Nightmare City
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Italian poster for Nightmare City
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| Directed by | Umberto Lenzi |
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Hugo Stiglitz Laura Trotter Maria Rosaria Omaggio Mel Ferrer |
| Music by | Stelvio Cipriani |
| Cinematography | Hans Burman |
| Edited by | Daniele Alabiso |
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Nightmare City (Italian: Incubo sulla città contaminata) is a 1980 Italian-Spanish science fiction horror film directed by Umberto Lenzi. The film stars Hugo Stiglitz as a television news reporter who witnesses the collapse of order in a city overrun by irradiated blood-drinking ghouls. Victims of the ghouls rise from the dead to join the host, adding to the chaos.
American television news reporter Dean Miller (Hugo Stiglitz) waits at a small European airport to interview a scientist about a recent nuclear accident. An unmarked C-130 military plane makes an emergency landing. The plane doors open and dozens of armed and deformed men burst out and begin stabbing and shooting the military personnel outside; they prove to be resistant to the most grievous wounds and are relentless in their assault, stopping only to consume the blood of their victims. Miller flees from the airport back to the TV station where he works and tries to alert the public, but General Murchison of Civil Defense (Mel Ferrer) will not allow it. Miller tries to find his wife Anna (Laura Trotter), a doctor who works at a hospital, as the crazed assailants overrun the city, their ranks swollen by many of their former victims.
Several zombies attack the TV station, forcing Miller to flee to the hospital where Anna works. That evening, a group of zombies attack the city's power station, destroying it and plunge the city into darkness. Miller arrives at the hospital as it is being attacked and manages to rescue Anna where they both escape from the hospital in a stolen ambulance.
Meanwhile, General Murchison meets with several military officers and scientists at a hidden command bunker where they determine the attackers are contaminated humans whose skin and blood tissues have been mutated by radiation. They speculate that the scientist investigating the leak at the state nuclear power plant was apparently infected with high doses of radiation and that he infected others aboard the airport military transport plane leading to the outbreak. The infected peoples bodies, while capable of feats of strength, speed and reflexes beyond those of most humans, are unable to regenerate red blood cells, hence their appetite for blood. The only way that the infected can by killed is by destroying their programed brains by shooting them in their heads.
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