Day 20, Zombie

In 1979 director Lucio Fulci knew where the winds of horror were blowing, they were blowing towards Zombies. This film has no relation to the George Romero series, but the director hoped that he could profit off of Romero’s fan base. Fulci copied Romero in many ways, but not in everyway. These zombies were the result of a cursed island, an island where nearly the entire movie takes place.

American audiences were promised ‘barf bags’ when they bought a ticket to this movie, as it’s level of gore was promised to be excessive. A strong special effects budget produced a movie best known for two memorable scenes. This is the only movie to feature an underwater zombie vs. shark fight. A real live shark, not a special effect, bites a zombie and they fight it out. The other sequence is a slow scene where a zombie drags a victim toward a shard of wood that pierces her eyeball in slow motion. This is not a zombie movie for the faint of heart, or the faint of stomach.