City of the Living Dead
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Movie Reviews of City of the Living Dead
Movie Review: Old gore is not good gore!
Summary: 2 Stars
The city of the living dead also called the gates of hell when it opened in America.This movie has no redeeming value as a horror movie just gore and religious sacrilege...a priest hanging himself!There is one seen where a young couple are making out in a car near a cemetary when she see's the hanged priest. She starts bleeding out of her eye's and spits up her intestines...real animal intestines were used!DON"T BUY THIS MOVIE IT'S A WASTE OF MONEY AND IMMORAL!
God bless...Hillery
Movie Review: "Not What I Thought"
Summary: 2 Stars
Honestly, it's a Lucio film, But there could have been alot more gore & a better plot behind the movies depiction. In my opinion, this is definitly not Lucio's best piece of "HORROR". I say buy it to have as part of your Lucio collection, if that you are & view once. Enjoy!!!Movie Review: Bleh. What a disappointment!
Summary: 1 Stars
After seeing plenty of Listmania lists and reviews here on Amazon calling this one of, if not THE best zombie movie ever made I took the plunge and bought it. But after seeing it, I call it total garbage
Lousy zombie make-up, lousy photography, lousy acting, lousy music, poor dubbing, barely coherent story. I just don't understand what people like about this movie. Yeah so there's one actress who spews sheep's guts out her mouth for gore effect. And there's a totally pointless scene where some dude gets murdered by having a drill go right through his head. And in another scene some chick starts crying blood tears.
At the beginning of the movie a priest hangs himself and this is supposed to somehow unlock the doors of Hell in some small New England town (which we never really get to see due to the ultra-limited budget) which is supposed to be populated by people who are descendants of those who murdered alleged witches during the Salem witch trials. But this plot point is never really developed, and instead the film is just a string of meaningless deaths and unconvincing gore.
For some unexplained reason, these bargain-basement quality zombies have the ability to teleport from place to place in the blink of an eye. Did the director intend this to be some kind of "deep" symbolism only Europeans can understand or what? For me it just made these el cheapo looking zombies even more ridiculous and unbelievable. And do these zombies want to eat people? Nope, just pull off the backs of their heads. -- Say what? (I'm guessing it was probably the only decent gore effect the untalented special effects department could pull off on their shoestring budget.)
A typical scene in the movie runs something like this: Dead priest teleports in, hanging from the noose. Chick screams. He teleports out of the noose. Close-up of his face lit with blue lights. Ooh, SCA~RY! More of the chick screaming. Cheap, fake-looking zombie pops in out of nowhere. Cut to pointless unrealistic gore scene. And on to the next murder, yadda-yadda....
I know there must be some good zombie movies out there, but this certainly isn't one of them.
One of the best zombie movies of all time? Hah, not a chance!
Movie Review: Warning: Avoid at all costs.
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie is horrible. There is not a saving grace about it. Lucio Fulci is the worst of the Italian sub-genre directors and that is not saying much seeing as how the vast majority of Italian horror filmmakers seem to know only one language, violence... extreme violence.
The film opens up with a priest hanging himself in a town that I presume is in New England, and I live in New England, and trust me we do not all act the idiots in this film. Apparently the Italian image of New England is a bunch of inbred hicks. Now back to the topic at hand. Apparently a hanged New England priest lets loose the last gate of Hell, how he does this is beyond me, but I am assured by the fifteen times that they say it.
A couple, which consist of a reporter and a police officer, go up to investigate the occurrence after a young women is buried alive (dead, but the undead... get it?) and talks about the strange inbred New England town. What happens next is all a blur to me. Something about zombies followed by insipid dialogue and then some more talk about zombies, followed by even more stupid dialogue, then a guy gets a drill in the head. Curtains.
While I am in the midst of trashing this movie I might as well bring up the zombies. These aren't your ordinary zombies, oh no, these are zombies that have the capabilities to transport from one place to another in a split second, whether or not this is intentional is beyond me. Another odd thing is, for some reason, they aren't interested in eating their victims. Rather, they enjoy pulling the backs of their heads off... you read that right, pulling the backs of their heads off. It is as weird as it sounds.
I don't remember how it ends (and I watched it only a half hour ago) and nor do I care. You will not care either. Not even a graduated gorehound like myself can enjoy this garbage. Do NOT watch this film. Ever. Sticking your money in your fireplace is better use of it then giving Lucio Fulci's estate anymore.
Movie Review: Clumsy Fulci
Summary: 1 Stars
I wouldn't exactly rank Lucio Fulci with Ingmar Bergman, but some of his films were pretty skillfully made examples of their "type" ("Zombie" is a borderline classic of the genre). "City of the Living Dead," however, isn't one of them. I'm as fond of extreme gore as any closet psycho, but I need a little bit more bang for my buck. The ONLY worthwhile element of this movie is the gore; the story makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. I fantasize about a 2-hour director's cut that actually includes a plot (something that might slightly explain what the heck is going on).
The brain-drilling scene, for example: Who are these people? Why does one guy feel like cutting a hole through the other guy's cranium? Just for the heck of it? Or just for the gross-out thrill? I'm not asking for Freudian explanations here; I just want to comprehend what I'm watching on a very basic level.
Fulci should've given us the basics in addition to the gore. He didn't, and the result is a very clumsy, sloppy mess of a movie in an otherwise marvelously demented canon.