History Film / Zombi2

Patrolmen investigating a derelict yacht drifting into [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity New York Harbor]] are attacked by a rotting man, who kills one of them by biting out his throat. The owner of the yacht is nowhere to be found, so police question the man's daughter, Anne (Tisa Farrow), who knows only that he'd gone to the [[UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean Caribbean island]] of Matool to conduct research. She meets Peter West (Ian [=McCulloch=]), a reporter who has been assigned the story, and together -- with another seafaring couple, Brian (Al Cliver) and Susan (Auretta Gay) -- they travel to Matool.

* EyeScream: '''''Hoo, boy...''''' One of the [[SignatureScene Signature Scenes]] in this movie is where a zombie grabs Paola's head, and then drags it towards a ''massive'' splinter of wood. It is ''not'' pretty.

Patrolmen investigating a derelict yacht drifting into New York Harbor are attacked by a rotting man, who kills one of them by biting out his throat. The owner of the yacht is nowhere to be found, so police question the man's daughter, Anne (Tisa Farrow), who knows only that he'd gone to the Caribbean island of Matool to conduct research. She meets Peter West (Ian [=McCulloch=]), a reporter who has been assigned the story, and together -- with another seafaring couple, Brian (Al Cliver) and Susan (Auretta Gay) -- they travel to Matool.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Peter and Anne escape the island after burning the zombies alive. Due to the deaths of all of the other main characters, the film is shaping up for a BittersweetEnding. Then they turn on the radio, and learn that the US is in the midst of a ZombieApocalypse.]]

* CreatorCameo: Peter's boss at the newspaper is played by Fulci himself.

* KilledOffForReal: A variation. Paola and [[spoiler:Dr. Menard]] are both killed in ways that would make it impossible for them to come back as zombies; [[spoiler:Dr. Menard]] was bitten in the face twice, but Paola flat-out becomes an item on the zombies' menu. As zombies, it wouldn't even be them anymore, so technically they aren't any deader than the others.

This was followed in 1988 by ''Film/{{Zombi 3D}}''. A rip-off was made in 1980 by Marino Girolami called ''Film/ZombieHolocaust''.

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: It's never revealed what happened to the boat zombie at the beginning of the film after falling into the water nor the policemen that he attacked. [[spoiler:Considering New York is revealed to have been taken over by zombies at the end of the film, it's easy to put two-and-two together]]...

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''Zombi 2'' (1979) is a zombie horror film directed by Creator/LucioFulci, which made Fulci a horror icon. Despite the fact that it purports to be a sequel to ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'' (whose Italian title was ''Zombi''), [[DolledUpInstallment the two films are unrelated]]. It's called ''Zombie Flesh Eaters'' in the UK.

* ZombieApocalypse: [[spoiler: Why it would suck if zombies got anywhere near New York City...]]
* ZombieGait: And how. The ones in "Zombi 2" are even slower at trudging along than George Romero's zombies.

** There's [[DolledUpInstallment around a dozen movies claiming to be Zombi 3-6]] [[MarketBasedTitle in some markets]], such as ''[[Film/{{Absurd}} Anthropophagus]]'' and ''Film/KillingBirds'', and [[WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob at least one]] [[Film/ViolentShit Zombi 7]].

* EyeScream: OH GOD, THAT SLOW PULL ONTO THE WOOD SPLINTER...

* CoolVsAwesome: ''Underwater zombie versus shark.''

* AdvertisedExtra: Ole' Worm Eye is depicted in much of the film's advertisement and posters, making it look like he's crucial to the plot in someway. He actually doesn't appear until midway through the film, and his screentime is at least 5 minutes.

* DolledUpInstallment: This film was developed as stand-alone film titled "Gli ultimi zombi" ("[[NonIndicativeName The Final Zombie]]") before it's title was changed to Zombie 2 to tie it to Romero's Zombi.

* MadScientist: Subverted with Dr. Menard. He is obsessed with his research which ultimately causes the zombie apocalypse but he is not insane or evil. In fact, he tries to help the protagonists whenever he can.

Patrolmen investigating a derelict yacht drifting into New York Harbor are attacked by a rotting man, who kills one of them by biting out his throat. The owner of the yacht is nowhere to be found, so police question the man's daughter, Ann. She knows only that he had gone to the Caribbean island of Matool to conduct research. She meets Peter West, a reporter who has been assigned the story, and together -- with another seafaring couple, Brian and Susan -- they travel to Matool.

Problem: Matool is a cursed place, where the dead rise to attack the living. Dr. Menard is on the island to investigate why. His high-strung wife Paola wants to leave for fear of being attacked. But hey, they're only dead dudes... [[ZombieApocalypse what could they possibly do]]?

* BelligerentSexualTension: Ann and Peter fake it to avoid being arrested for trespassing on Dr. Bolt's boat. [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy The officer that finds them having sex on the boat buys their act and simply shoos them off the boat.]]

* CoincidentalBroadcast: [[spoiler:At the end of the film, after barely surviving the zombie outbreak on the island, Peter and Ann escape to a boat and then proceed to turn on the radio... which informs that the United States is being taken over by zombies]].

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Peter and Ann escape the island after burning the zombies alive. Due to the deaths of all of the other main characters, the film is shaping up for a BittersweetEnding. Then they turn on the radio, and learn that the US is in the midst of a ZombieApocalypse.]]

* DubNameChange: Ann and Brian's last names are "Bolt" and "Curt" in the Italian version.