I absolutely love Fulci; I have:
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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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WilliamWeird1313 — 16 years ago(April 15, 2009 06:55 AM)
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WilliamWeird1313 — 16 years ago(April 16, 2009 06:53 AM)
Okay, GillMan. That's enough. Settle down, settle down.
Don't get me kicked out of the Lucio Fulci message boards. Get me kicked out of the Miley Cyrus ones, but not the Fulci ones.
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Jiiimbooh — 16 years ago(November 12, 2009 04:14 PM)
I have 16 of his movies and seen 1 more and would consider Zombie his best straight horror movie. It was also the movie that got me interested in his movies in the first place. It had a simple, but good story, good gore scenes, and good atmosphere (the island setting, voodoo drums in the background, music, and camera work all contribute to this).
He has also made some great movies that I wouldn't consider horror: Don't Torture a Duckling, Perversion Story, A Lizard in a Woman's Skin, The Smuggler, and one I saw recently Beatrice Cenci. These are all great movies that would probably get more critical acclaim than his horror movies if more people sought them out. When I first started to collect Fulci's movies on DVD these were unreleased or hard to find, but his post-Manhattan Baby horrors that few people seem to like could be found everywhere because it's easier to sell a horror movie by Fulci than to sell a period drama (Beatrice Cenci) by Fulci. Choosing the best one is hard, but I guess Zombie Flesh Eaters remains my favorite partly because it's the first one I saw, but I want to draw more attention to his earlier work too.
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ilon — 13 years ago(December 01, 2012 03:36 PM)
It was kind of a letdown when I finally saw it.
I love Paura nella citta dei morti viventi and L'adilla and collected as many of his films as I could during my student years. It was hard, like getting a piece of gold, like finding the holy grail. Now I'm glad that it is easier to get, but back then in the VHS era after 3 or 4 years of quest zombi 2 was a big expensive letdown. Maybe I got used to his surreal horror and didn't expect a "normal" gory zombi movie.
His prehorror era was almost "unfindable". Fulci himself was looking for a copy of Beatrice Cenci in the 90s.