They discover an island full of zombies, and things pan out poorly for the group. So goes the beginning of Fulci’s career-renewing 1979 work, ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS.Įlisa Briganti and Dardano Sacchetti’s screenplay offers a straightforward, no-nonsense narrative: A woman and several acquaintances embark upon a search-and-rescue mission for her missing father. The figure blasts a golf-ball-sized hole in the head of the undead body. The opening 20 seconds has the audience staring down the barrel of a gun as a shadowed figure points at the camera and waits patiently for a bound and shrouded body to rise from a nearby slab. Three of his films made it onto the core list of 72 Video Nasties, the earliest of which is ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS. With works spanning from giallo ( DON ’T TORTURE A DUCKLING) to spaghetti western ( MASSACRE TIME), he has achieved a godlike status with the grindhouse crowd in his decades-long filmmaking career. Writing library : x265 3.2.1+1-b5c86a64bbbe: 10bitĮncoding settings : cpuid=1111039 / frame-threads=5 / wpp / pmode / pme / no-psnr / no-ssim / log-level=2 / input-csp=1 / input-res=1800x1080 / interlace=0 / total-frames=0 / level-idc=0 / high-tier=1 / uhd-bd=0 / ref=5 / no-allow-non-conformance / no-repeat-headers / annexb / no-aud / no-hrd / info / hash=0 / no-temporal-layers / open-gop / min-keyint=24 / keyint=240 / gop-lookahead=0 / bframes=8 / b-adapt=2 / b-pyramid / bframe-bias=0 / rc-lookahead=40 / lookahead-slices=0 / scenecut=40 / radl=0 / no-splice / no-intra-refresh / ctu=64 / min-cu-size=8 / rect / amp / max-tu-size=32 / tu-inter-depth=3 / tu-intra-depth=3 / limit-tu=0 / rdoq-level=2 / dynamic-rd=0.00 / no-ssim-rd / signhide / no-tskip / nr-intra=0 / nr-inter=0 / no-constrained-intra / strong-intra-smoothing / max-merge=5 / limit-refs=0 / no-limit-modes / me=3 / subme=4 / merange=57 / temporal-mvp / no-hme / weightp / weightb / no-analyze-src-pics / deblock=0:0 / sao / no-sao-non-deblock / rd=6 / selective-sao=4 / no-early-skip / rskip / no-fast-intra / no-tskip-fast / no-cu-lossless / b-intra / no-splitrd-skip / rdpenalty=0 / psy-rd=2.00 / psy-rdoq=1.00 / no-rd-refine / no-lossless / cbqpoffs=0 / crqpoffs=0 / rc=abr / bitrate=8500 / qcomp=0.60 / qpstep=4 / stats-write=0 / stats-read=2 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ipratio=1.40 / pbratio=1.30 / aq-mode=2 / aq-strength=1.00 / cutree / zone-count=0 / no-strict-cbr / qg-size=32 / no-rc-grain / qpmax=69 / qpmin=0 / no-const-vbv / sar=1 / overscan=0 / videoformat=5 / range=0 / colorprim=1 / transfer=1 / colormatrix=1 / chromaloc=0 / display-window=0 / cll=0,0 / min-luma=0 / max-luma=1023 / log2-max-poc-lsb=8 / vui-timing-info / vui-hrd-info / slices=1 / no-opt-qp-pps / no-opt-ref-list-length-pps / no-multi-pass-opt-rps / scenecut-bias=0.05 / no-opt-cu-delta-qp / no-aq-motion / no-hdr / no-hdr-opt / no-dhdr10-opt / no-idr-recovery-sei / analysis-reuse-level=5 / scale-factor=0 / refine-intra=0 / refine-inter=0 / refine-mv=1 / refine-ctu-distortion=0 / no-limit-sao / ctu-info=0 / no-lowpass-dct / refine-analysis-type=0 / copy-pic=1 / max-ausize-factor=1.0 / no-dynamic-refine / no-single-sei / no-hevc-aq / no-svt / no-field / qp-adaptation-range=1.Cast: Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnsonĭirector Lucio Fulci is a visionary of genre. General : Matroska / 6.11 GiB / 1 h 34 min / 9 209 kb/s Also, the Troy Howard commentary track is amusingly critical of the whole enterprise. The original material never looked great, but this remaster looks fine for what it is. It's pretty incoherent, borrows ideas liberally from Return of the Living Dead, and doesn't look great (especially the parts I think are shot by Mattei are incredibly fuzzy and flary), but it has what as far as I know is the first instance of the "infected woman has a zombie baby" trope, so there's that at least. In fact, he abandoned the production in the Philippines after shooting most of the film, enough for an extremely short first cut, and veteran exploitation director Bruno Mattei took over and shot enough material to extend it to an hour and a half. This is not Lucio Fulci's greatest moment. Well, they're actually mostly Filipino, but the movie is Italian. Note : Do you like zombies, specifically Italian zombies? You'd better, because that's what you're getting. German subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned. Video encoded in two-pass 8500 kbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image.Įnglish subtitles converted, corrected and lightly edited. Zombie Flesh Eaters 2 (1988), aka Zombi 3, directed by Lucio Fulci and Bruno Mattei, remastered, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original Italian theatrical stereo, original English stereo dub, two commentary tracks, and English and German subtitles.
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