When you're on a low budget, hald you're production crew do not speak your language, and cgi hasn't been invented so you need to use a real shark... you have a huge job on your hands. But Lucio Fulci brings together the best of the cost effective to bring this masterpiece of flesh eating zombie horror to life. The makeup effects are convincing, largely beingade from terracotta and papier-mache and the gore laid on thickly without conscience.
The only downsides are the dubbing seems a little off, and due to set and camera angle restrictions these crawling cadavers had to move so painfully slowly you wonder why their prey doesn't just run or despatch them on the spot.
If you can forgive these minor drawbacks, you're in for a fun time and one of the most intense splinter scenes in cinematic history, looking every bit as realistic today as it did in 1979.
This is a close second to the best of Romero.