If Fulci couldn’t make the best poliziotteschi flick, he could certainly make the goriest. A man who gets the back of his head blown off during a busy race meeting, a backstabbing villain who gets his throat blown apart, and sundry gore drenched exit wounds. These include a particularly grisly blow torch to the face scene which Fulci’s camera predictably glorifies with a fetishistic attention to detail. The film itself is actually a fairly routine and mundane affair briefly punctuated by Fulci’s trademark scenes of absurdly excessive violence. Fortunately this was redressed with the release of Contraband in an uncut form on DVD by American distributor Blue Underground in 2004. Zombi 2 was the most successful film in Fulci’s long and illustrious career, but the film that followed it sank without a trace into a murky distribution limbo. Its position has not been helped by substandard and patchwork distribution. Either way the result of this is that Contraband has steadily built itself a reputation as a cult curiosity in Fulci’s filmography. One can only assume that either the cycle didn’t interest Fulci from a written point of view, or that no suitable project came to his attention. With Fulci’s incredibly competent approach to a myriad of genres it seems almost inconceivable now that he didn’t direct a crime picture at the height of the genre’s popularity in 1970’s Italy. The films status as a departure for Fulci is indicated by the fact that it was made in between Zombi 2 (1979) and City of the Living Dead (1980), and at a time when the poliziotteschi cycle itself was on the decline. We do our best to fulfill orders as quickly as we can.Contraband was Italian writer/director Lucio Fulci’s only entry into the bitter and cynical terrain of the poliziotteschi. For MOD requests, processing time could be up to 1 week on average. Our processing time is 1-2 days for in-stock items for domestic orders. The price of the items would only cover the operational / raw material / shipping costs and would be sold for personal use only. We would not make any profit out of such sale. Many DVD stores now offer MOD service, and so do we to keep a competitive edge. Should an item be unavailable, we would inform you if it was possible to provide an on-Demand DVD-R version of the requested item, but we offer no guarantees. Please read our notice and takedown policy by clicking here. Notice and Takedown policyĪs a professional and reputable online store, DVD Planet Store is fully committed to the twin issues of copyright and trademarks. Our representative will get in touch with the customer with the availability of the items when an order is placed. Since, we do not take payments online at this time, there is 0% risk in placing order for movies you like on our website. Our aim is to build a comprehensive listing of movies and TV shows available to date. The items that are not released yet, or not out on DVD / Blu-ray are indeed unavailable, and that is what we would tell our customers if the requests ever come in. Our catalog is built as a reference for our customers, while we do our best to sync our in-stock items on our website. Please note that a product being listed on our website does not necessarily mean it is in stock and readily available for order.
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