What's your favorite Lucio Fulci film?
 

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?

Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)

Leone, Argento, Risi, Corbucci, De Sica, Lamberto, Bava, Antonioni, Deodato, Lenzi, Margheriti, Pasolini, Massaccesi, Fellini, Valerii, Cavani, Soavi, Brass, Mattei, Visconti, Bertolucci, Freda, Ferrario....the list is endless. Italy is one of the great cinema capitals of the world.

I LOVE Zombie II. It's one of my absolute favorite movies of all time and my hands-down favorite Fulci film.

I actually started a thread about it a while back (the digression of the thread amuses me so much that I am reposting):

http://horror.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33180

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.

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I have also seen Don't Torture a Duckling, House by the Cemetery, and Lizard in Women's Skin and I have to say none of them come close to the brilliance that I thought he showed in Zombie II. I thought that Duckling was boring (Fortunato, don't kill me!), House was good, but the zombie looked silly.

Lizard in Women's Skin had some brilliant direction, though and I was riveted throughout the whole film.

I think that Bub hit the nail on the head:

GATES OF HELL, for real...Check that one out
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081318/


As for others...I was gonna suggest Argento, Lenzi and Bava, but someone already beat me to it up there

Watch Lenzi's 'Ghosthouse'...It's a creepy little thing

I have quit a few favorite Fulci films. Without a doubt Zombi2 is my favorite along with The Beyond.

But some others that are truly great Fulci films are:

-House of Clocks ( Fantastic, under rated Fulci flick )
-NewYork Ripper ( Another great Fulci film )
-Dont Torture a Duckling
-City of the Living Dead ( Good gore, just I would put quit a few other films of his b4 it )

Zombie flesh eaters

i have a hard time using the word favorite .. and fulci in the same sentence (not a fan)


but this one i dont mind too much

The New York Ripper and The House By The Cemetery are amazing films. There's a lot more of his work I need to check out but out of the stuff I own those two are my favorites. Zombie's an ok film but its really average compared his other work as his style doesn't creep thru as much.

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

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 !!

;)

What's prententious about Deep Red?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

zombi/zombi2....??

Different titles for Zombie that all the hipsters use to sound more clued up!

Never heard of peplum. Just did a google search and came across one of his sword and sandal films from 1962. Thanks for mentioning it.

"A" sphagetti western? He made three of em:- Massacre Time, Four of the Apocalypse and Silver Saddle.

And I would rank his westerns on par with his horror works, if not just a slight notch below. While the first one was quite good, the other two are entertaining at best. All 3 have their respective flaws, but thats Fulci.

I still say his earlier 2 gialli - A Lizard in a Woman's Skin and Don't Torture A Duckling, are his best works.

Genre title for S&S es. Leone reportedly worked second unit on Ben-Hur, and liked to claim he directed the famous chariot scene(disproven). There are quite a few legends abounding, about him, most of them fostered by him, in his lifetime.

A great anecdote about him, involved an actor named Al Mulloch(you may remember him as the first face you see, in extreme close-up, in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly). He was one of the initial gunfighters at the beginning of Once Upon a Time in the West. During production, Mulloch committed suicide, by leaping from a hotel room window(he purported went flying past the stunned Leone on the way down) still dressed in costume. Leone rushed out into the street, frantically trying to retrieve the costume(it was the only one made). The story has fostered the notion that Leone's callous indifference to Mulloch cursed his films to be box office flops, forever after.

I chalk it up, more to crappy US distributors, myself.

From what I have seen, I agree. These are my two favorites. Particularly Don't Torture A Duckling.

But I am not much of a Fulci fan. I am one of the few that just can't stand The Beyond. I do like City of the Living Dead (or Gates of Hell, whatever) though.

Would have to say my favorite Fulci is either Dont Torture a Duckling or the obvious Beyond. Also high on the list would be Lizard in a womans skin.

Leone certainly had some backward habits. This might explain why the Man With No Name Trilogy appears to have been filmed in reverse chronological order. The most obvious clue is Eastwood finding his poncho on a Civil War battlefield at the end of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. The next would be For A Few Dollars More where a now ponchoed "Monk" watches Colonel Mortimer open a safe filled with cash with The Confederate States Of America printed on it. Finally, A Fistful Of Dollars, the first filmed would be the last chronologically as a headstone during the cemetery shootout is clearly marked 1874.

Don't Torture a Duckling, The Beyond and City of the Living Dead top my list followed closely by New York Ripper and The House by the Cemetary (mainly for the good Dr. at the end).

I'm a die hard fan of Zombie. I've seen a lot of Fulci films but non can compare to the fun that is Zombie.
i currently own
House By The Cemetary,
The New York Ripper
Zombie
Zombie 3
City Of the Living Dead
and The Beyond
been meaning to grab Four Of The Apocalypse and Conquest

To each his own.While I dont think CityOTLD is anywhere close to his best film, or my favorite.Well it is my favorite for the fact the GORE in it is excellent.Not that it isnt in all his films,but in COTLD its got some good gore and sick scenes.

The House by the Cemetery

This is the best list of Fusto-Peplums I could put together. You'll note that the resurgence in the 1980s is included, with Arnie and Ferrigno. Some of the biggest names in spaghettis worked in them, on both sides of the camera lens, including Dan Vadis who went on to work in many of Eastwood's films in the US.



Atlas in the Land of the Cyclops
Ator the Blademaster
Ator, the Fighting Eagle
Barbarians
Beast of Babylon vs the Son of Hercules
Conan the Barbarian
Conquerer of Atlantis
Conquest
Duel of Champions
Giant of Metropolis
Hercules
Hercules & the Captive Women
Hercules & the Princess of Troy aka Hercules vs the Sea Monster
Hercules & the Queen of Lydia
Hercules Against the Mongols
Hercules Challenges Samson
Hercules in the Haunted World
Hercules Unchained
Hercules vs Moloch
Hercules vs the Barbarians
Invincible Barbarian
Invincible Gladiators
Iron Master
Iron Warrior
Labors of Hercules
Loves of Hercules
Maciste & the Queen of Samar aka Hercules Against the Moon Men
Maciste at the Court of the Great Khan
Maciste in Genghis Khan's Hell
Maciste in Hell
Maciste in the Land of the Cyclops
Maciste in the Valley of the Kings
Maciste vs the Mongols
Maciste vs the Monsters
Maciste vs the Vampires aka Goliath Against the Vampires
Medusa Against the Son of Hercules aka Perseus the Invincible
Messalina Against the Son of Hercules
Mole Men vs the Son of Hercules
Revenge of Hercules
Sandokan the Great
Seven Magnificent Gladiators
She
Sinbad of the 7 Seas
Son Of Hercules in the Land of Darkness
Spartacus & the Ten Gladiators
Ten Gladiators
Terror of Rome Against the Son of Hercules
Throne of Fire
Triumph of Hercules
Triumph of the Ten Gladiators
Tyrant of Lydia vs the Son of Hercules
Vulcan, Son of Jupiter
Witch's Curse
Zorro vs Maciste

The Beyond is my favorite Fulci film and my favorite film of all time, actually. Fabio Frizzi's theme from the very beginning hooked me and set me on a path of horror fandom that I am still enjoying to this day.

-D

I prefer Tenebre and The Bird With The Crystal Plumage over Deep Red and Suspiria though I do like those.

As far as Fulci I'd have to say Lizard In A Womans Skin, Don't Torture A Duckling and The New York Ripper then The Beyond, Zombie, House By The Cemetery and Gates Of Hell.

[QUOTE=Festered;748052]This is the best list of Fusto-Peplums I could put together. You'll note that the resurgence in the 1980s is included, with Arnie and Ferrigno. Some of the biggest names in spaghettis worked in them, on both sides of the camera lens, including Dan Vadis who went on to work in many of Eastwood's films in the US.


Thanks for all the time and work you put into that list. Can't say any of them look familiar. Are they any good, or hit and miss like any other genre?

[quote=sfear;748122]I'd probably say these are the most enjoyable of the lot, but you should explore many more of them, to see some legendary talent when they were just starting out. Strangely, Leone's were not the best of the genre.


Giant of Metropolis
Hercules
Hercules in the Haunted World
Hercules Unchained
Hercules vs the Barbarians
Labors of Hercules
Maciste in the Valley of the Kings
Seven Magnificent Gladiators
Ten Gladiators

[QUOTE=Festered;748138]Thanks again. I printed them out for easy reference when I next go video hunting (tomorrow as a matter of fact). Think next time I'll write them down by hand as it took 5 sheets of 8.5 by 11 to get one page of forum. Still learning this compustuff.

Which ones are horror directors?

Not all of those guys are horror directors, Nella.

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