City Of The Living Dead (1980)

Review:

In Dunwich, a priest commits suicide, and this sin is serious enough to open the gates of hell. A psychic woman in New York sees this and dies, well, sort of. A journalist saves her from being buried alive, and together they travel to Dunwich, where a whole lot of strange things are happening, like people who see the ghost of the priest start crying blood, etc…

Yes, a lot of things are happening, involving not just astonishing amounts of blood, but also brains, intestines, rats and maggots. What puzzles me, though, is that all these elements don’t really make a story. Let’s make this and we can do that and then there is something we could also do, and then we have a finale and then a surprise twist that doesn’t even have to make sense, we have a runtime of like 90min and enough shock effects and that’s good enough for us.

Also, the story takes place in Dunwich, which is a Lovecraft town name, but I cannot find how hell and catholic sins are related to Lovecraft.

What can I say? Many call this a masterpiece, and yes, in a way it is a masterpiece of the horror genre, but only if you don’t too much storywise.

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