City of the Living Dead - Limited Edition [Blu-ray]

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Scorpion Releasing has detailed their exciting 4K restoration of Italian horror maestro’s THE GATES OF HELL Special Edition Blu-ray! The 1989 film is also known as City Of The Living Dead. The film stars Christopher George and Catriona MacColl. Look for the disc’s release coming soon this Summer. Get all the disc details and specs right here after the break. In addition to the exotic MacColl and boisterous George, several genre regulars populate the cast: Giovanni Lombardo Radice ( Cannibal Ferox) as Dunwich’s ill-fated scapegoat, Carlo De Mejo ( The House by the Cemetery) as a therapist, Janet Ågren ( Red Sonja) as his neurotic patient, Daniela Doria ( The New York Ripper) as the aforementioned gut-puking girl, Michele Soavi ( Demons) as her lover, Robert Sampson ( Re-Animator) as the local sheriff, Venantino Venantini ( Cannibal Ferox) as a father with anger management issues, Perry Pirkanen ( Cannibal Holocaust) as a gravedigger, and Fulci himself as a doctor. City of the Living Dead (1980), starring Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo de Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi, and Giovanni Lombardo Radice. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on August 15. Cauldron has hidden a couple of easter eggs on the extras disc, too, including the videotape version of The Gates of Hell presented in SD. Just press left from the Image Gallery on the extras disc, press enter and you’ll get it! And if you press right from the Image Gallery, you’ll be presented with Italian actor Christopher George’s Playgirl spread from 1974. A couple of very fun easter eggs that I’m sure fans will love. The film was released on DVD in the United States by Anchor Bay in 2000, and on DVD and Blu-ray by Blue Underground in 2010. [17] In 2018, Arrow Video released a limited edition 4K remaster of both the City and the Gates versions in the United Kingdom. [18] In 2020, the Gates version was given a Blu-ray release in the United States as an online exclusive item. [19] Reception [ edit ] Contemporary [ edit ]

If spooky atmosphere and relentless, grisly bloodletting is up your alley, you’ll find both things in grand abundance when watching City of the Living Dead. It’s all very silly and has been derided as such for decades, but the film has persevered to become a bonafide cult classic that experts rank as one of Fulci’s best. If Fulci is the master of gore, then this is his symphony. You should tune in. During a séance in New York City, Mary Woodhouse ( Catriona MacColl, The Beyond) experiences a vision of Father Thomas ( Fabrizio Jovine, The Psychic) hanging himself before a corpse claws its way out of its grave. Whether it was the priest’s intention to unleash the evil is left ambiguous, but the quaint Massachusetts town of Dunwich is cursed regardless. Borrowing its name from Lovecraft’s writings, Dunwich is built on the ruins of the original Salem, where the ancestors of its current residents are said to have burned witches at the stake. Scorpion Releasing has detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of Lucio Fulci’s The Gates of Hell a.k.a. City of the Living Dead (1989), starring Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo de Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi, and Giovanni Lombardo Radice. The release will arrive on the market this summer. On Stage: Q&A with Venantino Venantini & Ruggero Deodato (1080p; 46:03) – A lengthy interview with Venantini and Deodato filmed in Rome in 2017.

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City of the Living Dead was distributed theatrically in Italy by Medusa Distribuzione on 11 August 1980. [1] It grossed a total of 985,238,798 Italian lire domestically, a figure described by Curti as "somewhat disappointing". [1] The film was distributed theatrically throughout Europe, including West Germany on September 11, 1980 and France on December 10, 1980, as well as the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal. [1] [13] The German edit of the film distributed by Alemannia/Arabella was about 10 minutes shorter than the Italian version, removing some dialogue scenes but keeping the gory scenes intact. [13] In Paris, the film was screened as Frayeurs at the Festival international du film et de science-fiction. [5] At the festival, the film won the "Grand Prix du Public" (The Audience Award). [5] Fresh out of theaters, currently available on VOD and now streaming exclusively on SCREAMBOX, Bloody Disgusting’s Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls is coming home for the holidays, arriving as a Collector’s Edition Blu-ray on December 19, loaded with bonus features, extended/deleted scenes, commentaries and an exclusive slipcover. Seamless branching – watch in English Language w/ English credit sequences and watch Italian language w/ Italian credit sequences.

This release features a number of extras, including four different audio commentaries on the UHD and Blu-rays; the new commentary offering is from Samm Deighan, who provides a great overview of Lucio Fulci’s filmography and analyzes the surreal and at times Lovecraftian themes at play in the movie. The other extras appear on the third disc in this release, and are as follows. Catriona MacColl Q&A from The Glasgow Theater (20:08) - this Q&A with MacColl was filmed at The Glasgow Theater on March 13, 2010, which is moderated by Waddell. Questions are both spoken and subtitled in English. There are two Easter eggs: A muddy, full frame VHS rip under the Gates of Hell title for purists and a revealing photo spread of actor Christopher George in Playgirl magazine, 1974 – NSFW. Regardless of whether or not Fulci and Sacchetti drew any inspiration from Lovecraft, there’s nothing especially Lovecraftian about City of the Living Dead. There aren’t necessarily any dreams in the Witch House of Dunwich horror that they conceived for the film, though that’s obviously open to interpretation. With or without Lovecraft’s influence, the atmosphere of Fulci’s supernatural horror films frequently has been referred to as “dreamlike,” and City of the Living Dead is no exception. Yet that’s arguably a rather facile and superficial description that doesn’t quite do justice to the uncanny ways in which Fulci was able to get under the skin of viewers (or into their eyeballs, as the case may be). In City of the Living Dead, the spatial discontinuity of Lovecraft’s dream worlds has been replaced by a kind of temporal discontinuity instead. As a result, trying to connect the dots of the genuinely incomprehensible narrative is an exercise in futility. Any attempt to understand or interpret the plot of the film is the equivalent of tilting at windmills: an endeavor doomed to failure from the start. It’s all beside the point, anyway. City of the Living Dead is really about mood, not story, and the best way to experience it is to let go of the need to rationalize everything and just to let that mood work its magic. There’s no rationalizing the inherently irrational nature of the supernatural anyway. Speaking of trauma, the make-up effects work by Franco Rufini ( Sonny Boy) is top quality, with a number of stand-out set pieces. An early highlight finds young lovers Tommy (Michele Soavi, Demons) and Rosie (Daniela Doria, The New York Ripper) making out in a cemetery. The spirit of Father Thomas (Fabrizio Jovine, The Secret of Seagull Island) appears to Rosie and she begins spilling tears of blood followed by regurgitating all of her entrails! The most brutal death is not supernatural, rather a father with serious anger issues catches misfit Bob (Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Cannibal Ferox) with his daughter. What follows is truly horrific as poor Bob meets the business end of a very large drill.

Actor Carlo De Mejo appears in the interview segment Carlo of the Living Dead (18 minutes), reflecting on his time working with the production. Reflections of Fulci – a new appraisal of Fulci’s Gothic period by actor, writer, director Andy Nyman (Ghost Stories)

Since its Sundance premiere, the energy surrounding the film has steadily grown with RogerEbert.com calling Onyx the Fortuitous “a handmade horror gem.” The final commentary is with actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice, moderated by Calum Waddell. Radice is a lot of fun and knows how to tell a great story. He talks about his co-stars and his support of censorship, but only when geared toward younger viewers. He has fond memories of the crew and great stories about the special effects and his death scene. He also shares his thoughts on American society.There are four audio commentaries, starting with one newly recorded with film historian Samm Deighan. She opens with the disclosure that this is one of her all-time favorite Fulci films and she has a lot to say on the subject. Her comments are informative and entertaining with lots of notes on the director and cast. She also maintains this is more Gothic horror rather than traditional zombie movie and shares her impressions on the ambiguous ending. Reflections on Fulci, a new appraisal of Fulci’s Gothic period by actor, writer and director Andy Nyman (Ghost Stories) While Zombie before it and the latter two Gates of Hell installments that followed were presented in scope, Fulci and frequent cinematographer Sergio Salvati opted to shoot City of the Living Dead in flat 1.85:1. Although ostensibly less “cinematic,” the conventional aspect ratio lends itself to a classic horror atmosphere, emphasized by increasingly lingering plumes of fog and a melodious yet eerie score by Fabio Frizzi ( Zombie, The Beyond). The Meat Munching Movies of Gino De Rossi (1080p; 26:34) –An interview with special effects creator Gino De Rossi from 2012 included on a previous release.