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Zombie (1979).
It's been awhile since I've watched this Fulci classic. It has it's faults, ones which are typical to b-movies, but man, is it greatly entertaining! I love the decision to take zombies back to their voodoo origins, while keeping with the modern theme of 'zombies as flesh-eaters'.
Fulci is certainly a master of schock, and the special effects in Zombie, as they were in The Beyond, are fantastic. And although I will go with Romero's Dawn of the Dead over Fulci's Zombie any day, I will say that the make-up on the zombies in this film is superb, highly original, and better than the simple white/purple face of those featured in Dawn of the Dead.
And the zombie vs shark scene is superb. Interesting enough, this scene was shot without Fulci's permission! I'm glad it was.
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