8/27/2023 0 Comments Voices from beyondThe opening scene, entitled ‘Prologue’, immediately lets you know that is a somewhat different class of movie to Fulci’s last few it’s strikingly shot, highly atmospheric, and has a real scary and nasty streak to it without lapsing into that mocking tone that had sadly began to become a feature of Fulci’s attempts at being horrific. Seeing as it was another TV movie, it got little attention, though it was the first Fulci since 1986’s Aenigma to get a video release in the US and the UK. It’s a wonderful movie with the wrong cast”. Unusually, every cast member spoke English, though of course only to be dubbed into Italian and then English by others. The Florence shoot made use of a villa that was once owned by Luchino Visconti. The story was written with the intention of developing it into a screenplay, and Daniele Stroppa contributed to the expansion of the tale, though it was his Demonia collaborator Piero Regnoli to whom he turned to aid him with the screenplay. It was based on a short story written by Fulci himself that was published in the Gazetta di Firenze, and later included in an anthology of his short stories titled Le lune nere. After the rock bottom of the inept Demonia, Fulci had a deeper involvement in Voices from Beyond. After surviving near death, he hurled himself into making horror films, but the old panache was gone and he even found himself making TV movies and putting his name on other people’s horror movies of dubious quality, while some of his work wasn’t even considered worthy of release for quite a long time. But at least I can probably provide a sense of where his career was at at the time. Despite constant illnesses, little money and being trapped in a genre that he certainly liked but clearly wanted breaks from to do other subjects, Voices From Beyond shows that Fulci could Still Do It.įor the first time in my Fulci series I have little production information to give you, despite even owning a book about Fulci. ![]() But overall I was most pleasantly surprised by it. There are unsurprisingly still a few awkward and silly moments that betray what was still a rushed and very cheap production, and even considering Fulci’s fondness for slow pacing it seems to give the impression that it’s going to eventually speed up and it never does. And probably because of this, Fulci’s direction and the overall level of competency make it his best looking, best made film in a long time, with little of the sloppiness fans had sadly come to expect by now from the man’s work, and his technicians seriously rising to the challenge. But Voices From Beyond, which is more concerned with the ‘personal’ than the ‘public’, seems to know exactly what it’s about, its plot not at all disguising what seem to be a cry for redemption from a man staring into the abyss of death, Fulci himself slowly dying of diabetes at the time. A Cat In The Brain prior to this had Fulci looking at himself and his legacy, but was very much hampered by being often poorly put together and not seeming to decide on what it was attempting to say. But actually this is a rather interesting movie and seems to me to be a very personal one from its director. That doesn’t sound too promising perhaps, and I wasn’t expecting much considering the lukewarm-to-poor quality of Fulci’s later output that I’ve seen. The last entry Conquest was not a horror, and nor will the next one be, but Voices From Beyond can certainly call itself of that genre even though it sort of combines it with soap opera. ![]() It seems like I’ve been doing these for ever, but Fulci did make a lot of films, and I’m probably only about half way through them. I’m a little late posting my latest Lucio Fulci review seeing as I’m trying to do these monthly, but there shall hopefully be another one in two or three weeks time because it’s of a very fine film that’s coming out on UK Blu-ray. Will they discover who murdered him in time?.… However, communication between the dead man and his daughter is dependent on the decay of his corpse – the more he rots, the weaker the link of communication. Everyone, that is, except for his daughter Rosie, who still feels affection for her father even though they had drifted apart. ![]() Unfortunately, almost everyone around him is happy to see him gone. Wealthy businessman Giorgio Mainardi dies of a stomach hemorrhage, but his ghost is not so sure that it was a random misfortune and wants to know the truth. ![]() REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Starring: Duilio Del Prete, Karina Huff, Lorenzo Flaherty, Pascal Persiano Written by: Daniele Stroppa, Lucio Fulci, Piero Regnoli
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