March 13, 1996
On this day in Horror History, Lucio Fulci passed away. Considered to be one of the Godfathers of Gore, Fulci is by far one of the most influential and celebrated Italian film makers of all time, having given the world cult classics such as the Zombi franchise, and City of the Living Dead. Truly a visionary in his implementation of gore and the elegance of fear, something he preyed upon as he would rapidly zoom in on victims eyes as they were being eviscerated. Fulci’s brilliance as a director has been widely celebrated, he lived to see his films achieve cult fame and rightfully so. After living a life suffering from diabetes, it was during production of The Wax Mask (1997) with Dario Argento, that Fulci had supposedly forgotten to take his insulin before bed and passed away in his sleep. Widely considered to be a suicide, Fulci’s life ended tragically but not without giving horror fans a legacy of monumental proportion, and some of the most amazingly poetic films of all time.
“I am not a criminal because I make horror films. A lot of Italian genre directors are animal lovers. Mario Bava loved cats, Riccardo Freda loves horses, and Dario Argento loves himself.” –Lucio Fulci
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