Want to see a fight between a zombie and a shark? Then you won’t want to miss Blue Underground’s special midnight showings of horror icon Lucio Fulci’s 1979 gore classic Zombie, playing in theaters Oct. 21 and 22. Digitally restored and remastered from the original uncut and uncensored camera negative, the film will also be available on DVD and Blu-ray on 2-disc sets on Oct. 25.

Says Hostel director Eli Roth:

Fulci’s ZOMBIE contains the greatest scene ever committed to celluloid, and that is a zombie fighting a shark. Fulci put a stuntman dressed as a zombie in a tank with a live shark and made them fight – it’s one of the craziest, most insane and irresponsible scenes ever put on film.

This was 1980, years before CG. And the zombie wins! To this day, nobody knows how in the hell he did it, it’s simply jaw-dropping. There’s nothing you will see in any modern zombie movie that comes close to what Fulci did in 1980. Viva Fulci!

You won’t see that on “The Walking Dead.”

Zombie, originally released in Italy as an unofficial sequel to George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, centers on a woman’s (Tisa Farrow) search for her sick and missing father (Ugo Bologna) on the island of Matool, where a local doctor (Richard Johnson) is attempting to find a way to stop the undead from eating the living. The film is beloved by gore-geeks and cited as influential by filmmakers such as Roth and Guillermo del Toro.

Zombie plays in Los Angeles tonight at the New Beverly Cinema. To find a theater showing near you, go here.