Characters & Themes
City of the Living Dead (1980) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1980 · 93 mins · English
- Starring
- Venantino Venantini, Christopher George, Robert Sampson, Omero Capanna, Lucio Fulci, Catriona MacColl
From the bowels of Earth they emerged to collect the living. A woman appears to die of fright during a séance after seeing a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church cemetery. Reporter Peter Bell investigates and learns the priest’s suicide opened a Hell portal that must be sealed by All Saints’ Day, or the dead will overwhelm humanity.
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