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Gates of Hell Part II: Dead Awakening [VHS]

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4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Although the plot is fairly inadequete ( I had to watch the end 4 times 'til I got it), the direction,music and gore are at Fulci's best and really makes up for incoherencies in the plot with excellent gore. My video is knackered from playing the end sequence on my video, although it wound me up that I didn't get it first time round, the finale is a classic Fulci. I love the title/end music, so well organised. Fellow gore lovers, E mail me with your oppinons and I will get back to you.

The best of para-normal Lovecraftian horror. Not only a MUST for all thespians of gore but also one of the creepiest movies ever!The ending promises to make your mind twist and turn as the protagonists enter...OOPS!I almost revealed the most mystic ending in movie history...SEE IT NOW!

I have to begin this by saying that this Is Not a Lucio Fulci movie. In fact, it has nothing to do with Lucio whatsoever except in the "shrewd marketing," copying of a successful title department. This is actually a very low budget movie directed by G.D. Marcum, and says that it is "dedicated to the memory of Lucio Fulci" on the back. ... So, keeping it brief because of its paper-thin plot and lack of effects, I'll break it down.
This is your basic "good vs. evil" tale that, according to the back of the movie, involved an "occult group that initiates its members into joining the Darkness of Death" fighting against a group of people who seek out those who make sacrifices to other gods besides Yahweh and kill them. During all of this, our main character's sister goes missing and she enlists an officer to help her after work. There are a few deaths to pad the bad acting, lack of gore/lack of effects, and there are a few moments of humor thrown into an otherwise jumbled ball of sometimes incomprehensible dialect and badly intertwining storyline transitions. I think some of the music woke me up for some of the highlights of the movie, too.
Now, I'm going to give it 2 stars simply because a 1 means it belongs in the Cinema Sewer. Its not that bad, but you really, really, really have to like really cheap movies with no real monster shots (and a few zombie shots) to enjoy this. Maybe I should have been medicated first.

This movie was so bad I cant even tell you what it is about, I think that they could have done better with The Gates of Hell Part 2 cause I LOVE part 1. I also ordered part 1 from you guys recently I hope it is uncut

While not up to Fulci's Zombie, this is a stylish, if tedious, zombie flick, with some good scenes, but not really Dawn of the Dead quality. Very gory, but the suspense has some catching up to do with Fulci's House by the Cemetery's relenting terror. 2 stars, for Fulci is a master at gore.

A nightmarish gore feast that will scare the hell out of you. Zombies, zombies and even more zombies... some equiped with telekenetic powers to force a victims brains out their ears and their guts out their mouths. Check it out... you'll never see anything like it again. END

The drill scene in this movie is true horror and disgust. It looks like Fulci actually used a real head and killed someone in this movie. I was so impressed and disappointed in the fact that I could not see the unedited version of this movie.

While not as good as House by the Cementary or the Seven Doors of Death, this movie is better than some of his earlier works like The Black Cat.

It is gory, if you can get the full uncut version, but it is also boring at times as well. Many people will not be impressed with Fulci brand of filmmaking but to those who are, rent this first before buying.

like most fulci films this one has a horrible terrible god awful soundtrack that sounds like early nintendo music. its really boring at the first and never really picks up. theirs some cool gore scenes in it and if your bored you can watch this movie and find out that it really is cool, its like a old 50's style horror film with gore. its cool but its not great.

All you have to know is that this film has nothing to do with Zombie, or Dawn of the Dead for that matter. The zombies in this film are ghosts that are awaken because of a ceremony that is preformed at the beginning. The special effects are some of the best I have every seen. A woman crys blood, another throws up her own major organs.There also is a scene that involves an angry father,a screaming daughter, a terrified and helpless boyfriend, and an industrial mounted electric drill. From what I gathered from this scene, it looks like Fulci actually used a persons head to pull this fx off. It is outstanding. So if you like Fulci, and enjoyed Dawn of the Dead, and Zombie, and can realize that this film can stand on it's own to be totally original, and have nothing to do with the other two prior, then it is a must see.