zombie flesheaters aka zombie

Directed by lucio fulci

1979

Zombie,while being a blatent cash in on the success of "Dawn"still ranks as one of the great zombie flix.The gore is fantastic,the atmosphere is great and the acting is as cheesy as ever.When her father goes missing a young woman and a reporter she meets along the way make thier way to the remote tropical island where he and his partner had been doing research,eventually finding the island and discovering her father died after falling foul of a voodoo curse that is bringing the dead back to life.Soon finding themselves being overun by zombies they are caught in a desperate struggle alongside the remaining survivors on the island.

This is one of Fulci,s best movies with explicit gore and some fantastic set pieces which i,ve never really seen bettered ,notably the splinter in the eye scene.I cant really recommend it highly enough.

Gore highlights

.The first scene on the yaucht see,s a policeman having a large chunk of his neck ripped out in a very nasty close-up shot.

.The numerous head shootings against the zombies.

.The zombie vs shark scene is very funny with the zombie taking a chomp out of the shark and then having one of his arms ripped right off.

.The large splinter of wood through the eye scene is the peak of nastyness as its shown in close-up and in agonising detail.

.The next scene shows the zombie,s chowing down on her remains in a classic piece of zombie shock film.

There,s an excellent scene where an attacking zombie has his head turned to mush by a heavy blow.

.A woman has a chunk of her neck ripped out with blood jetting everywhere.

.Also there,s lots of other chompings into arms,shootings which completelly destroy zombie's heads,burning zombies and general mayhem to keep any gorehound more than happy.

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