TOUCH OF DEATH
Original Title:
Quando Alice ruppe lo specchio
Quando Alice ruppe lo specchio
Alternate Title:
When Alice Broke The Mirror
When Alice Broke The Mirror
Italy, 1988
Director: Lucio Fulci
4/10
It starts out pretty great in the first half but gets boring and tedious in the second. The acting is mostly pretty hilarious but also in some kind of way pretty annoying (the opera singer... horrid!).The story is unbelievably dumb and makes absolutely no sense (no explanation, a super-disappointing ending). The soundtrack is funny but gets also more and more annoying by the time, and the the whole tv-movie-look just looks cheap. At least there's nothing wrong with the gore: a lotta victims hacked, slashed and crunched to pieces, cooked in an oven, eaten, strangulated etc.
As far as I know Fulci was ill at that time (hepatitis, diabetes) so I blame it on the meds which probably addled his brain - or maybe it was a cat? ;-)
Not the worst work from Fulci (that's The House Of Clocks "Sodoma's Ghosts") but probably the stupidest one. An extremely weird and quite pointless kinda-splatter-comedy, only 80 minutes long - but still way too long.
It starts out pretty great in the first half but gets boring and tedious in the second. The acting is mostly pretty hilarious but also in some kind of way pretty annoying (the opera singer... horrid!).The story is unbelievably dumb and makes absolutely no sense (no explanation, a super-disappointing ending). The soundtrack is funny but gets also more and more annoying by the time, and the the whole tv-movie-look just looks cheap. At least there's nothing wrong with the gore: a lotta victims hacked, slashed and crunched to pieces, cooked in an oven, eaten, strangulated etc.
As far as I know Fulci was ill at that time (hepatitis, diabetes) so I blame it on the meds which probably addled his brain - or maybe it was a cat? ;-)
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I never knew heads could melt in ovens. Normally,they go ablaze. what a wonderful imagination he had, Our Dear Fulci!
ReplyDeleteHaha! Well as I said, he was pretty ill at that time... :)
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