City Of The Living Dead

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Summary: One of Fucli's best horror films ever!
Review: Here it is, presented on a blood-caked silver platter. This sick Fulci film, by far one of his best, is the best quality transfer I've seen of the film, including the 1998 domestic release.

Also known as The Gates of Hell, this features some of Fulci's sickest gore (that's saying a lot!) A girl vomits up her innards, a boy's head is drilled and the zombies run wild.

Chow down into this classic.

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Summary: The artist formely known as Gates of Hell
Review: Lucio Fulci's "City of the Living Dead" is a truly macabre and horrendously violent film. Released in the U.S.A. as "The Gates of Hell, it was one of the films to watch as a youngster for it's graphic depiction of violent deaths. These included the lovingly disguting regurgitation of a woman's innards, the drill press through the head, and numerous other bloody sequences. Amazingly, this film is not a mere "geek show" and is surprisingly well made and atmospheric in its presentation. The DVD provides an excellent picture and is far and away superior to any VHS copy. If you are a fan of extreme Italian horror, this is for you....if not, stay very far away.

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Summary: Classic Fulci, phenomenal transfer!
Review: This is Fulci at his darkest hour... a zombie movie paced and structured more like a slasher film, CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD has the distinction of containing two of Fulci's trademark gore scenes: a girl vomiting up her own intestine and a retarded boy getting a power drill through the head. Although there aren't too many zombies and they don't show up too often up until nearly the end, this film is so unrelentingly dark and miserable that it's hard to dismiss. Fulci here has created an "absolute film" which comes closer to capturing the nightmare than any other film. Great, so long as you can tune out Dardano Sacchetti's ridiculous scripting and dialog, containing numerous factual errors. The excellent cast includes the late Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo (son of Alida Valli), Venantino Venantini and his son Luca, hot Swedish superbabe Janet Agren, Giovanni Lombado Radice (who got his head hacked in half in Cannibal Ferox) and the blonde guy who got demasculated in Cannibal Holocaust.

Anchor Bay's DVD is a must-have. Previous versions of the films (Japanese Laserdisc, Paragon's and Creature Feature's tapes) were nothing short of horrible. Here, Sergio Salvati's photography is finally VISIBLE and the film is no longer saturated in blue. On top of that, it's got a roaring 5.1 dolby mix better than anything I've ever heard! Turn your speakers all the way up and let MacColl's scream at the beginning shake your house. Plus, the film is letterboxed in an aspect ratio much greater than I've seen it in previously.

Buy now.

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Summary: A cult classic!
Review: Just ignore the people who gave it negative reviews! This movie is an absolute Fulci classic. If you liked Zombie then you'll love City of the Living Dead.

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Summary: Lucio Fulci lives!
Review: The best Fulci movies are The Beyond, Zombie, House by the Cemetary and The gates of hell. These are classics in modern classic horror. I am sick of people knocking this film. For style this is good. Real eerie stuff. Grab the barf bag for this one.

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Summary: Lame would-be- shocker
Review: Whereas Dario Argento has managed to turn sheer brutality into a form of high art, Luci Fulci has to rely on brutality simply to disguise the fact that apart from it, there's - well, not much really. "City of the Living Dead" (also known as "Gates of Hell") is downright boring because all attempts at creating some gothic flavour or atmosphere OR suspense fail miserably. Instead, we're kept awake by repeated scenes of (badly made) intestines pulled out of something or somebody, and an electric drill forcing its way into (and out of) the head of a retarded boy! wow! Attempts at creating suspense (and keeping up the viewer's interest in the plot) are undermined by bad timing, editing, and worse acting. could have been high gothic gore, but it's just boring gore. silly. At least, "the Beyond" is better than this one.

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Summary: CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD
Review: VERY MOODY AND CREEPY.DEFINITELY ONE OF THE BEST ZOMBIE FLICKS.A MUST HAVE FOR ANY ZOMBIE FAN.WELL WORTH THE PURCHASE. A++++++++

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Summary: City of the Living Dead
Review: Okay, I love gore just as much as the next depraved freak, but City of the Living Dead pretty much disappointed me on all levels. Yeah, it's quite gory and all, but the film just isn't very good. It's rather bad actually. Check out Dawn of the Dead or Night of the Living Dead... They're fare superior horror films.

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Summary: A horror movie for horror's sake!
Review: Some movies are made to make a statement, others are made to entertain and then some are made to make you sick. Enter CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD. If ever there was a B movie with a working plot CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD is it, sort of.
This feature length film, written and directed by Lucio Fulci, is about a group of people who dodge killer zombies in an attempt to close the GATES OF HELL (VHS version title of same movie), which have been opened on purpose. The film begins with the local priest, Father Thomas, committing suicide by hanging himself above a grave and thus opening the ill reputed gates. The act is witnessed by a girl who happens to be several hundred miles away attending a seance. The plot is a little silly, but this was filmed in 1980 on a low budget.
As this horror flick drags itself merrily along, we come to chapter eight "the devil's spew," where we find Rose and Tommy making out at the cemetary right smack in front of the grave where Father Thomas offed himself. The dead priest appears in the headlights and causes Rose to cry blood and vomit her internal organs into her lap while Tommy looks on in terror, gagging.
After several minutes of boring dialogue, we come to chapter 17 "the drill" where Bob, the local weird guy, smokes pot in the back seat of Anne's car. He gets caught by Anne's father who suspects Bob of foul play, or fouly playing, with Anne and promptly pushes Bob's head onto the ol' drill press and . . .
Although I didn't find this film to be horrifying or even scary, with lines such as "she was like dead...and she was eating mommy and daddy," I did find it entertaining in a twisted sort of way. And though the acting, special effect, filming and sound effect straight from the old Scooby Doo episodes are poorly done, these qualities only add to the films constant creepiness.
No no, this won't be shown on movie night with the church youth group but it's a good "popcorn and a movie at home" alternative to boredom. Or maybe you just like creepy, cheesy horror.

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Summary: one of the best
Review: This is one of the best zombie films ever. The scene where the womans guts come out of her mouth and the drill that goes through bobs head are brilliant.City of the Living Dead is one of the best horror films ever made.Although nots as good as Day of the Dead.