City of the Living Dead
About City of the Living Dead
A psychic seemingly dies of fright during a séance where she sees a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church cemetery. New York City reporter Peter Bell investigates and learns that the priest's suicide has somehow opened a portal to Hell that must be sealed by All Saints Day, or else the dead will overtake humanity.
Lucio Fulci's City of the Living Dead is a 1980 fantasy horror film. At 93 minutes long, it arrived in August 1980.
Its themes are priest, cemetery, psychic power, and living dead.
Christopher George stars as Peter Bell, Catriona MacColl as Mary Woodhouse, Carlo De Mejo as Gerry, and Giovanni Lombardo Radice as Bob. The screenplay is by Dardano Sacchetti and Lucio Fulci. It streams on IndieFlix, IndieFlix Shorts Amazon Channel, and Philo in the United States.
The Nun, The Exorcist, and Beetlejuice make useful companions to City of the Living Dead, all filed under demon and halloween. TMDB voters put it at 6.5 out of 10 across 467 votes and it carries a NR rating.