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Originally Posted by Susan Foreman  Blimey! Due to the release of ' The Psychic', The Guardian has a feature on Lucio!
"The Antonioni of splatter: welcome to the gruesomely elegant world of Lucio Fulci
Be it face-eating spiders, punctured eyeballs or a deadly snail attack, Fulci staked his claim as Godfather of Gore with dreamy languor and plenty of blood
There is more than one candidate for the title Godfather of Gore, but Italian film-maker Lucio Fulci can lay greater claim to it than most. This is a director who seems pathologically incapable of filming someone falling off a cliff without inserting closeups of their face scraping against the rocks on their way down. This is a director who seemingly can’t film an eye without getting the urge to squish, skewer or enucleate it. Welcome to Fulci World. |
It's a very good piece by Anne Billson, "someone who gorged on Fulci’s gorefests in the 1980s, [but now finds herself] drawn more to his mystery thrillers", because you can tell that she knows and loves his films. She did a great job of distilling his work to the central elements and writing about them in an accessible, engaging, and informative way.
If someone knew nothing about Lucio Fulci but wanted to find out about his career and which of his films they should consider watching and/or buying, that article would be a good guide.