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Zombie Flesh Eaters

1979 • 1h 31m •
Horror
MOVIEVIBE Rating
★ 6.8/10
698 reviews
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Zombie Flesh Eaters

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.

"We are going to eat you!"

Top Billed Cast

Tisa Farrow
Tisa Farrow
Anne Bowles
Ian McCulloch
Ian McCulloch
Peter West
Richard Johnson
Richard Johnson
Dr. David Menard
Olga Karlatos
Olga Karlatos
Paola Menard
Al Cliver
Al Cliver
Brian Hull
Auretta Gay
Auretta Gay
Susan Barrett
Stefania D'Amario
Stefania D'Amario
Menard's Nurse
Ugo Bologna
Ugo Bologna
Ann's Father (uncredited)

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

J John Chard Verified TMDB Critic
2013-11-04

Fulci’s Feral Food Feast.

Being of a “certain” age and being British, I was firmly around at the time of the ridiculous “video nasty” mania that swept the UK in the early 1980s. Films that usually involved cannibals, either ferox, holocaust or zombified, and torture porn revengers et al, were banned, prosecuted or given a Viking burial at sea. One such film was Zombie Flesh Eaters (the best title the film has of the few it is known by), it became like the Holy Grail of video nasties, where to see it uncut would be like witnessing the last miracle performed by Christ. I never did ...

Q quasar1967 Verified TMDB Critic
2020-09-01

in my opinion, quite simply the best CLASSIC zombie movie ever made...

W Wuchak Verified TMDB Critic
2025-09-20

**_Adventurous zombie outbreak in the Caribbean_**

A woman from New York City (Tisa Farrow) teams-up with a reporter (Ian McCulloch) to find her missing father on a remote island in the West Indies. They hire a vacationing couple to guide them (Al Cliver and Auretta Gay), which leads to a troubled doctor who knew the man (Richard Johnson).

Helmed by Lucio Fulci, "Zombie" (1979) or “Zombie Flesh Eaters” is also known as “Zombi 2” in several countries because producers wanted to capitalize on the success of “Dawn of the Dead” from the year before, which was known as “Zombi”...