Country: Italy
Year: 1972
Duration: 102'
A sadistic thriller masterpiece by Lucio Fulci, which has only been seen recently in a tamed-down version for television. Children are being murdered in a town in the deep South and the hunt is on for the assassin. The conclusive investigations are conducted by a journalist from up north, who is able to look beyond the prejudices and conventions which induce the townspeople to lynch a poor halfwit in a sequence that is justly famous. The film encountered many problems with the censors, but it became a cult film, especially in the United States, for the overlap between the genre and the political-social tensions in Italy at the time.
Biography
film director
Lucio Fulci
Lucio Fulci (Rome 1927-1996) begin his cinematographic career bas assistant director and screenwriter with Steno and Riccardo Freda. In 1959 he debutes as a director with The Thieves, followed by two musicals, The Jukebox Kids and Howlers of the Dock. He later tries various genres: comedy and comic films, westerns, and thrillers. In 1979, he reappeares on the international scene with Zombie 2, a sequel to Romero's film. He continues his work until the early 1990's (A Cat in the Brain, 1990), when his health worses. He dies of diabetes in 1996.
FILMOGRAFIA
Colpo gobbo all'italiana (1962), 002 agenti segretissimi (1964), I maniaci (1964), Tempo di massacro (1966), Una sull'altra (1968), Beatrice Cenci (1969), Una lucertola dalla pelle di donna (1971), Non si sevizia un paperino (1972), Il ritorno di Zanna Bianca (1974), Sella d'argento (1978), Zombi 2 (1979), Paura nella città dei morti viventi (1980), Il gatto nero (1980), L'aldilà (1981), Quella villa accanto al cimitero (1981), I guerrieri dell'anno 2072 (1983), Il miele del diavolo (1986), Il fantasma di Sodoma (1988), Zombi 3 (1988), Il gatto nel cervello (1990), Demonia (1990), Voci dal profondo (1991), Le porte del silenzio (1992).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Lucio Fulci.
Plot: Lucio Fulci, Roberto Gianviti.
Screenplay: Lucio Fulci, Roberto Gianviti, Gianfranco Clerici.
Director of photography: Sergio D'Offizi.
Special effects: Carlo Rambaldi.
Music: Riz Ortolani.
Art director: Pier Luigi Basile.
Costume designer: Marisa Crimi.
Editor: Ornella Micheli.
Sound: Massimo Jaboni.
Cast and characters: Tomas Milian (Andrea Martelli), Irene Papas (Amalia Mallone), Barbara Bouchet (Barbara), Florinda Bolkan (la «maciara»), Georges Wilson (zio Francesco), Marc Porel (don Alberto Mallone).
Producer: Agostino Pane.
Production company: Medusa.
Italian distribution: Fondazione Scuola Nazionale di Cinema-Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia~ attn. Laura Argento, via Tuscolana 1524, 00173 Rome, Italy, tel. +39-06-722941, fax +39-06-7211619, e-mail argento@snc.it.
Plot: Lucio Fulci, Roberto Gianviti.
Screenplay: Lucio Fulci, Roberto Gianviti, Gianfranco Clerici.
Director of photography: Sergio D'Offizi.
Special effects: Carlo Rambaldi.
Music: Riz Ortolani.
Art director: Pier Luigi Basile.
Costume designer: Marisa Crimi.
Editor: Ornella Micheli.
Sound: Massimo Jaboni.
Cast and characters: Tomas Milian (Andrea Martelli), Irene Papas (Amalia Mallone), Barbara Bouchet (Barbara), Florinda Bolkan (la «maciara»), Georges Wilson (zio Francesco), Marc Porel (don Alberto Mallone).
Producer: Agostino Pane.
Production company: Medusa.
Italian distribution: Fondazione Scuola Nazionale di Cinema-Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia~ attn. Laura Argento, via Tuscolana 1524, 00173 Rome, Italy, tel. +39-06-722941, fax +39-06-7211619, e-mail argento@snc.it.
