Opinion of ZOMBIE (Lucio Fulci's film)

[Danny]

when the first one comes up out the dirt my jaw dropper i thought "god damn this was before dawn right and they dont have blue zombies!" . and didnt it have a zombie fighting a shark?, nuff said.

[Svengoolie]

Sorry...but Bruno Mattei's Night of the Zombies was enough to put me off Italian Horror FOREVER!

[glsjaw]

i definitly dug it, what can you say bad about it (besideds the acting), great gore, good story, great ending

[Danny]

on the topic of bad acting, anyone seen the extra scenes added the the 30th aniversary edition of notld?, now THAT is bad acting.

[bassman]

on the topic of bad acting, anyone seen the extra scenes added the the 30th aniversary edition of notld?, now THAT is bad acting. Do you mean to say that you didn't like Reverend Buck-tooth?

[erisi236]

Do you mean to say that you didn't like Reverend Buck-tooth? a classic character for all time On Zombi 2, its a pretty decent 3 1/2 star affair, a bit slow in places but it really cranks up at the end, the gore is great, tho' how anyone could be caught and eaten by those 0.05 MPH zombies is beyond me.

[dmbfanintn]

"god damn this was before dawn right and they dont have blue zombies!" . and didnt it have a zombie fighting a shark?, nuff said. WRONG!!!!! Fulci fmade this film BECAUSE of Dawn's success. Dawn came first, which was called "Zombie" in some markets and this was called Zombie 2 in an attempt to make people think it was Dawn's sequal, which it was not! Nope, Dawn came first, then Zombie!

[Creepshow]

WRONG!!!!! Fulci fmade this film BECAUSE of Dawn's success. Dawn came first, which was called "Zombie" in some markets and this was called Zombie 2 in an attempt to make people think it was Dawn's sequal, which it was not! Nope, Dawn came first, then Zombie! Yeah but ZOMBIE was WITTEN before Dawn.

[dmbfanintn]

Yeah but ZOMBIE was WITTEN before Dawn. I completely disagree with that statement! Please substantiate that with verifiable facts. Fulci made Zombie strictly to cash in on Romero's Dawn. GAR wrote Dawn in 75/76, but the idea had been festering since the early 70's when GAR took a tour of the Monroeville Mall. Filming began in Dec of 77. Fulci's film was shot in 1979!

[Creepshow]

I completely disagree with that statement! Please substantiate that with verifiable facts. Fulci made Zombie strictly to cash in on Romero's Dawn. GAR wrote Dawn in 75/76, but the idea had been festering since the early 70's when GAR took a tour of the Monroeville Mall. Filming began in Dec of 77. Fulci's film was shot in 1979! Exactly, SHOT, not written. Fucli only CALLED his film "Zombi 2" to cash in on Dawn which was SHOT/RELEASED after Dawn, not written after.

[dmbfanintn]

Exactly, SHOT, not written. Fucli only CALLED his film "Zombi 2" to cash in on Dawn which was SHOT/RELEASED after Dawn, not written after. Still, I want to know where this information is coming from, is this just your specualtion, or do you know this as fact??? I don't buy that Zombie was even WRITTEN before Dawn, I believe it was written BECAUSE of Dawn. Please tell me where you info is coming from.

[Creepshow]

Still, I want to know where this information is coming from, is this just your specualtion, or do you know this as fact??? I don't buy that Zombie was even WRITTEN before Dawn, I believe it was written BECAUSE of Dawn. Please tell me where you info is coming from. ***EDIT: See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080057/trivia - first triva fact. *** I've heard it numerous times around the internet over the years. I can't give you any particular sources, this is just what I've heard. I've heard it so many times that I personally beleive it to be true. Think about it, if Fulci wrote ZOMBIE AFTER Dawn, wouldn't he have made it more inkeeping with Romero's film if he wanted to be able to pass it off as a sequel? ZOMBIE and DAWN are really nothing alike, apart from Zombies - and there are loads of zombie films around. I'm not saying what I think is FACT, as I don't know 100%. However, I DO personally believe its true. You don't have to beleive it, and obviously you're free to belive whatever you wish, as am I, but this is what I've always been lead to beleive. I do agree with you however that Fulci did name his film to cash in on Romero's success. That is documented all over the place.

[Princess Flesh Eater]

Fulci's 'Zombie 2' rocks simply because of the blood, gore and extreme scenes! plus how many times do you see a zombie fight a shark!

[EvilNed]

Zombie was in pre-production and was maybe even production before Dawn of the Dead was released in Italy. It was planned and written before Dawn ever came out. But originally it was very much more of a voodoo hokus pokus film than it is now. Not only did the film recieve it's "Zombie 2" title due to the success of Dawn, but it also recieved it's opening and ending scenes. Originally, there were no New York scenes. But they wrote them in to make it fit better with Dawn.

[Deadverse]

I have yet to see any of Lucio Fulci's movies. I have heard about them several times but I have not actually gone out to rent any of them. To be honest, I don't think my local video store has any copies for rent and the Blockbuster probably does not have any either. I remember seeing a copy of Zombi at either HMV or Music World but it was something like $25 (CDN) which is way out of my spending limit. I mind as well check my local video store next time I go but I highly doubt they will have any in stock.