Fulci even accused Sacchetti of stealing the original plot idea from him, which was not at all true according to Sacchetti.

In 1970, Lucio Fulci filmed scenes for A Lizard in a Woman's Skin there.

In 1971, a chase scene for the Italian / Spanish horror / thriller giallo film A Lizard in a Woman's Skin ( Italian: Una lucertola con la pelle di donna ), directed by Lucio Fulci, was filmed at Alexandra Palace.

After studying medicine in college and being employed for a time as an art critic, Fulci opted for a film career first as a screenwriter, then later as a director, working initially in the comedy field.

After collaborating with screenwriter Sacchetti for six years, Fulci went off on his own in 1983 to direct the movie Conquest ( a Conan-like barbarian fantasy ) in Mexico, failing to involve Sacchetti in the deal.

Fulci became deathly ill from hepatitis in 1984 ( right after he finished directing Murder Rock in New York City ) and had to be hospitalized in Italy for many months, eventually getting well enough to be released.

The following year, in reciprocation for the use of his name, Fulci was permitted to use gore footage culled from these films to make his notorious Cat in the Brain, in which he played himself.

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.

After collaborating with Sacchetti for six years, Fulci went off on his own in 1983 to direct Conquest in Mexico, failing to involve Sacchetti in the deal.

Luca M. Palmerini and Gaetano Mistretta's book Spaghetti Nightmares, publishes two full interviews, one with Fulci and one with Sacchetti, explaining the reasons for the fallout.

Although the lyrics do not reference the film explicitly, singer and lyricist Mike Patton is known to be a fan of Italian horror films and even titled a song on his debut solo album, Adult Themes for Voice, after another Lucio Fulci film.

The film follows the historical events very closely and Fulci always said it was one of his favorite films, even though he is known today for his excessively gory horror films.

AllMovie's review of the film was very negative, writing, " Pandering to the lowest common denominator as never before in his career, Fulci showed with this blatant play for the sicko slasher crowd that the days of well-plotted, stylish Italian horror were gone, replaced with the most vicious sort of sexual violence and perversion.

Italy has produced many important cinematography auteurs, including Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Ettore Scola, Sergio Leone, Dario Argento, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Franco Zeffirelli, Mario Bava, Sergio Corbucci, Lucio Fulci, Mario Monicelli, Marco Ferreri, Elio Petri, Ermanno Olmi, Umberto Lenzi, Lina Wertmüller, and Luchino Visconti.

During the early 1990s, Argento was in the process of collaborating with Italian director Lucio Fulci on a horror film.

Fortunately in 1996, Argento was able to gather funding, but was unable to actually collaborate with Fulci as Fulci died in March that year.

The film would be later be directed by Sergio Stivaletti as The Wax Mask, with Argento and Fulci both receiving screenwriting credits.

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.

Fulci was most likely resentful of Argento since Dario had always received critical acclaim and recognition in ( and outside of ) Italy, and Fulci had been regarded there as something of a " horror film hack ".

Fulci and Argento met in 1995 and agreed to collaborate on a horror film called Wax Mask ( a remake of the 1953 Vincent Price horror classic House of Wax, based on a story by Gaston Leroux ).

Among the directors represented with notable works in this genre are Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Sergio Martino and Umberto Lenzi.

Since Fulci had been so despondent in his later years, it was thought perhaps that he had intentionally allowed himself to die by not taking his medications, but no one really knows since he was alone at the time of his death.

The film was supposed to be a very big budget " A " picture, and Sacchetti allegedly resented the fact that Fulci had not thought to involve him in the project.

Lucio Fulci (; 17 June 1927 – 13 March 1996 ) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.

Fulci was born in Rome, Italy on 17 June 1927.

Some of the special effects in Lizard involving mutilated dogs in a vivisection room were so realistic, Fulci was dragged into court and charged with animal cruelty, until he showed the artificial canine puppets ( created by special effects maestro Carlo Rambaldi ) to the judge and explained that they weren't real animals.

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.

In 1989, Fulci was hired to direct a pair of made-for-Italian-TV horror movies, neither of which aired in Italy due to the high amount of gore and violence ( they were however later released on DVD outside of Italy ).

Fulci suffered from severe problems with his feet during the late 1980s which was caused by diabetes, but tried to hide the severity of his illness from his friends and associates so that he wouldn't be deemed unemployable.

Although he did appear to have supervised the gore effects in both The Curse and The Murder Secret, he was hardly involved with some of the other projects that nonetheless bore the " Lucio Fulci Presents " banner on their advertising material ( see section " Films Presented by Lucio Fulci " below ).

Being in poor health, Fulci was furious that the filming was delayed so many times, as he knew he was running out of time and wanted desperately to make one last, big-budget film before he died.

Toward the end of his life, Fulci had lost his house and was forced to move to a small apartment.

Reportedly, famed Italian horror director Lucio Fulci was furious when he learned that Bava directed this film, since he had understood that he was slated to direct it with the project's screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti.

At that time, Fulci assumed that he would direct it.

Fulci would go on to direct several more horror films, and Zombi 2 introduced several of his trademarks: hordes of shambling putrefied zombies, hyper-realistic gore and blood and the infamous " eyeball gag " ( a character is impaled or otherwise stabbed through the eyeball ).

* Four of the Apocalypse, 1975 Spaghetti Western film directed by Lucio Fulci and starring Fabio Testi

The film actually wound up doing quite poorly upon its release, and afterwards, Fulci had trouble jump-starting his working relationship with Sacchetti, who by this time had gone his own way.

Fulci tried unsuccessfully to have his name removed from the credits of one film in particular ( Gianni Martucci's The Red Monks ), since he swore he had had absolutely no involvement with making that film.

In 1998, The Beyond was re-released to theaters by Quentin Tarantino, who has often cited the film, and Fulci himself, as a major source of inspiration.

Fulci regarded two of his films, Don't Torture a Duckling and Beatrice Cenci, as his best work ( the latter which he said his wife had liked the best of all his films ), and considered both Zombi 2 and The Beyond as the two films that forever catapulted him to cult film stardom.

The film actually wound up doing quite poorly upon its release, and afterwards, Fulci had trouble jump-starting his working relationship with Sacchetti, who by this time had gone his own way.

The horror film City of the Living Dead, directed by the late Lucio Fulci, features a town called Dunwich, named as a tribute to Lovecraft.

* Aenigma ( film ), a 1987 film by Lucio Fulci

From 1982 to 1994, Filmirage-as it was called-financed a total of 42 escapist non-hardcore genre entries: slashers, horror, and post-apocalyptic movies directed by Umberto Lenzi ( La Casa 3-Ghosthouse, Hitcher in the Dark ), Claudio Fragasso ( La Casa 5, Troll 2 ), Lucio Fulci ( his last movie: Door into Silence ), Michele Soavi ( directorial debut: Stage Fright ), and Luigi Montefiori ( 2020 Texas Gladiators ), as well as a number of horror, fantasy, and softcore erotic movies directed by D ' Amato himself, most notably three of the four Ator movies, the postapocalyptic film Endgame, the Dirty Dancing rip-off Dancing Is My Life ( starring Valentine Demy ), and the trilogy revolving around the fictional author Sarah Asproon ( Eleven Days, Eleven Nights, Top Model, and Web of Desire, starring Jessica Moore and Kristine Rose ).