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« Reply #15 on: October 25, 2010, 09:39:55 PM »

I only have 2 Fulci films: AENIGMA and THE RED MONKS

neither of them makes much sense, at all. A girl in Aenigma gets eaten by slugs and doesn't run away.

I want to get A LIZARD IN A WOMAN'S SKIN because it looks like a high class/surreal Giallo and has lots of good reviews.
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« Reply #16 on: October 25, 2010, 11:41:50 PM »

From what I've seen, logic and sense are not to be found in a Fulci film.  Watch the eye impalement scene in zombie and ask yourself why she didn't, oh, turn her head slightly, or move the splinter to the side, or any of a number of other things.  His films play out like nightmares, with a logic that can't be trusted and a lot of stuff that makes no sense.  I find some of his imagery and sequences of violence hypnotic and mesmerizing, but a lot of the other sequences and the films as a whole often disjointed and a little dull. 

I hear his earlier giallos are a lot more conventional though.
I agree, especially about the women never running away or squirming much, if at all, while being attacked.  Not a big fan of Fulci but Zombie is okay (the only Fulci film I own).
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« Reply #17 on: October 27, 2010, 04:22:20 AM »

As a doctor, writer, and director Fulci was someone in control, someone who had answers, yet life life would throw something at him which he could not answer. In 1969, his wife committed suicide. Several years later, his daughter was killed in a car wreck. Some say that his films entered into a dark period following these tragedies; especially following his daughter's death.

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« Reply #18 on: October 27, 2010, 02:51:57 PM »

From what I've seen, logic and sense are not to be found in a Fulci film.  Watch the eye impalement scene in zombie and ask yourself why she didn't, oh, turn her head slightly, or move the splinter to the side, or any of a number of other things.  His films play out like nightmares, with a logic that can't be trusted and a lot of stuff that makes no sense.  I find some of his imagery and sequences of violence hypnotic and mesmerizing, but a lot of the other sequences and the films as a whole often disjointed and a little dull. 

I hear his earlier giallos are a lot more conventional though.
I agree, especially about the women never running away or squirming much, if at all, while being attacked.  Not a big fan of Fulci but Zombie is okay (the only Fulci film I own).

Zombie wasn't really much to understand. The dead rose and attacked the living and those that died from it got up and killed.  And yeah, it was a great movie.

While it was petty much a bandwagon film (in response to Dawn Of The Dead it managed to stand on it's own in terms of gore and shock.  In fact, it made the gore in DOTD (or any other film of the time) look like a cartoon show!

While not inspired by any originality, it did break ground in terms of gore FX.
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