#Nightmare City

[goryhorroor]

day 26 of horror: more underrated/obscure essential horror films

[maurofonseca]

[thatfellakenshi]

thingy

[jauntygumption]

hehehehaw

[gotankgo]

«Italian horror in Greenwood, South Carolina, October 1983. Fulci's "City of the Living Dead" vs. Lenzi's "Nightmare City" in competing theaters!»

[napunk-history]

The Alley Cats

Nightmare City (1981)

[anhed-nia]

BLOGTOBER 10/19/2024: NIGHTMARE CITY

I just chewed my way through a bigass project on Umberto Lenzi, and boy is my jaw tired. Lenzi is a very confusing guy to discuss; he had some moments of reasonable focus with his Carrol Baker gialli and his crime movies with Tomas Milian, but I think he is less known for his directorial prowess (however you want to estimate that) than for his displays of abject cruelty. He'd be the first to tell you that some of his most famous movies, EATEN ALIVE! and CANNIBAL FEROX, are pure trash--though he'd also be the first to tell you that he invented the Italian cannibal subgenre, which is certainly true even if he wasn't the best guy to do it. While I was watching NIGHTMARE CITY from 1980, I wondered if he realized that he was also probably the first guy to do a zombie movie who would argue bitterly about how his fast, angry zombies are not technically zombies. I mean, he really did do all of that, I just wondered if he ever noticed he might have started the trend!

This is a pretty bizarre movie. There are a few too many characters in it for me to feel encouraged to describe the plot in detail, but the essence of it is that a mysterious airplane spews a bunch of nuclear zombies all over some European city, I forget if they say. The main features of the zombies are their thick green crust and the fact that they all have weapons; there is something really funny about zombies running around with guns and two-by-fours and stuff, but I guess they're tool users. But the main thing that makes this so odd to me is the element of superstition that haunts the proceedings -- someone is always having a prophetic dream, or a vision, or they're invoking ancient legends to try to understand the zombies that are essentially the products of an industrial catastrophe. I'm not sure what made Lenzi think of this stuff, it may all be in the service of a rather lame plot twist, but it's a very strange and disorienting thing to include in a more sci-fi oriented horror film. Beyond that though, I'd be lying to myself and to you if I said I had a lot of analysis to offer on NIGHTMARE CITY. It has a certain amount of camp value for sure, but I recently saw some reviews by amateur critics who tried to make a meal out of BURIAL GROUND, and I decided that I don't want to be like those guys. As you were.

[deeptravelerdelusion]

garftober 2023 was pretty half-assed

this all the context you'll get:

if you really wanna know anything else just ask

[horrororman]

Released December 11, 1980(Italy).

#NightmareCity AKA #CityoftheWalkingDead

#horror #thriller #scifi #sciencefiction

[videoreligion]

Nightmare City (1980)

[fanofspooky]

Speaking of the deadliest zombies in cinema, I would like you to consider the 1980 film "Nightmare City" directed by Umberto Lenzi. Not only can these guys run, but

-They can organize. Including taking out important targets like the power plant, hospital and television station.

-They can only be killed by a shot to the head.

-They can use melee weapons like axes and knives, and firearms like pistols and submachine guns. They can also take evasive action when being shot at.

-They can lay traps and infiltrate target areas by deception.

I haven’t seen that one but I’m definitely putting it on my list 👍

[moviesandmania]

NIGHTMARE CITY Reviews of Umberto Lenzi's toxic mutant mayhem

Nightmare City is a 1980 sci-fi horror film directed by Umberto Lenzi from a screenplay by Piero Regnoli (Patrick Still Lives; The Playgirls and the Vampire), Antonio Cesare Corti and Luis María Delgado. Also known as City of the Walking Dead The movie stars Hugo Stiglitz (Night of a 1000 Cats), Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Francisco Rabal, Sonia Viviani, Eduardo Fajardo, Stefania…

[skooodles]

[egophiliac]

do skully have pokemon?

Pumpkaboo is the obvious one, but y'know, sometimes the obvious one is the right one! (we'll say SUPER SIZE Pumpkaboo, just for fun. big pumpkin for big skeleton boy.) and another person actually also suggested Greavard, which I somehow hadn't considered, but feels so perfect that I feel like I should have. dangit.

(they can also have little Nightmare Suit costumes :D)

[shrewisweird]

handholding

[gotankgo]

«3-15-85 - Chicago area - NIGHTMARE CITY playing as CITY OF THE WALKING DEAD plays the Woods Downtown (naturally with pride!) and a number of other screens including the Forest Park Mall (10 years in business ending in '92), the Town and Country in Arlington Heights, and the Bryn Mawe in Chicago. The Patio in Chicago is still open!»