- Name: Lucio Fulci
- Date of Birth: June 17, 1927
- Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
Mini-bio:
Though more often than not working on a strict budget and a short time line, Lucio Fulci ranked among the masters of blood-soaked Italian horror/fantasies and sexy thrillers. Fulci's zombie films, beg... read more
Lucio Fulci Wiki Profile
EasyEdit tools are temporarily disabled for maintenance.
| "Il Poeta del Macabro"  Lucio Fulci (1927 - 1996) "Cinema is everything to me. I live and breathe films -- I even eat them!" |
| Lucio Fulci was an Italian director, screenwriter, film producer and actor. Perhaps best known for his gore works, he was a fine craftsman with a smart sense of humor, who worked in a huge variety of genres in Italy - from splatter horror to giallo, from erotic comedy to spaghetti western. Hated by most critics, but loved by his fans and collaborators, he remains a major source of inspiration for many directors (horror and non) today.  Mini-Bio from Wikipedia:Fulci was born in Rome in 1927 to Sicilian parents. He had Catholic background and has referred to himself as Catholic. Despite this Fulci is thought to have been Marxist and parts of his movies have been viewed as anti-Catholic. Abandoning his early career as a med student, Fulci entered the film industry as a screenwriter and assistant director, working alongside such directors as Steno and Riccardo Freda. He made his directorial debut with I ladri (1959) starring the popular comic Totò. Fulci primarily made comedies during the 1960s and only occasionally dabbled in other genres, including spaghetti westerns such as Tempo di Massacro (1967), the costume drama Beatrice Cenci (1973), and children's movies such as Zanna Bianca (White Fang) (1973).  In the late 1960s he moved into the thriller arena, directing giallo films that were both commercially successful and controversial in their depiction of violence and religion. He made his first thriller, Una sull'altra, in 1969. The first film to gain him notoriety in his native country, Non si sevizia un paperino (Don't Torture a Duckling) mixed scathing social commentary with the director's soon-to-be-trademark graphic violence to stunning, hallucinatory effect. In 1979, he achieved his international breakthrough with Zombi 2 (Zombie), a violent zombie film that was marketed in European territories as a sequel to George Romero's Dawn of the Dead (1978). He followed it up with several tales of horror and the supernatural, many also featuring zombies. His features during this time were described by some critics as being among the most violent and gory films ever made. Paura nella città dei morti viventi (City of the Living Dead) (1980), E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà (The Beyond) (1981), Quella villa accanto al cimitero (The House by the Cemetery) (1981), Gatto nero (The Black Cat) (1981), and Lo strangolatore di Ney York (The New York Ripper) (1982) were some of his biggest hits, all of which featured extreme levels of on-screen blood and cruelty. Many of Fulci's movies were banned in Europe or released in heavily cut versions. Of the original 74 films on the infamous video nasty list in the United Kingdom, 3 belonged to Fulci: Zombi 2, L'aldilà, and Quella villa accanto al cimitero. After viewing Fulci's The New York Ripper, the British Board of Film classification not only refused the film a certificate but also ordered that all copies of the offending film be removed from the country. After the mid-1980s, Fulci was far less successful. In 1988 he directed only part of Zombi 3, which was later finished by an uncredited Bruno Mattei. He moved onto TV production horror movies, some of which never aired due to the high amount of gore and violence. Soon after he began to suffer from personal and health problems, somewhat due to a marked decline in the quality of his work. Fulci was slated to begin work on a Dario Argento-produced film called Wax Mask, but before work got underway, he died in his home in Rome on March 13, 1996 of complications from diabetes. |
|
