We open with a Witch burning in the 1600s. She enacts a curse on the Massachusetts town of Whitewood. Fast forward to the present where Christopher lee(Obviously who's evil) is a teacher of a class on the history of witchcraft. A young woman takes an interest in the subject matter and sends her down to Whitewood. Soon goes missing and now her brother and friend go looking for her. The city of the dead is one of those hidden gems of the decade. It's a very small film that relays' heavily on its atmosphere with almost this haunted house appearance. It has this very suspenseful and ominous tone to it with lots of Erie music slow panning of the camera and a lot of fog. Some much fog just consumes the town adding to this very decrypted esthetic. It borrows a little from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, but only in a few nods with women who are killed half away through and replaced with a different girl. The way the inn is shot and lit it feels very reminiscent of psycho which came out the same. The year that being said despite those similarities this is still a completely different movie with a much more supernatural theme. And with Christopher Lee who is just great is an atmospheric film.
Review of The City of the Dead
