went to my local DRIVE-IN and seen this wonderful movie. I love a really bad MOVIE, and this was classic!
Just the whole thing of the zombies SLOWLY shambling up to a person, and the idiot letting them get that damn close, then having the SLOW zombie LUNGE at a throat.......well it was just GREAT!
You know, the best part was at the beginning as I was driving in they handed out BARF-BAGS, my gawd, how much more can ya take!!
thanks so much for reviewing this movie, I had no idea how much i had missed it!
                                   Ron


Title: Zombie
Post by: Daniel-lion@mail-line.freeserve.co.uk on October 05, 1999, 01:04:53 PM
I remember this film YEAH!
Christ I can't belive I took it so seriously that first time. AND s**t I WAS 15 (probably a liitle soft in the head or gullable, just plain gullable.)
I remember the fact there were no pictures on the back and it kept saying THIS FILM IS CENSORED FOR THE MORE CASUAL VIEWER! I should have laughed at it then and put it back, but I thought why not. At the beginning I was taken back by it being a b-movie (I really though it was a serious zombie flick!)
I got into it after 10 minutes though and I remember crying laughing at THAT AWFUL MUSIC and the end scene in the barn HAHAHAHA the wooden planks being thrown on by people that were meant to be from the ceiling (You could see there hands)
In the end they keep repeating the same piece of film and more and MORE wood piles up! HAHAH
I really liked this movie it had me in STICHES!


Title: Zombie
Post by: Davvs on October 09, 1999, 09:49:13 AM
this movie is a real gem!!!Lucio Fulci´s masterpiece!this is a must see!!!!!!don´t miss it!


Title: Zombie
Post by: Chris K. on March 03, 2000, 08:44:10 AM
To the critic teachbug@ipa.net and Daniel-lion@mail-line.freeserve.co.uk (wahat the hell kind of internet address is that!), this film is totally NOT FUNNY! Very gory! Gorier than THE EVIL DEAD (1979), but not gorier than NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968). Great music too (Daniel-lion says it was bad on his review, but he is a fag so what does he know!) and a nice setting. When Lucio Fluci made this it was called ZOMBIE 2 as a sequel to DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) that was titled in Italy as ZOMBIE. Okay dubbing but saved by great photography (even the exagerated zooming in and zooming out effects are impressive. So watch tis film and forget these poor saps reviews.


Title: Zombie
Post by: Tony on July 18, 2000, 02:56:47 AM
I consider this one of the better zombie movies, right after the Dead trilogy of George A. Romero. I think this was definitely one of Lucio Fulci's best, and still stands the test of time after all these years. The acting is not very realistic but the special make-up effects are what make this movie. Thats really the best thing about this flick, all the blood, gore and of those flesh-crunching zombies! The wood splinter thru the eye is classic, as well as that brutal throat-ripping scene! I still have an old issue of Fangoria magazine that covered this movie and even had that maggot-infested flesh eater on the cover! Even the music by Goblin has a bizarre appeal in a strange sort of way. All in all, this is a very good addition to any zombie fans video collection, right along with Dawn of the Dead and Gates of Hell.


Title: Zombie
Post by: Chris K. on May 19, 2000, 07:27:50 AM
I must appologize about my hateful comments to teachbug@ipa.net and Daniel-lion@mail-line.freeserve.co.uk, but how is ZOMBIE a bad film. If it was it would not be out on video from Anchor Bay Entertainment in it's original 2.35:1 widescreen with trailers and radio spots.


Title: Zombie
Post by: Chadzilla on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Zombie rocks!  It may have its laugh enducing over the top moments (i.e. zombie v shark), but nonetheless the movie bends over backwards to please and that makes it even more endearing.  Great score to.

About those short burning molotovs, you don't think that Lucio was saving a buck by showing the same fire gag over and over again do you?  Naw, couldn't be, could it??????


Title: Zombie
Post by: Steve on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
Re. "Zombie" This film was released in UK as "Zombie Flesh Eaters". It has been on and off the "Video nasty" list for years. It was broadcast recently by the ever reliable UK's Channel 4 - uncut - so I now have it in its original form. ZFE is one of Fulci's "better" bad movies, he crams as much gore and breasts in as possible. I think Richard Johnson (DR. Menard) must have seen his last overdraft statement. The music score is suitably sleazy, and the head-shots lesson seems to have been taken on board. Look out for Fulci's other badmovies eg - "House By The Cemetery" - not nice! The characters make the mistake of ignoring advice not to explore the cellar. Will these people never learn? Don't they watch Italian zombie-flix? Try to beg, steal, borrow, or tape Ruggero Deodato's "Cannibal Apocalypse" - it contains an all-time classic line of dialogue. The movie is set in Vietnam (You knew that anyway, didn't you?) and an officer finds one of his men about to chomp on a breast - "Oh my god! Put it down son!" Happy viewing - Steve.


Title: Zombie
Post by: Rosario Salotto on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
I own all three of George A. Romero's Zombie movies, and they were great.  I have seen Lucio Fulci's "Zombie" a number of times, and it is a good horrow movie.  I especially enjoyed Susan (Auretta Gay), and Mrs. Menard (Olga Karlatos) getting naked in that movie.  I was a little upset when Susan got killed, but I also did not think they had to kill off Brian (Al Cliver) as well.  I predicted Dr. Menard's (Richard Johnson) death right from the start, because you had to know that he wasn't going to make it.  I think that the one major disapointment is the fact that you never know what happened to Ann (Tisa Farrow) and Peter West (Ian McCulloch) after they locked Brian in the bilge.  You never find out if Brian broke out of the bilge and killed them.  I think it's like that with a lot of zombie movies.


Title: Zombie
Post by: serge wohlgensinger on December 08, 2002, 10:24:27 AM
I love that movie;and I am still scared a little bit by watching it.Because it HAS its scary moments;perhaps Olga beeing alone before the splinnter-scene.Or the most scary shot;the zombie walking alone on the empty street.The Synth-Score gives me the creeps since i first heard it;so simple and effective.The sadest thing about it:the times of that kind of movies has definitly gone.All the new digital bulls**t fast edited movies dont have any moods.who will watch Resident evil in 20 years? Call me nostalgic...


Title: Zombie
Post by: Riff on November 25, 2006, 04:09:03 PM
This movie is my favorit zombie movie, no question! The special effects are great, the theme song kicked ass, and it scared me!

This movie has a place in my top 10 favorits!


Title: Zombie
Post by: Robin on November 25, 2006, 04:10:12 PM
There was a sequel to this movie, called - logically - ZOMBIE 2.  It expanded on the underwater zombie v.s. the shark scene.

If you're a real ZOMBIE fanatic, a Rolling Stone contributing editor named Tim Cahill actually interviewed the shark handler for ZOMBIE 2; the interview was entitled "The Underwater Zombie" and it's included in a collection of Cahill's columns called Jaguars Ripped My Flesh.  Pretty funny.


Title: Zombie
Post by: Matt Barlett~~HOLLAND on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
This is what we call ranzig (tasty)!!
Especially the eyeball scene!

Itsa nice!!!! :):):):)

Jammer dat zulke films niet vaak in de bios komen :(
Maar jha, je kunt niet alles hebben, dus als je maar lol hebt.

Hè nederlanders?!!!

Holland rulezz!!
Haha, most of you can't read it, but the people who can will agree!! Stuur een mailtje als je wat wilt lullen over films!!


Title: Zombie
Post by: James Perry on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
I read so much about these Fulci flicks I picked up three DVDs - Zombie, City of the Living Dead, The Beyond - and watched them earlier this month.  

Zombie:  Great zombies (shark scene was very cool...tits and etc) but the film doesn't have the constant urgency of Romero's flicks.  Fulci seems to replace this with high-level gore.  But I wasn't disappointed in the film and had a lot of anticipation for City of the Living Dead.  

City of the Living Dead:  Imagine my disappointment.  Gut puking?  That's a new one.  Gross does not equal scary in my book.  First time in a looooong time stomach was a little turned over.  But I finished watching.  I think my mood wasn't right for this.  I'll try again one day...hell, I own it now!  

The Beyond:  'scuse my while I put my hands in front of my eyes like a girl!  Lol  Several scenes here do that.  But you must watch this just to see the toy spiders destroy a librarian's face (for every fine you've had to pay)!  Funny as hell!

Fulci like his bugs!  But I can't help feeling I wasted my money on these.  Rent first!


Title: Zombie
Post by: LatinoMovieFan on November 25, 2006, 04:09:49 PM
Here in the USA, it's also titled 'Zombie'

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005U128/ref=pd_rhf_p_2/002-9695593-8605621?v=glance&s=dvd&no=*


Title: Zombie
Post by: Borkelaer on February 02, 2005, 05:35:53 AM
Good movie, wrong title. The movie is called zombie 2 AKA zombie flesh eaters, not zombie.


Title: Re: Zombie
Post by: radioman970 on August 24, 2007, 01:13:52 PM
Best looking Zombies ever, IMHO. 


Title: Re: Zombie
Post by: wtffilm on August 25, 2007, 03:20:26 PM
Good movie, wrong title. The movie is called zombie 2 AKA zombie flesh eaters, not zombie.


Incorrect.  Zombie is the official international (re: English language) release title for the film.  It was re-christened Zombie Fleasheaters by distributors in the UK (who likewise re-christened Zombi 3 as Zombie Flesheaters 2 for its video release there).  Zombi 2 was the title in Italy alone in response to the previous years' Dawn of the Dead being released there as Zombi.  Referencing this film as Zombi 2 outside of Italy would have made little sense since, in other countries, there would have been no Zombi to preceed it.

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Kevin P.
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Title: Re: Zombie
Post by: vdantev on July 06, 2008, 02:24:07 PM
ICK!! Splinter through the eyeball in slow motion no less, gets me every time. what a great yet horribly violent movie.


Title: Re: Zombie
Post by: VogNhymn on July 14, 2008, 07:16:38 AM
Love this film. I love Lucio Fulci.  I love Fabio Frizzi's musical scores! One of my all time favorite zombie flicks!


Title: Re: Zombie
Post by: drunkenbubba on June 29, 2009, 03:11:14 AM
I love Romero and think that Dawn is a superior film, but Zombie had much better makeup, and the zombies gave more of a feeling of dread than Romero's did. Plus the zombie vs shark scene still really hasn't been topped yet.


Title: Re: Zombie
Post by: zelmo73 on October 28, 2013, 10:19:30 PM
My dad took me to see this at the drive-in theater back in 1980 when I was 6 years old. Yes, it was called Zombie here in the United States. It was called Zombie when we rented it on video 3 years later. Netflix gave us the international movie treatment when I saw it again in 2010 as Zombi 2.

The English dubbing is pretty bad; we're talking Hong Kong chop-socky movie dubbing material. But otherwise, the film quality is superb, especially the zombie vs. shark scene. I've read that they had to make sure that the shark was full and slightly tranquilized before the shoot, and that the zombie was actually the shark's real-life trainer!

I too, thought that the make-up for the zombies in this movie were superior to the ones in Dawn of the Dead (1978), and even in the 2004 remake. They looked like actual decomposed corpses brought back to life, as opposed to just some goofy bit actors in blue make-up. The female head prop for the wood-splinter-in-the-eye scene did look rather fake though, but what was left to the imagination was still pretty grotesque. And althought the movie had many slow moments, the overall pace of the film was adequate, especially the "first contact" scene on the boat in the New York City harbor where we got a ripped jugular death within the first five minutes of the movie. Not bad!  :hot:


I do recommend this movie for any horror film buff's movie collection, and especially for a fan of zombie movies!


Title: Re: Zombie
Post by: Umaril Has Returned on November 04, 2013, 11:16:32 AM
My dad took me to see this at the drive-in theater back in 1980 when I was 6 years old. Yes, it was called Zombie here in the United States. It was called Zombie when we rented it on video 3 years later. Netflix gave us the international movie treatment when I saw it again in 2010 as Zombi 2.

Holy cow, Batman. You were 6 when you got to see this one? I was 16 (just barely under the age of for NC-17, but we knew the people who owned the theatre.  My mom took my cousin and I, and my mom had never seen anything like it before, and she was so nervus she ripped thru an entire bag of Reese's Peanut Butter cups!  My cousin and I, at the time, were somewhat experienced in gore from the advent of Fangoria magazine and Romero's Dawn Of The Dead and we were like, 'Cool!'  :bouncegiggle:

The The film quality is superb, especially the zombie vs. shark scene. I've read that they had to make sure that the shark was full and slightly tranquilized before the shoot, and that the zombie was actually the shark's real-life trainer!

Well, Jackie Chan was too busy falling off of buildings and getting banged up in so many other ways that they had  to get someone else to do it. I admit too that the film quality is superb, when you consider seeing Olga Karlatos nude and a topless Auretta Gay  :hot:

I too, thought that the make-up for the zombies in this movie were superior to the ones in Dawn of the Dead (1978), and even in the 2004 remake. They looked like actual decomposed corpses brought back to life, as opposed to just some goofy bit actors in blue make-up. The female head prop for the wood-splinter-in-the-eye scene did look rather fake though, but what was left to the imagination was still pretty grotesque. And althought the movie had many slow moments, the overall pace of the film was adequate, especially the "first contact" scene on the boat in the New York City harbor where we got a ripped jugular death within the first five minutes of the movie. Not bad!  :hot:

Fulci's makeup man, Gianetto Di Rossi, had a way of making Italian zombies really look dead. There's something quite disturbing about them, as if they were twisted puppets held up by some unknown plane of force. The 25th Anniv. Shriek Show DVD explains the eye-splinter scene in full detail, and does so in English as well.

The original Dawn Of The Dead was a better story while Zombi 2 was more a masterpiece of gore and a lesson about how to make truly gruesome effects w\o a budget. and like you, I too recommend this one for anyone's collection.  Good review!  :cheers: