Rating: NR
Genre:
Horror
Theatrical Release: 08/11/1980(Italy)
Release Date: 02/27/2007
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 93 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Not For Children, Gore
Distributor/Studio: Blue Underground
This gruesome horror film from cult director
Lucio Fulci posits a priest's suicide opening the gateway to Hell, freeing bloodthirsty zombies to roam the town of Dunwich. The main attractions are startlingly explicit special effects by
Franco Rufino, including two of the horror genre's most memorable deaths. One involves perennial victim
Giovanni Lombardo Radice (also known as
John Morghen) having his head run through with a power-drill, and the second is the notorious scene of a woman vomiting up all of her internal organs in a nauseating torrent of blood and guts.
Fulci does manage one nice moment of splatter-free horror, as hero
Christopher George struggles to free a woman who has been buried alive. As his pick-axe enters the coffin repeatedly, it comes ever closer to her face, causing the audience to wince with each strike. Aside from these scenes, though,
Fulci's direction is somewhat plodding, as he substitutes slow pacing and clouds of fog for real suspense. Horror fans will still want to seek this film out, however, if only for the effects work and a familiar cast including
Catriona MacColl,
Janet Agren,
Carlo de Mejo,
Antonella Interlenghi, and
Daniela Doria.
~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
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