What's your favorite Lucio Fulci film?

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Originally Posted by Elvis_Christ

I'll take any of Fulci's "disasterpieces" over some the overly pretentious Argento flicks people think are so amazing. I fucking hate Deep Red and after the impressive opening Suspiria is a dull mess that's pretty to look at.

But that's just me.

i dont like Suspiria at all (apart from the soundtrack) but I do love Deep Red.

you anarchist !!

;)

[alkytrio666]

What's prententious about Deep Red?

[The_Return]

I'm not too familiar with his work, but of the handful of flicks that I've seen, House by the Cemetery is easily my favourite.

Crazy, crazy movie, with one of my all-time favourite horror movie endings. Freudstein is just plain awesome.

[fortunato]

Originally Posted by ChronoGrl

We went from Zombie II to genetic shark hybrids. Fortunato and I are going to take over the world with our zombie sharks. Either that or get horribly disfigured.

oh yes.
actually, i have some exciting new ideas regarding this plan.

how about this:

saddles with lasers mounted to them, so we ride atop the creatures, and anyone cunning and/or lucky enough to not be miserably (and hilariously) devoured by our zombie sharks gets a neat laser hole right through their head.

anyway, it's just an idea.

Originally Posted by ChronoGrl

I thought that Duckling was boring (Fortunato, don't kill me!)

haha, yeah, fulci's films are strange in that they really polarize horror fans. someone can love one of his films (like zombi 2 for you) and hate another.

like bub said, he did some brilliant work, and did some shite work.

personally my favorites are zombi 2, the beyond, and don't torture a duckling, probably in that order.

he also did a western definitely worth checking out (in my opinion), although it's probably not what you'd think and i'm pretty sure a lot of people find it boring:

four of the apocalypse

[Bub the Zombie]

Originally Posted by Elvis_Christ

Fulci "delivered much lesser than what he had potential for" whatever... :rolleyes:

Look down the list of films he did and judge for yourself.

His early gialli work, and his westerns, showed promise. Real promise. Till he decided to make his mark through gore-filled mindless films. I dare say he would have been a filmmaker with a much bigger global impact than Argento, had he stuck to gialli.

That being said, House by the Cemetery and Zombi II are still cult favorites. No question about them. Still, for me, his gialli are certainly a notch above his later works of horror/gore.

My favorite is probably Zombi/Zombi 2 but I've enjoyed all of Fulci's movies that I've seen so far.

[Elvis_Christ]

Originally Posted by alkytrio666

What's prententious about Deep Red?

It was way to drawn out for me and didn't really go anywhere I just thought it could have been done better. I'm more a Tenebrae man myself.

Originally Posted by Bub the Zombie

Look down the list of films he did and judge for yourself.

I've watched a bunch of his flicks and I stick by what I said. I wouldn't call his gore-filled flicks "mindless" there's a certain greatness to them even if it is a case of style over substance. But each to their own I guess. I really like Murder Rock but most people seem to hate it. I thought it was a return to his older work.

[sfear]

Originally Posted by Zombi3

I was on a Zombie kick for a while and recently watched Zombie 2 by Lucio Fulci, i really enjoyed it and was wondering what some of your favorite movies were by this director, i'd really like to check out some more of his work.... where to begin?

What's your favorite Fulci film?

And if you can make a suggestion on other Italian directors to check out, please do?

The first Zombie so far. Fulci also did a spaghetti western if you're interested, Massacre Time. His horror is better. My favorite Italian director is Sergio Leone. Unfortunately, as you probably know, he didn't do any horror. Would've been great if he did.

[Festered]

Originally Posted by sfear

The first Zombie so far. Fulci also did a spaghetti western if you're interested, Massacre Time. His horror is better. My favorite Italian director is Sergio Leone. Unfortunately, as you probably know, he didn't do any horror. Would've been great if he did.

Well Sergio's early work in peplums could be argued to fall under the category of fantasy. And he did like killing(or at least smacking around) 1 child or another, in all his later films. In Giu la testa(Duck, You Sucker) he killed a whole herd of children.

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zombi/zombi2....??