City of the Living Dead - Limited Edition [Blu-ray]

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In Zombie Kings (2017, 46 minutes), production designer Massimo Antonello Geleng reflects on his prolific career working with many of the genre’s top directors, including Fulci, Argento, Cozzi and more. He talks about this film and why zombies remain popular.

Trailers (6:35, 1080p) - three trailers for CotLD. The first two are in English and third is in Italian. Trailer #1 (unrestored) delivers a cautionary message that no one under 17 will be admitted into the theater unless accompanied by an adult. Trailers #2 and #3 are longer and have been fully restored. MacColl had recently made her film debut in the title role of the manga adaptation Lady Oscar, and would be cast as the lead in Fulci's later films The Beyond and The House by the Cemetery. [8] When she was approached for the film, she felt that the script was "badly written" and almost declined taking part. "It seemed to me like a series of special effects without a story", she said in an interview in 2011. She called her agent from her hotel room to seek his advice; he told her to take the role, because "nobody was going to see the film anyway"—a prediction that MacColl later noted would prove to be incorrect. [10] Catriona MacColl Q&A from The Glasgow Theater (20:08) - this Q&A with MacColl was filmed at The Glasgow Theater on March 13, 2010, which is moderated by Waddell. Questions are both spoken and subtitled in English.The next archival commentary is with actress Catriona MacColl, moderated by Jay Slater. She opens with how she got into acting before jumping ahead to working with Fulci. Other topics include filming in Savannah, GA, memories of her co-stars and thoughts on violence in film – she admits this is her least favorite of the trio of films she made with Fulci.

The Catriona MacColl Archival Video Intro appears to be from an unspecified home video release of City of the Living Dead, while A Trip Through Bonaventure Cemetery is a brief unnarrated video journey through and over the famous cemetery in Savannah, Georgia—even though it’s debatable that any scenes from the film were actually shot there. Finally, the Archival Interviews collects relevant interview footage from the 2008 DVD Paura, Lucio Fulci Remembered Vol. 1. It includes Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi, Luca Venantini, Fabrizio Jovine, Venantino Venantini, Michel Soavi, Dardano Sacchetti, Massimo Antonello Geleng, Gino De Rossi, Rosario Prestopino, Sergio Salvati, and Fabio Frizzi. There are also at least two major Easter eggs on disc three: The Dead Are Alive!, a new video essay by Kat Hellinger on Lucio Fulci and the Italian zombie cycleThe film is viewable in either English or Italian via a DTS-HD MA 2.0 mono mix. The English dub is generally stronger and is preferred given the number of English-speaking actors. Dialogue is always clear and understandable and music cues are powerful without becoming intrusive. Optional English subtitles are included for anyone in need. The Meat Munching Movies of Gino De Rossi (27 minutes) catches up with the make-up artist, who shares behind-the-scenes stories of his work on various Fulci movies. He displays the drill rig used in this picture and talks about his time on Cannibal Ferox.

The rest of the extras consist primarily of interviews and Q&A sessions. Zombie Kings is an interview with production designer Massimo Antonello Geleng, who worked with a remarkable collection of directors throughout his career including Fulci, Dario Argento, Ruggero Deodato, Sergio Martino, Umberto Lenzi, Luigi Cozzi, Antonio Margheriti, Lamberto Bava, Michele Soavi, and many more. Needless to say, he has an abundance of stories to tell, and he also offers some interesting thoughts about why zombies have proven so fascinating throughout the years. Requiem for Bob is an interview with Giovanni Lombardo Radice, who says that despite having watched City of the Living Dead countless times, the most gruesome moments still affect him. He talks about both his career and his personal life, including working with Fulci, and his struggles with addiction. (He also has some very sweet dogs!) The Meat Munching Movies of Gino De Rossi features the late special effects artist talking about his work on various Fulci films. He also shows off some of the props from his workshop, including the rig that he designed for the drill scene in City of the Living Dead, and some of the infamous hooks from Cannibal Ferox. He admits to some discomfort with having participated in the animal killings in the latter film. Carlo of the Living Dead is an interview with actor Carlo De Mejo, focusing on his work with Fulci. He speculates that the bizarre ending was a matter of the producers wanting to leave the door open for a sequel. Composer Fabio Frizzi sits for the Q&A session Music for a Flesh-Feast (2012, 29 minutes), recorded at the Glasgow Theater following a screening of Zombie. He shares details of his writing process and how the music is prepared for the film. In Dunwich, a young vagrant named Bob visits an abandoned house but flees after seeing a rotting carcass. Across town, Gerry, a psychiatrist, is in consultation with Sandra, a neurotic patient, when Emily Robbins, his 19-year-old girlfriend and personal assistant, arrives. She tells Gerry that she's on her way to meet with Bob, whom she has been trying to help. That evening, Emily finds Bob at a derelict garage exhibiting strange behavior. The supernatural apparition of Father Thomas then appears as Bob runs away, smothering to death a frightened Emily with a maggot-covered hand. The next morning, Emily's body is found. Emily's father tells the sheriff and Gerry of his suspicions about Bob due to Bob's previous history of crime. Meanwhile, Peter and Mary leave New York and embark upon their search for the town of Dunwich.

NEW A Trip Through Bonaventure Cemetery (4:49) - this featurette was produced in October 2022 by Cauldron Films. A camera on a drone glides above and navigates below to survey the graveyard in this Savannah, Georgia cemetery. This was one of the filming locales for City of the Living Dead. Extensive image gallery featuring over 150 stills, posters and other ephemera from the FAB Press and Mike Siegel archives City of the Living Dead was developed after the financial success of Fulci's previous film, Zombi 2, leading him to work with screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti to write a new horror film inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. The film was greenlit during production of Contraband, which Fulci left to begin working on City of the Living Dead. Principal photography was shot predominantly on location in the United States, with interiors shot in Rome. Fresh out of theaters, currently available on VOD and now streaming exclusively on SCREAMBOX, Bloody Disgusting’s Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls is coming home for the holidays, arriving as a Collector’s Edition Blu-ray on December 19, loaded with bonus features, extended/deleted scenes, commentaries and an exclusive slipcover.

A priest hangs himself in a cemetery in Dunwich, Massachusetts, setting off a chain of events that will lead to the opening of the gates of Hell, bringing the end of humanity. Mary Woodhouse has a vision of the priest during a séance in New York and apparently dies of fright. Journalist Peter Bell is investigating the case and while visiting her recently dug grave, discovers she is in fact still alive and he saves her. Together, they head to Dunwich to close the gates and save the world. Once there, they meet a therapist, his patient, their friends and a squirrelly social misfit named Bob. They also run into the living dead, who teleport around town and crush people’s brains. Can they survive, or is this truly the end of the world? Cauldron offers "seamless branching" in which you can watch the film in the English language with English credit sequences, and also watch the Italian language version with Italian credit sequences. The BD-66 (feature size: 53.0 GB) delivers a mean video bitrate of 79.3 Mbps along with an overall bitrate of 81.7 Mbps for the full disc. The Blu-ray is given an MPEG-4 AVC-encode on a BD-50 (disc size: 31.64 GB), which carries an average video bitrate of 37138 kbps. Here, he joins Bartok and his mysterious delegation to raise the spirit of an ancient demon for a once-in-a-lifetime ritual.The dead walk. Blood flows from walls, eyes, and wounds. Maggots swarm like a plague of locusts. Scalps are peeled like oranges. Gino De Rossi’s ( Zombie, Cannibal Ferox) effects are positively gruesome. While the fake head used for the infamous sequence in which a young woman vomits up her own innards is noticeably artificial in 4K, the image of a power drill piercing through a man’s skull will burrow its way into your mind like, well, a power drill.