Lucio Fulci fans should start prepar­ing for a momen­tous October. Not only is Blue Underground bring­ing his clas­sic Zombie back to Blu-Ray and DVD in high style, they are bring­ing it back to the the­aters in time for Halloween.  That’s right, you can see the film’s famous zom­bie vs. shark fight in remas­tered form with a Dolby Digital sound­track.  Below you can find a press release with full info on both the home video and the­atri­cal reis­sues, includ­ing a list of loca­tions and play­dates for the screen­ings.  Read on for all the spaghetti-splatter details…

Blue Underground Presents Nationwide Theatrical Release of Lucio Fulci’s

ZOMBIE

Experience the Italian hor­ror maestro’s gore clas­sic as you’ve never seen or heard it before, dig­i­tally restored and remastered!

October 3, 2011 (LOS ANGELES) — Blue Underground is bring­ing its dig­i­tally  restored and remas­tered ver­sion of Lucio Fulci’s ZOMBIE to the­aters across the U.S. and Canada this month. The exclu­sive mid­night screen­ings give fans the chance to expe­ri­ence Fulci’s hor­ror clas­sic as it’s never been seen or heard before in advance of Blue Underground’s release of ZOMBIE on Blu-ray disc.

A list­ing of the­aters and dates is attached; all screen­ings will take place on October 21 & 22, 2011, except where noted. Theaters and show­times are online now at http://www.blue-underground.com/zombie/

See the new trailer for ZOMBIE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqFWrGKLb4E

The late, great Lucio Fulci is known to hor­ror fans for such wildly imag­i­na­tive and out­ra­geously gory films as THE BEYOND, HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY, and CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD; his influ­ence con­tin­ues to be felt in the work of con­tem­po­rary genre direc­tors includ­ing Eli Roth (HOSTEL, CABIN FEVER) and Guillermo del Toro (HELLBOY, PAN’S LABYRINTH).

Originally released in Italy as an unof­fi­cial sequel to DAWN OF THE DEAD, Fulci’s ZOMBIE is arguably the director’s most pop­u­lar movie and remains one of the most eye-skewering, skin-ripping, gore-gushingly graphic hor­ror hits of all time! ZOMBIE stars Tisa Farrow (THE GRIM REAPER), Ian McCulloch (CONTAMINATION), Al Cliver (CANNIBALS), and Richard Johnson (THE HAUNTING).

Blue Underground is proud to present ZOMBIE in a new 2K High Definition trans­fer from the orig­i­nal uncut and uncen­sored cam­era neg­a­tive. Each frame has been lov­ingly restored to per­fec­tion under the super­vi­sion of cin­e­matog­ra­pher Sergio Salvati (THE BEYOND), and the sound­track has been remas­tered in 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound to cre­ate the most pris­tine, mind-blowing ver­sion of the movie ever seen.

“We are very excited about this the­atri­cal release of ZOMBIE,” says Blue Underground founder and pres­i­dent William Lustig. “We spent hun­dreds of hours work­ing by hand to restore every frame of the movie. When we pre­miered our restora­tion of the film at Fantastic Fest in Austin, fans told us that ZOMBIE looks like it was made yesterday!”

For a look at how Blue Underground metic­u­lously restored Lucio Fulci’s ZOMBIE, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzcDDgU8WK4&feature=related

Blue Underground’s Ultimate Edition of ZOMBIE will be released as a 2-Disc Blu-ray and 2-Disc DVD on October 25, 2011.

“When I first saw ZOMBIE, my mind exploded! After the movie ended, I didn’t know if I had dreamed it, because surely such movies didn’t exist! You are about to see a movie that is cre­ated by one of the most bril­liant minds in the genre, that is full of ‘Oh, my God!’ moments that you will not believe.…visceral sat­is­fac­tion fully guar­an­teed! Fulci was a fero­cious mind, and ZOMBIE is his most sav­age movie.”

– Guillermo del Toro, direc­tor of Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth

“One of the all-time great hor­ror clas­sics, Fulci’s ZOMBIE con­tains the great­est scene ever com­mit­ted to cel­lu­loid, and that is a zom­bie fight­ing a shark. Fulci put a stunt­man dressed as a zom­bie in a tank with a live shark and made them fight — it’s one of the cra­zi­est, most insane and irre­spon­si­ble scenes ever put on film. This was 1980, years before CG. And the zom­bie wins! To this day, nobody knows how in the hell he did it, it’s sim­ply jaw-dropping. There’s noth­ing you will see in any mod­ern zom­bie movie that comes close to what Fulci did in 1980. Viva Fulci!”

– Eli Roth, direc­tor of Hostel and Cabin Fever

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Blue Underground Presents Lucio Fulci’s

ZOMBIE

Limited Theatrical Release

Midnight, October 21^st & 22^nd

(except where oth­er­wise noted)

ALBUQUERQUE — Guild Cinema (Oct. 28 & 29)

ATLANTA –Plaza Theatre

AUSTIN –Alamo The Ritz (Oct. 24 & 31)

AUSTIN — Alamo S. Lamar (Oct. 30)

BOSTON — Coolidge Corner Theatre

CHICAGO — Music Box Theatre (also Oct. 28 & 29)

CLEVELAND — Capitol Theatre (Oct. 15)

DALLAS — Landmark Inwood Theatre

DENVER — Landmark Esquire

DETROIT — Landmark Main Art

HOUSTON — Landmark River Oaks

JACKSONVILLE, FL — 5 Points Theatre

KANSAS CITY — Tivoli Cinemas

LAS VEGAS — Theatre 7 (Oct. 31)

LAWRENCE, KS — Liberty Hall (Oct. 21 only)

LOS ANGELES — New Beverly Cinema

MESA, AZ — The Royale

MINNEAPOLIS — Landmark Uptown (Nov. 4 & 5)

NEW YORK CITY — Landmark’s Sunshine

OTTAWA, ONTARIO — Mayfair Theatre

PHILADELPHIA — Landmark Ritz

PITTSBURGH — The Oaks Theater

PORTLAND, OR — Hollywood Theatre

SACRAMENTO — Crest Theatre

SAN ANTONIO — Alamo Westlakes

SAN DIEGO — Landmark Ken Cinema

SAN FRANCISCO — Roxie Theater (Oct. 29 – 31)

SEATTLE — Landmark Egyptian

ST. LOUIS — Hi-Pointe Theatre

ST. PETE BEACH, FL — The Beach Theatre

TORONTO — The Revue Cinema (Oct. 22 & Oct. 31)

TUCSON, AZ — The Loft Cinema

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Landmark E Street Cinema

WICHITA, KS — Warren Old Town Theater (Oct. 24 & 25)

WINCHESTER, VA — Alamo Drafthouse Winchester

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA — Park Theatre Café (Oct. 13)

YELLOW SPRINGS, OH — Little Art Theatre (Oct. 22)