7. Lucio Fulci
'The Italian God Father of Gore', Lucio Fulci is revered in Euro-Horror fandom. The body of work he left behind is much more impressive than 95% of the horror dirge that is produced these days. But Fulci was not a straightforward horror director - he was shamelessly disgusting and outrageous in many of his films. Probably the most notorious example of Fulci's tastelessness came with the 1982 film The New York Ripper whose seedy plot concerns a Donald Duck voiced killer with a penchant for stabbing women in the crotch and taunting the police. Everything in the film is salacious and salubrious - everyone is shown to be raging deviants - and the atmosphere in the film is one of pervasive sleaze. Cat In The Brain, possibly Fulci's last magnum opus, features Fulci shooting depraved Nazisploitation and getting very into it issuing ever more filthy direction to the actors. Even Fulci's straight horror films often contain objectionable material - like the infamous spike in the eye scene in Zombie Flesh Eaters as well as the insane level of entrails munching in that film.
Clare Simpson
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My first film watched was Carrie aged 2 on my dad's knee. Educated at The University of St Andrews and Trinity College Dublin. Fan of Arthouse, Exploitation, Horror, Euro Trash, Giallo, New French Extremism. Weaned at the bosom of a Russ Meyer starlet. The bleaker, artier or sleazier the better!
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