"If you're familiar with the names Lucio Fulci, Mario Bava, and Dario Argento, then you are acutely aware of the impact Italian directors had on the horror genre. Italian horror movies, often coalesced from the Giallo genre, had a golden age of horror from the '70s to the '80s. After the success of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead, many Italian filmmakers took advantage of the loose Italian copyright laws to capitalize on Romero's '68 classic. Though initially dismissed as copycats, the Italian zombie film genre has gained a strong following throughout the years.
Often featuring insane gore that would not make it past American sensors, prog-rock soundtracks, and camera work that would go on to inspire Quentin Tarantino, these films have shed the label as knock-offs and cultivated a life of their own."
