This gruesome horror film from cult director Lucio Fulci posits a priest's suicide opening the gateway to Hell, freeing bloodthirsty zombies to roam the town of Dunwich. The main attractions are startlingly explicit special effects by Franco Rufino, including two of the horror genre's most memorable deaths. One involves perennial victim Giovanni ...
Christopher Connelly (Trauma) plays an archaeologist who desecrates the tomb of a 5,000-year-old god of cruelty and evil, and is temporarily blinded by lasers from a blue stone in the wall. Meanwhile, a sightless old woman gives his daughter, Susie (Brigitta Boccoli), an identical stone -- the Evil Eye -- in a town square. Back in New York, Susie ...
Produced in Italy, this film concerns the crimelord in a smuggling ring whose brother is killed in an ambush by a rival gang. While he seeks a suitable hide-out, his inferiors track down the perpetrators. The film appears in Italian with English subtitles. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
This audaciously disgusting spectacle from the late master of gruesome horror, Lucio Fulci, was posited as a semi-sequel to George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, which was released in Italy as Zombi. Tisa Farrow and a group of vacationing tourists travel to an island where they find a doctor (Richard Johnson) who is attempting to cure a condition that ...
When several young boys are brutally murdered in a small southern Italian village, the superstitious locals react with ignorance and violence. All misfits are immediately suspected, such as big-city tart Barbara Bouchet, the local village idiot, and voodoo practitioner Florinda Bolkan, who is brutally murdered by the villagers in a startling and ...
Acclaimed horror director Lucio Fulci infuses the sword-and-sorcery genre with gory decapitations, pus-squirting lesions and flesh-eating zombies in this uneven fantasy. The hero of the piece is young Ilias (Andrea Occhipinti), who, along with his bolo-swinging friend Maxz (Jorge Rivero), battles monsters, mutant tribes, and an evil queen (Sabrina ...
Italian goremeister Lucio Fulci applies his characteristic touch to the Edgar Allan Poe tale (of which very little remains intact) to tell the story of a deranged, wheelchair-bound English psychic (Patrick Magee) who can record the voices of the dead on tape, and apparently possesses the ability to channel evil spirits into the body of his cat -- ...
A vain gambler (Fabio Testi), a pregnant prostitute (Lynne Frederick), a bumbling alcoholic (Michael J. Pollard) and a man who claims to see ghosts (Harry Baird) become unlikely traveling companions in this unusual spaghetti Western from notorious Italian horror director Lucio Fulci. The only survivors of a frontier-town massacre staged to rid the ...
Italian cult favorite Lucio Fulci (Zombi 2) directed this atmospheric return to the Gothic themes which had brought him such success in the early '80s, and reminds the viewer of a pair of those early works in the opening scenes. Beginning with the horrifying torture, crucifixion, and flaming deaths of a group of nuns beneath a convent in 1486 ...
Helmed by acknowledged horror master Lucio Fulci, the political satire All'onorevole Piacciono le Donne stars Lando Buzzanca as Gianni Pupis, a powerful politician who takes a fall in the public eye after his habit of slapping women on the behind leads him to humiliate a different country's leader, causing an international incident that leads ...
In this Italian thriller, a woman is tormented by morbid premonitions heralding the deaths of people she knows. As she tries to understand the terrifying phenomenon, she remembers her childhood when her mother jumped off a cliff and seemingly died. As the visions continue, she not only sees her own upcoming death, she also gains insight into the ...
Lucio Fulci's gory, tongue-in-cheek horror film stars Brett Halsey as a gold-digging psycho preying on wealthy widows with physical handicaps. Woman are cut apart with chainsaws, cooked in microwaves, and so forth, courtesy of effects-man Angelo Mattei, before being immaculately disposed of by the strangely prissy killer. Ria DeSimone, Pier Luigi ...
Italian schlock-horror director Lucio Fulci helmed this 1989 made-for-television ghost story, featuring his trademark gore mixed with a fairy-tale plot. The film tells the story of a couple who are brutally murdered in a stomach-turning scene. Afterwards, the man and woman return as spirits to look after their children and cause havoc for their up ...
Filmed in English, this Italian mystery thriller/melodrama explores the murder of a doctor's wife. The doctor himself (Jean Morel) has long since taken up with a mistress. His wife begged out of engagements as an asthmatic, all the while actually entertaining herself with her part-time job as a stripper. Did the doctor kill her? After all, he took ...
The muddled production history of this sloppy horror film was so convoluted that for years it was assumed that schlockmeister Bruno Mattei (Inferno dei Morti-Viventi) had completed the project after the failing health of principal director Lucio Fulci had forced the cult legend to abandon it. It was subsequently revealed that co-producer Claudio ...
In this futuristic Italian crime drama, 21st-century Romans devise an ingenious way to take care of criminals -- they make them fight each other gladiator-style on national television. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Lucio Fulci's thriller Murder Rock takes place at a dance academy. When students start turning up dead, Candice (Olga Karlatos) becomes an amateur sleuth in order to track down the person responsible for terrorizing the place. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Although primarily known for gruesome 1980s horror films like L'Aldila and Lo Squartatore di New York, it took cult Italian director Lucio Fulci until this bloody spaghetti Western -- his 17th film -- before he began exploring the dark recesses of insanity and Sadean bloodshed which marked his later work. Bolstered by a commanding star turn from ...
This cult horror film from director Lucio Fulci lurches along with a certain amount of disjunction due to cutting, perhaps, if not to an innate Fulci disposition. When the Boyle family temporarily moves into a mansion near Boston so the father can do some research, the son Bob (Giovanni Frezza) starts seeing the ghost of a young girl motioning to ...
This gruesome Louisiana-set horror film opens with a 1927 prologue featuring a Satanic artist being crucified and melted alive with quicklime in the basement of an old hotel. Half a century later, pretty Liza (Catriona MacColl) inherits the hotel, not suspecting that it is one of seven gateways to Hell. A workman breaks his neck, another has his ...
Horror icon Lucio Fulci directed this slow-moving entry in the "haunted brothel" subgenre. Two couples visit the site of a creepy Nazi brothel which was bombed by the Allies in 1943, only to be seduced and menaced by the ghosts residing there. Copious nudity and a game cast can't save this one from well-deserved obscurity. ~ Robert Firsching, All ...
In this Italian splatter film, director Lucio Fulci plays a horror filmmaker who goes to a psychiatrist because the types of films he makes are starting to disturb him, he suspects that his German producers are Nazis, and he believes he may be a killer himself. Much of the movie consists of clips from Fulci's previous films. ~ Brian Gusse, All ...
Italian horror legend Lucio Fulci directed this strange little mystery about a woman (Karina Huff) whose millionaire father (Duilio del Prete) is murdered by having ground glass frozen into the ice cubes used in his drink. Del Prete's spirit then causes Huff to search for his killer, but as his body rots, his reach into the world of the living ...
Jack Hedley of The Anniversary stars as a hardbitten police lieutenant tracking a sadistic sex-killer in this gruesome thriller from splatter-maven Lucio Fulci. The misogynistic script (by Fulci and prolific collaborators Gianfranco Clerici and Vincenzo Mannino) posits a femme-hating psycho (who talks like Donald Duck) slashing beautiful women ...
This cult movie classic, also known as Schizoid, is a psychodrama murder mystery thriller involving LSD, psychoanalysis, lesbianism, and having at least one extremely gory dream sequence which involves eviscerated dogs. The director had to prove in court that the dogs in question were fabricated and not real. Florinda Bolkan stars as the woman ...
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