Fear is an inherent emotion in every human being. Even though one may put up a strong facade in the face of the unknown, there will still be that one thing that still scares you even if you are old enough to know that fear only exists in the mind. The most common fears of man include heights and a certain fear of clowns, yet there are also those that are less known of and are even very ridiculous like the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth, better known as arachibutyrophobia.
This inherent fear of fear has made horror films quite productive in the film industry. Nobody can resist the urge to sit down to a good old scare fest, even if you know you will be shouting yourself hoarse from all the macabre scenes. This genre is where Lucio Fulci is well known for, and the book Beyond Terror by Stephen Edward Thrower celebrates the ingenuity that made Fulci one of a kind.
Fulci is well known Italian director, actor, and screenwriter. He is known to fans as the Godfather of the Gore due to his graphic rich films at the pinnacle of his directing success. He is also one of the very few horror directors that has successfully made use of zombies in a horror film that has incited terror from millions of audiences all over the world.
It is easy to assume, based on his perfectly made horror films, that he has started very early off on the road to macabre. Contrary to popular belief, Fulci was actually once a med student when he was at the university. He just employed the knowledge that he had gained about the human anatomy to give a new hair rising definition to the word torture.
When he finally stopped med school, he was, for a time, employed as an art critic. This job helped him gain a better understanding of art and what really defines beauty, which is incorporated in his most brilliant masterpieces. When he had finally gotten round to the world of film, young and eager Fulci went on to be a comedy screenwriter. His ambitious nature landed him a directing job, working closely with the most brightest and most successful comedians of the day. But even so, he has not acquired fame and the movies he made were only so so.
The film that jumpstarted his successful career in the horror genre is Dont Torture A Duckling. The motion picture has scathing social commentary. It also featured the early signs of his trademark graphic violence that his fans has grown to adore. It was viewed to be severely anti Catholic because of his use of Church figures as an instrument of evil.
He is also a director that uses a certain character inherent in horror genres, the zombie. He loved the idea of using the walking dead in his flicks so much that one in particular, Zombi 2, was the one responsible for his rise to stardom in the international movie scene. This was originally marketed as a sort of sequel to another one that was also famous to horror fans.
Most film distributors give his pictures an R rating. This is mainly due to the very close up shots depicting torture and pain. Eye injuries seem to be one of his personal favorites, as most of his motion pictures have sequences wherein a character loses sight due to piercing of the eyeballs and even by pulling it out of its socket.
In his book, Stephen E. Thrower plunges into the colorful career of the man that has become an enigma during his life and even more so in his death. The book has a foreword by Antonella Fulci. It has the most complete details about the man that is Lucio Fulci.
This inherent fear of fear has made horror films quite productive in the film industry. Nobody can resist the urge to sit down to a good old scare fest, even if you know you will be shouting yourself hoarse from all the macabre scenes. This genre is where Lucio Fulci is well known for, and the book Beyond Terror by Stephen Edward Thrower celebrates the ingenuity that made Fulci one of a kind.
Fulci is well known Italian director, actor, and screenwriter. He is known to fans as the Godfather of the Gore due to his graphic rich films at the pinnacle of his directing success. He is also one of the very few horror directors that has successfully made use of zombies in a horror film that has incited terror from millions of audiences all over the world.
It is easy to assume, based on his perfectly made horror films, that he has started very early off on the road to macabre. Contrary to popular belief, Fulci was actually once a med student when he was at the university. He just employed the knowledge that he had gained about the human anatomy to give a new hair rising definition to the word torture.
When he finally stopped med school, he was, for a time, employed as an art critic. This job helped him gain a better understanding of art and what really defines beauty, which is incorporated in his most brilliant masterpieces. When he had finally gotten round to the world of film, young and eager Fulci went on to be a comedy screenwriter. His ambitious nature landed him a directing job, working closely with the most brightest and most successful comedians of the day. But even so, he has not acquired fame and the movies he made were only so so.
The film that jumpstarted his successful career in the horror genre is Dont Torture A Duckling. The motion picture has scathing social commentary. It also featured the early signs of his trademark graphic violence that his fans has grown to adore. It was viewed to be severely anti Catholic because of his use of Church figures as an instrument of evil.
He is also a director that uses a certain character inherent in horror genres, the zombie. He loved the idea of using the walking dead in his flicks so much that one in particular, Zombi 2, was the one responsible for his rise to stardom in the international movie scene. This was originally marketed as a sort of sequel to another one that was also famous to horror fans.
Most film distributors give his pictures an R rating. This is mainly due to the very close up shots depicting torture and pain. Eye injuries seem to be one of his personal favorites, as most of his motion pictures have sequences wherein a character loses sight due to piercing of the eyeballs and even by pulling it out of its socket.
In his book, Stephen E. Thrower plunges into the colorful career of the man that has become an enigma during his life and even more so in his death. The book has a foreword by Antonella Fulci. It has the most complete details about the man that is Lucio Fulci.
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