Beyond Terror: the Films of Lucio Fulci - Stephen Thrower

Lucio Fulci is undoubtedly one of the key figures of not only the horror genre, but also of European exploitation filmmaking at its best. Along with Mario Bava, Dario Argento and Ruggero Deodato, Fulci helped to mould this substantial collection of related genres over the course of many years, gaining a mixture of admiration, repugnance, contempt and dismissal for his efforts. In ‘Beyond Terror: the films of Lucio Fulci’, Stephen Thrower presents us with an account of Fulci’s films which is both interesting and substantial. Like many Italian directors of the mid-to-late twentieth century, Fulci actually operated as a jack-of-all-trades, working ...  Read the complete review