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Zombies of Zombi 2

Also called: Zombie Flesh Eaters, Zombie
FilmUndeadA curse1968 to 1999

Fulci's film is set on a voodoo-cursed Caribbean island and combines the curse with a contagious bite. Its success made zombie gore the dominant motif of Italian horror in the 1980s. It is known in Britain as Zombie Flesh-Eaters and in the US as Zombie.12

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First appeared
1979
Released 1979
Source work
Zombi 2 (1979)
Lucio Fulci
Age rating
18 (UK, uncut, 2005); X with cuts in 1980
Made in
Italy
What causes it
A curse
A voodoo curse on the Caribbean island of Matool.
How you become one
A bite passes on the infection; the victim dies and rises.
Weak spots
  • shot to the head

When did it first appear?

Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
1979

Released 1979

field notes

What the sources say

1

A zombie fights a shark under water, a scene shot without Fulci's approval12

2

Sold in Italy as a sequel to Dawn of the Dead, which had been released there as Zombi12

3

Classed as a video nasty in Britain12

4

Made for 410 million lire and grossed over 3 billion12

5

The Dead Island games drew inspiration from it12

6

Other notorious scenes include an eye-gouging and a graveyard corpse biting out a throat12

Sources

  1. Zombi 2 - Wikipedia
  2. Zombie - Wikipedia

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Same era: 1968 to 1999

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