City Of The Living Dead (DVD)

Written and directed by the Italian horror master Lucio Fulci comes "City Of The Living Dead." A horror film that was released in 1981 and previously banned, the film was quickly considered to be a video nasty and it's status is still refereed to such among horror fans to this day. The film follows a young woman who has a vision foretelling the gates of hell opening under the New England town of Dunwich. She voices her concerns to a journalist and the pair set out together for the town, where a lot of strange things have been happening. They soon discover an army of zombies that have returned with a quest for revenge after being burned at the stake ...  Read the complete review

'City of the living dead' is another Lucio Fulci gutchomping zombie film. His films are almost a genre on their own, and to see his name on the title of a film should pretty much tell you in advance whether or not you've got the right number. Whilst this is not his finest hour, and is unlikely to convert non-devotees, it's still a fine horror film, and a cut above most other Euro-zombs. The plot is standard stuff: there is a small New England town named Dunwich, where witch trials and burnings were carried out. A young psychic woman has a vision of an evil priest hanging himself there, and that the very gates of hell will open in Dunwich. To ...  Read the complete review

Mainstream fiction has long held certain conventions, such as linear narrative, believable characterisations and the ever-defended “story with a beginning, middle and an end”, and mainstream literature and film either follows these conventions, in which case it is acclaimed as good old-fashioned storytelling, or it does not, in which case it is praised for being experimental. Of course, proponents of mainstream fiction are often people who do not like anything which aligns itself with any specific genre, and certain genres, such as science fiction, high fantasy, horror and, to a lesser degree, crime, are automatically viewed with some disdain. In ...  Read the complete review