The late Lucio Fulci, Italy’s “Godfather of Gore” enjoyed a blood soaked career with recurring patterns throughout his work including unique camera techniques and surreal plot points. These conventions are used widely in the three films unofficially labelled as the “Gates of Hell” Trilogy. Made within a span of two years at the turn of the 1980s, the three films mostly deal with houses or towns built upon the entrance to hell or some sort of spiritual dimension. Each of these genre gross-outs is presented complete and 100% uncut! Let the blood run free as we open the doorway to a world of nightmares...welcome to the fevered world of Lucio Fulci!

CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (Paura nella città dei morti viventi)

The Seven Gates Of Hell have been torn open, and in three days the dead shall rise and walk the earth. As a reporter (Christopher George) and a psychic (Catriona MacColl) race to close the portals of the damned, they encounter a seething nightmare of unspeakable evil. The city is alive - with the horrors of the living dead!

1980 | RATED R | 98 MIN | ENGLISH & ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

THE BEYOND (...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà )

If your new business venture is sited on the cursed gateway to the hell dimension of The Beyond, then maybe it’s time to move elsewhere but Liza (Catriona MacColl) is determined to make her New Orleans hotel work. As reality breaks down and the plot explodes, Liza must journey far from everything she understands and descend in The Beyond! This is Fulci’s Zombie masterwork as he assaults his audience with shock after head spinning shock, all the while leading up to one of horror cinemas most heart stopping finales.

1981 | RATED R | 87 MIN | ENGLISH & ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY (Quella villa accanto al cimitero)

A young family (lead by Catriona MacColl) moves from their cramped New York City apartment to a spacious estate in New England. But this is no ordinary house in the country: the previous owner was the deranged ‘Dr. Freudstein’, whose monstrous human experiments have left a legacy of bloody mayhem. Now, someone - or something - is alive in the basement, and home sweet home is about to become a horrific hell on Earth.

1981 | RATED R | 87 MIN | ENGLISH & ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Tickets: $10 Each or 3 Film Pass for $24
Screening selected Friday nights at Palace Westgarth, Chauvel Cinema & Palace Centro.