If you’ve ever wanted to know more about the life and career of Italian horror master Lucio Fulci you’ll want to keep the upcoming Fulci for Fake on your radar, which recently wrapped filming and is now in post-production. Using a part documentary/part biopic approach, the movie will tell Fulci’s story with never before seen footage, photos and interviews.
Simone Scafidi directed Fulci for Fake, which has a pretty interesting setup.
Detailed by Rue Morgue, “The movie centers on an actor (played by Nicola Nocella) who is cast as Fulci in a film about the director’s life, and sets out to research the role by meeting up with people who have known and studied him.”
Interview subjects include Fabio Frizzi, Michele Romagnoli, Sandro Bitetto, Enrico Vanzina, Sergio Salvati, Michele Soavi, Paolo Malco, Berenice Sparano and Davide Pulici.
Scafidi teases, “It is a film made of Fulci’s blood, with the presence, for the first time, of both the director’s daughters: Antonella, the firstborn, endowed with a culture and a humanity worthy of her father, who generously made available the family’s video material, and Camilla, her father’s assistant on the set of his latest productions, who provided her first and only long video interview and unfortunately passed away after the shoot. Antonella and Camilla are the only people, perhaps, to know in depth the mystery of their own father.”
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