- Actors: Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi, Giovanni Lombardo Radice
- Directors: Lucio Fulci
- Writers: Lucio Fulci, Dardano Sacchetti, H.P. Lovecraft
- Producers: Lucio Fulci, Giovanni Masini, Robert E. Warner
- Format: PAL
- Language English, Italian
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: 18
- Studio: Vipco
- DVD Release Date: 6 Oct 2003
- Run Time: 93 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00005R5FN
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 33,185 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A guilty pleasure...........,
By Chrissy H (Binfield, Berks) - See all my reviews
This review is from: City of the Living Dead [DVD] [1981] (DVD)
Okay, first of all this is a Lucio Fulci zombie film - if you've never heard of Lucio Fulci chances are you'll be bemused/appalled/bored by this. But for those of us with a taste for cheesy Italian 80's splatter this is indeed a guilty pleasure. Made back in the early 80's when Zombie movies were all the rage after the success of the original 'Dawn of the Dead', it's finally available uncut (previous versions were cut to bits by the BBFC) in all of it's gory detail. Plot wise it's loosely based on the work of HP Lovecraft (very loosley!) but to be honest it's the usual incoherent mess livened up by the occassional gruesome scene. The infamous 'head drilling' scene in particular is a real show stopper - they really don't make 'em like this anymore! Fans of Fulci will claim that the illogical plot adds to the dreamlike quality of the film - that probably makes perfect sense late at night after several strong beers and a kebab, which to be honest is the best way to enjoy this kind of film. Picture quality is average - VIPCO are to be commended for digging out obscure previously banned horror/exploitation titles like this, but one thing they don't seem to be bothered with is picture or sound quality. I belive there is a far superior region 1 Anchor Bay version out there for those that want to import. So in summary well worth checking out if Italian zombie gore is your thing (come on, you know who you are!.....). By the way, if you like this check out 'The Beyond' - in my opinion Fulci's finest (yes, even better that Zombie Flesh Eaters.......).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a top notch movie by cult director lucio fulci !,
By jack firestick "JAKFI" (The Batcave.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: City of the Living Dead [1981] (NTSC) [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] (DVD)
from the director of "zombie 2"the beyond "& "house by the cemetary"
released under italian title of "paura nella citta dei morti viventi"or "the gates of hell" the film begins when father thomas hangs himself in dunwich causing the gates of hell to open & the dead return from their graves in dunwich. medium mary (catriona macoll)dies after seeing the dead city in a vision. reporter bell (christoper george)saves her from a nasty premature burial & together they set out to find dunwich,they must destroy the priest before all saints day when the dead will rise to seek their revenge on dunwich. eerie atmosphere of a fog shrouded city ,lots of shocks along the way. the music is by fabrio frizzi of "zombie 2 "fame . forget the plainly packaged vipco version,buy the blue underground or ec entertainmemt versions with digital sound . another classic gore-drenched classic by fulci,buy it!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Elegant, boodsoaked, one of a kind.,
By tessa weale (belfast, antrim United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: City of the Living Dead [VHS] [1981] (VHS Tape)
No-one made horror films like Lucio Fulci. Even when the material was nothing more than cooked up spaghetti gore and hoary cliche he still managed to produce creepy, doom laden masterpieces, with atmosphere you could carve like a fillet of beef. City of the Living Dead doesn't disappoint; the incoherent and incomprehensible narrative borrows widely from Lovecraft and EC comics and simply serves to connect a series of startling images and twisted set peices, all served up with lashings of claret and the Fulci trademarks; close ups of darting eyes and dry lips, maggot ridden ghouls ambling slowly through inexplicable mists and a finale that leaves the audience as much in the dark as the characters. The gore scenes are close to visual poetry, at least as far as horror cinema can make any claim to the poetic. Indeed the film contains my own personal favourite sequence of any horror film; a necking couple in a car break off their groping as the mysterious priest again materialises, dangling from a tree outside the window, and suddenly the girls eyes begin to bleed before she vomits up her entire alimentary canal and finishes in style by pulling her boyfriends brains out of the back of his head. You can't buy the experience of seeing that for the first time with money... John Morghen (who you may remember ended up deep throated quite literally in Cannibal Ferox) also gets a drilling headache fixed with a drastic bit of home trepanning in another famous sequence. Both of these scenes were cut, or at least heavily edited, up until very recently (kept the film off the video nasties list); take advantage of the more relaxed censorship we've been having of late and enjoy a great peice of Italian grue. We owe it to the maestro.
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