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The dead of Dunwich
Also called: Paura nella città dei morti viventi, The Gates of Hell
The first film of Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy has a psychic and a reporter trying to close a hell-gate before All Saints' Day. Its dead are raised by damnation rather than infection and are led by the priest whose suicide opened the gate. The film is also known as The Gates of Hell.1
First appeared
1980
Released 1980Source work
City of the Living Dead (1980)
Lucio FulciAge rating
18 (UK, uncut, 2001)
Made in
Italy
What causes it
Demons or evil spirits
A priest's suicide in the town of Dunwich opens the gates of hell.Weak spots
- destroying the priest who leads them
When did it first appear?
Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
1980Released 1980
field notes
What the sources say
1
The dead priest commands the risen corpses1
2
When he is impaled with a wooden cross, he and the others burst into flames and vanish1
3
Made after the success of Zombi 2 and inspired by H. P. Lovecraft1
4
A scene involving a drill was cut by British censors in 19821
5
Banned in West Germany after a 1984 television report1
Sources
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