SICK-O-PATHICS

An amateurish episodic film, released only for the home video market without a specific label or distribution. It's an ambiguous, at times comic film, whose only merit is to have a cast made up of: Lucio Fulci, Dardano Sacchetti, Antonio Margheriti, Joe D'Amato, Luigi Cozzi, Sergio Stivaletti, George Eastman, Renato Polselli, and David Warbeck. It is a sort of parodic revisitation of the classic themes of our horror cinema (and not only), a solemn mockery that involved, in its production, the directors or actors it was going to ridicule. Notable is the episode in which George Eastman, in the manner of "Antropophagus" by D'Amato, plays the role of a zombie with serious stomach problems who lives alone on an inflatable raft (the episode is "Aereophagus"), also funny is the episode featuring Lucio Fulci engaged in the production of a strange commercial while his daughter Antonella plays the role of an impressionable lady in sweet expectation, but among all the strange characters that populate this film, perhaps the character of a sadistic butcher played by Luigi Cozzi is to be reevaluated. The whole thing seasoned with a delirious soundtrack based on progressive rock and heavy metal. In short, a product without many pretensions that pays the price of being the parody of a genre, spaghetti horror, which had already lost much notoriety in those years. A curiosity: very little is known about the two directors, Brigida Costa worked in America for Throma production while there is no more news of Massimo Lavagnini, surely he did not have a very good reputation since all the protagonists of this film, during interviews, always answered in an allusive or negative manner to questions about him.