Extensive image gallery featuring over 150 stills, posters and other ephemera from the FAB Press and Mike Siegel archives A Trip Through Bonaventure Cemetery (2022, 5 minutes) features a drone tour of the location in Savannah, GA. Cauldron spent several years prepping its own extras, which appear on physical media this year for the first time. Other bonus materials have appeared on prior DVD and BD editions. Cauldron has also ported over extras from Arrow Video UK's 2018/19 remastered re-release. Director Lucio Fulci ( Perversion Story) was something of a journeyman director working across several genres, including comedy, western and of course giallo before scoring a massive success in horror with Zombie (aka Zombie Flesh Eaters aka Zombi 2). He went on to become known as a Master of Horror, cranking out such iconic films as The Beyond, House by the Cemetery and The New York Ripper among many others. City of the Living Dead (aka Gates of Hell) came along while he was in top form reinventing the Italian genre market.

Building Fulci’s City, a new video interview with Stephen Thrower, author of the definitive tome, Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci Regardless of whether or not Fulci and Sacchetti drew any inspiration from Lovecraft, there’s nothing especially Lovecraftian about City of the Living Dead. There aren’t necessarily any dreams in the Witch House of Dunwich horror that they conceived for the film, though that’s obviously open to interpretation. With or without Lovecraft’s influence, the atmosphere of Fulci’s supernatural horror films frequently has been referred to as “dreamlike,” and City of the Living Dead is no exception. Yet that’s arguably a rather facile and superficial description that doesn’t quite do justice to the uncanny ways in which Fulci was able to get under the skin of viewers (or into their eyeballs, as the case may be). In City of the Living Dead, the spatial discontinuity of Lovecraft’s dream worlds has been replaced by a kind of temporal discontinuity instead. As a result, trying to connect the dots of the genuinely incomprehensible narrative is an exercise in futility. Any attempt to understand or interpret the plot of the film is the equivalent of tilting at windmills: it’s an endeavor doomed to failure from the start. That’s all beside the point, anyway. City of the Living Dead is really about mood, not story, and the best way to experience it is to let go of the need to rationalize everything and just to let that mood work its magic. There’s no rationalizing the inherently irrational nature of the supernatural anyway. Seamless branching – watch in English Language w/ English credit sequences and watch Italian language w/ Italian credit sequences Three Q&As are included — Venantini and Cannibal Holocaust filmmaker Ruggero Deodato (who doesn’t speak much) from a 2017 event in Rome, MacColl from a 2010 screening of The Beyond in Scotland, and Frizzi from a 2012 screening of Zombie in Scotland — along with 42 minutes of interviews with MacColl, De Mejo, Jovine, Venantini, Soavi, Sacchetti, Geleng, Rossi, Salvati, Rizzi, actors Antonella Interlenghi and Luca Venantini, and assistant makeup artist Rosario Prestopino from the 2008 documentary Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered.There are four audio commentaries, starting with one newly recorded with film historian Samm Deighan. She opens with the disclosure that this is one of her all-time favorite Fulci films and she has a lot to say on the subject. Her comments are informative and entertaining with lots of notes on the director and cast. She also maintains this is more Gothic horror rather than traditional zombie movie and shares her impressions on the ambiguous ending. 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. Building Fulci's City, a new video appreciation by Stephen Thrower, author of the definitive tome, Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci 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.

Scorpion Releasing has detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of Lucio Fulci’s The Gates of Hell a.k.a. City of the Living Dead (1989), starring Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo de Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi, and Giovanni Lombardo Radice. The release will arrive on the market this summer. Since its Sundance premiere, the energy surrounding the film has steadily grown with RogerEbert.com calling Onyx the Fortuitous “a handmade horror gem.” Donahue, Suzanne Mary (1987). American film distribution: the changing marketplace. UMI Research Press. p.296. ISBN 9780835717762. Please note figures are for rentals in US and Canada Synopsis: 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!

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The Catriona MacColl Archival Video Intro appears to be from an unspecified home video release of City of the Living Dead, while A Trip Through Bonaventure Cemetery is a brief unnarrated video journey through and over the famous cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. (It hasn’t gotten any less eerie in the decades since City of the Living Dead shot there.) Finally, the Archival Interviews collects relevant interview footage from the 2008 DVD Paura, Lucio Fulci Remembered Vol. 1. It includes Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi, Luca Venantini, Fabrizio Jovine, Venantino Venantini, Michel Soavi, Dardano Sacchetti, Massimo Antonello Geleng, Gino De Rossi, Rosario Prestopino, Sergio Salvati, and Fabio Frizzi. There are also at least two major Easter eggs on disc three: City of the Living Dead has been available on Blu-ray in no less than four earlier releases, including: Blue Underground (2010), Arrow Video (2013, 2019) and Scorpion Releasing (2020), all with their own strengths. Each of these came loaded with special features, few overlapping, thus making it necessary to collect multiple copies. Just when you thought it was safe, Cauldron Films introduces the film on 4K UHD with even more new and legacy content! The film is viewable in either English or Italian via a DTS-HD MA 2.0 mono mix. The English dub is generally stronger and is preferred given the number of English-speaking actors. Dialogue is always clear and understandable and music cues are powerful without becoming intrusive. Optional English subtitles are included for anyone in need. Easter Egg] Video Tape Version of The Gates of Hell (1:32:10, 480i) to access this videocassette edition, arrow left from Image Gallery and an when the text lights up, press Enter. English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono (320 kbps), no subtitles.