Nightmare City (1980)
- Original title
- Incubo sulla città contaminata
- Directed by
- Umberto Lenzi
- Genre
- horror film, science fiction film, zombie film
- Country
- Mexico, Italy, Spain
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 5.7 of 10 from 181 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 TV reporter sees a city fall apart when radiation turns people into bloodthirsty ghouls. These zombies are fast and relentless, chasing down survivors everywhere.
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What happens
Nightmare City (Italian: Incubo sulla città contaminata, lit. 'Nightmare Over the Contaminated City'; Spanish: La invasión de los zombies atómicos, lit. 'Invasion of the Atomic Zombies') is a 1980 science-fiction horror film directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Francisco Rabal and Mel Ferrer. The film concerns a TV reporter who witnesses the collapse of a city overrun by irradiated, blood-drinking ghouls. A co-production between Italy and Spain with additional backing from Mexico, the film has been recognized as a forerunner of the "fast zombie" trope later used in such franchises as 28 Days Later. It was also a chief inspiration for the 2007 film Planet Terror. It was released in the U.S. as City of the Walking Dead. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
More like this
Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Zombie Holocaust (1980)
The Beyond (1981)
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)
Beyond Terror (1980)
Dead & Buried (1981)
Under Siege (1980)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.