Fulci's masterpiece

Very dark, eerie and atmospheric. Music score is brilliant. Essence of horror genre. Fulci described it once as "visual rendering of the metaphysical side of bad dreams."

So much different from majority of generic, repetitive and more commercial-made horror movies.

I found this review here
http://www.luciofulci.altervista.org/Eng/Masterpieces.htm


"Here is the consecration, few words! Simply horror and anguish to the pure state! Together with House by the cemetery and Beyond, constitutes one of the three miliary stones in the history of the world cinematography of the horror! A masterpiece!

What is anguish? What is the fear? City of the living dead! Fog, a church, from far they are perceived some headstones among which an anxious presence walks; is a priest, ready to hang himself and to seal an inauspicious pact with the evil's forces. It opens so, in this way, perhaps, the most spine-chilling beginning in the Italian cinema. To damage of the title (wanted by the producers for economic demands), this film is able to petrify also the more sceptic spectator! The whole film, emanates a sense of claustrophobic anguish and resignation so much to be able to influence whoever. "Splatter and Gore", contribute to accent and to alter the state of mind of the spectator, thrown to the extreme consequences, and annihilated by such iniquities! "City of the living dead", for some verses can be consideraed an improvement of "Zombie" (the living deads, the special effects, even more cruel) and for others, a totally different film (the scenery and the history). The musics gives a touch class to the film and they magnificently orchestrate every sequence. A film that doesn't save anybody and able to touch whoever with his grisly cruelty and restlessness."