Journalist Peter Bell begins to investigate Mary's mysterious death, and visits her grave as she is about to be buried. Theresa warns the police chief of an imminent evil. The group presume Mary is dead, and call the police, who suspect foul play. When the images overwhelm her, Mary breaks the circle and collapses to the floor. In New York City, during a séance held in the apartment of medium Theresa, Mary Woodhouse experiences a traumatic vision of a priest, Father Thomas, hanging himself in a cemetery of a village called Dunwich. Upon release, the film received criticism for its performances, plot, and graphic violence. It was followed by a release throughout Europe, including a screening in Paris where Fulci won the "Grand Prix du Public" at the Festival international du film et de science-fiction, and in the United States as The Gates of Hell in April 1983. The film was theatrically released in Italy in August 1980, which grossed ₤985 million. Principal photography was shot predominantly on location in the United States, with interiors shot in Rome. The film was greenlit during production of Contraband, which Fulci left to begin working on City of the Living Dead. The film follows a priest whose hanging opens a gateway to hell that releases the undead, where a psychic and a reporter team up to close it before All Saints' Day.Ĭity 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. It stars Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo de Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Daniela Doria, Fabrizio Jovine, and Janet Agren.
City of the Living Dead ( Italian: Paura nella città dei morti viventi, lit.'Fear in the city of the living dead') is a 1980 Italian supernatural horror film co-written and directed by Lucio Fulci.
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