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DPP 72known
Director
Lucio Fulci
Year
1979
Country
Italy
Runtime
88 min

Also released as

  • Zombi 2
  • Zombie
  • Island of the Living Dead
  • Woodoo
  • Zombie Flesh-Eaters
  • Τα Ζόμπι Χτυπάνε Μεσάνυχτα
  • Gli Ultimi Zombi
  • Zombies
  • Island of the Flesh-Eaters
  • Zombie 2 - L'enfer des zombies
  • Zombie: Noche de pánico
  • зомби 2
  • Əy Yeyən Zombilər
  • Nightmare Island

Zombie Flesh Eaters

Zombie Flesh Eaters is a 1979 Italian zombie film directed by Lucio Fulci. It is one of the 72 films on the Director of Public Prosecutions' video nasties list, and it was successfully prosecuted for obscenity.

A zombie fights a shark. There is also an eye and a splinter. Fulci's most purely entertaining film.

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Sold in Italy as Zombi 2, a fake sequel to Dawn of the Dead, which had been released there as Zombi. It has no connection to it whatsoever.

Two sequences carry the whole reputation. The shark was real, the stuntman was a shark handler, and the shark had been sedated, which is the sort of production fact that explains why nobody has attempted the shot since. And the splinter, which is filmed in a single unbroken push and is the reason this was one of the first titles the DPP went after.

Fulci is not a careful director and the plot is scaffolding. What he had was a genuine eye for decay: the makeup here, worms and soil packed into the faces, is better than anything in the American films it was imitating.

Banned, seized, prosecuted

DPP 72 · successfully prosecuted

The splinter sequence, filmed in a single unbroken push, is the shot the prosecutions cited.

UK now Passed 18 uncut in 2005

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