Elvira, the Crypt Keeper, and Garfield Headline Our Weekday Recommendations

Find an event for you, spooky or otherwise

"...dark arts-involved murder that happened decades before. Italian director Lucio Fulci does Southern Gothic in this 1981 cult classic..."

Oct. 11, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Line Dancin', Terminatin', and Writin' in This Week's Recommended Events

Lots to do, and it's not even the weekend

"...may have invented the modern zombie, but it was Lucio Fulci who ... well, he didn’t perfect it, but..."

Sept. 6, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Halloween at the Movies

Your ultimate guide to spooky season screenings in Austin

"...special night of musical tribute to Italian horror master Lucio Fulci by composer Fabio Frizzi, complete with ghoulish projections.)..."

Oct. 13, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Interview: The Cellar

How Brendan Muldowney brought fun and family into his horror

"...Muldowney that his hellbound The Cellar is reminiscent of Lucio Fulci's mindbending supernatural horrors and he takes the compliment...."

March 15, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Let the Corpses Tan

Deliciously lurid crime drama is pulp in all the best ways

"...blood-soaked nihilism of the most dust-encrusted spaghetti Westerns (like Lucio Fulci's Four of the Apocalypse) as it does to..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

'Tis the Season

Something wicked this way screens

"...of Wes Craven's The Serpent and the Rainbow and Lucio Fulci's mind-melting The Beyond. Blue Starlite Drive-In comes in..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki

Fabio Frizzi Takes Austin to The Beyond

First word on performance of new score for grisly classic

"...his tribute to his longtime collaborator, Italian filmmaking legend Lucio Fulci, to the Central Presbyterian Church (read our interview..."

Aug. 24, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Back From the Dead

Stephen Romano cheats the grim reaper to launch Eibon Press

"...dedicated to bringing the horror films of Italian maestro Lucio Fulci and original work into the slick crimson comic..."

July 15, 2016 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

DVDanger: Edgar Allan Poe's Black Cats

Two Italian retellings of the American horror classic

"...more about the director than the writer, starting with Lucio Fulci's 1981 version, simply titled The Black Cat...."

Oct. 27, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Frizzi 2 Fulci Haunts Austin

Fabio Frizzi on melody and mayhem with Lucio Fulci

"...best known for his collaborations with Italian gore auteur Lucio Fulci, that may seem strange. Even more bizarre may..."

Oct. 2, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Pitch

Ted Geoghegan gets gory for We Are Still Here

"...Make that writer and director of this Lucio Fulci-meets-M.R. James haunted house tale. He said, “In the..."

March 15, 2015 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Housecore Horror Calls for More 'Saw

'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2' revs, plus VHS and 35mm joy

"...of Hell (AKA City of the Living Dead) D: Lucio Fulci, starring Christopher George, Michele Soavi, and Giovanni Lombardo..."

Aug. 14, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Last Housecore on the Left

Horror film fest's extreme metal soundtrack

"...and composer, his phantom chords rocked gore-stained classics like Lucio Fulci's Zombie and The Beyond, plus the Housecore Horror..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

Last Housecore on the Left

Horror film fest's extreme metal soundtrack

"...he exclaims. "Their history with horror films and especially Lucio Fulci and frigging Dario Argento, it goes hand in..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

Housecore Horror Majordomo – Phil Anselmo

Pantera/Down icon talks tape trading and terror

"...I was very adamant that we’ve got to show Lucio Fulci, we’ve got to show Mario Bava, we’ve got..."

Oct. 24, 2013 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

Everything Went Black: I Was Dead Before Dead Was Cool

Shoot him in the head. He's dead, he's all messed up

"...us who had been weened on gateway doom-druggies Romero, Lucio Fulci, and even Peter Jackson (Dead/Alive), this sudden influx..."

Oct. 17, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Which is Your Leatherface?

The SXSW three R's of horror panel takes an axe to film stealers

"...("You wouldn't have got a Dario Argento or a Lucio Fulci if I couldn't have released the Evil Dead..."

March 12, 2012 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

FF2011: 'The House by the Cemetery'

Horror icon William Lustig gets maniacal about the Fulci classic

"...full-blown holy schnikes moment at last night's screening of Lucio Fulci's 1981 gorefest The House by the Cemetery: An..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Film Flam

Preserving Mondo's archive, Fantastic Fest first wave, farewell to Sherry Mills, and what's happening with lots of local productions

"...Eighties 3-D Western Comin' at Ya! and gore maestro Lucio Fulci's 1979 Zombie (aka Zombi 2)... Sherry Mills, the..."

July 15, 2011 Screens Column by Kimberley Jones

Fear Knows No Limits

Steve Niles' cross-platform experiments in terror

"...Hollywood," where projects can stagger about like one of Lucio Fulci's old-school slow zombies. After 30 Days of Night,..."

April 29, 2011 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Insidious

Insidious, from the original Saw team, lacks thrills and originality.

"...genre fare. (There's a distinct air of rote, late-period Lucio Fulci-ness about the whole thing.)..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Last Exorcism

This faux documentary pulls few punches in its fresh look at what happens when religion and the secular world collide.

"...drops subtle winks to its cinematic forerunners (in particular Lucio Fulci's The Gates of Hell and, surprisingly, Jack Starrett's..."

Aug. 27, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Emily Hagins' Unsucky Movie Career

Austin's zombie girl taps into vamps for her third feature

"...and bloodsucking freaks? George A. Romero's Dead flicks? Operatic Lucio Fulci goregasms peeped on the sly? Devil Times Five?!..."

Aug. 6, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Never Coming to a Theatre Near You

Stephen Romano's continuing adventures in fake movies

"...known since 1997, when we were working on a Lucio Fulci soundtrack together. We had been corresponding after the..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Haunting in Connecticut

Essentially a substandard rip-off of The Amityville Horror, this spook house drama should be condemned.

"...least, is really "based" on snips and snatches of Lucio Fulci's The Beyond, Mario Bava's Shock, Alejandro Amenábar's The..."

March 27, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest: City of Enders

Fantastic Fest

"...slo-mo death-dance of Dunaway and Beatty's Parker and Barrow; Lucio Fulci's drill-bit riff on Max Headroom courtesy of Giovanni..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Stuck

Stuart Gordon tells his own creepy version of the story about the Fort Worth woman who locked her car in the garage for days with the mangled-but-still-living body of a human victim stuck in her windshield.

"...his characters through paces just this side of Franz Kafka-meets-Lucio Fulci. In his films, things go from bad to..."

June 6, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Quentin Tarantino's Beloved Body Snatcher From Hell

"Goke: Body Snatcher From Hell"

"...like, um, like a "Cat in the Brain," as Lucio Fulci would doubtless say. (Or to quote Zack's non-hyperbolic..."

March 7, 2008 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Orphanage

Although Guillermo Del Toro is the producer, this new Spanish horror film is derivative and not on par with Del Toro's spooky childhood stories.

"...here (despite one genuinely ghastly moment that rivals anything Lucio Fulci ever splashed onscreen), and ultimately the composition comes..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Closing Credit for The Alamo at 409 Colorado

June 27

"...and laminates tell it all: SaviniFest 2000, the inaugural Lucio Fulci Halloween Horror Festival, Phantasmania, Splatterbowl, QT Fests ad..."

June 22, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

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