This Day in Halloween: Lucio Fulci's controversial cult Italian movie "Zombie" opens across the U.S. in 1980. / Illustration by Laura Peyton Maurer
Zombie opens across the U.S. in 1980. Lucio Fulci’s film, originally intended to be an Italian sequel to George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, is controversial on its release, but is a hit that develops a cult following and is followed by two sequels.
