Pater Thomas was released in the year 1980。Pater Thomas is also called as Paura nella città dei morti viventi, Frayeurs, Miedo en la ciudad de los muertos vivientos, Leiche hängt am Glockenseil, Jigoku no kado, Fear in the City of the Living Dead, City of the Living Dead。

In the small New England town of Dunwich, a priest commits suicide by hanging himself in the church cemetary which somehow opens the gates of hell allowing the dead to rise. Peter, a New York City reporter, teams up with a young psychic, named Mary, to travel to the town where they team up with another couple, psychiatrist Jerry and patient Sandra, to find a way to close the gates before All Saints Day or the dead all over the world will rise up and kill the living.