Zombi 2
Zombi 2 is a 1979 film from Italy, directed by Lucio Fulci, running 88 minutes. reelscum files it under video nasty and zombie.
- Year
- 1979 · 1970s films
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Director
- Lucio Fulci
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- known (17/100)
- Also known as
- Zombie Flesh-Eaters · Zombie
- Banned in
- UK
Defined in the glossary: Video nasty, Zombie
A prosecuted DPP video nasty as Zombie Flesh Eaters; the splinter-in-the-eye scene stayed cut in Britain into the 2000s.
A zombie fights a shark. Fulci's splinter shot is still the worst thing here.
Sold in Italy as a sequel to Romero's Dawn of the Dead (released there as Zombi), despite having nothing to do with it. Fulci sends a boat to a Caribbean island where the dead are rising, and delivers two scenes nobody forgets: a zombie fighting a live shark underwater, and a splinter going into an eye in unbearable close-up.
The plot is a formality. What you are here for is atmosphere, rot, and Fabio Frizzi's score, all of which Fulci delivers in bulk.
On the DPP video nasty list, prosecuted, and better than it has any right to be.
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Written about
- Cult films and the audiences that make them
Cult status arrives after release, through late-night television, midnight bookings and VHS trade, as The Brainiac, Walking Tall and Patrick each show.
- Banned, cut and confiscated
A Fulci print flown out of the country, an Australian rating that just means no, and a German court that filed The Evil Dead under criminal violence. Three states, three machines for making a film disappear.
- Gut-munchers: the Italian zombie boom, 1979 to 1983
There was no first one. Argento recut Romero, Fulci forged the sequel, and Italy spent four years feeding the British censors.
The cycle in depth
- The Exorcist was banned on video in Britain by one censor
The Exorcist passed uncut for British cinemas in 1974, then had no legal UK video release from 1988 to 1999 because one censor would not certify the tape.
Filed alongside
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