Which Fulci film started it all for you?
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Maffers — 15 years ago(September 15, 2010 01:51 PM)
For me it was (as it was known in Britain at the time) Zombie Flesh Eaters. I followed this with The Beyond; House by the Cemetry; City of the Living Dead.
As I've got older I prefer 'Don't Torture a Duckling' and 'Lizard in a Woman's Skin' - arguably his masterpieces. -
PanzerschreckLeopard — 15 years ago(October 13, 2010 03:24 PM)
Well, Dad had Zombi 2 set, and twice showed me the shark sceneI hardly cared at the time.
But much later, I got into the Original Dawn and Day of the Dead, becoming very interested. Was looking at a zombie article on cracked.com which had the zombi/shark vid. I decided to try the film out, and loved it since.
Apparently, we had The beyond, but in a very cheap, Diamond Company dvd titled as "Seven Doors of Death." (I think it's cover is in the gallery for the film) It was the original version, bafflingly with a different title card. Anyhow, I'd seen the disc many times when looking through DVD books, and eventually tried it.
All dvds we apparently had long before I'd gotten into his films.
Zombi 2 (Watched/own 2 disc set)
City of the Living Dead (Watched/do NOT own)
The Beyond (Watched/very cheap dvd)
House by the Cemetary (watched/very cheap dvd)
Demonia (Have NOT watched/own)
Cat in the Brain (Watched/do NOT own) -
BrianCTyler — 15 years ago(November 02, 2010 09:55 AM)
My first Fulci experience was with HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY, which literally freaked me out so bad I never wanted to watch it again.
And then I saw THE BEYOND and ZOMBIE and loved them both, eventually going back to HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY and now I own the following:
BEATRICE CENCI - haven't watched it yet
PERVERSION STORY - 3/4
A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN - 3/4
DON'T TORTURE A DUCKLING - 4/4
FOUR OF THE APOCALYPSE - 3/4
THE PSYCHIC - 3/4
ZOMBIE - 3/4
CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD - 3.5/4
CONTRABAND - haven't watched yet
THE BEYOND - 3.5/4
THE BLACK CAT - haven't watched yet
THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY - 3/4
MANHATTAN BABY - 2.5/4
THE NEW YORK RIPPER - 2/4
ZOMBI 3 - 2.5/4
CAT IN THE BRAIN - 2/4
"Cinema is everything to me. I live and breathe films I even eat them!"- Lucio Fulci
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weschingsdieder — 15 years ago(April 07, 2011 09:19 PM)
I got a Video-CD of CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD from a friend when I was 16. Up to that point, I had seen only very few horror films and certainly no gory ones. I remember that I was actually eating at some point but stopped promptly in the scene in which Daniela Doria vomits up her intestines and then contemplated turning the film off in the infamous driller scene. I had never seen anything even close to this and was deeply shocked, revolted, amazed and frightened. It definitely became a major film experience that influenced me heavily - the sheer emotional impact not just of the eerie, haunting atmosphere but also of the plain gore, resulted in a viewpoint towards violence on film which I'd describe as "productively complicated". A couple of years later, I had seen almost all of Fulci's horror films and by now, I've come to appreciate his non-horror films just as much as his horror films. If people only let themselves in for the peculiarities of Fulci's films and their slight unevenness, they'd be rewarded by mesmerising cinematic experiences. I just watched SILVER SADDLE (my 25th Fulci film) tonight and was once more thrilled by the aesthetic consciousness of the film and the originality of Fulci's approach. Even his cheap, later films still have some of this mysterious, elusively poetic sadness and tense emotional indifference.
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Headskott — 14 years ago(May 23, 2011 01:26 PM)
It was Zombie Flesh Eaters that started it all. I always loved zombie movies, and I was bored to death with Dawn of the Dead and Romero's other stuff, so I took a chance and saw ZFL, which I at first thought was kinda garbage, way too low budget etc. But then I saw it again, and I really loved it that time. It was the atmosphere I think, zombies had never scared me like that before. So then I went on and saw The Beyond, CotLD etc. Today, I think Fulci was a genious, and the king of zombie movies. If someone goes on about 28 Days Later being the best zombie film ever made, I just say "Bitch, you can stop right there." And then I poke their eye out with a stick.
You're sure it wasn't that retarded kid, Timmy, up the street? -
Othy59 — 14 years ago(November 01, 2011 08:30 PM)
Zombie Flesh Eaters (Zombi 2) for me. It was during high school - must have been, 15 or 16 - and Channel 4 were playing a late night showing of Zombie and I remember catching the TV ad for it and I was interested by the scene of the dead Conquistadors slowly coming out of the ground. I also remember seeing the front cover (with the hand rising from the earth and the hordes of zombie march toward New York) before watching it on TV.
Problem with the broadcast version is that it was cut, they cut the eye splinter scene short among a few other things.
"Well I didn't expect a kind-of Spanish Inquisition!" - Monty Python -
mulholland_empire — 14 years ago(November 12, 2011 08:52 AM)
zombi
dont torture a duckling
house by the cemetery
city of the living dead
devils honey
perversion story
eroticist
murder rock
lizard in a womans skin
door into silence
manhattan baby
ny ripper
cat in the brain
the beyond
conspiracy of torture
the psychic
touch of death
i think lizard in a womans skin or zombi was the first one, the rest is history -
GeneticSugarKane — 14 years ago(November 23, 2011 06:20 PM)
ZOMBIE
When I first saw it I thought it was decent but it didn't blow me away. However, re-watching a couple 5b4of years later I fell in love and began tracking down a bunch of his other stuff. I've been a big fan for about 5 years now. -
Icons1976 — 14 years ago(January 30, 2012 09:54 AM)
For me everything started with his Gialli's! I loved "A Lizard in a Woman Skin"(1971), "Don't Torture a Duckling"(1972) and "One on the Top of the Other"(1969).
Their plots,twists, cast, and use of sets and cinematography, and of the immense Morricone's scores,haunted me for the rest of my life of cinephile.
For me he's always been way superior, way more stylish, and somewhat more curious/surprising to watch, than Argento!
Argento had bigger budgets,mainstream cast and crews,but some of his films, especially,those after "Suspiria", had always somewhat disappointed me,especially for their lack of a personal style,and for a visual flatness,so way too typical of the 1980's mainstream.
Goi1c84ng back to Fulci: after having watched all of his different genres,and,of course,all Horrors(was ecstatic by the on set SFX's, for me, even today, some of the best.. and never aged) I just got hooked to his amazing eye for one of the most significant,innovative filmmaking that distinguished him always in the B underground cinema and that,i believe, he owed and kept almost intact, even when making lurid films on commission,with budgets that would have not permitted others,like Argento,let's say(but many Americans,too,especially!) to make anything even merely watchable.
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hnow — 14 years ago(March 31, 2012 05:59 PM)
Yeah, Zombie it was for me. My sister's boyfriend wanted to go see this late-night movie and I went with them. My sister was grossed out and went over to watch something else at the same theater. But I stayed and loved it, although I thought the music was somehow a bit inappropriate. The movie haunted me and disturbed me for a while afterwords.
Didn't know much about Fulci apart from the occasional Fangoria magazine article. But eventually I went to see more like Gates of Hell and House By The Cemetery which was the last Fulci film I saw in a theater. -
shotgun_mcguffin — 14 years ago(March 24, 2012 09:15 AM)
Same with me, City of the Living Dead. Just 'cause I heard that it was gory.
My collection does'nt come near yours though. I just got the Gates of Hell Trilogy: City of the Living Dead, The Beyond and House by the Cemery. Besides that I've seen Zombi and the New York Ripper. But hopefully soon I am the happy owner of Lizard in a Woman's Skin -
Hey_Sweden — 13 years ago(June 17, 2012 02:28 PM)
For me it was "Zombi 2". I've since seen "Don't Torture a Duckling", "The Psychic", "City of the Living Dead", "The House by the Cemetery", "The Beyond", and "The New York Ripper", and enjoyed each.
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dan-bgb — 13 years ago(June 20, 2012 06:02 PM)
Definitely Zombi 2 It is by far my favorite zombie movie of all time and probably my favorite movie. I have a huge collection of pre-1990 zombie films. Among the Fulci films I have:
Zombi 2
City of the living Dead
House by the Cemetery
The Beyond
Lizard in a Womans Skin
Zombi 3
Cat ONine Tails
Demonia
Ive seen Dont Torture a Duckling, Manhattan Baby, and New York Ripper -
dawndeadromero — 12 years ago(May 28, 2013 06:41 AM)
It was Zombie for me. I got my dad to rent it for me when I was 9. I wanted to watch it just because of the cover alone. I enjoyed it and ended up renting The Gates Of Hell (City Of The Living Dead)a few years later since it was also directed by Fulci. That film scared me like no other film has.