ZOMBIES Pt 8: Fulci's 'Gates Of Hell' Trilogy
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2019
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Warning: This episode contains maggots, tarantulas, bats, sheep guts, exploding heads, bleeding eyes, crucifixions, head drillings and of course, the most annoying character in horror…BOB. This week Mike is joined by the BFI’s Michael Blyth to discuss the three most bonkers and grotesque zombie movies of all…City of the Living Dead (1980), The Beyond (1981) and The House By The Cemetery (1981).
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Music by Jack Whitney.
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| 0:00.0 | The 1980 in a dark misty cemetery in the American town of Dunwich, a priest climbs a ladder, |
| 0:29.2 | ties a noose around his neck and hangs himself from a tree which consequently opens the gates of |
| 0:37.0 | hell and unleashes the living dead. This opening scene to Lucio Fulci's City of the Living Dead provided the setup to three movies all released in very quick |
| 0:55.6 | succession across the space of two years. These movies played out like queasy, |
| 1:00.4 | love crafty and nightmares. |
| 1:02.5 | All of them cared less about logic or narrative arcs, |
| 1:06.0 | but instead prioritized depicting the idea of hell on earth |
| 1:10.6 | through images and sound, and giving audiences some of the most |
| 1:14.5 | splattery, nightmarish and nauseating set pieces imaginable. Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the zombie movie as we take a trip into |
| 1:30.5 | the beyond and explore Luccio Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy. |
| 1:37.0 | Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. |
| 1:46.0 | If you're tuning in for the first time then welcome. On this podcast we explore and |
| 1:49.8 | dissect the evolution of the horror genre by looking at particular sub-jomras across several weeks. |
| 1:55.4 | We are currently in the middle of exploring the evolution of the zombie movie and this is part |
| 1:59.7 | 8 in which, as the intro suggested, we are going to be exploring Luccio Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy, |
| 2:06.3 | that City of the Living Dead from 1980, the Beyond from 1981, and finally House by the Cemetery from the same year. |
| 2:14.4 | We will be talking about these movies in spoilerific detail, |
| 2:17.4 | although to be honest, as with last week's Fulci movie, |
| 2:20.5 | narrative plot, I mean, there's not really much that we can spoil in these movies |
| 2:24.8 | other than describing in detail at some of the most bizarre and gross moments in |
| 2:30.0 | horror cinema so you're going to want to watch those yourself before you hear us talk |
| 2:34.0 | about them. So I've been so excited to discuss these movies and particularly with this |
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