AENIGMA: LUCIO FULCI & THE '80S (2017) Documentary!
4459DVD
A LUCIO FULCI
Documentary with Interviews
by the People who Knew Everything about Him
original Italian title AENIGMA:
LUCIO FULCI E GLI ANNI OTTANTA
director(s):
Eugenio Ercolani · Raffaele Picchio · Giuliano Emanuele
starring: Massimo Antonello Geleng · Claudio Fragasso · Marco Di Stefano
· Gianni Martucci
Michelle De Angelis · Antonio Tentori · Alessandro Grossi · Antonio Bido
The late filmmaker
Lucio Fulci - lovingly called 'the Godfather of Gore' by his legions of
fans - is directly in the center of this rare Italian documentary which
examines the eccentric director's twilight years. Before finding the success
which filled his later life, Lucio Fulci had been blacklisted by the Catholic
Church for making 'improper' motion pictures (e.g.,BEATRICE
CENCI and DON'T
TORTURE A DUCKLING). He turned to Spaghetti Westerns (SILVER
SADDLE), sex comedies (THE
SISTER-IN-LAW) and thrillers (SEVEN
NOTES IN BLACK). Then, in 1979, he was offered the sequel to Dawn
of the Deadcalled FLESH
EATING ZOMBIES ("Zombie" in America). That film
changed his life, introducing him to a string of subsequent boxoffice
hits. However, Lucio Fulci was suffering from diabetes. On March 13 1996,
he went to bed without taking his insulin. Some say this was suicide;
others, an accident. But sadly, Mr Fulci was dead at age 68.
This documentary also
includes some telling segments from filmmaker Antonio Bido (SOLAMENTE
NERO Only Blackness) and director Claudio Fragasso (HOUSE
OF THE EVIL DEAD and ZOMBIE
4: AFTER DEATH). In fact, despite all the previous information
regardingZOMBIE
3, Mr Fragasso [who was the assistant director] claims "the
majority of the work for that film was directed by Fulci not - as reported
in the press - by Bruno Mattei."
One of the co-directors
of this documentary, Raffaele Picchio, is also responsible for the Xtreme
horror film MORITURIS,a controversial movie that has been called "Last House on
the Left with zombies."
An
Italian film with optional ON/OFF English subtitles; widescreen uncut
(76 min.)
in DVD encoded for ALL REGION, playable on any American DVD machine.
Violence/Nudity/Language
Recommended for Adult Audience
