I am an enormous fan of the bizarre and gory films of Lucio Fulci. To say his work is twisted is to seriously underrate just how strange and avant garde his films could be. They are often incoherent, with a dreamlike haze that quickly turns into nightmares. Unfortunately, 1991's Voices from Beyond was one of … Continue reading Voices from Beyond (1991)
Terrorists get hold of a biological weapon called Death One in the Philippines, but the lone survivor in their group accidentally contaminates himself. The US Army tracks him down and burns the corpses of everyone in the hotel he was staying in, but this causes Death One to enter the atmosphere, kill birds, and bring … Continue reading Zombi 3 (1988)
This is the last of Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy for me. They're gory flicks, with bad dubs, plots both incomprehensible and lost in translation, and story elements combed directly from classic American horror literature and film ranging from Shelley to Lovecraft, with a bit of Kubrick thrown in for good measure, all wrapped up in … Continue reading The House by the Cemetery (1981)
Man, even the movie poster shows Lucio Fulci's hatred of eyeballs. A bunch of folks in New York City host a seance, during which a woman named Mary sees a priest hanging himself and results in her going comatose and being buried alive. It's soon revealed that what Mary saw is in fact a vision … Continue reading City of the Living Dead (1980)
Did you know Lucio Fulci hates people's eyeballs? The Beyond is all over the place. Its plot ranges from incredibly awesome to barely coherent, its gore is excessive to the point of ridiculousness, and its acting varies depending on the person, though most of the characters do ok in that Italian schlock B-movie kind of … Continue reading The Beyond (1981)
