Don't Torture A Duckling

Hey, it's Halloween season, the best season there could ever be! I always get super pumped, and try to make my life a little more macabre than usually by watching horror movies or having a Halloween party or something, who knows. Well, I got this Lucio Fulci movie a few weeks ago, actually, but I just had time to watch it yesterday. It's not as gory as his later movies, and rather than just being a loosely connected selection of terrifying events (Fulci was actually more interested in cinema's ability to present images that elicited direct emotional responses in the audience than telling any kind of linear story), this one has a somewhat coherent story. It's about some kids dying, then all of the sudden at the end there's a lot of gore out of nowhere. Like all of Fulci's movies, it seems as though there is the hand of a great auteur guiding the film, but the story is tertiary at best.

RATING: 57%