It stars Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo de Mejo, Antonella Interlenghi, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, and Janet Agren. Shame about his storytelling abilities. How can one forget the drill to the head? Forever." "Rick still has some fight left in him," Gimple says. It's true. It is considered canon by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, but not by any other Christian groups. At this stage in the game his talent cannot be called merely accidental. Zack Snyders Army of the Dead brings the director back to his filmmaking roots: zombie movies. Fulci is one of my idols, but I don't think he was a really good filmaker. The non linnear plot creates one of the best pieces of horror/surrealism I've ever seen. Crazy Credits The film is loaded with terrible acting n lousy editing. [1][11] The German edit of the film distributed by Alemannia/Arabella was about 10 minutes shorter than the Italian version, removing some dialogue scenes but keeping the gory scenes intact. Have a nice day. I first saw this in the late 80's on a vhs. Superb Fulci movie, the ending could have been better though. The much talked about gore is not just gore but completely outlandish, brilliantly excecuted (no pun intended) operatic set pieces that come out of nowhwere and are truly, deeply repulsive. [8], Film historian and critic Roberto Curti stated that, according to the Public Cinematographic Register, filming was published as beginning on March 24, but it was more likely that filming had not begun until April 1980. "Andy came and stayed with me for a week in L.A.," the director says. Revisited it recently. "So much has happened. The man who made the film did an excellent job. FAQ Despite his efforts to keep the group safe, they all die when they refuse to listen to him as he cautions their dangerous actions. When Lara is driving with the baby she sees the ghost of Nathan and that causes Alternate Versions Clearly, whatever the original ending, it had to include something that Mary and Gerry saw and recast the happy ending it appeared we had reached was not a happy ending after all. See this movie more than once and realize it's so called faults are part of the reason it's so goddamned great! Due to the fact that both the title and poster art were derivative of. Romero's original Night of the Living Dead explains that an unknown phenomenon causes re-animation of the brain. The suicide of a priest marks the beginning of the end. While the duo were in separate places and, it would seem, separate times they were connected through images of campfires and the sounds of their voices reciting words they were each writing in a journal. As a teenager it only took one simple sentence to put City of the Living Dead on my list of films I needed to see"A woman pukes up her own intestines". There are a ton of explanations for how the end took the shape it did, and neither. At Sandra's house, the corpse of an elderly woman, Mrs. Holden, appears without explanation on her kitchen floor. And I said, 'Guys, I really want to use the crew from The Walking Dead. Mary is relieved to see John-John survived the ordeal but becomes frightened and screams as everything fades to black. Fulci's use of space is always impressive, the way he opens out a flat composition at the approach of menace. Yes, The Walking Dead series finale features the long-awaited return of both The zombies are incredibly photographed, but understanding how they come to be and why the priest brings them back to life confuses me. excuse me sir, you seem to have left the portal to hell open Fucli Has Created a Chilling, Dark Horror Tale. Steven Yeun as Glenn Rhee - The Walking Dead _ Season 6, Episode 7, Okea Eme-Akwari as Elijah and Lauren Cohan as Maggie RheeThe Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 15, Josh McDermitt as Dr. Eugene Porter The Walking Dead Season 11 Episode 11, Lauren Cohan as Maggie Rhee and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Neganon The Walking Dead Season 11, Ritchie Coster as Pope, Lynn Collins as Leahon The Walking Dead Season 11, Episode 8, Lauren Cohan as Maggie Rhee in The Walking Dead Season 11, Episode 7, Lauren Ridloff as Connie - The Walking Dead _ Season 11, Episode 6, Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon The Walking Dead Season 11, Episode 4, Lauren Cohan as Maggie in The Walking Dead Season 11. With his calm and calculating demeanor, Ben subverted Hollywood tropes of Black men as aggressive. In the film, when a zombie rises up out of the ground, the actor is unwittingly climbing out of an actual desecrated grave. ", The plan to bring Rick and Michonne back was in Kang's mind from the very beginning: "From the first pitch I did for the ending of the series, I said to the network and the producers, 'Hey, I really feel in my heart of hearts that the show is not going to feel totally complete unless we have Rick and Michonne back. In the morning, he decides to leave the house. I would've watched that show.' It seems to be gone now, and most information about the place has disappeared. "At one point people were like, 'Hey, we want to shoot in Savannah with the Fear the Walking Dead crew,'" Nicotero tells EW. That was a year-and-a-half ago. And that's what we started with. We know the helicopter is CRM. "[18] Jones went on to call out negative reception of Fulci, stating that anyone who described Fulci as a hack annoyed him, noting that "in each of his recent films he has made, there are so many worthwhile merits. [5] Early choices for the cast included Zombi 2 star Tisa Farrow as Mary Woodhouse, Fiamma Maglione as Sandra, Aldo Barberito as Father Thomas and Robert Kerman as Mr. Ross; they were replaced by Catriona MacColl, Janet Agren, Fabrizio Jovine and Venantino Venantini, respectively. But there is another World Beyond possibility as well. City of the Living Dead: Directed by Lucio Fulci. Once they are dead, the victims come back as zombies pulling brains out of poor people's skulls while their backs are turned. We made it we can make it. [14] In 2020, the Gates version was given a Blu-ray release in the United States as an online exclusive item. The network and other producers ultimately agreed. The final scenes of the film reflect what was currently happening in America to [21] Robert Firsching of AllMovie wrote that while the film "suffers from the same shortcomings present in much of Fulci's other horror films", it also "benefits from Fulci's ability to create and sustain an intensely creepy atmosphere", though he ultimately called the film "a dry run for the blend of graphic shocks and surrealism atmosphere that Lucio Fulci would perfect with The Beyond. ", The montage ends with Rick standing across the water from a decrepit looking city. The dude is shoeless, just had to ditch his bag with all his possessions, is surrounded by rotted corpses, totally needs a shower, and appears as if he is about to be apprehended yet again by the CRM, so why is the last image one of Rick Grimes smiling? By some margin the best of Fulci's four zombie movies, Paura nella citt dei morti viventi succeeds because it has a denser text than the others. The city is alive - with the horrors of the living dead! I saw this porno flick once. All Saints Day is November 1, the day after Halloween. )Giovanni Lombardo Radice gets an electric drill through his head,and there's also a notorious scene of woman(Daniela Doria)vomiting up all of her internal organs in a really nauseating torrent of blood and guts.The plot is weak,but the film is highly atmospheric and imaginative.Again brilliant director Lucio Fulci created a masterpiece of pure horror!10 out of 10-not to be missed. Giovanni Lombardo Radice gives a sensationally sleazy performance as Bob, a twitchy degenerate pervert idiot who winds up having an enormous spinning drill rammed through his head. ", What they ultimately ended up with was a collaborative process not just between Kang, Gimple, and Nicotero, but the returning stars as well. Thanks for the info! [19][20] More critics dismissed the film due to its violent scenes, such as Jay Carr of the Boston Globe ("a film only a diehard necrophile could love"), Dick Fleming of The Daily Times ("scenes purely for the sake of shock value") and Ringel declaring it an "idiotic sleaze fest with nothing to offer but an abundance of filmed animal innards". Obviously, there's a lot going on, and that armor that she wears is part of a big story with her. Shinso stimboard!! Theresa warns the police chief of an imminent evil. They really did put the drill bit through his brain and captured it on film for artistic integrity. [6] Fulci would later theorize that this incident led to his future illness, as he underwent heart surgery in 1985, suffered a ventricular aneurysm, contracted viral hepatitis and developed Cirrhosis of the liver. The series finale took a dramatic turn in its final few minutes, looking both ahead and back as viewers saw the return of Andrew Lincoln's Rick Grimes and Danai Gurira's Michonne who will be returning for a 2023 spin-off series on AMC. (Notice the instrument Rick uses to smash the zombie skull resembles a similar device used by Silas and others to de-brain walkers on World Beyond.). We the audience are thrown right into Lucio Fulci's horror tale directly from the start as we witness Father Thomas (Fabrizio Jovine) hang himself at a cemetery and the death of Mary Woodhouse (Katerine MacColl) at a deliciously artsy (thanks to Fulci) seance. Ross and two other men are killed, as a state-of-emergency is declared over the radio. Mary is so frightened with what she sees that she dies in a sance. And that is what is forged in this hell that we've lived through together. "Because it wouldn't make sense to just have Rick show up and save the day. The two search the house but are disturbed by many strange occurrences, such as a window breaking, with the glass then dripping human blood. Because of the suicide of Father Thomas though a gate to hell has been opened allowing the dead to walk the earth again. So people could extrapolate beyond that, that the city may be associated with the CRM. Another impressive scene has a woman saved from the brink of being buried alive, but almost killed in the process! Lovecraft. Meanwhile, Peter and Mary leave New York and embark upon their search for the town of Dunwich. The city is alive with the horrors of the living dead! He may not be as well known to many film goers in North America as his iconic status was cemented some twenty years ago, but if you like films by Wes Craven and M. Night Shyamalan and even David Fincher, then you can look at Fulci and say that his work has inspired some of theirs. [4] Prior to this screening, horror films such as Maniac and The Beyond were released uncensored in Germany. ", Getting that ideal version took a lot of work. It includes a badass hood and cage mask combo. | The go-to source for comic book and superhero movie fans. 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. The drill scene is very brutal n jus when u think that Fulci might settle for the eye, it goes full rampage. ", Then, before Michonne rode her horse straight towards what just may be the biggest herd of zombies we have ever seen, her letter to Judith finished: "Remember what I said. The opening scene is done with some skill. Original title: Paura nella citt dei morti viventi. After witnessing her brother Johnny fall victim to one of the undead, Barbra runs to a nearby farmhouse to take shelter. Not too bad. [4], In West Germany, the film became part of a press campaign against the home video distribution of violent films. "As much as there were so many people dying and being able to say, 'We're the ones who live.' Gimple has more clues! Recommended to fans of Italian horror. User Ratings Outside the apartment building, Peter Bell (Chirstopher George), a local journalist, tries to gain entry to the premises but is turned away. 10 Jan 2023. Same here, its always been an ending that I look back at. [5] Elements of the story are influenced by the work of H.P. The lethargic pacing casts a strangely arresting and dreamlike spell on the viewer. Disgusting, appalling, wince inducing moments all strung together to make one exhaustingly wonderful gory horror treat. (And check out Greg Nicotero's exclusive storyboards to the scene and answers to the other finale burning questions as well.). Also included is former TWD and current Fear the Walking Dead character Morgan (Lennie James), but he is not the only former cast member who came back to participate. Hold it to your heart. What I learned from them. By what name was City of the Living Dead (1980) officially released in India in English? But before you lay all your money down on a World Beyond connection, wait! No, to me, it felt like there's a continuum of a relationship and love that cannot be extinguished. I think people could connect those dots.". My only complaints are the monkey calls at night (in New England? Although that specific story does not materialize, he does find another concerning the young woman, Mary Woodhouse, at the center of that seance incident, she who, during the seance, saw a vision of a priest who hung himself in a cemetery in a place called Dunwich. At the same time, police and townspeople are searching for any of the undead in hopes of wiping them out. It's up to macho newspaper reporter Peter Bell (the ever cool Christopher George) and spunky psychic Mary Woodhouse (the lovely Catriona MacCall) to close the gates before it's too late. She tells what happened and Peter invites her to go to Dunwich with him. Fulci wouldn't have it done any other way. The police, led by Sergeant Clay, interrogate Theresa, but fail to heed her warnings of an imminent evil. This leads to a series of grim events, including several supernatural zombies. The ending is blood chilling because it doesn't make sense. The death of Father Thomas has opened the gates of Hell through which the invasion will commence on All Saints Day, just a few days away. If they can't end with the problem, the death bodies will never rest in peace again. I just think it's meaningful and important for us to take the show out with the crew that did the show.'" "From a filmmaking standpoint, we didn't have this endless amount of time," chief content officer Scott M. Gimple says. Remain in place with your hands up," and then adding, "C'mon Rick. flashed across the screen. [7] This script also includes characters not used in the film, such as Mike, a homeless man who is devoured by cats and reappears later in the film as a zombie. Ten rupees rental man. Some actually come from thin air, I'm guessing because they represent some sort of fear, but trying to come up with answers to all this foolishness was tiresome. The true story of the g-strings and murders behind, Entertainment Weekly's free daily newsletter, See exclusive storyboards from Rick & Michonne's, Christian Serratos asked for that Rosita fate on, Melissa McBride goes inside that emotional Carol and Daryl, Norman Reedus says the Daryl & Carol finale goodbye 'felt like a funeral', Jeffrey Dean Morgan on Negan's future after, Lauren Cohan said it 'felt really good to talk about Glenn' in. Yet, he is still somehow perceived as a threat and, thus, shot. Talk about a "box lunch". This article discusses the ending of Netflix film Army of the Dead, so it will contain major spoilers. When theatrically released in the United States in 1983, the original title was 'Twilight of the Will they succeed in their intent? [6][9] The shooting schedule allowed for shooting on location in New York City and six weeks in Savannah, Georgia, as well as two weeks in Rome at De Paolis Studios for the special effects scenes. ", The final scene ended with Rick's arms raised, surrendering as the helicopter descended from the sky between him and a devastated city across the water. "City of the Living Dead" isn't long on explanations, but it's got just enough to pique our interest. In New York City, reporter Peter Bell, following a lead, believes there's a story to be had regarding a seance that went awry. Yet, he is still somehow perceived as a threat and, thus, shot. First class gorefest from the notorious Lucio Fulci. The priest's death caused all the chaos. To this day, I still think that actor was actually killed on the set? A look back at the crazy true story of Chippendales founder Somen "Steve" Banerjee and the murder and murder-for-hire plots at the center of the Hulu series. Entertainment Weekly is a registered trademark of Meredith Corporation All Rights Reserved. Metacritic Reviews. Blonde gravedigger: Will you check her out? In 1968, George A. Romero made his directorial debut with Night Of The Living Dead which follows seven people trapped in a house surrounded by the undead. We're the ones who live. I consider [Paura] one of our least successful films in as much as it was thought out and shot in an atmosphere of sheer desperation. In spite of it, or maybe because of it, we did. Meanwhile, Bob has taken refuge in the garage of a local man, Mr. Ross. It is down to our heroes, including a psychic (English actress and Fulci regular Catriona MacColl) and an investigative journalist (Christopher George) to stop the dead from taking over the living! If her horny feet protrude, they come Gory, gruesome , pretty repellent , and ghastly gory-feast in which the stumbling flesh-eating stiffs are relived by an ancient curse . 'Fear in the city of the living dead', also released as The Gates of Hell) is a 1980 Italian supernatural horror film co-written and directed by Lucio Fulci. Netflix's Woman of the Dead has sent viewers into disarray, with I know that there are all these universe implications where I don't have total control. They didn't want it to be the very final piece of the show. A really quite splendid horror. Expect blood, brains and maggots everywhere! Yeah I watched this last night and I had no clue what the ending was supposed to be but this helped! Out of the blue, Mary awakes locked in the coffin and Peter hears her screams and saves her. The exciting sequence begins with the light of a match. Where did Michonne come across this battle-ready armor? I think about them all every day. The Living and the Dead ending: SPOILER ALERT (10 Posts) Add message | Female victims have been turned inside out by the priest, and other grisly acts of violence. I was in Savannah in 2010, and planned to visit the site if I'd had a chance; it was still visible on Google Maps back then. 'If I can do it, you can do it', he said. From what I understand either the kid turn into a zombie. But it was destroyed by Time does strange things to the mind and film but I found here that the modicum of storyline helped enormously and this remains most affective from the amazingly good beginning to the wonderfully enigmatic ending. If given a chance, he could have saved them all. I want to shoot it at our home base. "[18] John Pym of the Monthly Film Bulletin called it a "silly, meandering horror" film, concluding that "there is not much to discuss and little to recommend. But when talking about a "straight" horror film (or about as straight as a Lucio Fulci film is going to get), this is probably the greatest example. Some films have articles, essays, even books dedicated to explaining how great they are. "Because there was one point when Norman was talking about how cool it would be for Rick Grimes and Daryl to reunite in some capacity. City of the Living Dead(1980) has many things in common with Don't Torture A Duckling(1972). Ross's teenage daughter Ann finds him and offers him marijuana, but Ross bursts in and attacks Bob, fearful he is trying to seduce his daughter. In the small New England town of Dunwich, a priest commits suicide by hanging himself in the church cemetery which somehow opens the gates of hell allowing the dead to rise. Lovecraft . This is a much cleverer film than its reputation , and the chortling audience, might suggest. As a horror film shot in the 1960s, the films inclusion of a Black protagonist was groundbreaking. A good'n'ghastly fright flick. Okay this post is only for those who had seen the 1980 film City of the Living Dead Can somebody PLEASE explain to me what happened at the end? "And about the living. I mean, hell, we can see it on this jacket. While production wrapped on the finale in April, a crew including finale director Greg Nicotero returned to The Walking Dead's base of operations in Senoia, Georgia, four months later in August for a two-day shoot to film the final section with Lincoln and Gurira. This time Fulci settled for the brains than the eyes. Here is a complete list of the current and former cast-member voices that can be heard saying "We're the ones who live" in the montage: Lauren Cohan (Maggie)Seth Gilliam (Gabriel)Ross Marquand (Aaron)Lennie James (Morgan)Josh McDermitt (Eugene)Laurie Holden (Andrea)Khary Payton (Ezekiel)Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Negan)Melissa McBride (Carol)Norman Reedus (Daryl)Chandler Riggs (Carl)Michael Cudlitz (Abraham)Sonequa Martin-Green (Sasha)Nadia Hilker (Magna)Eleanor Matsuura (Yumiko)Angel Theory (Kelly)Christian Serratos (Rosita)Paola Lzaro (Princess)Cassady McClincy (Lydia)Cooper Andrews (Jerry)Okea Eme-Akwari (Elijah)Margot Bingham (Max)Steven Yeun (Glenn)Danai Gurira (Michonne)Andrew Lincoln (Rick), At one point, Gimple did not just want to stop at the voices. But the lady was screaming as if the kid was going to kill them even though there were no indications that he was going to do so. Lovecraft, is really just an excuse for another zombie move, and regardless of his shortcomings, Fulci certainly came up with some of the most repulsive and horrible zombies ever, so this is essential viewing to fans of the genre. There IS something in those movie, that makes me - and others - watch them over and over again though I should be too old for this, though I know their defects which suddenly turns into qualities. However, that is obviously untrue since the scenes there involve dolly tracks, fog machines, and high wattage lighting which would have been obvious to the entire town. MacColl recalled that she would blink every time the pickaxe hit the coffin: "It was just a nervous reaction. So much that we shouldn't have lived through. [7], Sacchetti recalled that, after completing the script, it was shelved for some time, due to their commitments to other projects. It's been referenced before. In 1990, the locals attempted to revoke the bar's zoning status, to prevent it being re-opened under new management. Greg, [showrunner Angela Kang], Andy, Danai, and I we knew pretty much every shot. Emily's father tells the sheriff and Gerry of his suspicions about Bob due to Bob's previous history of crime. See production, box office & company info, Murder to the Tune of the Seven Black Notes. Most of the Dunwich Cemetery scenes were shot in the historic Midway Cemetery in Midway, Georgia. | The British Cinema version was cut by around 1 minute to remove the drill sequence. In honor of Boyce, who died suddenly at age 20 in early July, the network included a touching two-minute tribute at the end of the film. Lovecraft, such as naming the town the film is set in Dunwich, after Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror. The film popularized the zombie sub-genre in horror, but its ending was notably controversial. Filmed in hot, hazy, muggy, 108 F weather. Okay, this priest hangs himself, comes back as some sort of ghoul who finds victims, scaring them to death. The following morning, Peter and Mary arrive at the graveyard that Mary saw in her vision. After Emily's funeral, her younger brother John-John sees a ghostly image of her outside his bedroom window. When the world was ending at the hands of the undead, everyone banned together, but racism was not lost. Rumors say the video distributors actually designed a new video release called "Ein Kadaver hing am Glockenseil" (A cadaver hung on the bell rope) in case this third version will get banned again. Netflix's Woman of the Dead has sent viewers into disarray, with many becoming completely invested in the streaming platform's new crime thriller series. As of 2019, the owners of the cemetery had no knowledge that a film was ever shot there and claimed that the production must have sneaked in and filmed "guerrilla style" as the church would have never allowed a zombie movie to shoot in their cemetery. Want to see something really gross? For the urban legend, see, Paris International Festival of Fantastic and Science-Fiction Film, "PAURA NELLA CITT DEI MORTI VIVENTI (1980)", "CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD 4K Blu-ray Coming this October - Dread Central", "Paura nella citt dei morti viventi (City Of The Living Dead) (The Gates of Hell) (1980)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=City_of_the_Living_Dead&oldid=1122048378, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing Italian-language text, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 15 November 2022, at 15:39. Peter, a New York City reporter, teams up with a young psychic, named Mary, to travel to the town where they team up with another couple, psychiatrist Jerry and patient Sandra, to find a way to close the gates before All Saints Day or the dead all over the world will rise up and kill the living. Peter and Mary do find a local therapist named Gerry and his assistant Sandra, who too believe what they are told of Mary's vision from what they have witnessed. The murderer runs away in his car, [5] The project was greenlit during the production of Contraband, which Fulci left with his assistant director, Roberto Giandalia, to finish principal photography. With these four characters we are going to see a story that begins just with unusual and inexplicable things happening like the broke of a mirror without any logical explanation. The movie includes two unforgettable gore sequences ( the drill and vomit scenes), a chilling scene in a graveyard, and an odd, unexpected ending. [6] To surprise Fulci, one crew member took some of the maggots and placed them in his pipe tobacco, which Fulci only learned about after a few puffs of what he was smoking, angering him immensely. Alternately, the claustrophobic scenes in the catacombs (which really smell like death! In the town of Dunwich, a priest hangs himself in the local cemetery. "[8], City of the Living Dead was distributed theatrically in Italy by Medusa Distribuzione on 11 August 1980. Soundtracks. While Rick is shoeless and rocking a raggedy CRM bomber jacket, Michonne is sporting much nicer duds she wears an ensemble that makes the katana-wielding warrior look like a cross between a samurai and Marvel superhero (something Gurira knows a little something about). The ending of George A. Romero's film was controversial because it made audiences take a deeper look at the current social and political issues in America. But I never took it as just applying to the living people, because that seemed a little much to be like, 'Hey, we're the ones that live, too bad about all those people we love.' '", "Honestly, I really do think that some of the stuff came from some suggestions and ideas from Norman," Nicotero says. [12] This resulted in the distributor, Motion Picture Marketing, withdrawing the film and re-releasing it with a new title, The Gates of Hell. The Walking Dead ending explained Things kick off immediately where the previous episode ended. "It was really important to them that they didn't feel like they overshadowed what the current cast was doing. As he does, the earth over The film has a woman psychic who actually dies during a sance where she sees the priest kill himself..how she awakens and why are a mystery. When it was finally given a video certificate by the BBFC, further cuts were made to remove the intestinal vomit scene, and the brain squashing scenes. ", On The Walking Dead: World Beyond, the CRM destroyed the city of Omaha using chlorine gas and covered up the assault by staging a large walker attack, so if you're looking for a city that has clearly seen better days and has a CRM connection, that could be it. We just jumped right back into it like [we] hadn't stopped. This wasn't tons of footage to go through. "Fear in the city of the living dead"), also known as The Gates of Hell in the US, is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Lucio Fulci. It is the first installment of the "Gates of Hell" trilogy which also includes The Beyond and The House by the Cemetery. Fulci makes a cameo appearance as Dr. Joe Thompson in the film. And yeah, we poured over what was said and what was shot and certainly the relationship to stories in the future, but luckily, we knew a lot of where this was going. That evening, Bob returns to the deserted house, where he sees a vision of Father Thomas. External Reviews We didn't have that kind of time. And that is in some ways one long life, which is something thematically we have invoked throughout the series and in the even earlier moments of this finale. City of the Living Dead (Italian: Paura nella citt dei morti viventi, lit. Cemetary workers would not be allowed to leave a casket half buried. Which former cast members returned to lend their voices? These people draw strength from this continuum of love that they have created out of nothing, or even out of tragedy and loss. They go back to Gerry's office to discuss Father Thomas' death when suddenly the four are showered with maggots in an apparent supernatural attack. And then a match was lit. It was a notoriously dodgy place which closed in 1988. Surprisingly, this third version was also banned in 2001. Some perv named Bob gets a drill all the way through his skull thanks to a vengeful father whose daughter was almost molested by him. 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