Zombi 2

The most well-known of Lucio Fulci's films, Zombi II sparked an obsession with zombi films across Europe and made Fulci a horror icon.

Made in an effort to cash-in on George A. Romero's wildly successful Dawn of the Dead, Zombi II eventually earned more money than Dawn (about $30 million at the internation box office). While Dawn was a witty satire of consumerism and the break down of society, Zombi II opted to be a pure horror and gore film. While Zombi II is often accused of being a rip-off on Romero's film the two movies have little in common beyond the subject of the dead rising to devour the flesh of the living.

An apparently abandoned yacht drifts into New York Harbor, which the Habor Patrol investigate. On board, a huge rotting man kills one of the patrolmen by tearing out his neck with his teeth. The remaining patrolman manages to knock the hulking man into the sea.

A young woman named Ann (Tisa Farrow) is questioned by the police when it's discovered that the boat belonged to her father. She doesn't know anything save that her father left for a tropical island far away for research. Meanwhile, a reporter named Peter West (Ian McCulloch) is assigned by his news editor (director Lucio Fulci in a cameo) to get the story on the mysterious boat. Ann and Peter meet on the boat and decide to work together after finding a note from Ann's father. The note says that he's on the island of Matool and that's come down with a strange desiese. Enlisting the add of a sea-faring couple, Brian (Pier Luigi Conti) and Susan (Auretta Giannone), to help find Matool.

On Matool, Dr. David Manard (Richard Johnson) is hard at work studying. Matool is a cursed place where the dead rise to attack the living, and Manard is determed to find out why. When Ann, Peter, Brian, and Susan reach Matool the island itself seems to come alive, vomiting forth all the dead buried on the island to kill them.