Tom Jolliffe goes back to the 80s to look at a crazy, gore-filled period in Italian horror cinema… There’s a great legacy in Italian Horror. Most famously, the giallo films which rose to prominence through the 60’s and 70’s (led first by Mario Bava, and taken to new heights via Dario Argento), put Italian horror […]
Godfather of Gore: Five Essential Films of Lucio Fulci
Dominic O’Brien selects his Five Essential Films of Lucio Fulci… Highly regarded the world over by obsessive cult film fans as an often tyrannical filmmaker, as well as the godfather of Italian gore films, Lucio Fulci’s films still hit a nerve with viewers old and new. His nightmarish visuals and dreamlike narrative style still feels […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 16 – Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972)
Don’t Torture a Duckling, 1972. Directed by Lucio Fulci. Starring Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Millian, Irene Papas, Marc Porel and Georges Wilson. SYNOPSIS: In a small Italian town, the local police are struggling to solve a recent spate of child murders that have ravaged the area, with the superstitious residents quickly falling into paranoia […]
October Horrors 2018 Day 10 – The House by the Cemetery (1981)
The House by the Cemetary, 1981. Directed by Lucio Fulci. Starring Catriona MacColl, Paolo Malco, Ania Pieroni, and Giovanni Frezza. SYNOPSIS: Dr Norman Boyle moves his family to Boston to take up the research into the mysterious Freudenstein house being conducted by a colleague who seemingly went mad and murdered his mistress before hanging himself. […]
Video Nasties – The Beyond (1981)
The Beyond, 1981. Directed by Lucio Fulci. Starring Catriona McCall, David Warbeck, Ciniza Monreale and Antoine St John. SYNOPSIS: In New Orleans in the 1920s, an artist is gruesomely killed by an angry mob who believe he is a warlock. Several decades later, a young woman named Liza acquires the hotel where the artist was killed […]
Blu-ray Review – Don’t Torture A Duckling (1972)
Don’t Torture a Duckling, 1972. Directed by Lucio Fulci. Starring Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Irene Papas, and Marc Porel. SYNOPSIS: A rural Italian village is plagued by child murders and the finger of suspicion points to several of its locals. Set in rural Southern Italy, Don’t Torture a Duckling followed in the wake […]
October Horrors Day 16 – City of the Living Dead (1980)
City of the Living Dead, 1980 Directed by Lucio Fulci Starring Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Majo and Antonella Interlenghi SYNOPSIS: In the village of Dunwich Father Thomas hangs himself in the local graveyard causing the gates of hell to open and spew evil into the world. At the same time in New York […]
Video Nasties – Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
Zombie Flesh Eaters, 1979 Directed by Lucio Fulci Starring Ian Mculloch, Tisa Farrow, Richard Johnson and Al Cliver SYNOPSIS: A seemingly abandoned sailboat arrives in New York City; however, when police check it out they are attacked by an assailant of the not quite dead variety. Soon after, reporter Peter West comes into contact with […]
Eibon Press announces a series of comics based on Lucio Fulci movies
Fans of Lucio Fulci rejoice! It looks like the films of the ‘Godfather of Gore’ will be providing inspiration for an exclusive set of comic books, courtesy of Eibon Press – a collaboration between acclaimed Shock Festival writer Stephen Romano and Black Devil Doll creator Shawn Lewis. Per Dread Central, their aim is “to make owning and collecting […]
Blu-ray Review – Edgar Allan Poe’s Black Cats
Edgar Allen Poe’s Black Cats Directed by Sergio Martino/Lucio Fulci. Starring Edwige Fenech, Anita Strindberg, Luigi Pistilli, David Warbeck, Ivan Rassimov, Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, Al Cliver and Dagmar Lassander. SYNOPSIS: Box set containing two adaptations of Poe’s classic The Black Cat by directors Sergio Martino and Lucio Fulci. Poe’s The Black Cat, like a […]