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 bloodThere 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 was a film called Zombie Flesh Eaters that brought Fulci to international attention.
At least, that was its UK title; its Italian studio called it Zombi 2 to cash in on the success of George A Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, which had
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