City of the Living Dead
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Actor: Antonella Interlenghi, Carlo de Mejo, Christopher George, Janet Agren, Katherine MacCollBrand: Ryko Distribution
Cinematographer: Sergio Salvati
Composer: Fabio Frizzi
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Italian (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-02-27
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Blue Underground
Movie Reviews of City of the Living Dead
Movie Review: Good Creepy Italian Gore
Summary: 3 Stars
Remember those Mom & Pop video stores which popped up in almost every shopping center in America during the 80's? The ones that always smelled of popcorn and plastic. I loved roaming the horror aisles of those small shops, you never knew what you would find. One of my discoveries was a flick called "The Gates of Hell". It was a great movie full of gore, and starring Christopher George as a cigar chomping newpaper reporter who races to the small town of Dunwich to try and close the gates of Hell. It seems that when a local priest committed suicide, he opened the portal to hell and if left open until All Saint's Day, it could spell the end of humanity.
Well, lo and behold decades later I pick up "City of the Living Dead" and it's "The Gates of Hell" under an alternative title. The film holds up pretty well. The acting is pretty decent for an Italian B-Movie, the haunting musical score still causes shivers, the film is shot beautifully, and the gore effects have stood the test of time. If you are fan of Italian 80's gore-horror, then you should be pretty pleased with this DVD.
The only thing I would throw out there, is that if you are looking for a "zombie" movie, keep looking. This isn't a zombie flick. Sure the living dead are in the film, but look more like ghosts covered in scabs. These aren't the slow moving undead found in a Romero flick, these entities can just sort of appear, grab a hunk of brain, squish it around a little and then disappear just as quickly. But only if you are looking for a straight-forward zombie flick will be disappointed.
Summary of City of the Living Dead
"WOE BE UNTO HIM WHO OPENS ONE OF THE SEVEN GATEWAYS TO HELL, BECAUSE THROUGH THAT GATEWAY, EVIL WILL INVADE THE WORLD."The Seven Gates Of Hell have been torn open, and in three days the dead shall rise and walk the earth. As a reporter (Christopher George of PIECES) and a psychic (Catriona MacColl of THE BEYOND) race to close the portals of the damned, they encounter a seething nightmare of unspeakable evil. The city is alive - with the horrors of the living dead!
Directed and co-written by the legendary Lucio Fulci (ZOMBIE, THE BEYOND), CITY OF THE LIVIND DEAD features some of the maestro's most shocking and controversial sequences of all time. This is the definitive version of Fulci's hallucinogenic masterpiece of horror: uncut, uncensored and presented in all its brain-ripping, gut-spewing, head-drilling glory!
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