 Mike Baronas is the man behind a good
amount of the supplements on the Italian films released by Media Blasters
and currently working on a book on Lucio Fulci with the same title,
minus the Volume 1 part that is. With the book taking some time, Mike
released the interviews onto a DVD, asking the question, “What is
your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?”
Not so much of a documentary about Lucio
Fulci, the disc is more or less a compilation of interviews with the
greats of Italian horror/exploitation cinema. Some of the notable
persons featured on the disc are Ruggero Deodato, Umberto Lenzi, Catriona
Maccoll, Michele Soavi, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Riz Ortolani and oh
so much more. This is the ultimate Lucio Fulci/Italian horror
fans wet dream on a DVD.
You learn some very interesting things
about Fulci on this disc, you know his shower habits, and how he worked
on his films and just about the man himself. One of the most memorable
interviews on the disc is that of Cannibal Ferox director Umberto
Lenzi in which he talked about Fulci in the highest regards and at the
same time said how he was one of the best directors living.
If you have seen the interviews on the
Media Blasters disc, you know the video quality. It is digital,
but this is not a film, so with that I was not expecting film. The audio
is good and you hear what they are saying but mostly, everyone is subtitled
due to the fact that nobody speaks English.
There are no extras on the disc; there
is an easter egg with Mike talking about how this all came to be, which
has some codec problems with frames bleeding together but it’s really
no big deal. There is one more mistake on the DVD. On the title
screen before each interview, some of the text is cut off a little,
but not to the degree where you can’t read it.
Overall, this is a great disc for the
fans of Lucio Fulci. The only people I have heard complaints from
were people who were expecting this to be a documentary, but it is a
memorial disc to one of the greatest to walk this earth.
R.I.P Lucio
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