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Zombi 2 (1979)

Zombi 2 poster
Directed by
Lucio Fulci
Genre
horror film, zombie film
Country
Italy
Runtime
1h 28m
Rated
R
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 685 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Dead people on a Caribbean island rise from their graves and attack the living. A woman goes there looking for her father and finds a voodoo curse.

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What happens

Zombi 2 is a 1979 English-language Italian zombie film directed by Lucio Fulci. It was adapted from an original screenplay by Dardano Sacchetti to serve as a sequel to George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978), which was released in Italy under the title Zombi. The film was released as Zombie in the USA and Zombie Flesh-Eaters in the UK. It stars Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, and Richard Johnson, and features a score by frequent Fulci collaborator Fabio Frizzi. The film is set on a Caribbean island cursed by voodoo whose dead residents rise as zombies to attack the living. A scientist's daughter journeys to the island after her father's boat turns up abandoned in NYC. Intended by its writer as a return to "classic zombie tales", Zombi 2 was filmed in Italy, with further location shooting in NYC and Santo Domingo. Produced on a small budget of 410 million Italian lira, the film recouped several times its production costs at the international box office. It attracted controversy upon its release in the UK, where it became listed as a "video nasty". However, in the subsequent years, the film received a greater appreciation from critics and gained a cult following. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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