Zombie

Name: Zombie
Genre: Horror
Released: July 18, 1980
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 54
Cast: Al Cliver, Auretta Gay, Ian McCulloch, Olga Karlatos, Omero Capanna

1980

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Jugendfilm-Verleih | Release Date: July 18, 1980 | Not Rated

Starring: Al Cliver, Auretta Gay, Ian McCulloch, Olga Karlatos, Omero Capanna, Ramón Bravo, Richard Johnson, Stefania D'Amario, Tisa Farrow, Ugo Bologna

Summary: Strangers 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.

Director: Lucio Fulci

Genre(s): Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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IndieWire Staff (Not Credited)

There’s something especially primordial, even biblical, about director Lucio Fulci’s grisly spectacle. Read full review

Daniel Green

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. Read full review

Drew Hunt

It's still the best film in which a zombie and a shark have an underwater fight. Throw in the director's nightmarish style and experimental narrative structure and you have one delightfully weird and genuinely chilling film. Read full review

J.R. Jones

Eventually the action leads to an uncharted island, where the film devolves into an explicit but unoriginal gorefest. [28 May 2009, p.30]

Empire Kim Newman

A few memorable scenes but this doesn't keep up the pace or plausability sufficiently. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

The lack of suspense amid the Technicolor carnage disappoints. Subtle it ain't, but the title alone should keep art lovers away. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

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. Read full review

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Panchogul

Apr 4, 2020

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 laZombie (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.

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Bastante entretenida, visceral y violenta, bien filmada, efectos aceptables para la época y con una que otra escena super gore.

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TheQuietGamer

May 30, 2021

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 assembleThere'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.… Expand

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