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VAULT OF HORROR PRESENTS THE GATES OF HELL TRILOGY – STARBURST Magazine

VAULT OF HORROR PRESENTS THE GATES OF HELL TRILOGY – STARBURST Magazine

VAULT OF HORROR PRESENTS THE GATES OF HELL TRILOGY – STARBURST Magazine

VAULT OF HORROR PRESENTS THE GATES OF HELL TRILOGY / COMPOSER: FABIO FRIZZI, WALTER RIZZATI, ALLESANDRO BLONKSTEINER / LABEL: DEMON RECORDS / RELEASE DATE: OUT NOW Over the past decade, several labels have seen fit to reissue the scores to Italian director Lucio Fulci’s Gate of Hell trilogy of films on vinyl: City of the … Continued

Source: www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/gates-hell-trilogy

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Halloween Horror Marathon: A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin

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Each week, Halloween Horror Marathon does some themed posts. We wrap up the work week with the films of Lucio Fulci. We call them Fulci Fridays, and for those, we team up with Liam O’Donnell of Cinepunx. This week, we look at A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin.
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Halloween Horror Marathon: House By the Cemetery

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It’s best to think of the Gates of Hell trilogy as something unofficial, rather than a planned thing. Catriona MacColl is in all three films, under three differently-spelled version of her name. She’s the heroine in each, but a different character each time, but always fighting creatures from hell. One would like to think Fulci planned this to create some sort of through line, but’s far more likely just because she was available.

The other two films in the trilogy are absolutely sane, compared to House By the Cemetery. I’ve seen it half a dozen times and read the plot summary on Wikipedia, and I still have no idea what this is all about. It doesn’t help that I have a pretty rough copy of the film, likely edited all to shit. However, I’ve little faith that a better DVD release would make even the slightest improvement.
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Halloween Horror Marathon – The Beyond

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The Beyond is Lucio Fulci’s best-known film, and a legitmate cult favorite. It was re-released into theaters by Quentin Tarantino’s Rolling Thunder Pictures a few years back, and finally saw uncut release on DVD through Grindhouse Releasing, after years of only being available in the States as a heavily edited version under the title Seven Doors of Death.

That said, watching The Beyond for the marathon is only the second time I’ve ever seen it. Somehow, I’ve seen City of the Living Dead way more, and tomorrow’s movie — House By the Cemetery — even more than that.
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Halloween Horror Marathon: City of the Living Dead

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A Lucio Fulci movie is something I enjoy watching quite a bit. Understanding, not so much. This marks my fifth viewing of City of the Living Dead, and it still makes no sense whatsoever. I can’t explain why most things in the movie happen, only that they do, and look really cool as they occur.

The basic plot is that a priest kills himself, opening a gate to hell, and it has to be closed before All Saints’ Day or the dead will never rest peacefully again. Everything that happens around that is due to the open gate, and you just have to accept it.
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