Exclusive 98-minute featurette including blood-drenched testimonials from SFX artist Giannetto De Rossi, cinemaphotographer Sergio Salvati, screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti Cast & crew interviews Actor Ian McCullogh commentary Extensive photo gallery Original and assorted zombie trailers Region: 1
2 - Disc Set
[25th Anniversary Special Edition]
[2 Discs] Audio: DD5.1/DD2/1
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.