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Aenigma (1987)

A comatose college girl haunts those who did her wrong. Directed by Lucio Fulci. 90min

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Recap:

So they prank a college girl, she runs away, humiliated, and is hit by a car. While she is comatose, a new girl arrives at the boarding college, and things get spooky. People involved in the prank start dying. The new girl seems to be involved somehow, and when she goes crazy she is treated by the same neurologist who has observed that the comatose girl shows abnormal reactions when people at the college die.

Well, yes, there is some kind of spooky possession involved, so Lucio Fulci is free to show all kinds of crazy or weird stuff, one of the college girls even is (or hallucinates to be) snailed to death. Then, of course, the story takes place in a boarding college, which means plenty of young women in nightgowns and 80s aerobic wear. And, by the way, Eva, the new girl, is quite naughty, and after she couldn’t get the gym teacher, she goes for her shrink.

So this movie is not deep or anything, but it’s an extremely well done movie always worth watching.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

City Of The Living Dead (1980)

1980 horror classic by Lucio Fulci 93min imdb

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Review:

In Dunwich, a priest commits suicide, and this sin is serious enough to open the gates of hell. A psychic woman in New York sees this and dies, well, sort of. A journalist saves her from being buried alive, and together they travel to Dunwich, where a whole lot of strange things are happening, like people who see the ghost of the priest start crying blood, etc…

Yes, a lot of things are happening, involving not just astonishing amounts of blood, but also brains, intestines, rats and maggots. What puzzles me, though, is that all these elements don’t really make a story. Let’s make this and we can do that and then there is something we could also do, and then we have a finale and then a surprise twist that doesn’t even have to make sense, we have a runtime of like 90min and enough shock effects and that’s good enough for us.

Also, the story takes place in Dunwich, which is a Lovecraft town name, but I cannot find how hell and catholic sins are related to Lovecraft.

What can I say? Many call this a masterpiece, and yes, in a way it is a masterpiece of the horror genre, but only if you don’t too much storywise.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

The House By The Cemetery (1981)

86min

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Sound

English

Captions

English auto

Classic horror movie by Lucio Fulci.

Review:

So there is this scientist from New York who has to move to Boston to finish a work that a colleague started before, so they tell him, he killed his his wife and then himself. At this point, his son starts seeing a ghost girl on a photograph.

In Boston he moves into the house where his colleague Petersen had lived, and he finds out that Petersen wasn’t doing the research that he was supposed to do, he instead was obsessed with a long dead surgeon called Freudstein.

In fact, the place where he and his family are staying now is the Freudstein mansion, and guess what, this place is haunted.

Not going to lie, this movie has ghosts and atmosphere and shock and suspense and a fair amount of blood. While watching this I thought that I would have got to complain about all the plot holes and how the various elements of the story just don’t fit together. People who call this a masterpiece are invited to explain all the logic bugs to me. I just feel like Fulci tried to create a masterpiece, and when he realized that he just didn’t have it in him, he decided to go for a massive overuse of blood and cheap thrills and then top it with a sad SAD mystery ending to add some artistic flavor.

What can I say? It works! I could write endless paragraphs about the shortcomings of this movie, but I don’t, because it really got me and I really like it!

⭐⭐⭐⭐