City of the Living Dead
City of the Living Dead  is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Lucio Fulci.
The film is set in the small town of Dunwich, where the priest Father Thomas commits suicide which results in a gateway to Hell opening which releases a pack of zombies loose During a seance in New York, Mary Woodhouse sees visions of the priests suicide and its consequence.
After which she seemingly dies, only to be rescued by the journalists Peter Bell.
The two travel to Dunwich to destroy the grave of Father Thomas in order to stop the mass zombie invasion. "
City of the Living Dead" was developed after the financial success of Fulci's previous film "Zombi 2", leading him to work with screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti to write a new horror film.
During production of "Contraband", the film was green-lit, which led to Fulci leaving production of the film to begin working on "City of the Living Dead".
The film was shot predominantly on location in the United States with interiors shot in Rome.
The film was released distributed in Italy in 1980 and was followed by a release throughout Europe including a screening in Paris where Fulci won the "Grand Prix du Public" (The Audience Award) at the "Festival international du film et de science-fiction".
In West Germany, the film became part of a scandal which of releasing violent films to minors, leading the film to be banned from several home video releases from the mid-1980s to 2001.
The film was released in the United States as The Gates of Hell.
The film received reviews in Europe and the United States which reviews commenting on the poor acting, excessive violence, and incoherent plotting.
Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection
Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection is a 2012 film directed by James Plumb, based on George A. Romero's classic" Night of the Living Dead".
Birth of the Living Dead
Birth of the Living Dead( sometimes known by its working title Year of the Living Dead) is a 2012 American documentary film directed by Rob Kuhns.
It is about the 1968 horror film" Night of the Living Dead" and that film's legacy.
It features interviews with" Night of the Living Dead" director George A. Romero, Elvis Mitchell, Jason Zinoman, Larry Fessenden, Gale Anne Hurd, and Mark Harris.
Lambert Hillyer
Lambert Harwood Hillyer( July 8, 1893 – July 5, 1969) was an American film director and screenwriter.
Elsa Barker
Elsa Barker( 1869 – 1954) was an American novelist, short- story writer and poet.
She became known for three books" Letters from a Living Dead Man"( 1914)," War Letters from the Living Dead Man"( 1915), and" Last Letters From the Living Dead Man"( 1919), that she said were messages from a dead man produced through automatic writing.
Return of the Living Dead 3
Return of the Living Dead 3 is a 1993 American romantic horror film.
The film is the second sequel in the" Return of the Living Dead" film series but bears little resemblance to its predecessors, as it drops the comedy of those films and replaces it with a larger focus on horror, science fiction, and romantic themes.
Jonathan Terry
Jonathan Terry is a television and film actor.
He is best known for his role as Starker in and Colonel Glover in" The Return of the Living Dead" and" Return of the Living Dead Part II".
Lucio Fulci
Lucio Fulci( 17 June 1927 – 13 March 1996) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor.
Although he worked in a wide array of genres through a career spanning nearly five decades, including comedy, spaghetti western, adventure, science fiction and erotica, he garnered an international cult following for his giallo and horror films.
His most notable films include the" Gates of Hell" trilogy —" City of the Living Dead"( 1980)," The Beyond"( 1981), and" The House by the Cemetery"( 1981) —as well as" Massacre Time"( 1966)," One on Top of the Other"( 1969)," A Lizard in a Woman's Skin"( 1971)," Do n't Torture a Duckling"( 1972)," White Fang"( 1973)," Four of the Apocalypse"( 1975)," Sette note in nero"( 1977)," Zombi 2"( 1979)," Contraband"( 1980)," The Black Cat"( 1981)," The New York Ripper"( 1982)," Murder Rock"( 1984), and" A Cat in the Brain"( 1990).
Because of the high level of visceral graphic violence present in many of his films, especially" Zombi 2" and" The Beyond", Fulci is frequently referred to as" The Godfather of Gore", a title also given to Herschell Gordon Lewis.
Fulci was in his young adult years a politically active radical for the Italian Communist Party.
Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn
Night of the Living Dead: Darkest Dawn, also known as Night of the Living Dead: Origins and Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D, is a 2015 computer- animated horror film directed by Krisztian Majdik and Zebediah De Soto and produced by Simon West.
The film is a re-telling of the original" Night of the Living Dead" in a contemporary setting.
All American Sweetheart
All American Sweetheart is a 1937 American crime film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by Grace Neville, Fred Niblo Jr. and Michael L. Simmons.
The film stars Patricia Farr, Scott Kolk, Gene Morgan, James Eagles, Arthur Loft and Joe Twerp.
The film was released on December 20, 1937, by Columbia Pictures.

Question: Which film has the director died earlier, All American Sweetheart or City Of The Living Dead?
Answer: All American Sweetheart