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Please Educate Me On This Flick

posted 16 years ago by lowkick90
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I am a huge horror fan (a true horror fan, not one of those "omg the ring is the best!!!1" fans)

I've seen 3 of other Fulci's flicks, The Beyond, The House By The Cemetary, and Zombi 2, but haven't seen this. Now I need some info on this flick.

1) I read the plot and it says that after Father William Thomas, the gates of hell open up. Why do they? Why did these decide just to open for him?

2)I've read that the zombies have super strength, can teleport, and levitate. How the hell could you survive 2 minutes with those zombies? Even if you hid, they could teleport to you.

3) How can you close the gates of hell in the flick?

[–] Ralphus2 16 years ago

I'd say, if you're a true horror fan (not one of those "omg the ring is the best!!!" fans), then you'd just go out and see this flick.

If you follow Fulci and Italian schlock from this era you'd also have to expect that maybe some of your questions simply can't be answered--or don't need to be answered--to enjoy the wonderful B-grade excesses of Italian horror.

[–] zagadka5137 16 years ago

Never over-analyze a Fucli movie, hell for that matter don't analyze a Fulci film period, there is nothing beneath the surface. His films are all about shocking images and gore, he had never put an ounce of effort into plot or logic.

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[–] ericinexile 16 years ago

I think Fulci is one of the most misunderstood directors. the continuity in his movies is usually good but his reasoning is difficult understand. That doesn't mean that he never put effort into the plot. It only means that he reasoned differently than you. It is ignorant to say that there is nothing below the surface because you don't understand it.

[–] zagadka5137 16 years ago

"I think Fulci is one of the most misunderstood directors. the continuity in his movies is usually good but his reasoning is difficult understand. That doesn't mean that he never put effort into the plot. It only means that he reasoned differently than you. It is ignorant to say that there is nothing below the surface because you don't understand it."

Dude there is absolutely no substance to a Fulci movie. They are all about blood and gore, period. His movies are good for what they are but they aren't films for the thinking man. Lucio Fulci was no Federico Fellini.

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[–] bbsstfu 16 years ago

If you look hard enough on torrent sites or horror / gore forums (not imdb ones) you would probably be able to track it down on the internet in one form or another in less then an hour. It's nothing special but if you have some time to kill it's worth it.

[–] mike_anderson81 16 years ago

1: I have no idea - an explanation never presents itself. But you are distracted by so many other annoying things that you don't care anymore.

2: I would actually argue that these aren't zombies at all! These are ghosts!!! The Italian guys just don't get the zombie genre. Not that there is that much to get.

3: The viewer doesn't know, but this Mary chick seems to know. It seems that the whole ordeal ends when the undead minister who opened the gates by killing hilmself in the beginning is stabbed in the gut with a wooden cross.

As the other guy says, don't expect this to make sense. It's just a sad excuse for a few moments of mediocre horror. Some good gore-shots though. (There, I said something positive about this film;)

Mike

[–] nikkisixx215 16 years ago

I agree, the zombies in this film are more like ghosts, in fact... as much as I LOVE this film and the zombie genre in general, the last 10 minutes aside... this film is about as much a zombie film as The Haunting in Connecticut is, ie ghosts popping up everywhere that like like zombies. Anyone agree?

-I guess I'm just not used to being chased round a mall in the middle of the night by killer robots

[–] QualityApeMan 16 years ago

Yeh I agree. Does it actually say anywhere that this is a zombie film? I think maybe the "Living Dead" in the title makes people think it's zombies because that term is synonymous with them. The only creatures I would say were zombies would be the ones in the tomb at the end that come out the ground. The rest are bizarre ghosts.