* Writer / director Lucio Fulci's 1981 film The Black Cat is loosely based on Poe's tale.

Many of Fulci's horror films tend to contain " injury to the eye " sequences, in which a character's eyeball is either pierced or pulled out of its socket, usually in lingering, close-up detail.

It is perhaps the best-known of Fulci's films and made him a horror icon.

Thus, Fulci's original outline for The Beyond was of a non-linear haunted house story with the only solid plot element being that of a woman moving into a hotel built on one of the seven gates of hell ( another such gate is depicted in City of the Living Dead ).

Despite these revisions, the final product is considered by many fans to be one of Fulci's best films and has even been praised for its oneiric incoherence.

Whilst most of Lucio Fulci's other films have been released uncut in the United Kingdom, The New York Ripper remains censored to this day, even for its 2011 DVD and Blu-ray releases.

After 1986, with his diabetes plaguing him and the departure of screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti from Fulci's circle of friends ( see " Fulci vs Sacchetti " below ), Fulci was far less successful in his endeavors.

After viewing Fulci's The New York Ripper, not only did the British Board of Film Classification refuse the film a certificate, but every single print in the country was taken to an airport and returned to Italy by order of James Ferman ; it wasn't until later that VIPCO had the courage to release the film, initially outsourcing production to a foreign source under police supervision before releasing a home-grown VHS in 2002 and a DVD in 2007.

He claimed that Sachetti later allowed director Lamberto Bava to direct the project ( under the title Per Sempre / Until Death ) in 1987 without Fulci's knowledge that the film was even being made.

Roth has also been a frequent contributor to DVD extras content ( liner notes and video commentary ) for horror film distributors Grindhouse Releasing / Box Office Spectaculars, particularly on two of his favorite films Juan Piquer Simon's Pieces and the upcoming North American DVD release of Lucio Fulci's Cat in the Brain.

Several of Fulci's movies released in America were censored by the film distributor to ensure an R rating ( such as The Beyond, which was originally released on video in edited form as Seven Doors of Death ) or were released Unrated in order to avoid an X-rating ( as with Zombie and House by the Cemetery ) which would have greatly restricted the films ' target audiences to adults.

His first directorial efforts include the spaghetti westerns Scansati ... a Trinità arriva Eldorado and A Bounty Killer in Trinity, the decamerotic movies Novelle licenziose di vergini vogliose and More Sexy Canterbury Tales ( The Last Decameron ), the swashbuckler burlesque Pugni, Pirati e Karatè ( starring Richard Harrison, the war movie Heroes in Hell ( with Klaus Kinski ), the sword and sandal movies The Arena ( co-directing with Steve Carver ) and Livia, una vergine per l ' impero romano, the gothic giallo Death Smiles at a Murderer ( starring Klaus Kinski and Ewa Aulin ), and the western Cormack of the Mounties ( with Fabio Testi and Lionel Stander, shot in Canada alongside Lucio Fulci's The Return of White Fang on which D ' Amato worked as second unit director ).

The second film in Fulci's unofficial Gates of Hell trilogy ( along with City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery ), The Beyond has gained a cult following over the decades, in part because of the film's gore-filled murder sequences, which had been heavily censored when the film was originally released in the United States in 1983.

She appeared in a total of 57 films, among the most famous are: Lucio Fulci's Paura nella città dei morti viventi ( 1980 ), Umberto Lenzi's Mangiati Vivi ( 1980 ), Carlo Vanzina's Dagger Eyes ( 1983 ), and Richard Fleischer's Red Sonja ( 1985 ).

Some of Fulci's fans have retroactively argued that at his peak, Fulci's fame and popularity were on a par with that of Dario Argento, another famous Italian horror film director with whom Fulci had avoided working and whom Fulci had even badmouthed from time to time.

Zombi 2 < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s incredible success in Europe reignited Fulci's sagging career and reinvented the director as a horror icon.

Several of Fulci's movies were banned in Europe or were released in heavily cut versions.

Most of Fulci's films after 1984 were poorly written and cheaply produced.

Mattei has said in interviews that the film was Fulci's, and that he ( Mattei ) just added a few extra scenes to pad out the running time.

Fulci's intended comeback films Demonia and A Cat in the Brain ( both produced in 1990 ) were big disappointments to his fans in terms of overall quality, and almost didn't get released.

Argento claimed he had heard about Fulci's miserable circumstances at the time ( he said he was shocked at how thin and sickly Fulci appeared at their meeting ) and wanted to offer him a chance for a comeback.

Reportedly the screenplay was entirely reworked by screenwriter Daniele Stroppa after Fulci's death, so the finished film sadly bears little resemblance to Fulci's original screenplay.

( Stroppa had co-written two of Fulci's earlier films, The House of Clocks and Voices from Beyond.

Fulci's films remained generally ignored or dismissed by the mainstream critical establishment for many years, who regarded his work as pure exploitation.

Fulci's earlier, lesser-known giallo Don't Torture a Duckling ( 1972 ) received some critical acclaim.

Indeed, most of Fulci's most celebrated horror films were written by Sacchetti.

However, the German distribution company that owned the release rights to Fulci's films at the time were not interested in a haunted house story.

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