City of the Living Dead [Blu-ray]

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Average Customer Rating:	3.0
Release Date:	2010-05-25
Publisher:	Blue Underground
Actors:	Christopher George; Catriona MacColl; Carlo De Mejo; Giovanni Lombardo Radice
Aspect ratio:	1.85:1
Audience rating:	NR (Not Rated)
Format:	Widescreen; Color; DTS Surround Sound; Subtitled
Language:	Subtitled: English; Subtitled: French; Subtitled: Spanish; Original Language: English;
Weight:	0.18 pounds

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Blue Underground; George, Christopher; Fulci, Lucio; DTS; Blu-ray Store; Movies & TV on DVD and Blu-ray Disc Trade-In; Spotlight Deals; Blu-Ray; Widescreen; Unrated; DVDs Playable in any Region; 1980 - 1989; English; Blu-Ray

Product description

"WOE BE UNTO HIM WHO OPENS ONE OF THE SEVEN GATEWAYS TO HELL, BECAUSE THROUGH THAT GATEWAY, EVIL WILL INVADE THE WORLD."

The Seven Gates Of Hell have been torn open, and in three days the dead shall rise and walk the earth. As a reporter (Christopher George of PIECES) and a psychic (Catriona MacColl of THE BEYOND) race to close the portals of the damned, they encounter a seething nightmare of unspeakable evil. The city is alive - with the horrors of the living dead!

Directed and co-written by the legendary Lucio Fulci (ZOMBIE, THE BEYOND), CITY OF THE LIVIND DEAD features some of the maestro's most shocking and controversial sequences of all time. Blue Underground proudly presents the definitive version of Fulci's hallucinogenic masterpiece of horror: freshly transferred in brain-ripping High Definition from its original uncensored negative and loaded with exclusive new Extras!

EXTRAS:
"The Making of CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD" - Interviews with Star Catriona MacColl, Co-Star Michele Soavi, Production Designer Massimo Antonello Geleng, Assistant Makeup Effects Artist Rosario Prestopino, Special Effects Artist Gino De Rossi, Cinematographer Sergio Salvati, and Camera Operator Roberto Forges Davanzati
"Acting Among the Living Dead" - Interview with Star Catriona MacColl
"Entering the Gates of Hell" - Interview with Star Giovanni Lombardo Radice
"Memories of the Maestro" - The cast and crew reminisce about working with Lucio Fulci
"Marketing of the Living Dead" - Poster & Still Gallery
English Trailer
Italian Trailer
Radio Spots/Still Gallery

Customer reviews

« Another Zombie Movie. »

What is it with the Anti-Clerical message to the story? these snotty europeans always with their socialist message/anti-religion. I find night of the living dead and evil dead more entertaining but in order to "shock" you get these "film makers" who put out such garbage. It's just gross out effects masquerading as a movie.

Rating: (1 out of 5) @ 2010-07-27

« Great Classic Original Zombi flick...Don't confuse with "Hell of the Living dead" »

Ok guys, i think the negative reviews are from those expecting more than what it is. It is simply a low bidget, simple classic Zombie movie, don't expect "Ben Herr", "Cleopatra", "12 Angry men", "Guns of Navarone"...Fulci is a master at what he does, and that create an Italian version of George A. Romero film. He does a fantastic job at that.

As far as people thinking they received the wrong film, I think this might straightne the confussion, or not.

---FULCI Came out with the Italian film (1980) "Paura nella citta dei morti viventi" which was press release in the US as "twilight of the dead" and then upon US theatrical release as "The Gates of Hell" and then finally as "city of the living dead" on DVD.
---Bruno MATTEI (another italian film maker) released an Italian film released in the US theatres as (1983) "night of the zombies" and then released on DVD in the US as "Hell of the living dead".

See the confussion? But wait it gets worse! the cover of each has simlar cover art. Fulci film us an artist who painted the zombie head 1980. Well, in 1983 Mattei also used an artist to create his cover, guess who he used, the same artist. This artist simply added a torso to the head and edited a phote and Boom! we have two very simplar covers which have the same zombia head, 1 sans torso. They also are similar in that they are Zombie film, Italian directors, early 80's, but watch both, the plots are quite different. Matteis film is more Romero like than Fulci's in my opinion.

But overall the films are different and both are fantastic. If you are still confussed, check out Horror Hound issue 23 May/June 2010, there is a hole retrospective and the article is dedicated to the mastery of Fulci and "city of the living dead".

Rating: (5 out of 5) @ 2010-07-13

« Misleading »

The movie box would make it seem like your typical zombie fare...unfortunately what you get is a bad B movie, which, with the exception of the head-drilling and gut-puking (5 minutes of the whole movie), had to rate among the most boring films ever. I'd definitely rent it before I bought it, and I wish I had.

Rating: (1 out of 5) @ 2010-06-21

« Good Movie - Horrible blu ray transfer.. »

I have seen some pretty amazing blu-rays of older films - original Dawn of the Dead, Day of the dead, clockwork orange to name a few. So, I was really looking forward to seeing City of the Living dead remastered on blu-ray.

I'm here to tell you, if you already own this movie on DVD, don't waste your money looking for a major upgrade in picture quality.

The picture during the ENTIRE movie looks like it's sparkling - especially during any daytime scene. When it happened during the opening scene, I thought 'maybe a bad reel in the negatives'. But then it went on for the whole running time! It's like an extremely fine pixellation or static going on during the entire film! The picture is very sharp, but it doesn't really matter when it looks like you're watching the movie through a sandstorm. There are maybe a couple of darker scenes that actually look good. It is completely distracting, and almost difficult to watch. It seems like if they went to the trouble of mastering from the original negatives, they could have spent more money to clean it up, or digitally correct the picture.

After watching the movie, I put on the Anchor Bay dvd of this movie to compare. It didn't have the blu ray sharpness, but overall the picture actually looked better, if a little darker.

I am highly dissapointed in this release - there has been much hype about how this one was mastered from the original negatives (even says it on the box). HorrorHound magazine even gave it a 4 out of 5 for image quality in a recent buyers guide article!

Hopefully, it's just a first run disc mastering error that Blue Underground will fix and replace, but I doubt it.

At the very least, rent it to see for yourself before dropping the $25-30 bucks on it.

Rating: (2 out of 5) @ 2010-06-01

« Lucio Fulci's Under-Rated Zombie Epic gets the HD Facelift it deserves »

IMO this is Lucio Fulci's BEST Horror Epic
Every title Blue Underground has put out on BR
Has been a True labor of love that has surpassed my expectation
I'm gonna pre-order this BR today!
The Film is a Lucio Fulci Film so it will be a Masterpiece in Both Gore and Detail with some of the Best Locations in any Film of 1980
In fact it was shot with such a great eye it has a timeless look
Christopher George and Catriona MacColl are Both Great in the film
The plot is simple a Priest hangs himself which opens the gates of Hell in 3days the dead will walk the earth
A Psychis (Catriona MacColl) and a Reporter (Christopher George) must close the portal in a town that is being Invaded by the Living Dead
No CGI the Special F/X are amazing @ times a bit to real looking with plenty of brain ripping gut spewing, and over the top Gore that make the SAW Films look like Snow White
If this Film was Re-Made it couldn't hold a Candle to this

If you wanna watch a Euro Splatter Film this is the one for you
by the look of the run down the BR will be the Rated X "Uncut" Version (Which is Amazing as far as Horror Films go)
No young kids should watch this it will Freak 'em out

Hopefully Blue Underground can get the rights to All Fulci's Catalog (Zombie and The Beyond were made for HD) For that matter so does all Dario Argento Films!
Thank You Blue Underground keep up the Great work!!!!!!!!

Rating: (5 out of 5) @ 2010-04-13

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