tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post6162020899151441843..comments2024-03-27T07:58:00.899-07:00Comments on Horror Movie A Day: Non Canon Review: The Gates Of Hell (1980)BChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06480847497966171794noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-58079982566639542862017-11-11T10:29:29.546-08:002017-11-11T10:29:29.546-08:00I grew up watching quite different films, but it&#...I grew up watching quite different films, but it's better than the amount of ballet and theatrical productions that we were shown in the good old Soviet times.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-72546549733045307312010-12-03T07:42:42.320-08:002010-12-03T07:42:42.320-08:00I've expressed my love of Nightbeast a time or...I've expressed my love of Nightbeast a time or two in the past. My friends and I watched it a million times on an old VHS tape. We loved the previews just as much. There were trailers for Just Before Dawn, Boarding House, Molly & Lawless John, (some Dukes of Hazzard like film called) Hotwire, and The Gates of Hell. I watched The Gates of Hell (mine was called City of the Living Dead). So, I saw a handful of these scenes a million times immediately followed by the theme song for Hotwire (which is an upbeat country song). So, every time I saw a familiar scene my mind wold immediately begin playing that goddam song. It was VERY distracting.<br /><br />Anyway. I was just as baffled by Bob and that ending as you were, BC. However, I wasn't as baffled by the gut puking scene as you were. If you remember, the gut puking was preceded by the blood crying. The priest had the power to stare at someone until they cried and puked up their guts. I assume that the victim must remain in eye-to-eye contact in order to complete the procedure. The final girl cried blood twice before being rescued by someone else. That's how I see it. At any rate, I loved both the gut puking and the blood crying. The blood crying was especially impressive because you could tell that the blood was actually coming out of the eye after being mixed with tears. in most horror productions (True Blood) it's easy to tell that the blood was merely applied on the outside of the eye. So, my hats off to the actresses (notice, this only happened to women so that their hair could be positioned next to the eye in order to conceal the blood delivery appliance) who allowed that shit to be channelled directly into their eyeballs.Miskatonichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10458189434988263478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-84590987149116362332009-10-09T14:18:43.276-07:002009-10-09T14:18:43.276-07:00Love this movie. Saw this as a kid and it freaked ...Love this movie. Saw this as a kid and it freaked me out and still love it today. With most Fulci movies you really can't spend too much time trying to figure out what happend or how things are connected or trying to make sense of the movie at all. Could probably generalize this to Italian horror in general. For some reason I don't mind doing that with Fulci. Are these zombies or ghosts in this movie? They have so many powers from making people's eyes bleed to teleportation that I'm not sure what they were. How did the heroes solve the problem in the end? And why the hell were they screaming at the cute kid running with seeming no bad intent? I have no idea. For some reason I love this movie though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-61780059380348415272008-11-08T01:58:00.000-08:002008-11-08T01:58:00.000-08:00I have watched enough Fulci to think that the "Bob...I have watched enough Fulci to think that the "Bob"-subplot as a statement against fascism makes some kind of sense to me. I don't think this is a good sign.houseinrlyeh aka Denishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04548069611516508274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-34009303676974338092008-11-07T15:38:00.000-08:002008-11-07T15:38:00.000-08:00According to Fulci the whole "Bob subplot" was app...According to Fulci the whole "Bob subplot" was apparently meant to be a statement against facism, not that it makes more sense this way.<BR/>There are also plenty of rumours that the final reel of the movie was lost in post production and Fulci thus had to end with a freeze-frame, but since we're talkig about Fulci here, it might just as well have been another attempt at a big statement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5110147752122772426.post-34529811296255306152008-11-01T03:38:00.000-07:002008-11-01T03:38:00.000-07:00I love the film (actually more than the more "clas...I love the film (actually more than the more "classic" <I>The Beyond</I>), but I don't think there is an explanation for the ending other than Fulci trying to mess with his audience by making the film's ending just that little more surreal.<BR/>It's definitely the sort of ending one doesn't forget.houseinrlyeh aka Denishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04548069611516508274noreply@blogger.com