"Attack Dickie attack!"
Lucio Fulci goes balls out with the gore in this Italian splatter classic. It's basically a highlight reel for the special FX work of Gianetto de Rossi(that ranges from amazing to terrible) strung together with a really stupid plot about a woman buying an old hotel in Louisiana that happens to be right over one of the doorways to hell(alternate edited version title=SEVEN DOORS OF DEATH). There's tons of blood, a dog who fights zombies, a couple of face meltings, an annoying little girl, a guy gets crucified, the world's dumbest spider attack scene where the fakest looking tarantulas ever rip a guys face apart using big chomping pincers, star David Warbeck loads his gun by shoving bullets down the barrel and I think the apocalypse happens. Besides all this stupidity I find this movie totally enjoyable due to the obvious glee in which Fulci presents everything also the insane vibe of all this chaos makes for an awesome ride. A necessity for true gore-hounds.
I've read a few places where this was supposed to be a sequel to GATES OF HELL but there's really no direct connection besides a similar theme and zombies shoe-horned into both.
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