 
In
a small town in Dunwich, New England, a
young psychic named Mary Woodhouse
(Catrioni MacColl) is in a trance and
senses that a priest named Father William
Thomas has committed suicide and opened
the gates of hell which awakens the dead
from the grave while she is doing a chant
with other people. Then she passes out
and supposedly dies out of sheer fright.
The detectives don't believe such a story
but then they experience a flame coming
out of the floor.
There are suddenly other causes occurring
like broken mirrors in bars, walls
cracking open, animals acting vicious
A New York journalist named Peter Bell
(Christopher George) wants to do some
research about Mary Woodhouse's death and
what she meant about the apocalypse. He
realises that Mary is not dead as he
hears her screaming in her coffin as she
is nearly buried alive and saves her.
Peter also realises that in Dunwich the
gates of hell is about to open and that
he must close them before the all saints
day occurs as Father William Thomas is
back from the dead and cursing deaths on
many innocent victims and having their
dead bodies come to life.
The film looks very
interesting but when it starts to get
spooky it becomes dull and pointless. It
picks up again and then goes in circles.
It's not much of a zombie flick as they
don't really seem to appear till quarter
way through the film but there are
moments of it and more like a voodoo type
flick.
If you're in a sad mood you sdon't want
to watch this film period.
Cult horror and western
legend the late Christopher George
really brings a bit of wit and outgoing
performance to his character.
However most of the other actors in this
film perform very stale and needs
improvement.
But.... child actor Luca Venantini
seems charming and convincing in his
role throughout the film.
A gruesome looking
corpse is found in a shack of a house
with worms surrounding the body.
Blood starts pouring out of a woman's
eyes and mouth as well as her insides
(Gross)
A brain is torn out of a guy's head
Blood is being drained out of a corpse
A pinky finger of a corner is bloodily
chewed off
There's a corpse with a scarred face seen
in a child's closet
A mechanical drill is grinded through a
teens head
A ladys scalp is torn off
There are gruesome looking zombies too
People in a bar are chewed up
A mans scalp is torn off and his brains
ooze out
A man stabs a zombie woman with his
shotgun and then stabs a hole through
another ones stomach
Italian filmmaker/director
Lucio
Fulci seems to know his stuff with
this piece although he makes the film
look depressing and gloomy.
There's a perfect moment
during a scene with two actors named Michele Soavi and
Daniela
Doria are making out in a trailer
during a windy night with fog and then
when they see the dead preacher putting
the curse on them it looks terrifying.
There's another moment which will
remember your childhood fears as when
child actor Luca Venantini looks
into his closet and finds his aunt
returning from the dead played by
Antonella Interlenghi
There's also a window blowing open with
maggots which delivers a good moment for
a horror film
There's a very creepy moment when Venantini
is running away from a couple of
zombies in his town giving the film a
true effect to it.
Italian composer Fabio
Frizzi is perfect with his cheesy
horror music for the film with ther piano
pounding and synthesizer music too along
with some thumping sounds.
We have some screeching sound effects
too.
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