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CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (1980) a.k.a The Gates Of Hell (http://imdb.com/title/tt0081318/) - Gory supernatural zombie film from Italian director Lucio Fulci. This film has all kinds of horror scenes and is quite a film from 27 years ago. You have a priest who hangs himself in a cemetary, a seance which opens the gates of hell, a seance which results in a death of a women, zombie rising from the grave in the first 5 minutes. Later you have a famous drill scene, blizzard of maggots, wormy corpses, bloody wall cut by glass shards, tears of blood, woman vomiting her own intestines out, a few scenes with scalps removed exposing brains, brains dropping out, and a women being buried alive. This is a serious effort by Lucio Fulci has very good production values, but somehow misses a bit as a film. Perhaps the dubbing is in the way. Bought this Anchor Bay DVD at my local Pathmark grocery store for $4.99.

(7 out of 10 Stars)  :thumbup: It's worth the $5 dollars from Anchor Bay.

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 Aka GATES of HELL. My favorite Fulci movie...ever! :thumbup:

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That correct RCMerchant. I made the addition. Thanks. It's definately a good one, but it's not one of the great zombie films. Even if it does have zombies. It's more of a supernatural film.

This is a film which has some very good elements, especially drenched in atmosphere, but it has some poor elements which hurt it. Aside from the appearances of the priest, which I found annoying, it has a good build up, but, ultimately, it falls apart within the final 20 minutes; it seems as though Fulci and de Rossi took off at that point as both the direction and special effects change, and suffer. I still enjoy watching it, but I find myself wishing that they had tightened up the last part of the movie and handled the priest better. The scene where Christopher George rescues Catriona MacColl from the coffin is priceless.

 The coffin scene IS the best in the film...I agree! But the pure gore of the head drilling,and the chitlen puking, are classics as well! Fulci was a sick,crazy, puppy. RIP

Great gore effects, uneven performances and uneven pacing.

Yep, sounds like a Fulci movie to me.

but I still love it.   :twirl:

I remember when it came out in my area (under the Gates of Hell title), the TV commercials refused to show any scenes from the movie, saying that it was too shocking and horrible to show on TV. All they did was play some audio clips from the movie, mostly of people screaming. This whole approach had be dying of curiosity and I wanted to see the film so bad. There was just no way I could convince my mom to let my dad take me to a movie called The Gates of Hell. I had to wait until about three years ago to finally see this one. Alas, it was not the zombie epic that my young mind had envisioned. Still, I enjoyed it.

I actually thought it was pretty crap. Compared to his other Zombie movies anyway. The gut puking thing was all hyped and I thought it'd be evil, but it mostly looks funny. And a lot of the film just didn't make any sense, and most of the gore looked a lot more fake than in most of Fulci's movies.

Did you clean up those still or are those taken from your actual player?

Because I tape I got is way too dark and I can't see worth crap. That heavily took away from the enjoyment.

Though even then I did love the vomit scene and the drill scene. Those were the only two parts I liked. So I thought you were talking about another movie, I want to change my vote to 'no'.

But if there's a cleaned up version out there, then I'll be willing to watch it again.

Didn't the zombies have a thing for crushing the people's heads with their hands from behind? As oopsosed to chomping on them?

Due to my earlier viewing I feel Zombi 2 and The Beyond are far far superior to 'City'

Like I said, cleaned version and I'll be interested in re-viewing it.

Damn now I want to see the vomit scene again.

I have the anchor bay version and enjoy it alot. The music by fabio frizzi is awesome and the suspense is tangible. I guess its so scary to me because I first saw it when I was like 11 at 11 o'clock at night. I like this movie about as much as zombi 2 but the seqeuel to gates was horrible. You shouldn't see the Gates of Hell 2 its the worst.

Well, as Torgo said, it is a Fulci film. That pretty much sums it all. It's uneven, nasty and sloppy, but at the same time it has a great atmosphere and some amazing isolated horror scenes. The girl vomiting her own insides (until they become outsides and so on) is still in my mind, under seven different locks. 

I found "The beyond" to be a far, far better effort.