In 1979 producer Ugo Tucci sought to capitalize on the success of Dario Argento's American collaboration Zombi by retooling an existing script and hiring horror master Lucio Fulci to craft a film with roots in the past yet light years ahead of it's time. The film would go on to surpass it's predecessor and stake it's claim as one of the all time greats of the genre. In September, 1979 Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2 was released promising when the earth spits out the dead, they will return to tear the flesh out of the living