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

Extract from HAMLET by William Shakespeare: FIRST GRAVEDIGGER Is she to be buried in Christian burial that wilfully seeks her own salvation? SECOND GRAVEDIGGER I tell thee she is: and therefore make her grave straight: the crowner hath sat on her, and finds…

Cliff

That doomed feel when you bleed from your eyes. City of the Living Dead opens with a priest hanging himself and the Gates of Hell opening, it’s one of my favorite openings ever—BIG MOOD and from there it just gets crazier. The combined length of the large and small…

Ian West

I’ve said this before, but the combined length of the large and small intestines is about 25 feet... you see all 25 bloody feet of that as its violently/disgustingly (and famously) puked out of a mouth.  Happy belated birthday Mr. Fulci <3

Ian West

Lucio Fulci, the master of the gory concept board.  Not as much the “City” of the Living Dead as it is the “Basement”, this film takes some ghoulishly undead folks and occasionally sticks them in random places all over a village called Dunwich. Definitely more coherent…

Matt!

This plot is incomprehensible, but this isn’t a story - it’s a poem.

Will Sloan

Spooktober IV: Morte all'italiana Like many of the great Fulci movies, this is a very straightforward story that gets elevated by its twisted, sickening and marvelous graphic violence and absurd amount of gore that borderlines in the silly. The scene depicting the woman…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

"OK maybe I have no imagination?" After taking part in a seance Mary has a vision of a priest hanging himself which in turn opens a portal to hell and now the dead are walking the earth - also she dies of fright after seeing the vison (get out of that one…

VIVE_le_FILTH

A profane funeral for western civilization. Unlike other Fulci’s end of the world scenarios, this doesn’t move towards cracking reality, but start with a series of disparate parts and allow them to cohere. It is also unique in that characters actually seek their destination…

Filipe Furtado

Seeing this always brings me back to how I watched movies as a small child. I couldn’t really follow the cause-and-effect of the plot, I would mostly go from tableau to tableau and drift along on the mood. Watched on, and greatly enhanced by, a musty 35mm print.

Will Sloan