City of the Living Dead(Movie, 1980)

Name: City of the Living Dead
Genre: Horror
Released: 1980
Duration: T01:33:00
Rating: 3.2

Original title: "Paura nella città dei morti viventi" (Italian/IT)

| 1h 33min | Genre: Horror

Rating: 3.2/5 (with 154 votes)

City of the Living Dead (Italian: Paura nella città dei morti viventi, lit. 'Fear in the city of the living dead', also released as The Gates of Hell) is a 1980 Italian supernatural horror film co-written and directed by Lucio Fulci. It stars Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo de Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, and Janet Agren. The film follows a priest whose suicide opens a gateway to hell that releases the undead. A psychic and a reporter team up to close it before All Saints' Day. City of the Living Dead was developed after the financial success of Fulci's previous film, Zombi 2, leading him to work with screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti to write a new horror film inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. The film was greenlit during production of Contraband, which Fulci left to begin working on City of... ()

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About City of the Living Dead

A psychic participates in a séance where she sees a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church cemetery, causing her to die of fright. New York City reporter Peter Bell investigates the séance 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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City Of The Living Dead ≣ 1980 ≣ Trailer(Trailer, 2:53)

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Additional Information

Production country: Italy

Plays in: United States of America, New York City (NYC)

Made by: National Cinematografica, Dania Film, Medusa Distribuzione

Original language: Italian (IT)

Spoken languages: English (EN), Italian (IT)

Translated into 20 languages: Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 03/01/1981 (World premiere: 08/11/1980)

Cast: Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Luca Venantini, Venantino Venantini, Adelaide Aste, Luciano Rossi, Janet Ågren, Michele Soavi, Lucio Fulci, Perry Pirkanen, Aldo Massasso, Robert Sampson, Michael Gaunt, Adriana Asti, Daniela Doria

Director: Lucio Fulci

Producer: Lucio Fulci

Screenwriter: Lucio Fulci, Dardano Sacchetti

Film Editor: Vincenzo Tomassi

Director of Photography: Sergio Salvati

Composer: Fabio Frizzi

Costume designer: Antonello Geleng

Production Designer: Antonello Geleng

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Pastor Thomas"

"Die Stadt der lebenden Toten"

"Ein Kadaver hing am Glockenseil"

"Ein Toter hing am Glockenseil"

"Eine Leiche hängt am Glockenseil"

"Pater Thomas"

"Η Πόλη των Ζωντανών Νεκρών"

"Brama Piekieł"

"Fear in the City of the Living Dead"

"Fear in the Town of the Living Dead"

"The Fear"

"The Gates of Hell"

"Twilight of the Dead"

Keywords: surrealism, suicide, zombie, supernatural, demon, priest, cemetery, living dead, psychic power

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