Directed by Lucio Fulci.
Starring Andrea Occhipinti and Jorge Rivero.
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Showing posts with label Lucio Fulci. Show all posts
Monday, November 9, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The House Where Evil Dwells (1982)
Directed by Kevin Connor.
Starring Edward Albert and Susan George.
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22 years before "The Grudge"...
A great trailer for a largely forgotten film that is a sort of precursor to J-Horror mixed with a little "Shogun Assassin". The ghost effects are actually creepy and we get a spider gag that looks right out of Lucio Fulci's "The Beyond".
Susan George (Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry) co-stars in this one before devoting most of the rest of her career to television gigs. Director Kevin Connor did much the same after this but he was also responsible for the notorious slasher flick "Motel Hell" just two years previous.
I'm pretty sure this DVD is still in print from MGM if you want to track it down.
Monday, May 25, 2009
A Cat In The Brain (1990) aka Nightmare Concert
Directed by Lucio Fulci.
Starring Lucio Fulci.
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Technically not Fulci's last film, but A Cat in the Brain is his last real memorable one and it is a total blast of gore drenched insanity starring the auteur himself.
It was also remarkable in that it came after two total duds in the made for TV films "Sweet House Of Horrors" and "House Of Clocks". In a way, Cat In The Brain probably owes it's ferocity to the constraints of television Fulci had recently experienced but it is much more than that.
Fulci lashes out at his morally outraged critics and scolding psychiatrists who hounded the director all throughout his lengthy and outrageous career. Despite all the severed heads and hacked off limbs, this is a high concept, Fellini-type film where Fulci plays himself, making this a sort of hyper-violent "8 1/2".
To expect this film to be as good as something like "City Of The Living Dead" (still my favourite Fulci film) or "The Beyond" is not realistic, but for latter day Fulci, this is as good as it gets.
Grindhouse Releasing has just put out a double disc DVD of Cat In The Brain with all sorts of extra Fulci content such as interviews and convention footage.
Go get it while you can.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Endgame (1983)
Full Movie
Directed by Joe D'Amato.
Starring Al Cliver, Laura Gemser, George Eastman and Gordon Mitchell.
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More Mad Max inspired madness from Italy. The wildly prolific D'Amato (Antropophagus, Buio Omega) helmed this one and he brought back favourite George Eastman and Lucio Fulci regular Al Cliver (Zombie, The Beyond, The Black Cat).
Also look for spaghetti western and peplum star Gordon Mitchell.
This is not the best example of the genre - nods would go out to Enzo G. Castellari's "1990: Bronx Warriors" and Sergio Martino's "2019: After The Fall Of New York", but it's a great little diversion and at least on par with Fulci's similar "The New Gladiators".
My Letterboxd Review:
I can think of at least 5 Italian post-apocalyptic films that are better than Endgame, but the genre is so inherently entertaining and crazy that even the mediocre ones are worth seeing. All you need to see on the screen are a good rock quarry location, eyepatches, steel-plated shinpads, fingerless gloves, George Eastman and plenty of mannequins thrown under cars. Endgame has all of this and the eternally depressing Al Cliver in a rare leading role. Average for the genre but the pre-Running Man scenario is fun and the dubbing is typically hilarious, especially for Eastman's character.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Friday, November 30, 2007
The Beyond (1981)
Directed by Lucio Fulci. Starring Catriona MacColl and David Warbeck.
Another Bloody Blood favourite.
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Monday, November 26, 2007
Four Of The Apocalypse (1975)
Soundtrack - Bixio, Frizzi, Tempera - Death's Song
Directed by Lucio Fulci
Starring Fabio Testi, Tomas Milian and Lynne Frederick
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Friday, October 19, 2007
Contraband (1980) aka The Smuggler
Soundtrack - Fabio Frizzi - Do You Remember?:
Directed by Lucio Fulci
Starring Fabio Testi, Ivana Monti and Guido Alberti
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Saturday, October 13, 2007
Friday, October 12, 2007
Aenigma (1987)
Full Movie
Directed by Lucio Fulci.
Starring Jared Martin and Lara Lamberti
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My Letterboxd Review:
Feels like Fulci's riff on Dario Argento's Phenomena and the 1978 Australian horror film Patrick. While Phenomena had telepathic flies, Fulci opted for huge, fat snails in one of the grossest set-pieces of his entire career, and that's really saying something. While it's consistent with the diminishing quality of Fulci's later flicks, it's still a lot of fun at times and, as always, visually memorable. It's right up there with Voices From Beyond as one of Fulci's better late-period films. Seriously though... those snails.
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