SummaryStrangers searching for a young woman's missing father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately seeks the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.
Directed By:Lucio Fulci
Written By:Elisa Briganti, Dardano Sacchetti
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There’s something especially primordial, even biblical, about director Lucio Fulci’s grisly spectacle.
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Beneath the video nasty hysteria lies a horror of substantial craft and skill. Its iconic synth theme is on a par with the work of Goblin, whilst its rich cinematography makes the very most of the film’s luscious locales.
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May 30, 2021
8
There's not too much going on here narratively other than some references to voodoo made to get the zombie subgenre back to it's roots. The simple premise of exploring an island somewhere in the Caribbean to get answers as to why an abandoned boat turned up in New York is enough to assemble a group of everymen characters. From there it's all about the zombie action. For the most part it's your standard splatter fest that's mostly managed to stand out over the years thanks to some truly impressive gore. Lucio Fulci put some pretty gruesome moments in here. What I really like about that is it never goes all campy on us. Tonally, it's actually a lot like a Romero flick. Only without the social and political commentary. Everything is handled in a self-respecting way sans a bit of naked scuba diving. It's the only scene where Fulci allows for any playfulness as the camera pans over Auretta Gay's lovely body in the most gratuitous ways possible. Everything else is sheer brutal horror. The underwater segments are some of the best in the movie and not just because of the nudity. On top of showing some beautiful coral formations and crowds of exotic fish, there's also a freaking shark fight against a zombie. With a real shark! My mind was blown watching the actor straight up wrestle one of nature's most terrifying predators and knowing that Gay had to swim so close to it. Unforgettable stuff. There are so many memorable moments. Like the misguided foray into a Conquistador graveyard that has some of the best looking zombies I've ever seen or the fiery final stand in the church turned hospital. Fabio Frizzi's score gives the movie a great atmosphere. Really selling the straight-faced tone they were going for. The characters and story are rather basic right up until that generic grim ending, but their encounters with the undead are great and there's always a lot of blood.
Apr 4, 2020
8
Zombie (1979) Sinopsis: Un reportero (Ian McCulloch) de Nueva York sigue a una mujer (Tisa Farrow) hasta una isla en donde un doctor (Richard Johnson) enfrenta una epidemia de muertos vivientes. Opinión: Bastante entretenida, visceral y violenta, bien filmada, efectos aceptables para la época y con una que otra escena super gore. Valoración: 4 de 5
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Taken on its own terms, it works quite agreeably as a visceral blow to the breadbasket, with one of the most outrageous and apocalyptic final scenes in the entirety of the subgenre.
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Eventually the action leads to an uncharted island, where the film devolves into an explicit but unoriginal gorefest. [28 May 2009, p.30]
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The lack of suspense amid the Technicolor carnage disappoints. Subtle it ain't, but the title alone should keep art lovers away.
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A few memorable scenes but this doesn't keep up the pace or plausability sufficiently.
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Though the effects work of Giannetto De Rossi is generally excellent and certainly stomach-churning, most of Zombie is slow and unintentionally funny. Fulci's work has its champions, but his films are mostly dim-witted and hold little interest for anyone other than hard-core gore fans.
Aug 21, 2025
7
This is a very good Italian gore-fest. The story is a little basic but the violence is excellent. The eye-splinter scene is horrific. The makeup is amazing. The effects are stunning. Sadly it is let down by shockingly bad dubbing which is so common among contemporary films of this time. And the story and characters could be better. This really does have a lot of credibility for a splatter zombie movie, one of the best in the genre. Overall this is a brilliant graphic horror. A real highlight in the Italian horror world.
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