City Of The Living Dead

Starring:Janet Agren, Adelaide Aste, Enzo D'Ausilio, Carlo De Mejo, Daniela Doria, Michael Gaunt, Christopher George, Antonella Interlenghi, Fabrizio Jovine, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Catriona MacColl, Perry Pirkanen, Luciano Rossi, Robert Sampson, Michele Soavi, Martin Sorrentino, Luca Venantini, Venantino Venantini
Studio: Anchor Bay
Product Type: DVD

Description

"WOE BE UNTO HIM WHO OPENS ONE OF THE SEVEN GATEWAYS TO HELL, BECAUSE THROUGH THAT GATEWAY, EVIL WILL INVADE THE WORLD."

The Seven Gates Of Hell have been torn open, and in three days the dead shall rise and walk the earth. As a reporter ( Christopher George of PIECES) and a psychic ( Catriona MacColl of THE BEYOND) race to close the portals of the damned, they encounter a seething nightmare of unspeakable evil. The city is alive - with the horrors of the living dead!

Directed and co-written by the legendary Lucio Fulci (ZOMBIE, THE BEYOND), CITY OF THE LIVIND DEAD features some of the maestro's most shocking and controversial sequences of all time. This is the definitive version of Fulci's hallucinogenic masterpiece of horror: uncut, uncensored and presented in all its brain-ripping, gut-spewing, head-drilling glory!

Customer Reviews:

ACK! RATS ARE EATING MY FACE!..........2007-06-06

CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD stars Christopher George (Pieces, Grizzly, Day Of The Animals, Graduation Day) and Catriona MacColl (The Beyond) as a reporter and a psychic on their way to the town of Dunwich. They must get there in order to stop the evil that is manifesting itself. You see, animated corpses are walking around and squeezing people's brains out! The townfolk are also being killed off by a demonic priest from beyond the grave, who can make blood run from his victim's eyes just by looking at them! He can also cause his prey to vomit up their own entrails! Can his reign of terror be thwarted? Lucio Fulci continues his wonderfully wicked zombie-cycle without remorse! COTLD fits in perfectly w/ ZOMBIE, THE BEYOND, and HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY. Watch out for the head-drilling, cranium-crushing, and intestine-ejection scenes! Yeech! The building dread is heavy and nasty. Another Fulci classic...

If you like gore............2007-04-30

Fulci was brilliant. If you like real gore movies you will love this. if you don't, go watch scream or some other pg-13 teen "horror" flick.

The scene where the chick vomits up her intestines is awesome!!!!!

Warning: Avoid at all costs........2007-04-11

This movie is horrible. There is not a saving grace about it. Lucio Fulci is the worst of the Italian sub-genre directors and that is not saying much seeing as how the vast majority of Italian horror filmmakers seem to know only one language, violence... extreme violence.

The film opens up with a priest hanging himself in a town that I presume is in New England, and I live in New England, and trust me we do not all act the idiots in this film. Apparently the Italian image of New England is a bunch of inbred hicks. Not back to the topic at hand. Apparently a hanged New England priest lets loose the last gate of Hell, how he does this is beyond me, but I am assured by the fifteen times that they say it.

A couple, which consist a reporter and a police officer, go up to investigate the occurance after a young women is buried alive (dead, but the undead... get it?) and talks about the strange inbred New England town. What happens next is all a blur to me. Something about zombies followed by insipid dialouge and then some more talk about zombies, followed by even more stupid dialouge, then a guy gets a drill in the head. Curtains.

While I am in the midst of trashing this movie I might as well bring up the zombies. These aren't your ordinary zombies, oh no, these are zombies that have the capabilites to transport from one place to another in a split second, whether or not this is intentional is beyond me. Another odd thing is, for some reason, they aren't interested in eating their victims. Rather, they enjoy pulling the backs of their heads off... you read that right, pulling the backs of their heads off. It is as weird as it sounds.

I don't remember how it ends (and I watched it only a half hour ago) and nor do I care. You will not care either. Not even a graduated gorehound like myself can enjoy this garbage. Do NOT watch this film. Ever. Sticking your money in your fireplace is better use of it then giving Lucio Fulci's estate anymore money.

The dark mood of this film is unsurpassed.......2007-04-08

This film sets a creepy mood. The director, Lucio Fulci, also achieved this mood in "The Beyond". When I was a kid this film was forbidden to be seen. In America it was called "The Gates Of Hell". I was raised around hard core bible thumpers and they all declared this film to be banned. So ofcourse I had to get my hands on it. The film didn't need the gore. It could have been great on the mood alone. It stands as my fave zombie film. Some people just won't get it. P.S. I love the urban monkey screams in the film lol.

Fulci Lives.......2007-03-21

Quick saying....this is opne of the best fulci movies ever,the gore is great and horror stay's grounded. Buy this dvd! now!

Average customer rating:

3.5 Classic Gore, Stupefying Story and Acting
The gates of hell.
Lucio Fulci
5 stars for the gore, 3 for the plot and 1.5 for the zombies!
Not a classic... but not to be forgotten

City Of The Living Dead
Starring: Janet Agren , Adelaide Aste , Enzo D'Ausilio , Carlo De Mejo , and Daniela Doria
Manufacturer: Anchor Bay
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ASIN: 6305840024
Release Date: 2000-05-23

Description

The Seven Gates of Hell have been torn open, and in three days the dead shall rise and walk the earth. As a reporter (Christopher George) and a psychic (Catriona MacColl) race to close the portals of the damned, they encounter a seething nightmare of unspeakable evil. The city is alive--with the horrors of the living dead! Directed and co-written by the legendary Lucio Fulci (Zombie, The Beyond, The New York Ripper), "City of the Living Dead" features some of the maestro's most shocking and controversial sequences of all time. This is the definitive version of Fulci's hallucinogenic masterpiece of horror: uncut, uncensored and presented in all its brain-ripping, gut-spewing, head-drilling glory! A.k.a. "The Gates of Hell."

Customer Reviews:

3.5 Classic Gore, Stupefying Story and Acting.......2007-05-28

So much of this movie is literally amazing in its slipshod attempt at structure. And I mean that in the "bad" way. Whole elements of the plot are seemingly Frankenstein-ed together, the acting is the worse of Fulci's films (which is saying alot, see "The Beyond"), and there's not a single chatacter worth caring about, let alone "liking" or sympathizing with.

However, the classic gore effects are worth it by far. Anyone "into" gore effects which offended the hell out of late-seventies/early eighties moms NEEDS this film. Anyone expecting something along the lines of Romero (or even Fulci's "Zombie" or "Beyond") will be disappointed. You were warned.

However, this is mandatory for gore completists as a RULE.

The gates of hell........2007-03-31

This is a brilliant film from Lucio Fulci that has a ton of gore and violence, if your looking for a proper storyline with some good acting and some nicely shot sequences then forget it. The makeup on the zombies was slightly dissapointing and it looks like a bunch of dirt and slime was rubbed on their faces which looks disgusting and the editing was bad otherwise this film was very cool and had some of the best gore scenes I have seen so far. If you like cheesy Italian gore flicks then your going to love this, the atmosphere was very dark and worked very well with the rest of the film along with the music which was very creepy I also felt like the characters were going to be doomed and it didn't seem like they could escape since the zombies could appear at any time out of thin air which was great and unintentionally hilarious, only Lucio Fulci could make a film like this. The film was about a young female psychic (Catriona Macol) who goes into a trance in New York on the day a priest commits suicide by hanging himself in the town of Dunwich, she has a vision of his death thus reviving an ancient story of the satanic powers of evil which involves the dead coming back to life. As the story continues the plot gets thinner but thats not important since the death scenes were terrific like the scene where the kid gets his head drilled into and the girl who vomits out her guts and bleeds from her eyes, make sure that you don't eat while watching this and that you have a strong stomach. Even though it wasn't as good as Zombie 2 or The beyond its still considered a cult classic gore flick from Italy and was great, if your a true horror fan then you should obviously add this to your collection. I highly recommend this enjoyable film and two thumbs up!.

Lucio Fulci.......2007-03-09

for all you Lucio Fulci haters this guy was a director way back in the 1950's. So don't compare Lucio Fulci to the director George Romero. Lucio was most popular for his horror grindhouse movies like The Beyond, House By the Cementary, A Cat in the Brain, A Lizard in a Women's Skin, House of Clocks, the New York Ripper, Don't Torture a Duckling, The Psychic, City of the Living Dead, and Zombie, etc. What people don't know is that he directed well over 50 movies. He directed comedy, Italian westerns, dramas, trillers, giallos, and of course horror movies. So don't even compare Lucio Fulci to George Romero because George is nothing compared to Lucio. George always directs some type of zombie horror movie and hardly anything else. Also, Italian movies back in the day don't rely on plot when directing a movie. Asian movies are like that too. Americans need to go educate themselves before dissing foreign films as this or that. Please know something before you criticize something. It will make the world a much better place.

5 stars for the gore, 3 for the plot and 1.5 for the zombies!.......2007-01-17

This is more of a comment than a review, something I never do but I honestly don't feel like typing too much as this film can defined in a very simple manner. Gore, there's tons of it, great work by the godfather of gore Lucio Fulci. The atmosphere was perfect for the film's setting, but it fails by a canyon of an ammount when compared to The Beyond & Zombie. The problem was there weren't enough zombies in this movie to satisfy me as a huge zombie fan. When I watched it I expected alot more from Fulci, but I guess you can't get it right all the time. It's overated as far as so many people wearing t-shirts of the film, when Zombie & The Beyond are much better, but it's a classic when it comes to gore & scenery. If you're a big fan of gore this is a must watch. if you're a zombie fan, you can either pass it, or watch it and be mildly entertained.

Not a classic... but not to be forgotten.......2006-12-25

I have read numerous horrible reviews for this film. I agree with a lot of the points people make (not an amazing and/or original plot, Fulci uses gore to fill plot gaps, ending sucks, etc.) This film however... does have some... what I regard as classic horror scenes... the "evil eye" scene is amazing along with the drill press... both classic scenes in horror movie make up.

On the whole.. it is not his best... but certainly not his worst film... definitely worth viewing more than once!

The Lucio Fulci Collection Volume 3 (City of the Living Dead/Don't Torture a Duckling)

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Anchorbay has done it again!!!!!
Good,Good And Good
One Masterpiece, One Disappointment
Lucio fulci has open the vault of uncut terror

The Lucio Fulci Collection Volume 3 (City of the Living Dead/Don't Torture a Duckling)
Starring: Andrea Aureli , Franco Balducci , John Bartha , Florinda Bolkan , and Barbara Bouchet
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ASIN: B0000640SQ
Release Date: 2002-06-11

Customer Reviews:

Anchorbay has done it again!!!!!.......2003-04-05

Being a fan of Lucio Fulci and needing a copy of City of Living Dead, I decided to buy the 2 disc set even though I hadn't seen Duckling before, I am lucky I made that decesion.

First of all City is basicly the same plot as Beyond and even stars Catriona MacColl from Beyond. A priest hangs himself opening the gateway to hell and MacColl sees this in a phsycic vision and is scared into a coma. A report saves her from the grave as she is buried alive and they set out to close the gateway. While there are zombies in this film they are noit traditional ones, they have supernatural powers and rip the back of their victims skulls off. The priest zombie makes victims bleed from their eyes and vomit up their guts, this happens in a really great scene. There is also a brilliant head drilling scene, which is in my opinion one of Fulci's best effects. While not as good as Beyond, City is still a great Fulci film, with plenty of atmosphere and Catriona MacColl looking very cute, I haven't seen her in anything but Fulci films, it's a shame though as she is such a cute actress.

Duckling, which I though would be the weak movie, was surprisingly a brilliant. While I have heard of it refered to as a giallo, it really is more of a great mystery involving a series of child murders. While there are a few stalking scenes, Duckling lacks the gloved killer vibe of the standard giallo. What stands out in this film is the lack of Fulci gore, except one scene involving a witch being beaten by vigilantes and also Fulci proves with this film that he is capable of directing a coherrant plot driven film and makes a truely gripping film experience.

While slim on special features compared to the Beyond DVD, Anchorbay has as usual done an exceptional job of transfering these films to DVD. The pictures are generally as crisp as the day they were shot and really any Fulci fan should snap these up as there will never be better versions available.

Good,Good And Good.......2003-02-13

Bon Du Début a la fin

One Masterpiece, One Disappointment.......2002-07-09

Hi! As always, my review is based on QUALITY of the DVD's and not on the movie, acting, or direction.

DUCKLING: Picture-3.5, Sound-3.5
CITY OF DEAD: Picture-2.0, Sound-3.0

Thus, my overall rating is 3 stars. If I was rating "Duckling" alone, I would round it up to 4 stars by itself.

This is an excellent two-pack to buy if you enjoy Lucio Fulci. The price of the two-pack is about the same as if you buy one separately, so get 'em both at once. The case has kind of a hard-to-get-to insert card because the 2nd DVD flops around on a stiff plastic round. The insert card has Chapter Lists, one movie on each side -- that's it.

I watched "City of the Living Dead" first and I'm glad. There's not much to enjoy. The picture is lousy and grainy -- this, from a 1980 film. It is not true 16x9; in fact, it is more like a box on the screen. Sound is empty with no depth. Dolby 5.1? I don't know; it's barely stereo. The best part of the movie is seeing Catriona MacColl.

"Don't Torture a Duckling" is a superb film. There is a bit of gore, but this movie would earn plenty if released today in theatres. The sound is listed as mono (true) and is sharp and clear, becoming a bit distorted during loud parts. It is a true 16x9 picture and superior to "City of the Living Dead".

Whew. Both films feature good-looking female actors, as you'd expect in any Argento, Bava, or Fulci film. The prize here is Florinda Bolkan -- who gets top billing. Now I know why. She is very, very beautiful although in somewhat of a dirty and disheveled role. She is taller and larger than some of the policemen -- I like that -- and her performance is dramatic and superb. She did not receive an easy part to perform. It's always good to find a new female hero although the film is from 1972. She continues to work in film. I'm glad I found her, and I will be looking for more of her work. She literally spells the word GLAMOUR despite the grubby part here.

There is one very disturbing violent scene that many will not enjoy. I didn't like it one bit, and most women will not either. Whether it adds to the narrative or belongs in the film is up to you to decide. This is an "uncut" version so I guess Fulci wanted it in there.

There seems to be a transportation challenge in this movie as people on their feet can travel faster than automobiles. All the scenes are very interesting!

I will view "Duckling" again and again. "City..Dead" is probably worth a view once every five years or so.

Lucio fulci has open the vault of uncut terror.......2002-06-19

june 18,02 tuesday I taught t have seen the original city of the dead dvd .but no this is the uncut version the was film when lucio was alive this one contains gut seens the were cut of from the movie it has more blood guts and seens of the movie
the you havent seen .dont torture a duckling is uncut it has seen the i havent seen at all guts blood when a gril is rip little from her skin by the towns people and is uncut from the vault of lucio bouth dvds are original uncencerd and complete. im the fist to own it you must see by henry

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