Zombie (1979) poster
1979 · horror · zombie · gore

Zombie

Directed by Lucio Fulci1h 31m1979
ElsewhereIMDb6.832kRT43%Metacritic54TMDB6.7682
  • heavy
  • brisk
  • extreme
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / zombie, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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After an abandoned boat sails into New York harbor with a zombie aboard, a reporter teams up with the daughter of the boat's missing captain to investigate the island where he was last seen conducting research—the site of an alleged zombie outbreak.

Our read · Zombie (1979) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · zombie · gore entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want Fulci splatter, island dread, and iconic Italian zombie set pieces.

ends unsettlingit leaves you shakengrabs you earlygrips by minute 6attention 3/5breezes bysubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegoreanimal harmbody horror

Skip it tonightGore, animal cruelty, or nihilistic horror will wreck your evening.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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