Zombi 2 (1979)

Director: Lucio Fulci

Writers: Elisa Briganti, Dardano Sacchetti

Composers: Giorgio Cascio, Fabio Frizzi, Andriano Giordanella, Maurizio Guarini

Starring: Ian McCulloch, Tisa "Mia's Sister that doesn't take her clothes off in this movie which would have really helped A LOT" Farrow

More info: IMDB

Tagline: We Are Going To Eat You!





Plot: Strangers looking for a woman's father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.

My Rating: 7/10

Would I watch it again? You betcha

Man, this was fun! GREAT zombie flick. Despite its title it's not a sequel. You can find out why at the link. The opening with the boat is awesome. You KNOW something's amiss as you wait patiently as the credits roll by to find out. It takes a little while to get our heroes (Peter, a reporter and Anne, the daughter of the missing father) out of Dodge and on an island. Now it gets REALLY cool. They hook up with adventurers Brian and his gal, Susan. I can't go on without mentioning how STUNNING she is - especially when she let's it all hang out, strips down and straps on her scuba gear for a nice little swim. Hubba hubba. While underwater she encounters a shark. OK, we've all seen that but what you haven't seen is an UNDERWATER ZOMBIE FIGHT WITH A SHARK? How friggin' cool is that? I'll tell ya. It's friggin' cool. His arm gets chewed-off. Suddenly with the scuba-diving naked chick and the underwater zombie fight this movie just catapulted itself into cool as crap territory. Who cares where it goes from here.








Fortunately there's a lot more nudity and zombies as our heroes fight to stay alive. This has some of the best zombie special effects I've seen. Many of them looked real. I should know. I dated one. Whoooooooa. The music by Giorgio Cascio and Fabio Frizzi could have been better. It sounded like it wanted to be like the music from CANNIBAL FEROX but since that movie didn't come out until 1981 they would have had a tough time trying to figure that one out. The ending, although cool in it's way of setting up a sequel, over-did it a bit by beating you over the head with the, "Lookie, zombies all over the place. Lookie lookie." A great ride. I'm looking forward to more Italian zombie pictures.