Rating: NR
Genre: Horror
Theatrical Release: 08/25/1979(Italy)
Release Date: 07/27/2004
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/Italian
Sound: DD5.1/DD2/1
Run Time: 223 Minutes
Flags: Not For Children, Gore
Distributor/Studio: Shriek Show

This audaciously disgusting spectacle from the late master of gruesome horror, Lucio Fulci, was posited as a semi-sequel to George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, which was released in Italy as Zombi. Tisa Farrow and a group of vacationing tourists travel to an island where they find a doctor (Richard Johnson) who is attempting to cure a condition that reanimates the dead. Things quickly get out of control as undead Spanish conquistadors crawl from their graves hungry for human flesh. The nauseatingly graphic set-pieces by Gianetto de Rossi include a close-up of a woman's eye being pierced by a large shard of wood and a zombie fighting a Great White shark underwater. This relatively well-made shocker was enormously popular worldwide and led to the zombie-gore film becoming the dominant motif of 1980s Italian horror.

~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Tisa Farrow - Ann Bowles
Ian McCullough - Peter West
Richard Johnson - Dr. Menard
Al Cliver - Brian Hull
Arnette Gay - Susan Barrett
Olga Karlatos - Mrs. Menard
Stefania D'Amario - Nurse

Production:
Lucio Fulci - Director
Fabrizio de Angelis Ugo Tucci - Producer
Fabio Frizzi - Composer
Vincenzo Tomassi - Editor
Elisa Briganti Dardano Sacchetti - Screen Writer
Gianfranco Couyoumdjian - Associate Producer
Sergio Salvati - Cinematographer
Walter Patriarca - Costume Designer
Giannetto De Rossi - Makeup
Giannetto De Rossi - Makeup Special Effects
Walter Patriarca - Production Designer
Elisa Briganti - Screen Story
Giannetto De Rossi - Special Effects
Giovanni Corridori - Special Effects
Maurizio Trani - Makeup

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