tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316228451187611813.post6746224979697335424..comments2024-01-28T19:45:11.660-08:00Comments on At the Mansion of Madness: City of the Living Dead / The Gates of Hell (1980)Giovanni Susinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03253382939348997303noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316228451187611813.post-84243289159094942132014-10-08T22:13:59.580-07:002014-10-08T22:13:59.580-07:00Those 5 birds were so stunning, they`re all i real...Those 5 birds were so stunning, they`re all i really notice when i watch "City of the Living Dead". By the way, i always fancied that bird who did the seance at the beginning of the film as well (shes standing next to the lamp in the second picture that you posted to accompany the reveiw), i couldn`t find out the birds name or age over on IMDB but she was really tasty for a bird in her 40`s, i would`ve loved to have buggered her senseless when she was 18 as well ! ! !.jervaise brooke hamsternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316228451187611813.post-16343381255511172842014-10-08T21:56:36.959-07:002014-10-08T21:56:36.959-07:00I want to bugger Ania Pieroni (as the bird was in ...I want to bugger Ania Pieroni (as the bird was in 1975 when the bird was 18, not as the bird is now obviously).jervaise brooke hamsternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316228451187611813.post-35538307990697639002014-10-08T21:51:46.924-07:002014-10-08T21:51:46.924-07:00I want to bugger Daniela Doria (as the bird was in...I want to bugger Daniela Doria (as the bird was in 1974 when the bird was 18, not as the bird is now obviously).jervaise brooke hamsternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316228451187611813.post-55133923044445502082014-10-08T21:47:15.131-07:002014-10-08T21:47:15.131-07:00I want to bugger Antonella Interlenghi (as the bir...I want to bugger Antonella Interlenghi (as the bird was in 1978 when the bird was 18, not as the bird is now obviously).jervaise brooke hamsternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316228451187611813.post-22098684240128904512014-10-08T21:43:26.355-07:002014-10-08T21:43:26.355-07:00I want to bugger Janet Agren (as the bird was in 1...I want to bugger Janet Agren (as the bird was in 1967 when the bird was 18, not as the bird is now obviously).jervaise brooke hamsternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316228451187611813.post-17609762880713621912014-10-08T21:39:59.536-07:002014-10-08T21:39:59.536-07:00I want to bugger Catriona MacColl (as the bird was...I want to bugger Catriona MacColl (as the bird was in 1972 when the bird was 18, not as the bird is now obviously).jervaise brooke hamsternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316228451187611813.post-45657765019982186942014-09-29T23:45:20.939-07:002014-09-29T23:45:20.939-07:00Thanks, JD! I appreciate it. It's so neat seei...Thanks, JD! I appreciate it. It's so neat seeing my article-link on the BSG homepage like that, and it's an honor as well.<br /><br />Yes, how about that gut puking scene, hehe! I never thought I'd be making an intellectual analysis more than a decade later on such a gross but brilliant scene, on a movie blog, when I first saw it. <br /><br />Giovanni Susinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03253382939348997303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316228451187611813.post-90647673463488100422014-09-29T14:30:38.089-07:002014-09-29T14:30:38.089-07:00Hey Giovanni, thanks for writing an article for Mo...Hey Giovanni, thanks for writing an article for Month of the Living Dead! I linked it on the intro article, and on my home page.<br /><br />I love City of the Living Dead, especially for Doria's spitting up intestines scene. It always stands out in my mind as a landmark gore scene, at least among Italian horror. Great review!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10950229310120282493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316228451187611813.post-42049980445826600292014-09-29T08:56:44.850-07:002014-09-29T08:56:44.850-07:00That's a very good point. I've always cons...That's a very good point. I've always considered CITY and THE BEYOND to be quite similar but you're right about them also being very different in many ways. I think one reason why CITY feels a bit like the odd one out among Fulci's zombie films is because it's the only one that wasn't produced by Fabrizio De Angelis, and the zombie special effects by Gino De Rossi are very different from the ones by Giannetto De Rossi in the other zombie films.<br /><br />Comparing films to other ones made by the same director is inevitable, I think, even though it might not be fair. MANHATTAN BABY simply isn't as good as those other films. It has a lot of potential but is never quite able to fulfill it. I still like it, though, and as you say it is about taking it for what it is, and not for what it isn't.Johan Mellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07168671421253629870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316228451187611813.post-36469623493926343962014-09-29T02:07:30.259-07:002014-09-29T02:07:30.259-07:00Hi Johan! I appreciate your thoughtful comment! :-...Hi Johan! I appreciate your thoughtful comment! :-)<br />I was disappointed with CITY, too, at first. I had recently been moved to the core after viewing THE BEYOND for the first time at a midnight screening, and it was probably a matter of expectation for me as well. I think I was expecting another THE BEYOND, which despite numerous comparative similarities it isn’t. CITY didn’t move me the same way, and the film was something I felt I had to make due with for the time being until my DVDs for THE BEYOND and HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY finally came in the mail. But, as should be made apparent from the review, I grew to love it as well. One Fulci horror film that took even longer to grow on me was MANHATTAN BABY. It did nothing for me at first, and I wasn’t too happy with hearing the theme for THE BEYOND in the film; it just didn’t seem to belong. While I don’t think it’s as good as the selection of Fulci films we are talking about, I still started to like MANHATTAN BABY for what it is. I guess sometimes we have a tendency to evaluate movies from high profile directors with the ones we’ve seen before, and it usually ends up being an unfair standard, something I thought might have hurt Argento’s INFERNO, which is commonly evaluated against SUSPIRIA. <br />Giovanni Susinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03253382939348997303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316228451187611813.post-20496623772246655362014-09-28T12:01:59.811-07:002014-09-28T12:01:59.811-07:00Another great review! :-)
I must confess I was qu...Another great review! :-)<br /><br />I must confess I was quite disappointed when I first saw CITY but that had mostly to do with expectations. I thought I'd be getting another ZOMBIE and instead I got this strange and dreamily illogical film, which (as you point out) isn't first and foremost about zombies. I didn't expect teleporting zombies and I hated the ending (and still don't like it very much) but it quickly grew on me on repeat viewings. There really is so much to love! Terrific atmosphere, solid leading players, excellent gore effects, great musical score and a series of outstanding set-pieces. With time it's become one of my favorite Fulci films and I actually think it's vastly superior to THE BEYOND, which in my opinion strives too much for effect and weirdness, although it does have a much better and very poetic ending.Johan Mellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07168671421253629870noreply@blogger.com