Too much of everything

So much average

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

A boat sails into New York but the only person onboard happens to be a morbidly obese zombie who seems to be p*ssed off and hungry. The daughter of the boat's owner decides to venture to where her father had been, a Caribbean island called Matul. She takes along with her a journalist who smells a story.This film was butchered by the BBFC on its initial release. The distributors decided to release a stronger version that then lead to the film being banned and placed on the DPP video nasties list.This film is renowned for going the extra mile. Ever wondered what would happen if a zombie took on a shark? Of course you have! This film features it. Add to the mix a revolutionary eye-gouging scene, a great score by Fabio Frizzi and one of the most iconic ending scenes in horror history. Oh, and some of the most annoyed zombies with especially bad attitudes and you have a great movie.This Italian shocker directed by maestro Lucio Fulci actually billed itself as a sequel to the Argento cut of Dawn of the Dead in Italy. Is it a masterpiece like Dawn? No. But its still one hell of a ride.

Zombi 2 aka Zombie Flesh Eaters aka Italians Shouldn't Make Horror Movies is one of the most overrated movies in the world. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be serious, or if it's a parody. The sadistic eye scene, the extremely unnecessary nudity, the "suspenseful" shootout at the end of the movie where they kill the slow-moving zombies one by one, the horrible music and the silly shark scene...you almost expect Leslie Nielsen to show up.I really don't get why this movie is so popular. It looks ugly, sounds ugly...it's not scary, it's not entertaining, there's no message, it's boring as heck. It's just pointless garbage. Maybe the fans saw this movie when they were teenagers and liked it because of the nudity and shocking violence. "I watch forbidden movies with my stoner pals! Take that, stupid mom and dad!".And it's not just Zombi 2 either, every single Italian horror movie I've seen is total crap. Americans may have lost the ability to make good horror, but Italians never had it.(Zero stars)

The name itself is synonymous with the "video nasty" craze of the 1980s, when the lucky residents of the UK found that their favourite gory horror films were being taken from the shelves of the local video shops and put in a dark, damp cellar with the word "BANNED" on the door. ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS is perhaps the most notorious film of that era, and even non-horror fans are sure to come across the title some time in their lives. It certainly is Lucio Fulci's most popular film, even if it is not his best. The film is simply known as ZOMBIE in America and as ZOMBI 2 in Italy, due to the fact that it was partly intended as a spin-off following on from the success of Romero's DAWN OF THE DEAD, released a year earlier in that territory as simply ZOMBI.Most modern people who view the film find themselves disappointed. It's slow moving, badly made, and with shoddy production values. However, opinion amongst horror fans is divided. Half of us think that it's rubbish and not worth watching due to the fact that it is simply too boring. The other half (of which I am included) see through the sometimes mundane nature of the film and see that it is in fact a good, old-fashioned adventure romp, harking back to the days of Lewton's I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, a Caribbean-set zombie film, with extra lashings of gore. Sure, I am ready to agree that the film is a little slow, that the acting is rather amateur, and the production values leave something to be desired. But rising above all these factors is the fact that the film's heart is in the right place, it's fun, and it was never meant to be taken too seriously. And that's why I love it.There's a lot to like about the film. It's one of those ones which grows on you. I didn't think much of it myself the first time I watched it, but after a few more viewings it now holds a special place in my heart. The music, for instance, is excellent. I once heard it described as "fairground" music but that's not the case. It starts off with a slow beat which lasts for ages and then becomes a drawn-out haunting score which appears whenever the zombies too. The acting isn't up to much but the cast includes a whole load of notable names. First off is Tisa Farrow, the sister of Mia. Then there's Ian McCulloch, who appeared in a number of cheesy horror films around this time. Al Cliver also appears and he too was in a number of Italian horror films. The final name is Richard Johnson who shot to fame in the 1963 Robert Wise classic THE HAUNTING. Johnson is the most believable character here, as the helpless doctor trying to find a cure for the sickness. The rest of the cast is adequate.The gore on offer is from one of the most respected names in Italian SFX history, Giannetto De Rossi, and is literally eye-popping. It's certainly realistic and also quite sickening in some instances (the infamous eye-piercing springs to mind!) The make up on the zombies is excellent, and these zombies are my favourite from any film you care to think of - they beat Romero's pasty-faced wisps into the ground! They're rotted, they've got worms coming out of their eye sockets, they're superb. So if you go easy on this film you'll find yourself enjoying it despite its many faults. Watch out for the scene at the end in the hospital where the survivors are throwing Molotov cocktails - one piece of footage is re-used four times! The budget obviously wasn't up to much but director Fulci succeeded in creating a memorable, much talked-about infamous classic in the genre.

Zombie movie with cult or classic status, some unofficial sequel or prequel to Romero's Dawn of the Dead. Looking at the ending it looks more like a prequel actually explaining how the zombies actually got in the States as shown in Dawn of the Dead. Does Zombi 2 deserve this status, I think so. It's a slow build up until the last half hour when we get some kind of zombie invasion, still on a small scale if you are going to compare it to Romero's movies. But we actually get a decent back story about what might have caused people getting sick, dying and coming back to life again as zombies. However still vague it didn't bother me that much to enjoy the movie as Dawn of the Dead didn't give much explanation to the cause either. But that doesn't mean nothing interesting happens in the first hour. There are a few scenes with a zombie attacking a human and even a nice one where a shark on the hunt actually becomes the prey. The gore is pretty graphical even though the camera doesn't focus for a long time on it (which isn't necessary). The make-up of the zombies is well done, you can see they really did a great effort to make it look real. I was particularly impressed when the zombies were rising from their graves digging themselves up from the ground, that's something I haven't seen that often and in such a threatening way. My only complaint is the cliché of ladies showing nudity actually implied a sure death. Both leading ladies were a nice treat to the eyes.