# Nightmare City (1980)

> A reporter and his doctor wife flee a European city consumed by radioactive blood-drinking zombies as military containment collapses.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/17281

## Facts

- Runtime: 91 min
- Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
- Director: Umberto Lenzi
- Cast: Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Francisco Rabal, Sonia Viviani, Eduardo Fajardo, Stefania D'Amario, Ugo Bologna
- TMDB rating: 5.7/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080931/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: simple
- Violence: graphic
- Mood: frantic, grotesque, bleak, late night horror marathon, cult cinema night

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- [Rammbock: Berlin Undead (2010)](https://ember.film/movie/33623)
- [Undead (2003)](https://ember.film/movie/4359)
- [The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974)](https://ember.film/movie/15198)
- [Contamination (1980)](https://ember.film/movie/25292)
- [The Return of the Living Dead (1985)](https://ember.film/movie/5966)
- [[REC] (2007)](https://ember.film/movie/4035)
- [Dawn of the Dead (1978)](https://ember.film/movie/766)

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