Horror > Fulci, Lucio Horror

From The Hat To The Brain

Advantages: Time to reminise
Disadvantages: Cheap looking video film

...a gap in the schedule. Cat In The Brain or Nightmare Concert as its better known in Europe is not quite that bad, but you can see the resemblances. For Fulci as a director it gave him a opportunity to redo special effects shots that never worked so well the first time round. The two major movie influences over the film were two recent additions Sodoma’s Ghost and Touch Of Death; both of which were finished just prior to the filming of Cat In The ...
...movies side by side and Cat In The Brain is a far superior movie, the plot is more coherent and the characters act rather than whine there way through the plot. In making a movie so close to home (emotionally speaking) Fulci lets the viewer see him in a slightly different light than they may expect. Rumours of him being a miserable old sod are not likely to diminish after seeing this movie; which personally I believe is an incredibly courageous ...

sghawken 24.04.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Cat In The Brain (DVD)

The Clocks Are Reversing.......

Advantages: Great Story
Disadvantages: Weak Ending

...were made by two of the top Italian Horror Movie Directors, Lucio Fulci & Umberto Lenzi. Fulci made House Of Clocks, and Sweet House Of Horror, while Umberto Lenzi made House Of Witchcraft and House Of lost Souls. Back to House Of Clocks, the story idea is great, a group of rather unpleasent teenagers or twentysomethings, out for a weekend of trouble making head off to the country. After a couple of incidences along the way, they find a remote house. ...
...man of the house has thousands of clocks of all types all over it. While playing rather silly cat and mouse games the three house residents are killed. The gang decide rather than to flee the scene they will stay and use the house as a weekend sex pad. But that night, the clocks go anticlockwise, and the residents rise from the dead to take their revenge. The only downfall to this story is the ending, which pulls the story back a bit. Otherwise ...

sghawken 01.11.2005 · Read full review
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Review of The House Of Clocks (Uncut) (DVD)

Are children monsters or are monsters children?

Advantages: Good atmosphere
Disadvantages: Wooden acting, dodgy special effects

...something not quite right with the house - there are strange noises and things that go bump in the night - but think it must be their imagination. Then things begin to get out of control and the Boyles really begin to fear for their lives. Will they manage to escape from the house by the cemetery? And is there really something in the cellar that wants them dead? Having recently seen Black Cat, another eighties film directed by Lucio Fulci, I was ...
...is nothing particularly original about the story - couple with children move into an uninhabited house that isn't really uninhabited - but the way that it is told, with lots of suspense, is intriguing enough to keep the viewer interested. The special effects, of which there are a lot because there are body parts falling all over the place in this film, are not brilliant. The creature in the cellar likes to behead his victims, but the heads look as ...

sunmeilan 18.06.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The House By The Cemetery (DVD)

And Acid For You...

Advantages: Very quick on its toes
Disadvantages: Very Bad Dubbing

I believe this was the third Lucio Fulci film I watched, and have revisited it frequently over the years. Filmed in New Orleans (without permission, but they had fast cars) and Rome The Beyond centers around a young womans Hotel Inheritence, where many years earlier a Warlock (alledgedly) was crucified, beaten with hefty metal chains and melted with acid. Unaware of its gresome past Liza (Catriona MacColl) spends time and money renovating the house ...
...staff. During the run up to the opening a carpenter falls from a roof after seeing some scary eyes, and Joe The Plumber gets a thumb stuck in his head by a nasty demon in the basement. After a visit to dress Joes corpse his wife Martha partakes in a little Acid Bath (it does not do much for her complexion) needless to say its all kicking off now. If your new to the horror world the gore in this may be a little bit much, if your considering a dog ...

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Review of The Beyond Uncut (DVD)

Look out .... ZOMBIE SHARK!

Advantages: All zombie fans will love this.
Disadvantages: The films dub is a little off, but who cares when there's zombies involved.

...yet to see all the zombie features.. so I'm a little slow - bite me ;^) This is one that has been in the back of my brain on my must watch list for a long time. Up until I recently saw the film, I suppose I was a little sceptic to it being in any way as entertaining as some of the brilliant Romero films (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead).. But I was pleasantly surprised at how scary and gore-tastic it was. The fantastically ...

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Review of Zombie Flesh Eaters (DVD)