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Fulci was born in Rome and had a Catholic background.[1] After studying medicine, he opted for a film career, working in a wide variety of genres in Italy. In the early 1970s he moved into the thriller arena, directing giallo films that were both commercially successful and controversial in their depiction of violence and religion. 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 II, an excessively bloody 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 have been described by critics as the most violent and gory films ever made. City of the Living Dead (1980), The Beyond (1981), The House by the Cemetery (1981), and The New York Ripper (1982) were some of his biggest hits, all of which featured extreme levels of on-screen blood and cruelty. Several of Fulci's movies were censored by the film distributor to ensure an R rating (such as The Beyond, which was originally released in edited form as Seven Doors of Death) or were released unrated in order to avoid an X-rating (as with Zombi II and The House by the Cemetery), which would have greatly restricted the films' target audience to adults only. The unrated films often played worldwide in drive-ins and grindhouses to hordes of delighted teenagers and horror fanatics. Many of Fulci's movies were banned in Europe or released in heavily cut versions. Most of his movies became synonymous with video nasties in the 1980s. After viewing Fulci's 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.Some of Fulci's fans have retroactively argued that at his peak, Fulci's fame and popularity were on a par with that of Dario Argento, another famous Italian horror film director that Fulci had avoided working with and openly badmouthed. The two finally agreed to collaborate, but Fulci died before the project was finished and the film, M.D.C. - Maschera di Cera (The Wax Mask, 1997), was eventually directed by Sergio Stivaletti.[citation needed] Fulci's films remained generally ignored and/or dismissed by the mainstream critical establishment, who regarded his work as pure exploitation. However, genre fans appreciated his films as being stylish exercises in extreme grue, and later, some of his splatter films (notably The Beyond and House by the Cemetery) began receiving occasional positive critical retrospective notices outside of the Fulci cult. His earlier, lesser-known giallos (notably A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971) and Don't Torture a Duckling (1972), starring Barbara Bouchet, as well as the western Four of the Apocalypse (1975), received some critical acclaim as they became more widely available around the world. After the mid-1980s, Fulci was far less successful. He began to suffer from personal and health problems, and marked a decline in the quality of his work. He died in Rome on March 13, 1996, allegedly by his not taking his insulin injection to treat his diabetes.

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The Fiend Of Grue's Top 125 Favorite Horror Films Of All Time (To be Updated in the near future)..........Horror films are films of the horror genre that are designed to elicit fright, fear, terror, or horror from viewers. In horror film plots, evil forces, events, or characters, sometimes of supernatural origin, intrude into the everyday world. Horror film characters include vampires, zombies, monsters, serial killers, demons, ghosts and a range of other fear-inspiring characters. Early horror films often drew inspiration from characters and stories from classic literature, such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man, The Phantom of the Opera and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Later horror films, in contrast, often drew inspiration from the insecurities of life since World War Two, giving rise to the three distinct, but related, subgenres of the horror-of-personality film, the horror-of-Armageddon film, and the horror-of-the-demonic film. The last subgenre may be seen as a modernized transition from the earlier horror films, expanding on the earlier emphasis on supernatural agents that bring horror to the world. Horror films have been criticized for their graphic violence and dismissed as low budget B-movies and exploitation films. Nonetheless, some major studios and respected directors have made forays into the genre, and more serious critics have analyzed horror films through the prisms of genre theory and the auteur theory. Some horror films incorporate elements of other genres such as science fiction, fantasy, mockumentary, black comedy, and thrillers.A slasher film claassi trailer for "The Burning"Clip from "Suspiria"A clip from "The Shining":A clip from "Men Behind The Sun": mspmb src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lvHDkEovkXk

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"The Being" review

  ***This review was originally wrote exclusively for the now defunct PHANTAMORTE***  There's something strange going on in the town of Potsville, Idaho. People are mysteriously...
Posted by The Fiend Of Grue on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:07:00 PST

"Christmas Evil" movie review

  Harry is fascinated with Christmas like any young boy should be. On one Christmas Eve, his parents decide to have some fun with Harry and his brother Philip and the Dad dresses up as Santa and...
Posted by The Fiend Of Grue on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:16:00 PST

"Thriller: A Cruel Picture" review AKA "They Call Her One Eye"

  Frigga (Christina Lindberg) is a peaceful and care free little girl until one day she is sexually assaulted at a park, from then on she doesn't talk again. One day, some years later when she ...
Posted by The Fiend Of Grue on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:58:00 PST

Stephen King’s "The Mist" review

One night while having a relaxing evening finishing up a painting, David Drayton (Thomas Jane) and his family are startled when a tree comes crashing through their window in a bad thunderstorm. Upon...
Posted by The Fiend Of Grue on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 03:24:00 PST

Lucio Fulcis "New York Ripper" review

  "New York Ripper" begins with showing a man playing fetch with his dog on a New York harbor. The man throws the stick too far one time and it goes into a thick growth of bushes. The dog follo...
Posted by The Fiend Of Grue on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:58:00 PST

HorrorHound 2 pics....

now posted under "HorrorHound 2" folder in my pics section. I'm not sure if I'm going towrite a blog or not this time, but I will say that this convention DESTROYED the first one in everyway. Sooooo m...
Posted by The Fiend Of Grue on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:01:00 PST

"Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan"

  Ah Jason Voorhees& the unstoppable killer who's sole focus in "life" is to avenge his Mother's death on drug abusing, sex crazed teenagers. Up until this point in the very successful "Friday ...
Posted by The Fiend Of Grue on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:05:00 PST

"Horror’s Of War" review

  ***Thanks goes out to Sarah at FatallyYous.com for this screeners copy****   "Horror's Of War" is set during World War II and begins with showing us a platoon of American soldiers that se...
Posted by The Fiend Of Grue on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:43:00 PST

"Deadly Friend" review

  Paul (Matthew Laborteaux) is a teen that is so far advanced that he is teaching brain research at a college level even though he is only a teen himself. On the exterior Paul looks just like a...
Posted by The Fiend Of Grue on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 09:21:00 PST

"30 Days Of Night" review

  During a one month period every year, the town of Barrow, Alaska's population drops from five hundred and something to one hundred and something, not because of the almost unbearably cold atm...
Posted by The Fiend Of Grue on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:01:00 PST