Do you think it's possible to be a Fulci completist?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Lucio Fulci
Slaterson420 — 10 years ago(January 06, 2016 11:30 AM)
Me and some friends were talking about our Italian horror guys, and how easy it would be to see all the films by these directs. We figured that Argento would be a little tricky but possible, Bava would be very hard, and Fulci would be straight up impossible. Do you think it is possible to find ALL of Fulci's films? Like by any means?
And if you did have access to all 56 of Fulci's films, would you watch all of them?
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GetOffMyLawn — 10 years ago(January 26, 2016 11:37 AM)
It will be impossible as most of his 50s-60s stuff haven't been released on VHS or DVD.
And if you did have access to all 56 of Fulci's films, would you watch all of them?
No, I wouldn't be that interested in watching his Westerns or little-known Indie films. -
Slaterson420 — 10 years ago(January 26, 2016 06:47 PM)
I don't think Fulci has any real films that could be considered indie. He started working as a director for the money, and most if not all of his early films are just director-for-hire gigs. And I've seen a couple of his westerns. Massacre Time is pretty standard as far as spaghetti westerns go, and Four of the Apocalypse is messy (what Fulci film isn't?) but it's different than your average spaghetti western goes.
But he did do musicals. And that just interests me at a level of curiosity more than anything else?
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GetOffMyLawn — 10 years ago(January 27, 2016 12:33 AM)
By definition nearly all his early films are considered indie. He was an unknown director using low budgets produced by independent studios. Either way, most are rare and would be hard to come by outside of digital means. I just wouldnt find it particularly interesting to watch something unknown of his that would most likely be sub-par. There is a reason it's rare ;).
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Slaterson420 — 10 years ago(January 27, 2016 02:05 AM)
Many of his early films do have DVD releases, just not region coded for America. That's mostly because Fulci's fans overseas associate him as a genre filmmaker so his genre films will sell, but those early comedies and musicals wouldn't translate well into foreign markets (from my understanding, Italian humor is rooted in a lot of wordplay that wouldn't make sense subtitled) so they're only sold in Italy where there are fans (either old timers or throwback hipster types) of the musicians and comedians appearing in his films. People who owns those movies aren't Fulci fans. They're fans of Franco & Ciccio or Adriano Celentano (or whoever).
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