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| Colorful, irresistible poster for Lucio Fulci's City of the Living Dead |
QUICK REVIEW:
The priest in Dunwich, New England commits suicide on hallowed grounds and thus opens a Gate to Hell!
Four big hearts for this fantastically gloomy, macabre zombie gore horror. Sleepy little Dunwich is turned into a truly nightmarish place on Earth, as rats, maggots and zombies begin to crowd the place as a result of the miserable priest.
The eerily hypnotizing buried-alive scene (which was referenced and nearly recreated in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)) and the seemingly floating images from the foggy town contribute to making this an atmospheric favorite among Italian horror master Lucio Fulci's (The Beyond (1981)) impressive body of work.
The music by Fabio Frizzi (The Beyond (1981)) adds to the nightmarish quality of the work. The ending is fantastic and deeply strange.
The original Italian title means 'Fear in the City of the Living Dead', and it is the first film in Fulci's unofficial Gates of Hell trilogy, which also includes The Beyond (1981) (which is probably his best film) and The House by the Cemetery (1981).
In this next poster, to the right you see the actress Daniela Doria, who actually swallowed sheep entrails for the film and then vomited them up for the running camera for one legendary scene in the annals of gore:
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| Exciting horror-enthusiastic poster for Lucio Fulci's City of the Living Dead with a reference to the marketing of Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left (1972) [It's only a movie, only a movie, only a movie ...] |
Related review:
Lucio Fulci: The Beyond (1981) - Fulci's ultimate vision of surreal horror
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