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Zombie or Zombi 2 or Zombie Flesh Eaters

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In 1968 George A Romero created a subgenre in horror that would continue to frighten audiences even forty years later.  With Night Of The Living Dead a slew of followers came and each country throughout the world would copy this blueprint.   Romero was especially influential to filmmakers in Italy, he lead them to a new genre – the spaghetti-zombie film.  The leader of this new genre was Lucio Fulci, he was determined to out-gore Romero, which he did successfully in his film Zombie (1979).  Released the same year as Dawn of the Dead , Zombie is an intense and beautiful film about the beginning of a zombie plague.  When Dawn was released in Italy the title was changed to Zombi, so Fulci’s film was then titled as Zombie 2 .  This caused confusion and made Fulci’s film instantly linked to the Dead trilogy.  Now you can find this film under the titles: Zombi, Zombie, Zombi 2 , Zombie Flesh Eaters , or Island of the Living Dead . "When the ear...