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Originally posted by Tat2
If you look at the film for what it is; a very low budget "B" movie. Fulci and Argento have a knack for creating SFX that are more inline with the bigger budget films of the same era. They don't spent the money on highly paid actors, locations etc, but do produce effective movies.
If you try to compare movies such as Seven Doors of Death with big budget movies like The Exorcist you will almost always be unhappy. It took me awhile to accept the Italian movies, thinking they were all bad, because I would always compare them to the bigger budget, U.S. made movies.
I finally figured out that I was missing a big part of good horror by excluding what I automatically thought was terrrible movies if they were Italian.
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actually i was comparing it to other low budget italian thrillers .. which i have always liked.
I was looking around and saw a couple of things about this film ..
One - Fulchi is quoted as saying that it was a film with no plot .. just a series of images.
I totally agree and it went a long way to explain why i didnt like it .. it rambled.
Two - the hospital finale was tacked on as an afterthought .. to appeal the German zombie craze that was going on at the time.
and thats just how it felt to me ..
Actually everything felt 'tacked on' like one of those houses in the country .. where people keep adding rooms on rooms .. and end up with a mess.
I can appreciate that it was low budget $400,000 - but there are a lot of other low budget films i dont like .. for the same reasons.