Zombie Cover B ''Splinter'' 10/18 Blu-ray (Rental)

. A boat sails into New York Harbor, seemingly devoid of passengers. The harbor patrol boards the boat and one guy gets a hefty part of his neck bitten off by an overweight zombie. The zombie is dispatched by gunfire and falls into the water. The dead harbor patrol officer is taken in for an autopsy. A girl (Tisa Farrow) , who is the daughter of the man who owned the boat, and a newspaper reporter (Ian McCulloch) go to an island in the Caribbean where her father was last seen alive, to solve the mystery. It seems that the island is cursed and the dead are coming back to life. A doctor on the island (Richard Johnson) knows how to stop this plague; shoot 'em in the head. (Sound familiar?) It's not long before the island is full of the walking dead and everyone that is alive is fighting for their lives. Only Ms. Farrow and Mr. McCulloch come out alive and they lock a zombie on board their boat as proof as they sail back to New York. Too late, as New York is full of the walking dead, started by the bitten harbor patrol cop. This film is a notch above the rest of the Italian zombie pics. The photography is sharp, the make-up and gore effects are quite convincing (and graphic!), and the