A woman inherits a Louisiana hotel that just so happens to be built on one of the seven gates of hell! It doesn't take very long for the fecal matter to strike the rotary oscillator as zombies welcome themselves to our world thanks to a bumbling plumber, don't worry he gets his just reward.

Broken necks, a killer crucifixion, acid facial erosions, carnivorous face eating tarantulas, an unbelievable beating with a chain, a zombie German Shepherd, a few classic cases of Fulci's ocular mutilations of course, and a surprise cameo from Pippi Longstocking (wonder what's on her mind?)

Again, I don't know what it is, but Fulci's films just make me feel dirty. His zombies are the most horrific in the biz, and they usually crawl out of some worm infested dirt, or some of the nastiest, brownest, most stagnent water ever! Gross! There's also some of Fulci's most bloodiferous wounds inflicted. I love how much pressure the veins and arteries are under in these poor victims. Blood just flies EVERYWHERE!

Some say this is Fulci's best work, but I'll vehemently disagree. I would say that this is his most ambiguous story to date. It just leaves too much open and when it ends you're sort of left scratching your head trying to decide what happened, or at least why it happened on your own. It also isn't as dark to me as Zombie and City of the Living Dead were. Both of those movies gave me the heebie jeebies, but this one didn't disturb me in the least bit. A good movie nonetheless, and a mandatory addition to any zombiephiles collection. Highly recommended!

8 out of 10 ocular ejections

When a young woman inherits her deceased uncle's hotel she thinks that she has finally gotten her break in life. Moving from New York to Louisiana to renovate and reopen the hotel she all to soon learns that her dream may in fact be a nightmare. As work on the hotel begins accidents and freak occurrences begin to happen, but nothing can prepare her for what waits beneath the old hotel, an ancient door, a door to hell!

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you combined Night of the living Dead with say The Amityville Horror? Well if you have look no further than The Seven Doors of Death and all of your dreams may come true. Directed by Lucio Fulci this is a Italian gorehound's delight.

I've never been a big fan of Fulci's movies, something that has gotten me bitch slapped more than once by Paynecraft on occasion, I guess my tastes just run more Americana in horror, but I have to say that the Seven Doors of Death is a pretty good flick.

The plot follows your standard "inheritance" type of film, a long lost family relative gets a piece of land that has been abandoned for years. Why? You may ask because the former occupant was a devil worshiper/ wizard of some kind. As you can guess from here on out it is just a awaken monster, somebody gets killed, find out a bit of history on the house, somebody else gets killed, find out some more history, so on and so on story line, but it is fairly entertain although a little long in the tooth.

There are some great kills and gore to be found in this one, four or five acid baths, killer animals, nails to the head and the ultra classic Italian-zombie-jugular-throat attacks. Say what you want about Italian horror films they do know how to rip a throat out. But with the gore factor to a high something had to give and of course that falls to the acting and musical score.

I can deal with bad acting, in fact every time I make sweet love to my wife I get that complete with fake moans and screams, but what I can't handle if God-awful tacky and ear splitting music playing in the back ground which Seven Doors of Death plays continuously. It's like breaking out the K-Y, anal beads and strap-on only to turn up the radio and hearing Willie Nelson's "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" blare out.

All and all this is a pretty good flick with quite a surprise ending that I did not see coming. The story has some flow issues at times and the film really has that early 80's vibe going but there is more than enough gore, guts and zombies to make up for it. Fulci fans will love this one and for horror novices this is a good starting point for some classic and gory kills.

6 of 10.