Tag Archives: Lucio Fulci

Samm and Kat explore one of the most infamous video nasties: Lucio Fulci’s The New York Ripper (1982). Their discussion centers on the reasons why they don’t agree with the statement that Fulci was a misogynist, the transgressive sexual themes ...

Conan the Barbarian lit the fuse for an explosion of cheaply-made, scummy knock-offs that found their way into fleapits and (mostly) video rental stores for the next half-decade.

Cult Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci revisits the giallo genre in his scuzzy 1982 film The New York Ripper.

Following a flurry of activity in the early-to-mid ’Eighties, Lucio Fulci continued to endure—at least, to some extent—even as the once-prosperous, by-then-financially-floundering Italian film industry began to implode on itself, with ever-dwindling budgets and fewer and fewer productions being made. ...

Blue Underground have shot for the moon and hit the stars with the image quality on their House by the Cemetery 4K disc.

The myth of the reanimated corpse, the zombie, has its worm-ridden roots in the folklore of 17th century Haiti.  Though the island was originally claimed by Columbus in 1492 and named Hispaniola, French control started in 1660, when it was ...

Claims of misogyny were levelled at Italian genre director Lucio Fulci throughout the latter part of his career, where the stalwart of comedies and gialli began to work exclusively in the horror genre. These claims have continued long after his ...

When watching a giallo, the audience member wants one of two things--either to vicariously live through the upper class excess the characters experience on screen, or to see these rich fools die horrible deaths for the base, solipsistic, grotesque lifestyles they lead.

In five short years, Cadabra Records has established itself as perhaps the indispensable label for those possessing a predilection for unique, beguiling forays into aural darkness. Cadabra melds high-end, spoken word performances of classics by Lovecraft, Poe, Ligotti and more ...

I didn’t grow up on Westerns, despite how they were often shoved down my throat. I hated Roy Rogers and John Wayne. The idea of The Lone Ranger and Zorro was all right, but I preferred my masked vigilantes a ...