Rating: NR
Genre:
Horror
Theatrical Release: 08/25/1979(Italy)
Release Date: 07/27/2004
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/Italian
Sound: DD5.1/DDS2.0/1
Run Time: 92 Minutes
Flags: Not For Children, Gore
Distributor/Studio: Blue Underground
This audaciously disgusting spectacle from the late master of gruesome horror,
Lucio Fulci, was posited as a semi-sequel to
George Romero's
Dawn of the Dead, which was released in Italy as
Zombi.
Tisa Farrow and a group of vacationing tourists travel to an island where they find a doctor (
Richard Johnson) who is attempting to cure a condition that reanimates the dead. Things quickly get out of control as undead Spanish conquistadors crawl from their graves hungry for human flesh. The nauseatingly graphic set-pieces by Gianetto de Rossi include a close-up of a woman's eye being pierced by a large shard of wood and a zombie fighting a Great White shark underwater. This relatively well-made shocker was enormously popular worldwide and led to the zombie-gore film becoming the dominant motif of 1980s Italian horror.
~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
