Zombi 2 - Legacy

Legacy

• American band Faith No More's third album, The Real Thing, features a song titled "Zombie Eaters". Although the lyrics do not reference the film explicitly, singer and lyricist Mike Patton is known to be a fan of Italian horror films and even titled a song on his debut solo album, Adult Themes for Voice, after another Lucio Fulci film.
• Heavy metal band White Zombie made a reference to the eye-gouging scene on their 1995 album Astro-Creep: 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head, on the fifth track "Electric Head, Pt. 2 (The Ecstasy)", Rob Zombie's lyric being "a fistful of hair and a splinter in the mind."
• The Canadian band Fake Shark – Real Zombie! took their name as a reference from a scene in this movie.
• The band Send More Paramedics have a song called "Zombie vs. Shark" in homage to this movie.
• Hip-hop producer Necro sampled the theme in the song "Carnivores" on the 2005 self-titled album from his group Circle of Tyrants.
• This film was No. 98 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments for the scene when a zombie pulls a victim towards a splintered wood shard.
• British comic Jamie Hewlett's animation company is called Zombie Flesh Eaters.
• The New York band Grasshopper performed a track live on WFMU titled "Zombie Shark Mangler", referencing the zombie vs. shark fight scene.
• The shark scene featured in a Windows 7 commercial in 2010, on a fictitious website called "Zombie Companion", where the footage is visible dubbed over with nature documentary-style narration.
• British writer A. M. Esmonde's novel Dead Pulse's product description is stated as a "Lucio Fulci-inspired horror adventure."
• The video game Dead Island has a very similar premise to Zombi 2 in the case of survivors on an island fighting off hordes of the undead. However, unlike Zombi 2, Dead Island has more than one type of zombie; regardless, the game is clearly inspired by Zombi 2.
• There is a scene in the "Planet Terror" segment in Grindhouse (film) where Quentin Tarantino's character is stabbed in the eye with a piece of wood. Quentin has even stated that he and Robert Rodriguez would show double features of Zombi 2 and Torso (1973 film) with movie trailers to give the actors the feel of a grindhouse movie.