Zombie

1979 [ITALIAN]

Action / Horror

33
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 69% · 28 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 69% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 32960 33K

new york city journalist boat voodoo zombie doctor

Plot summary

After an abandoned boat sails into New York harbor with a zombie aboard, a reporter teams up with the daughter of the boat's missing owner to investigate the island where he was last seen conducting research—the site of an alleged zombie outbreak.

Director

Lucio Fulci Photo
Lucio Fulci

Top cast

Ian McCulloch Photo
Ian McCulloch as Peter West
Nick Alexander Photo
Nick Alexander as Brian Hull
Arnaldo Dell'Acqua Photo
Arnaldo Dell'Acqua as Zombie
Richard Johnson Photo
Richard Johnson as Dr. Menard
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
773.61 MB
1280*534
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles it  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds ...
1.46 GB
1920*800
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles it  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 12

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by acedj 7 / 10

This was my first

N newspaper reported named Peter goes on an trip with a woman named Anne to try to discover what happened to her father. What they discover is an island where the natives still practice voodoo and have started to bring the dead back to life.This was the first zombie movie I had ever seen. I was pretty young, we had watched it on laser disc. What this did was awaken a love for this particular kind of monster. It is an Italian film, so if the words not matching people's mouths bothers you, this is not for you. There was no CGI and special effects of this kind were really in their infancy back then, so some of them do not hold up against more modern offerings.This is a great movie though, including the zombie versus the shark. I have never seen anything like it since.
Reviewed by PedroPires90 7 / 10

Iconic

When it's good, it's really great. C'mon, this film has a shark fighting with a zombie...it doesn't get much better than that!I liked the scenario - not the usual in the city - even if I would the vudu part to be much better explored. The acting is bad - especially when zombies are attacking - and Fulci brought a lot of the giallo bad tropes. That's the only reason why this isn't, for me, the masterpiece a lot claim to be.
Reviewed by view_and_review 6 / 10

Zombie Causes Paralysis

"The scary movie idiot award goes to--drumroll please... SUSAN!""Susan, played by Auretta Gay, found herself totally immobile with fear, wonder, or both as a corpse took its ever-lovin' time to unearth himself and proceed to take a man-sized bite out of Susan's neck. She could've screamed, ran, or any number of things at any time during the glacially slow attack by the zombie, yet she did nothing. For that, Susan is the scary movie idiot."The zombie outbreak in this movie started on the fictional Caribbean Island of Matule (sp?). The partially mad scientist Dr. Menard (Richard Johnson) is studying this odd phenomenon of the dead being reanimated. I say partially mad because who in their right mind wants to be trapped on an island studying the living dead even if you think you have it under control? The reanimation is supposedly rooted in voodoo yet Dr. Menard continues to search for a scientific explanation.The make-up and special effects were great. There was even a close-up shot of a woman having her eye impaled by a shard of wood. That's some good effects for 1979. There was some sickeningly nice blood and gore, but the movie dragged at times. It was a solid zombie movie even if I'm not a fan of the voodoo aspect.
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