Why Zombie???
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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.