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Zombi 2 is an Italian horror film of the zombie sub-genre. It was directed by Lucio Fulci and produced by Variety Film Production. It was released theatrically in Italy on August 25th, 1979 and is generally well-received among horror fans for its visceral imagery and comparitive compatibility to the American "Living Dead" series developed by visionary filmmaker George Romero. It is also the film that turned Lucio Fulci's flailing movie career around and firmly established him as a horror film icon. It was followed in 1988 by Zombi 3, which Fulci partially directed. In this film, Tisa Farrow plays Anne Bowles, a young woman who is searching for her father whom she had not heard from in more than three months. Joining up with reporter Peter West, the two trace her father's trail to a tropical island where a scientist named Doctor David Menard struggles to save a village from a zombie infestation.

A sailing vessel, seemingly adrift, floats in to State Island. Two members of the Harbor patrol pull up alongside it and find the wheelhouse of the boat to be an utter mess. One officer finds a severed hand and is repulsed. An overweight, decaying zombie emerges and bites him on the neck. As the man lies dying, the zombie goes topside where the second cop fires several shots at him until he falls into the water.

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