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Old 04-08-2007, 05:15 PM
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WHAT DID DAVID LYNCH DO?
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Old 04-08-2007, 10:41 PM
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You gotta love him or hate him. If you love gore in your movies, love him. If you want fast-paced, creepy, bumpity-bump horror, then Fulci isnt your cup of tea. It all depends on one's tastes in horror I guess.

I still say that Fulci is a legend, for The House of the Cemetery and Zombie alone. The rest was decent or average material, but it does not deter from the fact stated above.
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For a moment I thought someone declared The New York Ripper to be 'weak as fuck' when clearly it's one of the most brutal and misogynist slasher films ever made, not requiring a police escort out of the UK for nothing.

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I like violence (Ichi the Killer, Dawn of the Dead), incoherency (Phantom of Liberty, Following), gore (Suicide Circle, Eaten Alive), and all that jibberjabber, but Fulci's only made one movie I like, Zombi, and even that's not as good as I remember it being. I still say that, within the horror community, The Beyond is one of the most overrated piece of shit movies I've ever seen.
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Old 04-11-2007, 05:50 AM
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I didn't like The Beyond when I fist saw it (albeit in its cut form) either - and I remember why: it seemed to be badly acted, dubbed, put together, and most damagingly didn't appeal to my sense of teenage cool at the time.

Of course it could just simply be a bad film to some and always remain that way, but assessing it now (based on last viewing about 5 years ago) the almost subversive, sheer anti-cinema of The Beyond (and 80's Italian horror in general) shines on through to command respect. Although the scene is changing now with so-called 'torture-porn' (awful tag!), this is probably due to the damaging self-referential and anti-hero glut of 'safe' horror in the 1990s, when many of us were forced to look outside of Hollywood and the USA in search of more exploitative, less predictable fun.
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perhaps holywoods drive to bring worldcinema remakes to our screens at every corner is a response to the exodus of pure horror fans to european and asian movie markets. either that, or they've run out of ways to make the same mindless gory shite and are just importing others ideas that have imagination and substance. maybe pans labyrinth is just another step along the road to subtitled originals being part of the mainstream; fingers crossed!
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Eraserhead & Lost Highway. Fuck David Lynch.

These are 2 movies that I absolutely HATED and there really are not very many other movies I can say that about. A movie that is just weird for the sake of being weird with no purpose or resolution to the plot that wasn't ever really coherent to begin with is a waste of my fuckin' time. I might as well be watching a retarded kid try to hula hoop for 120 minutes.
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Old 04-11-2007, 07:33 AM
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Lost Highway is another one of my favourites, and coincidentally, like The Beyond and Haute Tension, also rubs many people up the wrong way.

While it has been suggested that, with this film in particular, Lynch might be having us on, I think he bridges the gap between self-indulgence and subversion here. Yes, it features an inexplicable metamorphisis and strange doubles among other wierdness, but the consistency of mood and atmosphere is so engrossing that we go along for the ride anyway.

Love or hate him, David Lynch is still a pioneering filmmaker of our time.
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Old 04-12-2007, 06:10 AM
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I don't like his zombie flicks too much,but I love his Giallo!

Here are some I liked a lot.


A Lizard in Woman's Skin
The New York Ripper
Murder-Rock
One on Top of the Other
Don't Torture A Duckling


Too bad he didn't make more of them!:(
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Old 04-15-2007, 06:02 AM
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Post Fulci was a genius!!!

I'd have to agree with Paws the Great. I prefer his giallo to his gore films. However, he made some great gore films too. Here is my top 5 Fulci's:

New York Ripper
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Don't Torture a Duckling
The Beyond
City of the Living Dead

Btw, I really want to see Seven Notes in Black and Beatrice Cenci. I hear they are totally rad.
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