CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD-Opinion please!

[Mahoney32]

Originally Posted by Splatterdragon73

I could probably manage a meal while watching Fulci's other zombie flesh feasts. But i think keeping food down in the presence of a COTLD screening would possibly be pushing it for me!

All that in-your-face graphic grue and deadster ugliness may well be too much!

Too true.

[Vampix]

Originally Posted by Splatterdragon73

I could probably manage a meal while watching Fulci's other zombie flesh feasts. But i think keeping food down in the presence of a COTLD screening would possibly be pushing it for me!

All that in-your-face graphic grue and deadster ugliness may well be too much!

I dunno, I could probably scoff a bowl of spaghetti during the gut spewing scene.

[thelostclassics]

Fulci referred to his zombies as 'walking clay pots.' City was the one film from his zombie canon that Gianetto De Rossi didn't work on. He provided makeup fx for Zombi, The Beyond and House by the Cemetery. Completely agree there's just something disgusting about Fulci's zombies. They seem putrid and it's almost like you can smell them through the TV. Fulci does 4D
Especially Dr Freudstein from House by the Cemetery. God, he's disgusting.

City is my favourite Fulci movie, just pipping The Beyond. I always loved the open ending and it stayed with me for days after. I always interpreted it as the gates of hell have opened. It was a classic early 80s horror ending, just when you think you're safe.

Just as an aside, I always felt that Fulci was gradually building up to killing off Catriona MacColl. At the end of City, she screams and John John is probably in danger off screen.
In The Beyond, she and David Warbeck are left in limbo. Then in House, Freudstein bangs her head off of each of the stairs.

[Demoncrat]

as ive watched this at least 60 times, cant really "go back", but i will say that as i see it now, along with The Beyond, this is his most Lovecraftian film, the atmosphere, the absolute uncertainty of the storyline, where anything CAN happen * and does.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Nice to see these older threads being resurrected!

[Vampix]

Originally Posted by thelostclassics

Fulci referred to his zombies as 'walking clay pots.' City was the one film from his zombie canon that Gianetto De Rossi didn't work on. He provided makeup fx for Zombi, The Beyond and House by the Cemetery.

Even though De Rossi never provided the FX for COTLD I'd say that this particular film contained some of the best FX work from Fulci's infamous zombie quartet.The drill scene is probably THE best effect IMO from all the films!