38 Facts About Lucio Fulci

Lucio Fulci was born in Trastevere, Rome, on 17 June 1927.

Lucio Fulci had earlier eloped to Rome with a cousin of hers, who she later left to raise their child alone.

Lucio Fulci was raised Roman Catholic by his mother and a female housekeeper.

Lucio Fulci attended the Naval College in Venice, and near the end of World War II, completed his studies back in Rome at the Giulio Cesare State Classical School.

Lucio Fulci was interested in art, music, film, football, and had a love for sailing.

Lucio Fulci's mother encouraged him to be a lawyer, but he wound up going to medical school instead.

Lucio Fulci directed a number of comedies starring the actors Franco and Ciccio.

Lucio Fulci moved into directing giallo thrillers with Una sull'altra, A Lizard in a Woman's Skin and Sette note in nero, as well as Spaghetti Westerns such as Four of the Apocalypse and Silver Saddle, all of which were commercially successful and controversial in their depictions of graphic violence.

Some special effects in A Lizard in a Woman's Skin involving mutilated dogs in a vivisection room were so realistic that Lucio Fulci was charged with animal cruelty; the charges were dropped when he produced the artificial canine puppets that were utilized in the film.

Lucio Fulci had a Catholic upbringing and always referred to himself as a Catholic.

Several of Lucio Fulci's movies released in America were edited by the film distributor to ensure an R rating, such as The Beyond, which was originally released on video in severely edited form as Seven Doors of Death.

Lucio Fulci travelled to the Philippines and spent six weeks shooting the film Zombi 3.

Two opposing views were given for Lucio Fulci leaving the film, the first being an illness that left him unable to film and the second being that he was having disputes with producers.

Lucio Fulci stated that he could not get the script changed, which he deemed to be "dreadful", and modified it with his daughter.

Claudio Fragasso stated that Lucio Fulci simplified his screenplay and shot a seventy-minute film which shocked producer Franco Gaudenzi.

In some films, such as Gianni Martucci's The Red Monks, Lucio Fulci is credited as a "special effects supervisor" despite not showing up to set or preparing any special effects for the film.

Lucio Fulci was already very ill, and I met him to talk to him about the project" While Fulci's health did get better, Martucci stated that "at that time he couldn't even speak, devoured as he was by cirrhosis.

Lucio Fulci was invited by cinematographer Silvano Tessicini to the series as the director had just moved from Rome to Castelnuovo di Porto and was experiencing health problems after returning from the production of Zombi 3.

Tessicini lived in the nearby Morlupo and on visiting him stated that Lucio Fulci "was not well, and had a huge belly", a consequence of the liver disease that affected Lucio Fulci during the filming of Zombi 3.

Lucio Fulci was initially hired on the film as a supervisor but submitted the idea to director his own film, Touch of Death.

When one of the directors walked away from the series, Lucio Fulci was invited to begin filming Sodoma's Ghost.

Three days after filming Sodoma's Ghost, Lucio Fulci began work on Touch of Death which began filming on 22 June 1988.

Several weeks later Lucio Fulci was asked to supervise an additional week's shooting.

Lucio Fulci was credited in another film in the series: as a supervisor in the film Bloody Psycho by Leandro Lucchetti.

Lucio Fulci did not discuss the film with the director and did not show up at the set of the film.

Lucio Fulci added new scenes where he played himself, a horror director who visits a psychiatrist who he does not realize is a serial killer.

Lucio Fulci would develop films for television as part of the series Le case maledette set up by producer Luciano Martino.

Lucio Fulci continued to suffer during the late 1980s from recurring problems with diabetes and his liver.

Lucio Fulci hid the severity of his illness from his friends and associates so that he would not be deemed unemployable.

People who knew Lucio Fulci well spoke of a third daughter he once had who he said was killed in a car accident in the 1970s, but this story was never confirmed, and the daughter's name was never revealed by any of his biographers.

Lucio Fulci's wife committed suicide, and his daughter was paralyzed because of an accident.

Lucio Fulci collaborated with writer Daniele Stroppa to create a screenplay for Argento, whose insistence on increasing the violence and gore quotient was, unusually, opposed by Lucio Fulci.

Lucio Fulci was slated to direct the film, but he died before filming could begin, due to a series of delays caused by Argento's involvement with his own project, The Stendhal Syndrome, at the time.

Lucio Fulci died alone, in his sleep, in his apartment in Rome at around 2 pm on 13 March 1996 of a hyperglycemic diabetic coma, aged 68.

Lucio Fulci was initially buried in Cimitero Flaminio, though his remains were later moved to Cimitero Laurentino.

Lucio Fulci's films had remained generally ignored or dismissed for many years by the mainstream critics, who regarded his work as exploitation.

Lucio Fulci regarded two of his films, Don't Torture a Duckling and Beatrice Cenci, as his best all-around work, and considered both Zombi 2 and The Beyond as the two films that forever catapulted him to cult film stardom.

Lucio Fulci made an appearance at the January 1996 Fangoria horror convention in New York City, two months before his death.