Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
A psychic seemingly dies of fright during a séance where she sees a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church cemetery. New York City reporter Peter Bell investigates and learns that the priest's suicide has somehow opened a portal to Hell that must be sealed by All Saints Day, or else the dead will overtake humanity.
Lucio Fulci's supernatural horror delivers stunning, nightmarish imagery and genuinely unsettling atmosphere — the cinematography is its crown jewel, with Sergio Salvati's fog-drenched cemetery sequences and visceral gore setpieces earning a well-above-average mark. The premise is intriguingly apocalyptic and surrealist, blending psychic phenomena with zombie horror in a way that feels distinctly Fulci. However, the plot is notoriously incoherent, held together more by mood than narrative logic, and the acting ranges from serviceable to wooden. The ending is widely regarded as one of cinema's most bafflingly abrupt conclusions — it simply stops, unresolved and jarring even by giallo standards — earning a genuine 1.