![]() ![]() He openly admits to drawing inspiration from The House By The Cemetery and The Beyond when breaking his duck, in some style it must be said, for We Are Still Here. I’m not alone in my assumption either as first time writer and director Ted Geoghegan clearly has a lot of love for Fulci. ![]() ![]() Sadly, he died before this three-piece received the true credit it deserved but his influence is arguably stronger now than it has ever been. His Gates of Hell Trilogy, in particular, represented this man at the pinnacle of his game before budgetary constraints and eventually poor health continually hampered his vision. Fulci had a long and colorful career as a filmmaker and, while many are critical of his later output, there can be no denying that the late seventies/early eighties were very much his stomping grounds. While most of my class mates were setting up shrines to George Lucas and memorizing the layout of the Death Star, I was discovering the likes of Italian Godfather of Gore, Lucio Fulci, and shaking hands with all number of maggot-infested zombies. It didn’t take long for me to realize that I wasn’t your average eighties child. ![]()
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