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<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" height="1%" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="99%">   <p>In the little village of Dunwich - supposedly built on the ruins of the original Salem - a priest, father Thomas (Fabrizio Jovine) hangs himself, & right in the cemetary, too ...<p>In a seemingly unrelated event, in New York City Mary (Catriona MacColl) dies from shock during a seance. The police suspects something drug-related & tries to put the blame on spiritualist Teresa (Adelaide Aste) but unsuccessfully so. Only nosey reporter Peter (Christopher George) suspects something else & is soon found in the graveyard when Mary is to be entombed ... when he suddenly hears her shouting out in terror from inside the coffin, & ultimately saves her from a premature burial (but almost kills her in the process when he repeatedly rams his pick into the coffin's cover ...)<p>He is soon convinced by Madame Teresa & Mary that the source for everything lies in Dunwich, & that he has to go there with Mary to shut the gates of Hell that were opened by Father Thomas' suicide ...<p>& really, the city of Dunwich could need some help, as the undead Father Thomas & his zombies repeatedly kill villagers in all sorts of gruesome ways, but the villagers, unable to even begin to grasp what is menacing them, blame all the murders (& whatever else bad might happen) on village idiot Bob (Giovanni Lombardo-Radice) - & ebventually one of the villagers (Venantino Venantini) can even get hold of Bob, & he promptly kills him with a powerdrill ... not that this would stop the zombies of course ...<p>In all Dunwich it seems only psychiatrist Jerry (Carlo de Mejo) & painter Sandra (Janet Agren) seem to keep a cool head, figure there might something else than Bob be wrong with Dunwich, & start investigating ... & before long they meet up with Peter & Mary (in the cemetary, quite fittingly), & figure they have to enter Father Thomas' grave in order to shut the Gates of Hell, & prepare to go down, except for Sandra, who instead takes care of a little boy (Luca Venatnini) & is killed by a zombie as a little thank-you.<p>The city it seems is overrun by zombies by now, when Peter, Mary & Jerry finally enter Father Thomas grave, which turns out to be nothing less than a giant cave, where they meet zombie Sandra, who promptly disposes of Peter before she herself can be dealt with.<p>Soon Jerry & Mary face Father Thomas, pretty much the leader of the pack, & it seems they are done for, when Jerry notices a cruzifix handily lieing around, picks it up & stakes the Father with it. <p>All the zombies go up in flames, Dunwich is saved. Or indeed, is it ?<p>   <p>Lucio Fulci is a director whose output varies remarkably in quality, even his cheapo horror flicks might be anything from great to unwatchable.<p>His <i>gothic trilogy </i>(a series of at best loosely connected films, consisting of this one, <b><a href="aldila(1981).shtml">L'Aldila</a></b>/<b><a href="aldila(1981).shtml">The Beyond</a></b> & <a href="housebythecemetery(1981).shtml"><b>Quella Villa accanto al Cimitero</b></a>/<b><a href="housebythecemetery(1981).shtml">House by the Cemetary</a></b>, all starring Catriona MacColl) however shows him at the height of his talent: In these films Fulci takes us into a world all of its own, where the laws of logic & indeed nature are suspended, where storytelling as such takes a back seat, & whhere Fulci instead confronts the audience with a series of gory or otherwise ghastly shocks. The moviesprobably best resemble nightmares ... & what could be nicer to say about a horrorfilm than it resembles a nightmare ? <p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top" height="1%">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2005"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>