1980 · horror · supernatural · gore
City of the Living Dead
Directed by Lucio Fulci1h 33m1980
A psychic seemingly dies of fright during a séance 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 that must be sealed by All Saints Day, or else the dead will overtake humanity.
Our read: City of the Living Dead (1980) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · supernatural · gore entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror / supernatural, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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