History Film / Zombi2

* FingerTwitchingRevival: As the doctors at the NYC Medical Examiner's office prepare to perform an autopsy on the harbor patrolman who was bitten and killed by the boat zombie, the camera pans down to the cadaver, whose hand begins to stir beneath the sheet.

* FingerTwitchingReveal: As the doctors at the NYC Chief Medical Examiner's office prepare to perform an autopsy on the harbor patrolman who was bitten and killed by the boat zombie, the camera pans down to the cadaver, whose hand begins to stir beneath the sheet.

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 a tropical island 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 go to find the island Matool.

Officials 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 a tropical island 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 go to find the island Matool.

* BottomlessMagazine: During the hospital shootout, the characters go through a ''lot'' of ammo than what their respective guns can actually carry, and are never visibly seen reloading them.

* CoincidentalBroadcast: When they turn on the radio.

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

* {{Gorn}}

* 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.

* NightmareFace: It's on the cover!

* TooDumbToLive: The survivors actually had a pretty decent chance of holding out against the horde in the hospital near the end of the film...if only Dr. Menard had remembered to [[BoomHeadShot shoot]] the corpses already inside the building. You know, ''[[IdiotBall like he'd been doing the entire movie already.]]''

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

-->'''Susan''': I hate it! ''Damn you, you bastards! I can't take it!''

** Thought ironically in film, it's the zombie who attacked Susan the second time and the shark who comes rushing in, effectively making the killer fish the TokenGoodTeammate.

This was followed in 1988 by ''Film/{{Zombi 3D}}''.

** [[http://www.movieposterdb.com/poster/e3ff09e7 This]] scene of the boat zombie coming ashore never made it into the film.

-->'''Reporter''': [[spoiler:I've just been informed that zombies have entered the building. They're at the door... they're coming in! YI-YAGH! ROOOWWAARRRRGGHHHHHH!]]

* CoversAlwaysLie: That picture you see on a lot of advertising for the film, including many video covers and the page image? That's actually Ottaviano Dell'acqua, in full worm-eyed zombie regalia, doing his best impersonation of Olga Karlatos as Post-Eye-Gouge!Paola. Though he does appear in the film proper as the zombie that kills [[spoiler: Susan]], he just doesn't "smile" like in the posters.

*** Among the films claiming to be ''Zombi 3'' were ''Zombi Holocaust,'' ''La orgía de los muertos,'' ''Nightmare City,'' ''Film/BurialGroundTheNightsOfTerror,'' and ''Let Sleeping Corpses Lie.''

* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: Because of the zombies [[spoiler: the whole Matool becomes a ghost island with nothing except dead bodies by end of the film and this deathliness even moves to New York.]]

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* KilledOffForReal: 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.

* TokenGoodTeammate: Invoked with the shark-fighting zombie by supplementary materials; at least one home video release actually mentions that said zombie ''saved'' Susan from the approaching shark.
** Thought ironically in film, it's the zombie who attacked Susan and the shark who comes rushing in, effectively making the killer fish the TokenGoodTeammate.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Way too many to list, but common ones include: Zombie (used in the US), Zombie Flesh Eaters (used in the UK, Australia and some parts of mainland Europe) and Woodoo (used in Germany and some other parts of mainland Europe, usually with a [[TheForeignSubtitle Foreign Subtitle]]).

* FollowTheLeader: Started the wave of zombie movies while cashing in on George A. Romero's films. Production started ''before'' ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'' was released, though.

* {{Badass}}: [[BadassBeard Brian]], who among our main characters easily kills the most zombies and thinks up plans to fend off the zombies.
** Unfortunately, [[spoiler: he totally freezes when he sees undead Susan and dies for it.]]

** Even one of the zombies gets in on the act. [[TheJaywalkingDead Obviously, he's forgotten that he should look both ways before crossing the road, especially when people are driving all over the island.]]

''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''), [[InNameOnly the two films are unrelated]]. It's called ''Zombie Flesh Eaters'' in the UK.

* 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 VittersweerEnding. Then they turn on the radio, and learn that the US is in the midst of a ZombieApocalypse.]]

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!!! "Zombie Trope Eaters":