Bastards and Sharks

For all of the talk about George A. Romero and the "Dead" trilogy, which includes Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead, all three of those combined aren't nearly as cheese filled as the signature film of Lucio Fulci. If you have never seen Zombi 2 (this is how I will refer to the movie in this piece, as that was the Italian name, since Dawn of the Dead was titled, inexplicably, Zombi), then turn in your zombie movie card now.

The plot to Zombi 2 is paper thin, like most zombie movies, as a reporter and a woman team up to find out about the whereabouts of the woman's father. Parts of the movie were shot in an exotic location, as well as New York, where the first signs of a zombie infestation occur on an abandoned boat. Here's all you need to know about Zombi 2: there's a shark vs. zombie battle, a woman gets her eye impaled by a wooden spike, the wonderful creature you see in the picture above rises out of the ground to feast on a woman's throat, and the director forgot to close off the bridge at the end of the movie. Sounds simple enough, really, but that's only the beginning. There is a lot more to that, and Fulci offers cheese and zombies in abundance. All of this adds up to one of the top three zombie movies ever made.