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That was an excellent one.

best movie i've ever seen.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

***SPOILERS****This horror started when Father Thomas,Fabrizio Jovine, for reasons only known to himself decided to call it quits by stringing himself up at the local Dunwich Cemetery after visiting hours. Thus making it possible for the dead to rise out of their graves by opening up the very gates of hell itself. It's back in NYC during a boring seance that the medium of the seance Theresa, Mary Woodhouse, sees what's to come an world wide army of walking dead Zombies and suddenly went into convulsions and dropped dead, at the tender young age of 25, of a massive heart attack! Things get even better or worse when at Theresa's burial in Long Island reporter Peter Bell, Christopher George, hears noise coming from her partly buried coffin, the gravedigger took off on their coffee brake before finishing the job, and found her to be alive!From then on it's both touch and go to what's happening in the movie with a time limit set for "All Saints Day"-November 1-when the dead are to rise again and take over the entire earth. Were also entertained with a number of grossed out episodes with flesh eating worms and maggots and brains being ripped by member of the living dead just to show those still living that they mean business. This all boils down to the late Father Thomas who's actions of killing himself is the reason all this to be happening!. And it's up to Peter Bell and those still living to right that what was wrong by Father Thomas, by exorcising his evil spirit, to prevent any more damage.****SPOILERS**** Lots of blood and gore as well as brain matter keep you watching this mindless as well as brainless movie that to add to its already mass confusion has a number of sub-plots that have to do with a group of hard drinking members of the community of Dunwiich who are among the first victims of the Zombie invasion,. That together with Dunwich resident and village idiot the over sexed Bob,Giovanni Lombardo Radice, who in trying to hide from the rampaging Zombies takes refuse in the Ross' garage. And it's there where Bob ends up getting his skull drilled through and through by Mr. Ross who thought that he was molesting his teenage daughter who In fact invited him in! Were left up in the air in what exactly happened at the end of the movie by being given the impression that the gates of hell that were shut are to open very soon with the movie disintegrating cracking up or going fade to black before we ever get to see the ending credits!

I've seen director Lucio Fulci's City of the Living Dead several times over the years. Perhaps strangely, this pecking persistence doesn't reflect any deep affection on my part. Though Gino De Rossi's infamously grisly gore effects carved lasting scars into my teenage cortex, I've always found it a rather dull film, overall. Absent the esteem in which so many veteran genre fans hold City of the Living Dead, I'd probably have written it off long ago.I know, of course, that one shouldn't expect brisk pacing or narrative cohesion of Italian horror films. Even allowing for that, Fulci here pushes turgid incoherence well past the breaking point. Things happen on screen because, well... Just because they do. Because the Maestro apparently thought the shot would look kind of cool that way. Which is fine. There's nothing necessarily wrong with cinematic dream logic (or even nonsense for its own sake), and while Fulci's work is hardly above criticism, only a fool would question his mastery of the atmospheric and grotesque.Basically, I'd come to view City of the Living Dead the lazy, off-day hackwork of an erratic and occasionally brilliant horror auteur. The progress of images, for instance, frequently seems all but literally random, as though the final cut had been assembled in a last-minute panic by a drunken editor with no clue as to the intended storyline. While The Beyond (1981) can be accused of similar faults - it's arbitrary in construction and the action is often risibly absurd - that film somehow sustains a captivating tone of morbid dread throughout, and Sergio Salvati's gorgeous cinematography helps smooth the narrative's more baffling contortions. Even its silliest and most clichéd moments feel of a satisfying piece, and the animating breath of Fulci's artistic inspiration never flags. City, in comparison, is a lurching, disconnected mess. The tone swings erratically from goofy camp (see Christopher George's ineradicable smirk) to knockout shock with stray chunks of meandering dead space wedged awkwardly in between. Worse yet, the images that carry us through are generic as often as they are arresting.*Or so I thought. An enthusiastic Horror Board regular recently convinced me that, despite my reservations, I owed the film one last look. To that end, I picked up Blue Underground's widely-praised 2010 restoration on Blu-Ray, settled in on a long dark night, and tried my level best to keep an open mind. Much to my surprise, I enjoyed it! Though I'll probably never call City of the Living Dead a personal favorite even where Fulci's work is concerned, it's far more engaging, creative and artistically interesting than most of the "so bad it's good" cult oddities treasured by die-hard horror fans. The splattery set-pieces are dazzling and nauseating in equal measure, Fabio Frizzi's score is a seductively psychedelic gem, and a convincingly apocalyptic final act manages to wrap things up on a relatively energetic note. If I'm not careful, I just might wind up watching it again...* While regular Fulci collaborator Sergio Salvati shot both films, The Beyond and the criminally under-appreciated Seven Notes in Black (AKA The Psychic, 1977) provide a far better showcase for his considerable gifts.

Only have seen 2 Fulci movies so far, Zombi 2 and this one. Just like Zombi 2 it excels here in the visual horror department which I thought served as build-up for a strong finale. The finale however was rather a let down. And even though the living dead not being flesh eating zombies here, what they caused to their victims was quite disturbing and something I wouldn't want to get through. The most shocking scene however is when a man gets angry with a young guy (I guess he saw him as rapist and threat to his daughter) and drills the guy's head with a machine! The story and build-up are quite decent however the character development is quite poor. We have multiple story lines but some of them just run dead or are hardly elaborated on. Personally I think less characters or spend some more time on the protagonists surely would have helped me appreciating it a bit more. But it was nice to see the real protagonists come together towards the end. However the finale remains quite underwhelming and the ending where 2 of the protagonists seem scared of the joyful kid running towards him didn't make any sense to me. This really looked like some bad edit or nonsensical change last minute. I just found out this is part of a trilogy and at least it made me curious to see the other two.

City of the Living Dead is an excellent addition to the low-budget zombie genre, with surprisingly realistic special effects, a great storyline and decent acting. The soundtrack was excellent, definitely fits in with that synthesized 80's zombie movie soundtrack like in Hell of the Living Dead (1980), Warning Sign (1985) and Day of the Dead (1985). It's a soundtrack that's both melancholy and catchy all at once.Somehow COTLD got an Ages 16 and Up rating, but it has loads of gory moments. There's a maggot-covered body of a child, an old lady biting a guy's hand off, a graphic suicide, a nasty maggot scene and the seemingly favorite scene of most reviewers, a lady puking up her own internal organs, among others. How this film didn't get rated R is totally beyond me. Nevertheless it wouldn't be the same zombie movie without these scenes, that's what zombie movies are all about.I'd definitely recommend checking this one out if you're a fan of zombie/horror films. I also recommend Hell of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (the original 1978 version not the cruddy remake), and I Drink Your Blood.