- Year
- 1979
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Director
- Lucio Fulci
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- known (17/100)
- Also known as
- Zombie Flesh-Eaters · Zombie
- Banned in
- UK
Zombi 2
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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- What is a cult film
Discover what makes a cult film: not a genre or budget, but a fate that happens after release when a film finds unexpected audiences and lasting cultural impact.
- 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.
- 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.
- The video nasty panic
A drill on a video sleeve, a prosecutors' hit list of seventy-two films, and a censorship law that was void for twenty-five years on a filing error.
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