Zombie Flesh Eaters (DVD)

Cunningly entitled Zombi 2 around most of the world to try and trick them into seeing it thinking it was a sequel to George Romeros vastly superior Danw of the Dead (which was titled Zombi in Italy and surrounding areas) this is a film of dire proportions. Directed by Lucio Fulci (An Italian director who has made only one good film - The Beyond) this is all out gore after a slow start. The film starts with some of the best music in an Italian horror film no tmade by Goblin, the keyboard playing in theopeneing tunes is execelent and returns to haunt you throughout the film (which is the only thing that does). The film starts with a boat heading into the ...  Read the complete review

The most well-known of all of Italian director Lucio Fulci's films, the 1979 horror 'Zombie Flesh Eaters' opens with a seemingly uninhabited yacht floating aimlessly into New York Harbour, but when the coastguard board the craft and investigate they discover it to be occupied by several hideous, rotting, reanimated corpses, with one officer getting bitten to death before they can open fire on the ghouls. The police discover that the boat belongs to a scientist whose last known whereabouts are a remote carribbean island where he was carrying out reasearch, and along with a newspaper journalist eager for a story the missing man's daughter sets off to find out ...  Read the complete review

Zombie Flesh-Eaters is a nicely conceived, reasonably competently executed horror film from Italian horror maestro Lucio Fulci. It is far from representing the best of Italian horror, and is not even among the director’s own best work, but since this was the film that initially brought Fulci to the attention of horror fans outside Italy it has remained well known and even pretty well liked among Euro-horror fans. Unfortunately, however, the British DVD release does not do the film any favours at all and, as we shall see, it might very well be better to head off and get the film on import (foreign titles include ‘Zombi’ and even ‘Woodoo’) to ...  Read the complete review

Lucio Fulci's "ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS" or... "zombie,zombie 2, island of the flesheaters..." as it was called (to cash in on George Romeros living dead movies) is a fun, gore packed late 70's euro horror movie. and is also one of the most notorious "video nasties" of the early eighties... This movie was director Lucio Fulci's first real leap in to the horror genre... (there were hundreds of european cashins of american movies made in the late seventies Fulcis are remembered because they are actualy quite good) he followed Zombie Flesh Eaters" with titles such as "The Beyond", House By The ...  Read the complete review

Zombie Flesh Eaters, Lucio Fulci's unofficial sequel to George A. Romero's Dawn Of The Dead (or Zombi as it was known in Italy, and as Fulci's film is known in certain territories) isn't up to the delirious, surreal, intoxicating standards of the two undisputable masterpieces in Fulci's oeuvre - The Beyond and City Of The Living Dead - but it IS nonetheless a glorious, deranged and deranging Caribbean-set carnival of excess chock-full of voodoo shenanigans, sinister synth and absurd, hyperbolic gore. Some of the most memorable Fulci moments are contained herein - the zombie VS shark sequence; the opening scene involving a seemingly abandoned boat, a couple ...  Read the complete review