City of the Living Dead (1980)
- Original title
- Paura nella città dei morti viventi
- Directed by
- Lucio Fulci
- Genre
- splatter film, zombie film
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 448 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A priest hangs himself, opening a gateway to hell. The undead come through, and a psychic and a reporter must close the gate before All Saints' Day.
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What happens
City of the Living Dead (Italian: Paura nella città dei morti viventi, lit. 'Fear in the city of the living dead', also released as The Gates of Hell) is a 1980 Italian supernatural horror film co-written and directed by Lucio Fulci. It stars Christopher George, Katherine MacColl, Carlo de Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, and Janet Agren. The film follows a priest whose suicide opens a gateway to hell that releases the undead, leading a psychic and a reporter team up to close it before All Saints' Day. City of the Living Dead was developed after the financial success of Fulci's previous film, Zombi 2, leading him to work with screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti to write a new horror film inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. The film was greenlit during production of Contraband, which Fulci left to begin working on City of the Living Dead. Principal photography was shot predominantly on location in the United States, in New York City and Savannah, Georgia, with interiors shot in Rome. City of the Living Dead was theatrically released in Italy in August 1980, which grossed ₤985 million. It was followed by a release throughout Europe, including a screening at the Paris International Festival of Fantastic and Science-Fiction Film, where Fulci won the Audience Award, and in the United States in April 1983. Upon release, the film received criticism for its performances, plot, and graphic violence, but like many of Fulci's films, has developed a cult following. It is the first film in Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Zombi 2 (1979)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.