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Summary: It'll Give you the creeps!!!
Review: Ok,first of all if you like Dawn of the Dead you'll rave over Lucio Fulci's Zombie! This movie just plain blows away all the other walking dead movies with it's extreme gore "I think I'm about to puke"scenes.There's even an awesome underwater "zombie versus shark scene"and yes,the zombie takes a small appetizer bite from the sharks stomach area yummy and let me warn about the disgusting and absolute sickening part when the island guests walk in and find Dr.Menards dead wife being feasted upon by the undead in extreme close-up and exquisite detail.You even get the honor of watching one of the undead pull out her liver and cram it in his mouth.This movie is definetely puking material and I highly recommend for amatuer anorectics.Anchor Bay has done a wonderful job with thois one. Great sound and picture clarity.If you purchase this one get ready for a complete and total "BARF-O-RAMA!!!!
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Summary: An important genre entry, but I've seen better
Review: When all hell breaks loose towards the end of 'ZOMBIE', it's a hard film to beat in terms of it's perversely fun and thrilling 'undead-mayhem'. That's why it always pains me to sit through the first two thirds which don't have much to recommended them. I do love the darkly effective synth score, and the opening in New York waters rocks, but much of the time is spent focusing on uninteresting characters, and therefore the film barely holds my interest. For every great shot of a Zombie emerging from the earth(love that one p.o.v. shot from a Zombie's eyes as it rises, dirt spilling away from it's view) there are several minutes spent with unattractive, uninteresting characters discussing things. It's not too much to ask that a low-budget exploitive Zombie-thriller have more than just sadistic gore scenes to recommended it(that eye/splinter scene still makes me wince). 'Night of the Living Dead' and 'Let Sleeping Corpses Lie' both have fleshed-out(sorry) characters to care about and root for, and Z-grade entries like 'Zombie Holocaust' and 'Nightmare City' are more even in their pacing. I guess I'm a little demanding when it comes to Zombie thrillers as I find them to be some of the most entertaining and comic-book-like in the Horror family tree, and I just think that Fulci's 'ZOMBIE' could have and should have been better.
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Summary: Zombie..... Lucio Fulcis best work
Review: This film is great. Other than some bad voice overs this film has no flaws whatsoever. I loved every minute of it. The FX were great. If your not into gore though, you might not agree. This film contains some classic moments such as the splinter through the eye. Also the Zombie vs Shark scene was without a doubt a piece of work. Buy this movie now!
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Summary: Uhh, I hate to say it, but it IS entertaining.
Review: I can't believe I'm actually going to say that I found Zombie an entertaining movie. I mean, it's dumb and cheesy, but director Lucio Fulci does create some creepy sequences as well as an enjoyable all-out action-packed finale that features some of the best zombie action I've seen (probably second only to Day of the Dead and perhaps equal to Dawn of the Dead).The movie does start out in terrible fashion, featuring incompetent camerawork, lazy acting, and horrendous dialogue. Eventually, things get quite interesting (and entertaining) when one of the characters decides to go scuba-diving topless (while also wearing a very small thong), and encounters a shark AND a zombie. From this point to the end (approximately 60 minutes) Zombie is quite riveting and packed with action and gore. It doesn't hurt that Fulci's direction actually becomes fairly competent 1/3 the way through the film and doesn't really on the annoying closeups and sweeping shots of the first half-hour. The plot is deceptively simple. A boat ends up in the New York harbor, with two officers rummaging around inside, discovering a zombie. One cop is killed, while the other one kills the creature. The boat is linked to Ann Bowles (Tisa Farrow), since her father owned it. She and reporter Peter West (Ian Mcculloch) head out to search for her father in the island of Matool, getting help from a couple (Al Cliver and Auretta Gay). Arriving to Matool, the island seems peaceful enough until the dead begin to rise and the remaining human survivors must find a way off the island. I've read so many mixed reviews of Zombie, I wasn't sure what to expect. Many said it was horrifically intense, while others claimed it was the most boring film they'd ever seen. It's not the most terrifying film ever made, but I can say that with the exception of the beginning, it's hardly boring. Fulci handles the gory and action-filled moments quite well, which is what makes the movie watchable (or unwatchable to those who don't have the stomach for it). Many, many zombies are either shot, burned, or bashed in the head with several different objects. The finale is full of action, as the survivor hole themselves up inside a hospital while dozens of zombies break in from all sides. This film is not, I repeat, not as good as Dawn of the Dead or Day of the Dead. The script doesn't resemble anything intelligent and the characters aren't particularly well-defined. Tisa Farrow is basically the woman who DOESN'T take her clothes off. Ian McCulloch is only okay as the reporter, while everyone else is either there to kill some zombies, get killed and eaten or show some nudity. The movie's most well-known for gore and the make-up effects, which I must say are very impressive. These zombies are unlike any I've seen in any other movie, looking gruesome and decrepit, certainly a creepier design than the grey-painted zombies of Dawn of the Dead. As a whole, I'd say Zombie is a suitably entertaining late-night horror feature. There are improvements it could have used. The first half-hour could have done with better direction. The characterization could have been better, and the screen time (once the fun gets going) could have been an extra 10 minutes longer. It's still a memorable enough film for a viewing.
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Summary: George Romero has nothing on this!!
Review: Without a doubt Fulci's best film. They don't make these movies quite like they used to,but if you're into late 70's early 80's horror, you already knew that. Instead of reading these reviews, buy the damn movie!!!!!
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Summary: Good Movie
Review: This movie is really good, but not perfect, there's not enough action, but except that, it's a good movie that you should see if your a horror fanatic.
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Summary: We are going to eat you!
Review: From the opening shot of "Zombie," I had a clue as of what to expect from this movie. It was going to take itself seriously as far as the gore, but possibly make us giggle at the hammy acting and sly attempts at satire. I was almost totally correct. The gore in Lucio Fulci's involving zombie chiller is horrific and abundant. It's an all-out everything-must-bleed wholesale! Zombies and humans die in the most gruesome ways you could imagine, and through all the thick, soupy redness of the Karo syrup, Lucio Fulci carries his own unique style through the movie. He slowly piles on the gore, starting off at a good pace, then steadily increasing the dosage like the antibiotic perscription of a doctor strategically fighting off an infection. The film opens with a human form wrapped up in bedsheets slowly rising to a sitting position. Then we see this form get its head blown off by the supervising physician of a small hospital on an uncharted island near the Phillipines (I think). We learn later on that the rising form was the father of the film's star, Tisa Farrow. She gets involved with a journalist after an abandoned boat with a member of the living dead floats into New York Harbor and a police officer is murdered. Farrow knows that the boat had to have come from the island where her father was performing his medical research, and the mystery of that figure (who the police deny even exists) make the temptation too much to resist: She must go to the island to uncover the hidden facts about the murder of that cop and why an empty boat found its way into the harbor. With two guides, Farrow and her reporter companion go to the island. But it's when the female guide, who loves to scuba dive nude, by the way, is under the surface of the ocean that things really start to come to light. "There's a man down there!" she screams, climbing back into the boat. How can a man exist at the bottom of the ocean without air? Answer: He can't... unless he's already dead. "Zombie" has many memorable scenes and an annoyingly catchy musical score which accents one of the best shots of the dead rising from the grave that I've ever seen. Sure, George Romero showed us the living dead in the way we envision them today, but it's Lucio Fulci who shows us exactly how it happens, and it's Lucio Fulci who takes us back to the roots of the first zombie stories: Voodoo curses. If I could, I'd give this film three and a half stars instead of three. This is mostly due to the film's style, it's realistic makeup effects, and I still cannot get over that whole splinter through the eye thing. Bravo.
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Summary: Embrace Your Inner Zombie
Review: Although not as culturally understandable as George Romeros films, Fulci's "Zombie" puts his heart (amongst other things) into this film, and it shows. Everyone talks about the 'insult to the eye' scene, but I find more chilling the later desecration by hungry little dirt-dwellers of her body...can anyone say smorgusboard? Sure, the shark scene is silly, and God knows New Yorks Finest certainly expends enough bullets into living folk that you'd think 1 zombie wouldn't be a problem, but if I had to sum up my feelings on this film I would do so thus: My grandmother (true story) had taken me to see this film when I was 14. Years later, on one of my visits to the nursing home before her death, she told me could sometimes still see the zombies coming across the Brooklyn Bridge. Disturbing? Maybe. Touching? Not the sort of thing you'd normally attach to an Italian gore film, but in this case I have fond memories of it because of her. So sue me.
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Summary: We are going to eat you!
Review: Searching for her missing father, Ann Bolt (Tisa Farrow) is accompanied by investigative journalist Peter West (Ian McCulloch) and their trail leads them to an uncharted island where one Dr. Menard (Richard Johnson) studies flesh eating zombies. Accompanied by two others whose boat they chartered (Al Cliver & Auretta Gay) they now must fight for survival as the zombies quickly increase in number and start attacking the living. Imitation George Romero film has plenty of violence that's sure to curl your toes, so be prepared. There's also an underwater attack by a zombie (and the girl is rescued by a shark!) as well as a scene where a jagged piece of wood is driven into a woman's eye. As I said, be prepared. Nothing really new here, but fans of the "walking dead" genre should be pleased. The DVD includes TV, theatrical, and radio spots as well as commentary by actor Ian McCulloch.
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Summary: "Can we say....indigestablely sleazy, ?!!!!"
Review: Ah yes, The Godfather of Gore himself-Lucio Fulci. You got to love this hack imitator for all his captivating visulals when it comes to his visual sense on film, other than that there is really nothing else to value in this man's work. You either call the guy a hack or a genious,..but i have to call him miss-understood. He did actually mold one darn good film, and without doubt his best: Don't Torture a Duckling (1971) and he did make some pretty good films like: The Beyond (1981), and House by the Cemetary(1980),..and he also made alot of crap...to say the least. And this film, Zombie(1979) was his first of his many of his Zombie/Romero imtitaions, and what an Overated piece of tripe it is(on a Fulci fan stand point of view). Not to make myself seem all hypocritcal--but after such films like his Beyond(1981), I became rather intrested in the mans work . Here is a film, ecaspically in it's opening reels, that weaves a wistful spell of poetry, oneiricy, and to a point, sort of H.P Lovecraftian vibes. So what did i do, i searched for more Luci Fulci movies, and i got this! This piece of tripe that i heard coutless times as being of of Fulci's masterpieces. Yeah Right, Pal! This movie came-off more as a pitiflly bad spanish Porno-complete with the bad acting, and that embarrasing film score. Not to mention Fulci's rather typical Lacklustre direction, Some ugly filming locations, and actors who can't act. I imedailtly sent the tape flying at high speeds back to...-hoping no other curious onlooker would be tempted to rent such rut. After that i had enough of Fulci-yet as time went by i was tempted to yet again rent another one his films. This time it was his seedy Sleazy but-otherwise-surprisingly good New York Ripper(, which i found rather entertaining, and quit intresting as well. I'd call New York Ripper one of Fulci's second string good efforts And ten times better than...this film. This piece of porno-bound-trash. Yet Before I finish trashing this film altogether--i have to comment that this film has the strong point of being one of Fulci's most coherent Blood-baths--even more coherent then such better efforts as The Beyond, and the so-so yet intresting City of the Living Dead (1980). Other than that u have a movie that will only intrest Gore & Fulci Hounds...and for the rest.."STAY AWAY FROM THIS IF ALL POSSIBLE" - I heathe you my warning. Rating: 2 out of 5 Grade: C- 76%
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