Monday, May 19, 2008

The Greatest Movie...

... that seemed as if it would be what Laura Mars would have directed if she'd been a movie director instead of a still photographer?



The film was actually directed by Italian horror master Lucio Fulci, but watching it last night all I could think of was Faye Dunaway's character in The Eyes of Laura Mars. Furs, blood, acid-trips, boobs! It had it all. Mars came out in '78 though, so I think it's pretty obvious who was "borrowing" their motifs from who. But you just know Laura would've had a print of this film somewhere in her library.

Sidenote: How did I only just now notice that John Carpenter wrote Eyes of Laura Mars? What's wrong with me? God.

Back to Lizard in a Woman's Skin, aka Schizoid, aka Carole (yeah, it's one of those movies with 50 different titles): I'm far from being a Fulci expert - besides this I think all I've seen in The House By The Cemetery, actually (yes, I've been meaning to get to Zombi 2 for ages), which I liked alright - but I quite liked most of LiaWS. It ran a little long and unmasked too many schemes for its own good, but it was entertainingly stylish and stylishly ridiculous enough, and lead actress Florinda Bolkan as the lead character Carole is a new style icon to my eyes - woman moved like she was born in a cape.


Anyway, I liked it so much that I went and watched the half-dozen or so trailers included on the DVD for other Fulci films, trying to gauge what else I should watch, and oh my god those are some of the worst trailers I've ever spied in my whole life. The House of Clocks, Touch of Death, and worst of all The Sweet House of Horror in which the main characters are two little children who sound as if they were dubbed by ninety-year old women inhaling helium. WTF? Is the problem here just the dubbing? The movies, even beyond that technical gaffe, looked terrible.

So, of course, I must see them.
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1 comment:

GhoulieJulie said...

OMG! THE best Fulci movie is The Beyond. It's got some wonderful moments (both ridiculous and gross and hilarious), and you can totally see some shit that obviously inspired horror video games. Please watch this one before moving on to any others! My local art house showed it one Halloween years ago at midnight, and I watched it then for the first time on acid wearing a cowboy costume. It's one of my absolute favorite movie experiences. I can't believe you haven't seen this one, and that I might get to be the one who tells you about it! Please let us all know if you like it.