{"id":92672,"date":"2020-10-19T19:16:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T16:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/10-best-lucio-fulci-horror-films\/"},"modified":"2020-10-19T19:16:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T16:16:42","slug":"10-best-lucio-fulci-horror-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-best-lucio-fulci-horror-films\/","title":{"rendered":"#10 Best Lucio Fulci Horror Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3142f9f3368\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3142f9f3368\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-best-lucio-fulci-horror-films\/#10_A_Cat_in_the_Brain_1990\" >10. A Cat in the Brain (1990)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-best-lucio-fulci-horror-films\/#9_Aenigma_1987\" >9. Aenigma (1987)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-best-lucio-fulci-horror-films\/#8_The_Black_Cat_1981\" >8. The Black Cat (1981)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-best-lucio-fulci-horror-films\/#7_Dont_Torture_a_Duckling_1972\" >7. Don\u2019t Torture a Duckling (1972)<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/10-best-lucio-fulci-horror-films\/#6_The_New_York_Ripper_1982\" >6. The New York Ripper (1982)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#10 Best Lucio Fulci Horror Films<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.7--><em>October is defined in Webster\u2019s Dictionary as \u201c31 days of horror.\u201d Don\u2019t bother looking it up; it\u2019s true. Most people take that to mean highlighting one horror movie a day, but here at FSR, we\u2019ve taken that up a spooky notch or nine by celebrating each day with a top ten list. This article, about the best Lucio Fulci horror <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, is part of our ongoing series <strong>31 Days of Horror Lists<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>When it comes to cinema, masters of horror are a dime-a-dozen. That\u2019s not meant to throw shade on auteurs like John Carpenter and Wes Craven, or even new macabre impresarios like Robert Eggers, but we\u2019re so eager to give out that title the moment a horror film makes an impact that we begin to lose sight of what really constitutes a genius. Still, there are certain directors who absolutely warrant that lofty moniker, none more worthy than the Italian Godfather of Gore, <strong>Lucio Fulci<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A grandfatherly man with a knit cap and coke bottle glasses that rivaled George Romero\u2019s own specs, Fulci did what so few horror directors ever even attempted: he created artistically impactful horror films that just so h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened to be wrapped in gleefully sadistic sex and violence.<\/p>\n<p>He spun his inherent Artaudian sensibility into splatter flicks that are able to straddle the line between arthouse and grindhouse in a way other masters of horror were less inclined to do. Beneath the layers of sleaze and stomach-churning deaths, you can see Fulci\u2019s visual eye veer more towards surrealist filmmakers like Luis Bu\u00f1uel than his fellow Italo contemporaries like Mario Bava and Dario Argento. The arthouse horror movement that\u2019s popular today just wouldn\u2019t be the same if it wasn\u2019t for Fulci\u2019s contributions to the genre.<\/p>\n<p>Fulci\u2019s output is as vast as it is diverse, so to cut through to the meat of his filmography, Anna Swanson,\u00a0Brad Gullickson,\u00a0Chris\u00a0Coffel,\u00a0Kieran Fisher, Meg Shields,\u00a0Rob\u00a0Hunter,\u00a0Valerie Ettenhofer, and I have chosen the ten films that truly exemplify why Lucio Fulci has earned his title as master of horror.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"10_A_Cat_in_the_Brain_1990\"><\/span>10. A Cat in the Brain (1990)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"wp-image-357755\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/CAT.jpg\" alt=\"Cat in the Brain Lucio Fulci\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/CAT.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/CAT-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/CAT-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/CAT-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><em>A Cat in the Brain<\/em> opens on a remarkable image of a cat <em>literally eating a brain<\/em>, which is the level of subtlety you come to Lucio Fulci movies for. Essentially his own spin of Federico Fellini\u2019s <em>8 1\/2<\/em>, Fulci casts himself as himself, a disillusioned horror director who begins hallucinating that his gory creations are coming to life and driving him to murder.<\/p>\n<p>While not nearly as salacious as his other films, this latter career Fulci is admirable for both its unique cleverness (that is arguably emulated in Peter Strickland\u2019s <em>Berberian Sound Studio<\/em>) as well as the director\u2019s own charmingly quirky acting style. I\u2019ve always loved his lackadaisical cameos as police investigators in <em>The New York Ripper<\/em> and <em>Aenigma<\/em>, but here his sleepy, detached performance works as the perfect \u2013 if not unintentional \u2013 counter to his proxy\u2019s increasingly erratic behavior.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of horror fans consider <i>A Cat in the Brain <\/i>to be for Fulci purists only, but I find it offers a fascinating peek into a distinct facet of the director\u2019s artistry that audiences who may be unfamiliar with his work can find engaging. This is a meta-fiction horror-comedy that I earnestly believe film majors should devour right alongside Fellini\u2019s original masterwork. (Jacob Trussell)<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"9_Aenigma_1987\"><\/span>9. Aenigma (1987)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"wp-image-357756\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Aenigma.jpg\" alt=\"Aenigma Lucio Fulci\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Aenigma.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Aenigma-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Aenigma-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Aenigma-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMy lips are numb, and my patients are waiting.\u201d Look, even when Fulci is \u201cnot at his best,\u201d he\u2019s still more ghoulish and entertaining than everyone else in the room. There is a shot in this film where a rotting apparition of a supernatural coma patient fades to reveal a jubilant <em>Top Gun<\/em> poster. A girl is eaten alive by snails. A handsy calisthenics teacher strangles himself. What more could you ask for?<\/p>\n<p><em>Aenigma<\/em> tells of a teen whose boarding school peers inadvertently bully her so hard she has a near-fatal accident. Look, her mom is the janitor and she smells like garlic, which is enough cause for ridicule; you know how girls are!. Refusing to go quietly after slipping into a coma, the bullied girl possesses a mid-term newcomer at the school and begins exacting her telepathic revenge. This is the bastard child of <em>Phenomena<\/em> and <em>Patrick<\/em> \u2013 and if that doesn\u2019t sound like a good time to you, we can\u2019t be friends. (Meg Shields)<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"8_The_Black_Cat_1981\"><\/span>8. The Black Cat (1981)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"wp-image-357757\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BlackCat.jpg\" alt=\"The Black Cat Lucio Fulci\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BlackCat.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BlackCat-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BlackCat-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/BlackCat-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The pairing of Fulci and Edgar Allan Poe is not the oil and water combination you might initially think it to be. The director\u2019s uncontrollable desire to languish on the meat and the gore matches the emotional power behind the writer\u2019s various acts of perversion. What would it actually feel like to be walled up inside a structure while still alive? Poe\u2019s words get to the agony, but so do Fulci\u2019s visuals. In the final moments of Fulci\u2019s <em>The Black Cat<\/em>, the screams we see on the screen mimic the screams we imagined when we first read Poe\u2019s fiction in school.<\/p>\n<p>Edgar Allen Poe was the deranged madman of his time, and so was Lucio Fulci the madman of his. Placed across from each other in a pub, these sickos would have one helluva delightful conversation. <em>The Black Cat<\/em> is as close as we\u2019ll ever get to witness such a chat. (Brad Gullickson)<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"7_Dont_Torture_a_Duckling_1972\"><\/span>7. Don\u2019t Torture a Duckling (1972)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-358580\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Duckling1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Duckling\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Duckling1-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Duckling1-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Duckling1-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Duckling1-1-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A giallo steeped in paranoia and mysticism, <em>Don\u2019t Torture a Duckling<\/em> is a rough watch even by Fulci\u2019s standards. One of his first horror films to really engage in abject violence, <em>Duckling<\/em> centers on a string of child murders occurring in a remote Italian village. The crimes bring attention to the small town as investigators track down an assailant who may be closer to the children than any of them think.<\/p>\n<p>Fulci uses the insular, rural community to emphasize the split between <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> and superstition, the old world and the new, especially as the village grows hungry for a suspect and their rage turns towards a local gypsy woman (Florinda Bolkan) accused of witchcraft. This is only the tip of the iceberg in Fulci\u2019s sweaty murder-mystery, but it\u2019s perhaps most notable for being a departure from his latter horror career.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t ooey-gooey demons and zombies, but rather a very real \u2013 and sadly still very relevant \u2013 look at the actual monsters that exist in our everyday. With sharp cinematography, a sustained bleak tone, and marvelously bonkers usage of gory special effects, <em>Don\u2019t Torture a Duckling <\/em>is one of the most serious and mature works from Fulci. (Jacob Trussell)<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"6_The_New_York_Ripper_1982\"><\/span>6. The New York Ripper (1982)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-358581\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/NYRIpper2.jpg\" alt=\"Nyripper\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/NYRIpper2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/NYRIpper2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/NYRIpper2-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/NYRIpper2-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fulci may have described this shocker as \u201cHitchcock revisited,\u201d but a member of the UK\u2019s censorship board at the time saw it differently as \u201cthe most damaging film I have ever seen in my whole life.\u201d To that I\u2019ll only add, why not both? I kid, although both takes are similarly exaggerated for effect. The film is a murder mystery of a sort that sees a sadistic killer brutalizing women throughout New York City, and much of the film was shot in the Big Apple offering a delicious snapshot of the city at its sleaziest.<\/p>\n<p>As grim and grotesque as it gets, though, Fulci keeps the tone as wobbly as possible with absurd attempts at humor including a killer who calls the police using a Donald Duck voice. Gone are the unnatural demons and zombies of Fulci\u2019s other films, and in their place is a killer prone to graphic displays of cruelty. It\u2019s those scenes that gave the film its notoriety, both for the critics and the fans, and they are absolutely not for the squeamish. Seriously. While flesh is mangled and mutilated throughout his filmography, here it\u2019s captured with such glee and mean-spiritedness that the carnage can\u2019t help but feel worlds apart from his usual horrors. 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