City of the Living Dead (The Gates of Hell) (Paura nella città dei morti viventi)

Movies I watched in June 2019 (25 movies items)

" Date: 6/18/2019 Viewed: Blu-Ray Re-Watch Note: After re-watching Zombie, I decided to watch a Lucio Fulci movie this week from Monday-Sunday in honor of his birthday. The weakest movie in the Gates of Hell trilogy, but still a solid movie nevertheless. I personally love the dark, spooky and gothic atmosphere in the movie. The movie has you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. I also love the set designs in the movie because they look fantastic. My biggest issue with the movie is th"

“"City of the Living Dead" is far from a perfect film but, even expecting that, it falls quite a bit short of good and ambles somewhat aimlessly in the fair category for me. Most of that good will falls on the soft spot I have for Italian horror and Fulci's better offerings to the genre. Don't behead me just yet Fulci loyalists. I proudly wear my Fulci Lives gear and partake of the man's work quite often but I'd be remiss if I ignored the shortcomings of his art which are, if we're being honest, many.

That being said, I have something of an unbridled appreciation for this movie despite my middling rating and it mostly falls on the fact that "City" is something of an ambitious project even as it fails to bring most of that to fruition. I, like many, believe that Fulci's magnum opu” read more

Movie Reviews (1301-1350) (50 movies items)

" Horror that setups some memorable set-pieces of blood and destruction of the human body. Lucio Fulci brings again some wonderful atmospheric moments to the movie and Catriona MacColl is an engaging actress with good looks and believable acting. I like the foreboding music. It is the first in Fulci's Death Trilogy which is followed by the already seen classic "The Beyond" and "House by the Cemetery"). "

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"18.4."