WARNING: Do Not Eat Before Reading This Post!

Kids, believe me when I say that Lucio Fulci was the man to go to when you wanted to watch a flat-out insanely bloody Italian movie of any kind. Gialli, mostly, was his forte and the genre by which many know him today.

Most of his films were exemplified by the excessive amounts of gore, bloodletting, zombies, body part removals and other such special effects masterworks. As his movies blazed across the screen with pervasive, intense violence and unrelenting, almost unbearable, fright, it would be easy to believe that he embraced a bleak world view. In real life, as his biography attests to, Fulci was too busy battling vigorously against the Catholic church in real-life as well as in films like Beatrice Cenci and Don't Torture A Duckling. He also had many well-publicized battles against his own homeland of Italy, where he was effectively blacklisted after several early films deriding church as well as state.

But no one could deny he was a very effective film-maker, with his mastery of the craft well-evidenced in his body of work. He died in 1996, after a life-long battle with diabetes, leaving behind him a loving example of what he enjoyed best: movies.

Now, here's the part I was warning you about. You know, no eating before reading....

Let's watch some highlights from his career, shall we?

Here's the movie trailer for The Beyond (a.k.a. - Seven Doors of Death)...



Another trailer for Zombi (a.k.a. Zombi 2, Zombie, etc.)...



Here's a trailer from a classic Fulci film, A Lizard In A Woman's Skin...



How about the opening two minutes or so from Fulci's Zombi?



Another minute and a half from the above film...



Some clips from a film of his called Touch Of Death...



His trailer for City Of The Living Dead...



And, finally, the trailer for Cat In The Brain.



Rest in peace (or is that picees?), Mr. Fulci.

Dope out.

-TGWD