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City of the Living Dead<\/em><\/strong> – 1980, Italy, 92m. Director: Lucio Fulci.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Home Sweet Home<\/em><\/strong> – 1981, US, 84m. Director: Nettie Pe\u00f1a. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Witchery<\/em><\/strong> – 1989, Italy, 94m. Director: Fabrizio Laurenti. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD <\/em><\/strong>(1980)<\/em> (AKA: Fear in the City of the Living Dead; The Gates of Hell<\/em>) A priest’s suicide triggers a series of gruesome events in a small town whose residents are the descendants of witch-burners. A man gets his head impaled with an industrial power drill. A woman is attacked by the ghost of the priest, who suffocates the poor soul with a handful of worm-infested rotting flesh. Another woman is hypnotized into expelling her entire intestinal track out from her mouth. There are also zombies running amok ripping out brains\u2014plus a maggot rainstorm! All this splatter could only mean it’s the end of the world, Lucio Fulci-style! Although the movie is supposedly inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft (with some Stephen King thrown in for good measure), City of the Living Dead<\/em> contains the usual Fulci-zombie fare\u2014a funeral director gets his hand chomped by a revivified corpse, for example. As with other Fulci cannibal epics, City of the Living Dead<\/em> might be high on style, but it’s low on logic. In other words, it’s a nonsensical but highly enjoyable bloodbath. B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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HOME SWEET HOME<\/em><\/strong> (1981)<\/em> A chuckling lunatic (Jake Steinfeld) high on PCP escapes from the hospital, steals a station wagon\u2014running over an old lady in the process\u2014and drives out to the sticks, where he terrorizes a family celebrating Thanksgiving. Steinfeld goes about performing the usual escaped killer tricks (e.g. cutting the phone lines) before he starts eliminating his victims\u2014one of the men, a guitar-playing magician\/mime, is perhaps the most annoying character in the history of low budget horror movies. There’s nothing special or original about Home Sweet Home<\/em>, but despite its contrivances the film has personality and a sense of humor. Gorehounds won’t appreciate the lack of blood, but that doesn’t stop the movie from being an enjoyable, albeit obscure, holiday slasher. Steinfeld would eventually gain fame for his Body by Jake\/FitTV empire, as well as becoming an ambassador for physical fitness under Schwarzenegger’s governorship. B<\/strong>–<\/p>\n\n\n

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WITCHERY<\/em><\/strong> (1989)<\/em> (AKA: Witchcraft<\/em>) A scorned actress-turned-witch (Hildegard Knef) summons a group of people to a ramshackle house in order to fulfill a Satanic prophecy, which includes the sacrifice of sexually-repressed student Leslie Cumming (the Virgin), and pregnant Linda Blair (the Harlot). Blair’s past connection to the house is represented in dreams and premonitions, as well as via the slaughter of her evil stepmother (Annie Ross), who’s hung upside down in the fireplace and burnt alive. In a replay of The Exorcist<\/em>, Blair is possessed by Knef (sans the genius of Dick Smith) and kills off the rest of the unexciting cast (including David Hasselhoff). But love wins in the end, and she flings herself out of a window before harming her little brother\u2014although not before Cumming is raped by an otherworldly being and unwillingly invites her demonic baby into society. Another bogus Italian stinker made in the States and featuring no redeeming qualities whatsoever\u2014from the makers of the equally idiotic Ghosthouse<\/em> (1988). D<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

City of the Living Dead – 1980, Italy, 92m. Director: Lucio Fulci. Home Sweet Home – 1981, US, 84m. Director: Nettie Pe\u00f1a. Witchery – 1989, Italy, 94m. Director: Fabrizio Laurenti. CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (1980) (AKA: Fear in the City of the Living Dead; The Gates of Hell) A priest’s suicide triggers a series … <\/p>\n

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