Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7057 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-10-13
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English, Italian
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 88 minutes

Special Features
English
Region 0
Dolby Digital Mono English
Dolby Digital Mono
Interview Menu
Scene Selection
Picture Gallery
Promo Trailer
Video Interview With Catriona MacColl
Audio Commentary With Catronia MacColl And Jay Slater

Synopsis
A young girl goes into a trance in New York on the day a priest commits suicide 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 whole community. Terror reigns ...

Customer Reviews

Possibly the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen......
With music stolen unashamedly from George Romero's 'Dawn of the dead', and actors stolen from 'Crossroads', this was 90 minutes or so of my life I will never get back. The acting is so wooden it beggars belief; no-one seems to be particularly afraid or interested, as if dead people often walk around in their town (perhaps they do) There are so many pointless things done, and ridiculous things said in this film that it would be hard to quote them all; but something along the lines of
'In 48 hours we'll all be dead if we don't do something!'
'Yeah but I'm hungry, let's get something to eat first!'
Or the fact that millions of maggots blew in inexplicably through an open window, but no-one thought to go and SHUT IT!
The 'heroes' were so useless that they couldn't find the priest's tombstone in a cemetary occupied by only about ten graves, so that wasted more time (they had to find his grave before Saints day, for some reason) So of course they ended up with only one minute left to do whatever it was they were going to do before midnight (I'm losing will to live by now). And then, just as I was contemplating what kind of sandwich I was going to have for lunch, they saved the day..........or did they? Who knows, and who cares.

What's going on?
A memorable film thanks to its huge leaps in logic (definitely a plus-point for films of this type) - A ghostly priest whose appearance causes onlookers to vomit up their entire digestive system, a mysterious empty house, mindless horrific violence from peripheral characters and a extremely amusing baffling ending that has no connection to what has come previously. Not bad...

a top notch movie by cult director lucio fulci !
from the director of "zombie 2"the beyond "& "house by the cemetary"
released under italian title of "paura nella citta dei morti viventi"or
"the gates of hell" the film begins when father thomas hangs himself in
dunwich causing the gates of hell to open & the dead return from their graves in dunwich.
medium mary (catriona macoll)dies after seeing the dead city in a vision.
reporter bell (christoper george)saves her from a nasty premature burial
& together they set out to find dunwich,they must destroy the priest before all saints day when the dead will rise to seek their revenge on
dunwich.
eerie atmosphere of a fog shrouded city ,lots of shocks along the way.
the music is by fabrio frizzi of "zombie 2 "fame .
forget the plainly packaged vipco version,buy the blue underground or
ec entertainmemt versions with digital sound .
another classic gore-drenched classic by fulci,buy it!