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City of the Living Dead

Cast

Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Giovanni Lombardo Radice View All

Crew

Lucio Fulci (Screenplay), Lucio Fulci (Director), Lucio Fulci (Story), Dardano Sacchetti (Screenplay) View All

Release: Aug. 11th, 1980

Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes

A woman seemingly dies of fright after participating in a s�ance where she sees a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church cemetery. New York City reporter Peter Bell investigates and learns that the priest's suicide has somehow opened a portal to Hell and must be sealed by All Saints Day, or else the dead will overtake humanity.

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Thief
Directed by Lucio Fulci after the success of Zombi, it is expected that the film would bring what made that film popular; lots of decaying zombies and tons of icky gore, which I suppose is what most people will come looking for when they watch it.

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Rockatansky
Anyone whos seen a Fulci film knows that he believes in the horror of the explicit, taking relish in serving up scenes of grisly violence in nauseating, horrific detail, which in this film include the vomiting of intestines, heads being drilled and brains being gouged.