05-28-2020, 04:08 PM
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(05-26-2020, 05:41 PM)Zagadka Wrote:(05-26-2020, 02:04 PM)TM2YC Wrote: Lucio Fulci's film was...
Back in the days I was a great fan of the Italian cinema (mostly giallo), even though Fulci is mostly remembered by his gore films, I've always prefered his lighter, so to speak, movies (again, giallo) - I just love his eerie Don't Torture a Duckling (Italian: Non si sevizia un paperino) from 1972, and I like his trippy A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (Italian: Una lucertola con la pelle di donna) from 1971, and mean-spirited The New York Ripper (1982). There are some nice restorated BluRay versions of these films.
I'll be watching 'Don't Torture a Duckling' soon.
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Tetsuo (1989)
The plot of 'Tetsuo' concerns the battle of wills between a "Metal Fetishist" and a "Salaryman" who are morphing into terrifying machine/man hybrids. Director Shinya Tsukamoto's use of grainy b&w 16mm and rapid editing successfully blurs the lines between flesh, metal, stop motion and disgusting makeupFX. He makes the two Davids (Lynch and Cronenberg) look like safe crowd-pleasing filmmakers. I was much more fascinated with 'Tetsuo' as a technical feat of artful editing, low budget ingenuity and imaginative sound-design, than I was with any thematic concerns, characters , or story. The industrial score is pretty cool too.