Not exactly an exploding head but this is great stuff from a film I really like that doesn’t get as much credit as it deserves.
[quote=“Yodlaf Peterson, post:141, topic:517”]Not exactly an exploding head but this is great stuff from a film I really like that doesn’t get as much credit as it deserves.
- YouTube i’m not the only one Yodlaf! i love The Fury! one of my Top 20 films and My favourite Brian De Palma Film. Pure entertainment from start to finish, and a great film score, the main theme is tremendous! 10/10
Out of the Fulci films I’ve seen
1.Silver Saddle
2.The Beyond
3.House by the Cemetery
4.Four off the Apocalypse
5.Massacre Time
6.The New York Ripper
7.Zombie 2
8. City of the living dead
First saw zombie 2 oh probably 11 years ago, and at the time, I found the first half slow, and found myself fast forwarding to the last twenty minutes. I ended up buying a copy of the house by the cemetery and fell in love with the gore,dark haunted old mansion, bizarre villain, and thought the scenes he shot in the basement ( with the mad, ageless doctor) were unlike anything I’d seen before. I viewed New York ripper but thought or too was bit slow, and shelved Fulci until I saw he made westerns and of course the rest is history.
Upon seeing " the Beyond" for the first time, I regret shelving him and putting this off, as it’s very entertaining, and the scene where the dog attacks the women, as well that spider scene ( shot somewhat slowly to intensify the gore), both make cool usage of special effects. That opening scene ( the killing of the painter) is a fine display of gore and debauchery, is my second opening of any of his films( besides silver saddle) and I think it gives the viewer a display of blood and evil. a nice realistic display of gore, very inspiring to watch over and over, and I don’t think he could have made it better.
There is another thread on the same topic named “The films of fulci”, shouldn’t they be merged?
Here’s something for Fulci fans
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But people have to be quick. The campaign ends just about right now.
In fact it has ended now. I already jumped on the ‘cheap’ £75 package including the book and dvd. Look forward to some Fulci reading when it’s finally released.
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Watched quite recently Demonia from severin BD. While obviously nowhere as good as his earlier horrors it turned out to be far better than expected. Lead actress was good and locations great. With slightly better script(lots ideas are borrowed from his earlier movies) and some more time spent on filming it would perhaps have been great. Of movies Fulci made after new york ripper imo Demonia is finest tho haven`t seen Conquest yet.
Fulci is one of my favorites.
The Beyond,Gates of Hell,House by the Cemetery and others are great films.
Seen Massacre Time,but it was a bad print.
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Rewatching The Beyond. So much worse than I remembered. I remembered it as quite masterful, but it really isn’t all that great…
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Yup, I thought The Beyond was rubbish. I bought all three “Gates of Hell” movies (IIRC I had to chase down The Beyond on eBay since it wasn’t readily available at that point; the ither two I got off of Amazon), watched them once each, wished I’d never bothered, took them to the charity shop. Probably the quickest turnaround I’ve ever made on a Blu-ray from “I gots to buy it!” to “Sling it in the charity bag!”
It retains a fearsome reputation to this day, especially among those fond of Lovecraftian horror movies. God alone knows why. Being completely honest I think Fulci was a far better westerns director than he was a horror director. Sacrilege probably, but there we are. Just imho, as always.
I thought The Beyond was pretty okay, that being said, his gialli, westerns and earlier films in general are lot less trashy than his later efforts. Never been too fond of Zombi 2 either, just meh, definitely prefer The Beyond to that one. The Gates of Hell was so disappointing and tough to get through I never got around to watching House by the Cemetery.
It’s easy to see why he doesn’t have the best of reputations, most people are wont to judge him as a director based on his most popular works which aren’t that good to begin with unless you are a total gorehound.
He wasn’t exactly a good spaghetti western director either… Massacre Time is a very average b-spaghetti, if not a bit below average.
To each his own, of course, but I really like Massacre Time. 
And Four of the Apocalypse - a movie on which I wasn’t at all keen when I first saw it - has grown on me over the years, too. Neither exactly mark him out as a master of the genre, no, but imho they’re head and shoulders above anything else of his I’ve seen (although I should add that that includes other westerns he’s directed, too).
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i might have to rewatch massacre time but i remember the acting being really bad and the story being really average, reminded me of texas adios (1966)
Now THAT is about as dreary as spags get.
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Yeah that film is truly abysmal. The cast and filming locations are fantastic but the director wastes them. 0 creativity and 0 inspiration behind that film. One of the few genuinely frustrating SWs to watch because of the missed potential.
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