[Pete]

Originally Posted by Daemonia

Too grim? You really think so in an age where people lap up all the gruesome carnage in stuff like the Saw franchise? I think most people would laugh off the rather primitive gore FX in this day and age.

Cannibal Holocaust is a different kettle of fish (or turtle?) altogether, as it employs real death and suffering in its production, which is always going to be grim viewing, no matter how dulled a viewer's senses might be.

So, personally, I do rate NYR quite high up in Fulci's body of work. As for Fulci being twisted, no more so than the likes of Eli Roth and the guys who made the aforementioned Saw series. And, actually, when it comes to a film's themes and content, isn't that more in the hands of the screenwriter rather than the director? After all, Fulci simply shot what the scriptwriter had written. It's the writer who comes up with these ideas rather than the director (unless the director also wrote the screenplay, of course). Of course, the director decides how those ideas are executed, but they're not his/her ideas in the first instance.

Gianfranco Clerici was the screenwriter on both CH and NYR and also; HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK, LAST CANNIBAL WORLD and NAZI LOVE CAMP 27 - he was clearly a man with serious psychological problems!