Review – Gates of Hell

Despite borrowing from horror greats such as H.P. Lovecraft (the locale of most of the action is Dunwich) and Poe (there’s a brief buried-alive subplot), this is mostly pure spaghetti horror. The baddies here seem to be some kind of an odd mix of zombie (rotting, shambling) and ghost (appearing and disappearing at will). They’ve been brought back to life by the suicide of a local priest, and unless their evil scheme is thwarted before All Saints’ Day, we’re apparently going to be up to our elbows in them. Disgusting moments include a woman who pukes her own guts out, a maggot storm, and the zombies’ apparent preferred method of killing by pulling the backs of people’s heads off and letting their brains gush out of the resulting hole. Sadly, beyond the disgusting moments there isn’t a lot to recommend this odd little entry on the zombie list. Also released as City of the Living Dead. Mildly amusing