Four of the Apocalypse
by Lucio Fulci
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Actor: Fabio Testi, Harry Baird, Lynne Frederick, Michael J. Pollard, Tomas MilianDirector: Lucio Fulci
Brand: WEA DES Moines Video
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Italian (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: 1089
Studio: Blue Underground
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- Uncut. Uncensored. Unseen for over 25 years! The legendary blood-soaked western from the director of ZOMBIE and THE BEYOND Having survived a vigilante slaughter, four hard-luck strangers gambler Stubby Preston (Fabio Testi of THE BIG RACKET), a pregnant prostitute (Lynne Frederick of SCHIZO), the town drunk (Michael J. Pollard of BONNIE AND CLYDE) and a madman who sees dead people (Harry Baird
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DVD Review: Not Even in the Running
Summary: 2 Stars
For my dollar Sergio Leone is the benchmark for all Spaghetti Westerns. "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" is not only the best Spaghetti Western ever made it ranks in my top 100 movies of all time. I know there were a ton of these to hit the States in light of Leone's success and, as happens, some would be better than others. That anyone even considers this one of the better ones boggles my mind. It's not even in the running.
This is one of the worst and dumbest movies I've ever seen. For all intents and purposes it's a Spaghetti Western Road Movie. The "Hero" (a card sharp) gets thrown into the local jail with a drunk, a hooker and a crazy black dude. When were jails ever co-ed? Some masked guys ride in and shoot up the town and kill untold numbers of people. We don't know who they are, why they are doing this and we never hear from them or about them again. The sheriff might know because he calmly sits in the jail house eating his dinner as all of this is happening and is not the least bit concerned about it all. The next morning he lets our four cell-mates free and they all head off together. Why? We don't know. After they're freed there is no reason for these people to want to hang together, but there they are hitting the road for some mindless adventure.
The entire movie is filled with stuff like this. Things just happen. There is no cause or effect. When they pick up Chako, things are going pretty well, but after a night of drinking and copious amounts of Peyote Chako turns on them, ties three of the four up (why not the fourth?) and leaves them to die. And when he finds out the fourth freed the other three he gets pissed and wants to track them down and kill them, which he could have done at the outset. This is dumb beyond the meaning of the word. Stuff like this keeps happening throughout the movie.
It isn't directed all that well. It isn't shot all that well. Some of the music is OK but there are some circa 60s, west coast sounding songs that are awful beyond belief. I can't really comment on the acting because the dubbing erased much of what might have existed. They DID mix the sound of the gun-shots well though if that counts for anything.
The beginning of the film states this is the most complete print available. Is it the most complete print that ever existed we'll never know. And this might account for the clunkiness of the proceedings, but by any standard this is a sub-standard entry into the genre. Unless it's your mission to see every Spaghetti Western ever made, I'd give this a pass.
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