City of the Living Dead - Limited Edition [Blu-ray]

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During a séance in New York City, Mary Woodhouse ( Catriona MacColl, The Beyond) experiences a vision of Father Thomas ( Fabrizio Jovine, The Psychic) hanging himself before a corpse claws its way out of its grave. Whether it was the priest’s intention to unleash the evil is left ambiguous, but the quaint Massachusetts town of Dunwich is cursed regardless. Borrowing its name from Lovecraft’s writings, Dunwich is built on the ruins of the original Salem, where the ancestors of its current residents are said to have burned witches at the stake. City of the Living Dead offers a whole grab bag of usual Fulci nastiness, including an infamous scene where a large drill slowly enters the skull of a victim. And in classic Italian horror fashion, these zombies are much more than your usual dumb undead. The creatures here have a proclivity for ripping body parts right off victims, including but not limited to scalps, faces, intestines, etc. Things get grizzly after the gates of hell open, and Fulci leaves it all open to interpretation. There’s something really engaging about much of Italian horror’s refusal to draw conclusions, and that effort works remarkably well here between all the bloodletting. City of the Living Dead has several classic Fulci gross-out scenes. We’ve got twenty-two pounds of live maggots loaded into a wind machine; a teenager’s head being fed into a lathe; poor Michele Soavi being forced to watch as his girlfriend vomits up the entire length of her intestines in excruciating anatomical detail. The fact that these effects hold up without losing their gut-churning effectiveness under the scrutiny of 4K resolution is a testament to Gino De Rossi’s SFX genius—with some scenes being even grosser than I remember, thanks to the ability to see, say, the maggots wriggling individually thanks to the crisp restoration on Cauldron’s UHD restoration.

Reflections on Fulci, a new appraisal of Fulci's Gothic period by actor, writer and director Andy Nyman (Ghost Stories) One of the most charming facets of Onyx the Fortuitous is its commitment to practical effects, specifically its use of puppets to bring demons, ghouls, and creatures to life. Based on Andrew Bowser’s viral character of the same name , Onyx tells the story of an amateur occultist who learns that sometimes when you raise HELL… you get a little burned .Italy / Horror / Director - Lucio Fulci / 93 mins / 1.85:1 / UHD -All Region / BD feature - Region A / BD extras - All Region

City of the Living Dead (1980), starring Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo de Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi, and Giovanni Lombardo Radice. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on August 15. Here, he joins Bartok and his mysterious delegation to raise the spirit of an ancient demon for a once-in-a-lifetime ritual.

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Catriona MacColl Q&A from The Glasgow Theater (20:08) - this Q&A with MacColl was filmed at The Glasgow Theater on March 13, 2010, which is moderated by Waddell. Questions are both spoken and subtitled in English. Archival Audio Commentary with Actress Catriona MacColl Moderated by Jay Slater - this older commentary was intially recorded for the 2003 UK PAL DVD part of the Vipco Screamtime Collection. In English, not subtitled. NEW On Stage: Q&A with Venantino Venantini & Ruggero Deodato (46:03) - Ercolani organized this Q&A in Rome, which was held on August 28, 2017. This is an extended discussion with Venantini and Deodato about their craft. In Italian with English subtitles.