Why Zombie???
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Lucio Fulci
jayt_26 — 18 years ago(January 11, 2008 02:54 PM)
I absolutely love Fulci; I have:
Zombie
House By the Cemetary
City of the Living Dead
The Beyond
Don't Torture a Duckling
Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Manhatten Baby
The Black Cat
(and have seen New York Ripper)
I cannot understand for the life of me why so many people consider Zombie one of his best. I've tried watching it 3 times now and just cannot get into it. I don't think it's nearly as entertaining as Dawn or Day of the Dead. I'm not bashing at all; like I said, I love him. It's just my least favorite and I'm trying to understand why everyone suggests that as his first. I accidentally saw House By the Cemetary, not knowing it was one of his films, after I saw Zombie. That is the movie that made me continue to pursue his films. -
Trioxin_Zombie — 18 years ago(January 12, 2008 09:38 AM)
Why Zombie???
Why not? I like it and that is all that matters to me. I can, in a way, understand some not taking to it like I do. Each to their own thing in the end I suppose.
Zombie
House By the Cemetary
City of the Living Dead
The Beyond
Don't Torture a Duckling
I have these movies from Lucio, they are not in that order though.
Zombie
City of the Living Dead
House by the Cemetary
The Beyond
Don't Torture a Duckling
There that's better.
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iceknuckles2288 — 18 years ago(January 11, 2008 02:54 PM)
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I cannot understand for the life of me why so many people consider Zombie one of his best. I've tried watching it 3 times now and just cannot get into it. I don't think it's nearly as entertaining as Dawn or Day of the Dead. I'm not bashing at all; like I said, I love him. It's just my least favorite and I'm trying to understand why everyone suggests that as his first. I accidentally saw House By the Cemetary, not knowing it was one of his films, after I saw Zombie. That is the movie that made me continue to pursue his films."
I like the gore effects, zombie makeup , the fight with the shark, and the music. I thought the movie had a good atmosphere and the shark fight was just plain awesome. I also how the movie was coherent unlike city of the living dead. -
brutalplanets@yahoo.com — 18 years ago(January 28, 2008 03:27 PM)
City of the Living Dead is my favorite. Maybe not his BEST (The Beyond and Four of the Apocalypse probably hold that title), but it's my personal favorite. It has the darkest, thickest mood of all his work. And the most memorable gore scenes (for me, at least). That ending, though
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saturnjwl — 13 years ago(October 17, 2012 03:06 AM)
I've seen all his biggest films (Zombi 2, City of the living dead, the beyond, don't torture a duckling, and a few others), and I would say city of the living dead is my perennial favorite. I love that movie. I think it's a faster paced film than The Beyond and just as compelling as Zombi 2, which are tied for second place in my mind. Great films.
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Martialhorror — 18 years ago(January 28, 2008 09:09 PM)
Zombie was my first Fulci film and made me a fan.
I simply thought it was intense, atmospheric, and surprisingly memorable(all about Fabio Frizzi's score baby).
However, I can only praise his direction. The writing and acting weren't very good.
Right now, my favorite Fulci film is "City of the Living dead".although I would say "Dont Torture a Duckling" or "Lizard in Womens skin" would be his best films.
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Greywind — 18 years ago(February 14, 2008 12:19 PM)
i think zombi is one of the best zombie movies out there. it's certainly not an action movie. it seems much more real than most zombie movies. it's got a dark tone, the zombies are some of the best looking zombies you can find. really good music that gives you like a sense of dread.
i think the beyond is my favorite fulci movie, followed by zombi, then city of the living dead. i think those 3 on their own level, then comes the rest of them. wasn't really a big fan of house by the cemetary, but it's still pretty good. -
brutalplanets@yahoo.com — 18 years ago(February 21, 2008 07:11 PM)
Yeah, Contraband ain't bad. It's got some pretty memorable moments. Kinda dull and uninvolving though.
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matt-282 — 18 years ago(April 05, 2008 08:26 PM)
Many horror fans consider 'Zombie' Fulci's best work because the movie was his international breakthrough. His work wasn't noticed where I live here in America until that movie was released in 1980 on the heels of the successful George A. Romero movie 'Dawn of the Dead' which put not only the zombie living dead craze back into the scene, but Fulci's film was the one that got him noticed in the USA as well as the rest of the world. That started Fulci's short-lived, but hugely popular and financially successful, string of zombie and horror films during the early 1980s, before he went into a slump with his later films which were not financially successful.
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claptonisgod53 — 17 years ago(October 05, 2008 03:53 PM)
The first film I seen by Fulci was Zombie, because it seems to be his most popular film. I seen it, and didn't care much for it. I then went on to see City of the Living dead, and from there on I was a fan. I now go back to look at zombie, and I like it now go figure.
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WilliamWeird1313 — 16 years ago(April 14, 2009 11:44 AM)
I think, simply, because it's his most well-known. It's one of his most successful films in America, and one of the most heavily (and memorably) marketed. It's also theb68 most traditional. I mean, sure, Giallos are generally traditional murder mysteries, but they never really hit big over here. Zombie movies did, and, of all the horror films released in the states, I think Zombie is the one most "in league" with conventional mainstream movie-making and audience expectations. City Of The Living Dead, The Beyond, and House By The Cemetery are all, in truth, pretty weird. Especially if you're not a really experienced, Fulci-loving horror aficionado. Most people who get into horror may not wind up hearing about Lizard In A Woman's Skin or The New York Ripper, but even a cursory glance at the horror landscape will give you a glimpse of that familiar ol' rotted ghoul head with the wormy eye, and that well-worn catchphrase of "We're Going To Eat You!"
A lot of people have a harder time getting into the more odd entries in the Fulci filmography, and the more surrealistic, atmospheric, "nightmare logic" approach of City Of The Living Dead and The Beyond.
On top of that, Zombie has some of the most memorable set-pieces of any Fulci film. The splinter-through-the-eyeball gag comes to mind immediately, and it's an image that, though not something everyone's grandmother is familiar with, has, in many ways, penetrated and become a part of the pop culture landscape. The razorblade-through-the-nipple scene, meanwhile, though well-known to folks like you n' I, isn't so well-known to the public at large.
I think Zombie is Lucio's most acclaimed work, because it is his most accessible picture. When something isn't easily accessible, even when its brilliant (like City, which is actually my personal favorite), it's more divisive. Not everyone will see it's greatness, because not everyone will "get it." But it doesn't take much effort to "get" Zombie. It's a zombie flick, pure n' simple. And that tends to be its charm, and why it acts as a gateway drug for most future Fulci junkes the world over.
That's just my theory, anyway.
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