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• ngs091

  Posted: 9/16/2011 11:42:27 PM

  (5.0 Out of 10) From the first scenes, City of the Living Dead (1980) is clearly a Lucio Fulci film. Eschewing plot and narrative junction in favor of terror and gore, as in all Fulci flicks it gets high marks for its technical aspects. The dim and gothic photography meshes with the cryptic set design and dreary atmospheric ambience, set to a deathly musical score. The zombie makeup is fantastically harrowing and some of the death sequences (especially one by power drill) is disturbingly effective. However, although some Fulci film’s lack a coherent plot (and don’t even think about story development) they can often coast on the surrealism of it all. Problem is this dreamlike approach may buoy Suspiria because it felt vital to the film, here one is not even sure if the lack of consistency was even part of the game plan. So sometimes feverishly frightening and other times painfully absurd, City of the Living Dead is a film that is half in heaven and half in hell.

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