Zombie

Year: 1979

Grade: B-

Country: Italy

Director: Fulci

Review

sort of an unofficial companion to the “dead” trilogy. it’s better than day of the dead, but not as good as dawn of the dead or night of the living dead. it suffers from poor production…though i’m not actually sure if it’s just an awful dvd transfer or bad production. unlike dawn of the dead, there seems to be little commentary or morality behind what is happening. the plague, more or less, just springs out of nowhere. that’s fine, but one thing i find has made dawn of the dead a real classic is that it contains that deeper meaning. it’s thrills are pretty decent on the whole. there’s an underwater scene which is new, and frightening as well. there’s also a scene wherein a woman’s head is pulled towards a large splinter from the door a zombie just broke through. her eyeball is impaled in a rather satisifying way. the film shows a certain diretorial potential overall, but the script was a bit lean and didn’t have the characters to make up for that fact. also the picture quality was unfortunate, but i’ll give the film the benefit of the doubt and blame it on the dvd transfer.