Saturday, June 21, 2014

The Best Of Horror Movies Beyond Terror

By Sherry Gross


Everyone has a certain fear over something or someone. It is a very normal feeling. No matter how strong a person always seems to be, there will always be some things that will scare him or her. Sometimes a fear can be very real and as tangible as the person next to you is, but most experts agree that fear is fed by the mind. The only way for one to triumph over it is to face it yourself, be it as weird as a very uncommon phobia for mirrors also known as spectrophobia.

The horror genre is also undoubtedly one of the most successful ones in the world of movie productions. Most horror films have an underlying element of gore in them, and it is no surprise to horror fans to see mutilated bodies and whatnot in the course of the film. Whenever one mentions gore and all things Beyond Terror, the first person that comes to mind is always Lucio Fulci.

Fulci was born on the 17th of June in the year 1927. He was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor all in one. He is known at present as the Godfather Of Gore for all his masterpieces that paved the way for zombie movies and other subgenres of the classic horror film.

He did not really start off on the path to film making during the early years of his life. In fact, he was once a medical student in a university back in his native country. However, the love for art has always been in Fulci that he has finally decided to quit med school. He was then employed for a time as an art critic.

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.

Fulci also extensively uses the zombie theme is most of his films. As a matter of fact, he shot to fame on an international level with Zombi 2, the first of many zombie films to come. In most European countries, people were made to believe that the movie was the sequel to another zombie flick that aired before. This amped up the sales and made Fulci a household name.

Due to his love for intensely detailed torture scenes, most of his movies were given an R rating. He has also worked with another famous macabre screenwriter, which resulted in the collection of the most gruesome flicks fans loved the most.

You can come to learn more about this director by a book by one of his most devoted fans, Stephen Thrower. The copy also features an introduction by the daughter, Antonella. It is deemed by many to be the greatest testament to the Grandfather of Gore.




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