City of the Living Dead
Movie • 1980 • Horror
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A medium has a mysterious vision of a priest hanging himself... A seemingly dead woman awakes screaming in her coffin... And in the sleepy New England town of Dunwich, a girl vomits up her intestines and a local misfit has a drill bit ploughed into his cranium... These hallucionogenic often grotesque visions punctuate a skeletal story telling of a reporter and a psychic who must race against time to prevent hordes of rotting corpses spewing forth from the gates of hell...
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Is there pedophilia?
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Bob is hinted at being a pedophile by members of the bar, as he invited a young girl to the woods alone and is known for being perverse. Whether this is true or not is up to audience interpretation.
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Is an animal sad?
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The psychologist’s cat is suddenly startled, scratches a client, and is shown to look upset and hisses.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Abuse
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A young boy recounts his older sister (as an undead creature) killing her parents.
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Addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Two scenes in close proximity mentioning drinking as a coping mechanism and showing alcohol, but it's not blatant alcoholism.
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Marijuana shown in packet, and a character asks another if they want to “smoke a joint.” No on-screen usage.
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Animal
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Does a cat die?
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A cat is very startled and upset, though the most damage it receives is being thrown off after it attacks someone.
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Are there bugs?
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live worms appear many times
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Assault
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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Young woman cries blood.
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Is there excessive gore?
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A young woman starts crying blood before frothing red bloody liquid from her mouth. She then starts to vomit up her own organs.
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Is someone tortured?
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A man is held down and pushed toward a spinning drill. He is impaled through the face slowly.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Bloody fingers from scratching at the inside of a coffin.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Some of the 20th century's most disgusting skull crushing segments ever put on film.
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Is there a hanging?
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There is a character who shows up hanging through the movie.
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Is someone buried alive?
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A dead woman comes back to life in a partially-buried coffin, and a man rescues her.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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The main character, Lisa, is buried alive after it's believed that she died.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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At the beginning of the film, Mary has a seizure on the floor after a seance.
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Is someone burned alive?
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When the main priest is killed, all the zombies light up in flames.
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Children
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Almost, and it's implied at the end
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Death
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Fear
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Is someone possessed?
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The dead return to walk the Earth: it’s up to viewer interpretation if they’re possessed or not.
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Are there ghosts?
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The undead creatures in this film are ghost-like, able to appear and disappear at will, travel inhumanly fast, and have supernatural powers.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Vomits up internal organs
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Is there audio gore?
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Many instances of squishing sounds and gagging
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Is someone eaten?
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Cannibalism is mentioned by a young boy and shown graphically on-screen at the end of the movie.
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Does someone spit?
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A woman is seen drooling during a seance.
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Medical
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Mental Health
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a priest hangs himself at the very beginning of the film
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Someone does try to scratch their way out of a coffin and their fingers get mutilated in the process.
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Is there misophonia?
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Lots of grating noises: baby screaming, monkey gibbering, and stone grinding.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Buried alive
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Noxious
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Does a baby cry?
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During the opening scene, the sound of a baby crying plays. It’s very grating.
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Mental health stigma
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Does the black guy die first?
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One of the only black characters seen in the movie is a detective seen in the beginning. He is not seen again.
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Religious
Are there demons or Hell?
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The Gates of Hell are opened. No classic demons, but grotesque monsters.
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Sex
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brief mention of incest in a psychotherapy setting, but no actual incest depicted
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Is there sexual content?
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A young couple makes out, but it doesn't get too heavy.
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Violence
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There is hyper colored gore throughout.
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Is there gun violence?
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No, but Sandra does answer her door with a gun. It’s never fired.
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