{"id":16365,"date":"2024-04-13T21:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T01:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16365"},"modified":"2024-04-12T09:40:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T13:40:28","slug":"conquest-1983-lucio-fulci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16365","title":{"rendered":"Conquest (1983, Lucio Fulci)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opens with an old man sending a young archer on his adventuring way, all double exposed on a beach with a Goblin soundtrack, and I’m afraid my story description from here on isn’t going to make much sense. Nicely summed up (in a positive review!) on lboxd<\/a>: “every scene is clouded in iridescent fumes & I don’t know why anybody does anything.”<\/p>\n

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Wolf-suited tax collectors rip a girl apart so their snakey nudist leader can gobble her brains. Is she then killed by an arrow of light shot by our faceless archer or was that a vision? Our hero Elias is armed with a bow and four arrows, but is attacked by fourteen dudes, then rescued by an animal-loving stone-nunchuck warrior called Mace with lipstick runes on his forehead. Mace won’t kill animals so he steals all his food, keeps a cavegirl nearby until her head is smashed in by dog soldiers in the next scene.<\/p>\n

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Obsessively backlit – both this and Conan<\/em>‘s best parts are their music, but this one is better for being wildly unpredictable. “Birds flying towards the water… that’s not good.”<\/p>\n

Birdie:<\/em>
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The kid gets poisoned by a barrage of film-scratch darts coming from the weeds, and Fulci finds a way to get zombies into the movie as Mace braves a horde to collect a poison-healing herb. Then Mace gets attacked by his shadow self (Cactus-faced Zora in disguise) and it’s his turn to be captured by cobwebbed cave muppets, and the kid has to rescue him.<\/p>\n

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Somehow the kid keeps finding arrows in a land that’s never seen a bow before – have I mentioned this? – but finally he starts shooting blanks and letting the effects team add bolts of light. Mace is rescued by dolphins then attacked by powervaulting cave furries… the villains behead the kid but the nude woman can’t devour his brain because he opens his eyes… I dunno anymore.<\/p>\n

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Fulci in his heyday (The Beyond<\/a><\/em> was the year before) ripping off Conan<\/em> – even titled so they’d sit together alphabetically in video stores, good move. The kid’s career path was a Howard Hawks film -> this -> Werewolf<\/em> with Joe Estevez. Stonechuck warrior Andrea Occhipinti had just starred in Fulci’s New York Ripper<\/em>, and the nude girl Sabrina Siani specialized in playing the nude girl in this sort of movie. Like Conan<\/em> this won no oscars. Big congrats to Oppenheimer<\/a><\/em> but in another 40 years we’ll see which of these movies people are still watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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