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AKA ZOMBI 2/ZOMBIE |
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"The Zombies are taking over..." |
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To start off let me just say that if after you’ve read this review and you decide to see this movie, watch it more than once if you didn’t like it the first time. Because I hated it on my first viewing but it’s become one of my favourites of the genre.
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Like most Lucio Fulci movies, the focus is on gore and atmosphere with a simple plot to help the proceedings along. Flesh eaters centres around Peter West (Ian McCulloch) a news reporter helping Ann Bowles (Tisa Farrow, sister of Mia) investigate the disappearance of her father, who’s boat drifted into the New York harbour with a zombie onboard. There investigation takes them to the Caribbean and with the help of a sea diving couple on holiday Brian and Susan (Al Cliver, Auretta Gay) they make there way to the Island of Matul, said to be cursed by the locals. On the way there, while taking photos of underwater sea life, Susan is attacked by a shark, then a zombie, then the zombie attacks the shark (Sounds mad, but it really has to be seen) |
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Zombie Vs Shark: Who do you think wins? |
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On there arrival, they meet up with Dr.Menard (Richard Johnson), the last person to see Ann’s father. It’s around this point in the film that the gore really kicks in and there isn’t much more left to the plot, except escaping from the island alive with your intestines intact (These Zombies don’t eat brains, as they are not shite and Americanised)
Eyes are gouged out, heads are smashed, and throats are ripped out…The dead walk.
This ranks up there with The Beyond as my favourite Fulci movie, with a great score by Fabio Frizzi (Who scored most of Fulci’ Movies from this period) and an ending that is typically downbeat coming from Fulci. |
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Z.F.E opening Zombie, fresh from munching on a cops throat. |
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The gore is what stands out in this movie though, the nice realistic touches like strands of flesh, worms in the eyes of freshly woken Zombies, and nice dark realistic looking blood, definitely not for the squeamish. In fact, on its original American cinema release vomit bags, the type given out on aeroplanes, were handed out to cinemagoers in case the film proved too much for them.
If you plan to see this make sure you get the recently released “Extreme Version” as the watered down cut is basically pointless to watch as it’s the violence and gore that is so good about Zombie Flesh Eaters.
A true classic of the genre.
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CAST
PETER WEST – IAN MCHULLOCH
ANN BOWLES – TISA FARROW
DR. MENARD – RICHARD JOHNSON
BRIAN – AL CLIVER
SUSAN – AURETTA GAY
DIRECTED BY LUCIO FULCI |
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BACK TO FRONT |
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