10 Movies Weirdly Changed In Foreign Countries

Recently, Quentin Tarantino shone a light on the classic Italian style of shooting films in Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood. Leonardo DiCaprio's Rick Dalton is forced to travel to Italy to film spaghetti westerns, not particularly enamoured with the multi-lingual shoot that would be dubbed later in individual countries.

One of the masters of this era, Dario Argento, perfected the use of dubbed dialogue by rendering a great deal of it meaningless in Suspira - sure, you have the basics of the evil witch's coven that runs the dance academy in that film, but it's much more thrilling and frightening to be hypnotized by the dizzying, gorgeous array of primary-coloured visuals.

At the same time, George A. Romero was making waves stateside with his long-delayed sequel to his groundbreaking zombie film, Dawn of the Dead. When it came time to send it to Italy, not only did Argento handle the editing of the film, retitled Zombi, he also re-scored it with more music from his band Goblin than in Romero's cut.

Argento's cut also served as the loose franchise starter for the "Zombi" series, launching in earnest the next year with Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2 (just Zombie in other countries). There are currently four Zombi films, with a fifth subtitled "They Live" listed in production on IMDB as of press time.