{"id":48297,"date":"2021-11-29T22:46:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T03:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48297"},"modified":"2021-11-29T22:46:44","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T03:46:44","slug":"zombie-shark-est-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=48297","title":{"rendered":"Zombie shark, est. 1979"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-48298 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/zombievsshark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/zombievsshark.jpg 510w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/zombievsshark-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">When I saw the clickbait headline on social media for this, I of course clicked it, but I already knew that this was going to turn into a brog post: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/half-eaten-zombie-shark-seen-25542477?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mirror_main&amp;fbclid=IwAR0DEuACnY9HWuFq-PR3zEIFbs1PGl8SojDIbBxZEfiDg7Llv2DAcH-9dKU\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Mario releases what ultimately becomes a zombie shark, off the coast of Spain<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">To horror fans, all one has to do is say the words \u201czombie shark,\u201d and literally only one thing pops into their minds: Lucio Fulci\u2019s <i>Zombi 2<\/i> film, that very notoriously, contained a sequence, in which a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/X30YkvSSM9o\"><span class=\"s1\">zombie takes on, a shark<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Spoiler alert, as if anyone\u2019s going to read this, drop what they\u2019re doing and rush out to go find out how and where to watch Zombi 2, but the shark rips off the arm of the zombie and more or less \u201cwins\u201d in the sense that it swims away still living.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>However, the zombie definitely succeeds at ripping a chunk off of it to eat, but it\u2019s fairly unclear that it landed any actual bites onto the shark, since sharks skin are pretty tough.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>But the zombie is all over the shark for some bit of time, so it is presumed that it probably had to have gotten some bites in before its arm is ripped off and the conflict is over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Well, it only took 42 years but it looks like we\u2019ve got our answer to that specific scene from that documentary.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Clearly, the zombie got some bites in, or perhaps it\u2019s by virtue of the shark ingesting some of that wack-ass green zombie blood, but it clearly got turned, was caught by Dr. Mario, presumably studied because it was a fucking zombie shark, and then released into the wild, where some other sharks whooped its ass, leaving it to actually, ultimately die, finally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Really though, I\u2019m not sure why it\u2019s some sort of shocker that a shark that\u2019s all mangled open is still searching for food.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When they\u2019re at full health, it\u2019s all sharks do in the first place, I\u2019m not sure why one being practically ripped open would behave any differently, than to seek out food before it eventually succumbed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">All the same, good on the internet for giving all us zombie fans reason to make the never-not entertaining reference to Fulci\u2019s zombie vs. shark, because even to this day, there\u2019s never been a more wildly insane fight sequence than this was.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I saw the clickbait headline on social media for this, I of course clicked it, but I already knew that this was going to turn into a brog post: Dr. Mario releases what ultimately becomes a zombie shark, off the coast of Spain To horror fans, all one has to do is say the &hellip; 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