Friday 20 June 2014

Horror Films That Are Beyond Terror

By Sherry Gross


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.

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.

He is also a master of zombie films that are favorites of fans up until the present time. Zombi 2 has helped him gain international fame. This violent film with a serious overdose of the walking dead has been marketed in some countries as a sort of sequel to another equally famous zombie film.

Most of his films are given an R rating by distributors due to the intense graphic scenes that it features. He has become a master of injury to the eye scenes, wherein the human eyeball is either pierced or pulled out of its socket. When he went into a partnership with another famous Italian screenwriter, Fulci has managed to make the most violent and gory films in the history of movies, which made him the favorite of horror fans until today.

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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