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Fulci rip-offs? (spoilers)

posted 15 years ago by starglider16
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I think that the director Joe D'Amato had stoled two scenes from Fulci's "City of the Living Dead" and "The House by the Cemetery".

#1
Scene is when the sadly pervert Bob was drilled in the cheek by a drunk similar to the nurse's death.

#2
Scene is when Emily was stabbed to death (off-screen) by Mikos, then pulled her legs away from the kitchen similar to the estate agent was stabbed to death (on-screen) with a poker by Freudstein, then pulled her legs away from the basement. You can see the exactly same dead bodies of their eyes open.

What do you agree with my thoughts?

[–] snoblingoblin 15 years ago

I'm familiar with what scenes your mentioning in the fulci films, but unfortunetely i haven't seen anthropophagus 2, I love the first one tho.

Where can i get it?

"I know it was you Fredo"

[–] alphaboy 15 years ago

It's available as a DVD release by Mya
under the title "Horrible".

[–] Beyond72 15 years ago

Yea I can see that.

(I love Lucio) But I think the poker scene in Fulci's film might have even been first inspired by one in Lenzi's Nightmare City.
(Poker(?) death in basement.)

And the oven scene in this, might have inspired Fulci's microwave oven death scene in Touch Of Death/Cat in the Brain!

So I guess they did borrow from each others films & tried to outdo one another! :D

[–] sbaldwin999 14 years ago

I see what your saying and yes I agree, although did this movie come out before House by the Cemetery? I think it might have but I'm not for sure. I would also say that the scene where Eastman's character is slowly dragging the mans head into the bandsaw is more similar to the drill scene in City of the Living Dead. I'm sure the Italian directors like D'amato, Lenzi, Fulci, etc. were always trying to one up each other on the death scenes and although Fulci is the true maestro of gore, D'amato's Absurd comes very close to Fulci's best work... it's definitely got some masterfully executed gore sequences, the oven in particular is both simple and unrelentingly brutal