Lucio Fulci

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Lucio Fulci (born June 17, 1927 in Rome ; † March 13, 1996 ibid) was an Italian film director , producer , screenwriter and actor . He became famous for his zombie films in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Life

During the Second World War , Fulci fought on the side of the partisans . After studying medicine, Fulci decided to pursue a career in the film business and trained as a director at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia . He started his career with documentaries . From 1948 he worked as an assistant director and screenwriter .

Fulci directed his first of almost 60 films in 1959 with the crook comedy Every Thief Needs an Alibi . By the end of the 1960s he made many comedies (often with the popular Franco Franchi / Ciccio Ingrassia team ), but also adventure and agent films as well as spaghetti westerns such as the very popular Django - his hymn book was the Colt . In the early 1970s, he made several Giallo films that are considered above average contributions to the genre.

Another great success he achieved in 1979 with Zombi 2 (Woodoo - Zombies' Dread Island ) which was marketed in Europe as the alleged successor to George A. Romero's Zombie (Dawn Of The Dead) . More horror films followed , including some with a zombie theme. His films, often enriched with extreme splatter and gore effects, are often cited as some of the most violent and bloodiest of these times. A zombie hung on a bell rope , The Zombie Ghost Town , The House on the Cemetery Wall, and The New York Ripper were some of his biggest hits in the genre.

Many of these films had to be edited in Germany, otherwise they would not have been approved by the FSK . Some of his films were indexed by the BPjM or confiscated as glorifying violence under Section 131 of the Criminal Code . Towards the end of the 1990s, many films from this creative phase were re-released on DVD in uncut versions.

Fulci was considered a loner; so he avoided a collaboration with Dario Argento and was not on good terms with him, since he was one of his greatest competitors for the favor of the horror audience.

Fulci's films were mostly ignored by the general public and only achieved cult status among genre fans. After he temporarily turned away from splatter films, Fulci was no longer able to build on earlier successes. Due to personal and health problems, but also financial limitations of the budget, the quality of his work declined sharply.

Fulci died in 1996 with the final preparations for the film Wax Mask on his diabetes - he had forgotten to put his insulin injections. Suicide rumors have not been confirmed. Effects specialist Sergio Stivaletti took over the direction.

Private

His daughter Antonella (* 1960) is an actress and manages her father's cinematic legacy. He has another daughter, Camilla, who also worked as an assistant on some of her father's productions. Both are children from the marriage with Maria Fulci, with whom Lucio was married from 1958 to 1969. She died in 1969.

Filmography (selection)

script

  • 1954: Drei Sinnerinnen (Un giorno in pretura) - Director: Steno
  • 1954: An American in Rome (Un americano a Roma) - Director: Steno
  • 1955: Casanova - his love and adventure (Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova) - Director: Steno
  • 1958: Night watchman, thief and maid (Guardia, ladro e cameriera)
  • 1961: Totò, Peppino and the sweet life (Totò, Peppino e la dolce vita)
  • 1967: Two idiots against Django (Due gringos nel Texas)
  • 1971: The horse came without socks (Ettore lo fusto)
  • 1985: The cage (La gabbia)
  • 1997: Wax Mask (MDC - Maschera di cera)

Assistant director

Director

producer

  • 1959: The last days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei), directed by Mario Bonnard
  • 1987: The Curse, directed by David Keith
  • 1988: The Red Monks (I frati rossi) , directed by Gianni Martucci
  • 1989: Massacre, directed by Andrea Bianchi

literature

  • Splatting Image, Issue 4, 1990
  • MAERZ (Axel Estein): “Pathologica a italiana - films by Lucio Fulci.” In: Howl, No. 12, April 1992, Munich, pp. 44-46
  • Luca M. Palmerini et al. a .: Spaghetti Nightmares. 1996, ISBN 0-9634982-7-4 .
  • Andreas Bethmann: Beyond the hereafter. The films of Lucio Fulci. 2001, ISBN 3-931608-45-X
  • Ulrich P. Bruckner: For a few more corpses. 2002, ISBN 3-89602-705-0 .
  • Antonio Bruschini & Antonio Tentori: Lucio Fulci. Il poeta della crudeltà. 2004, ital.
  • As Chianese & Gordiano Lupi: Filmare la morte. Il cinema horror e thriller di Lucio Fulci. 2006, Italian, ISBN 978-88-7606-101-1
  • Giovanni Modica: Sette notte in nero di Lucio Fulci. Viaggio nel cinema della precognizione e del tempo. 2008, Italian, ISBN 978-88-95467-07-8
  • Antonio Tentori & Antonio Bruschini: Lucio Fulci. Poetry and cruelty in the movies. 2012, engl.
  • Francesco Basso: Lucio Fulci. Le origini dell'horror. 2013, Italian, ISBN 978-88-7606-448-7
  • Paolo Albiero & Giacomo Cacciatore: Il terrorista dei generi. Tutto il cinema di Lucio Fulci. 2015, Italian, ISBN 978-88-98395-07-1
  • Michele Romagnoli: L'occhio del testimone. Il cinema di Lucio Fulci. 2015, Italian, ISBN 978-88-98002-10-8
  • Troy Howarth: Splintered Visions: Lucio Fulci and his Films. 2015, English, ISBN 978-1-936168-53-8
  • Stephen Thrower: Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci. 2018, English, ISBN 978-1-903254-90-5
  • Roberto Curti: Italian Gothic Horror Films 1980–1989 2019, English, ISBN 978-1-4766-7243-4
  • Marcus Stiglegger & Pelle Felsch: Fulci. Films made of flesh and blood. 2019, p. 220

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese 2002, pp. 188-189.
personal data
SURNAME Fulci, Lucio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1996
Place of death Rome , Italy