[DVD] "Seven Doors Of Death"

$3.99. That's how much this film cost me on DVD.

For that price, I got:
- a guy getting crucified, then burned alive by shovelfuls of lye;
- a guy attacked by a zombie, and his eyes torn out of his head;
- a woman knocked unconscious, then her face burned by acid;
- a man falls from a ladder, and tarantulas crawl from the shadows and devour him face-first;
- a woman gets attacked by the aforementioned eyeless zombie and her head impaled ... her right eye shoots out of socket; and,
- a blind woman is attacked by her own dog, her throat ripped out and her ear bitten off.

Lucio Fulci is one magnificent bastardo (he of "Zombie" fame). This film is the first in a while that gave me the creeps ... and I'm a big time fan of horror films. Seen a bunch, from zombies to vampires to werewolves to psycho-killers to ghosts to assorted demons and aliens ... and this film is a solid terror. I guess because I didn't necessarily expect much from it, it snuck up on me and done brung the fear. But shit, did it deliver.

The basis on which the whole thing hangs on is that some chick inherits a hotel, not knowing that the hotel sits atop one of the seven(!) gates to hell. Then after that, it's pretty much scene after scene of terror & gore. A great film for fans of such fare ... the end scene in the hospital is going to give me nightmares, mate. I assure you.