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    Arrow Don't Torture a Duckling *requested review*

    Don't Torture a Duckling
    Release Date: 1972
    Director: Lucio Fulci



    The movie that ruined Lucio Fulci's career. In reality his lack of skills are to blame for that, but he blames this film...
    It begins in a pretty mundane fashion, nothing interesting occurs. We get treated to some really nice looking cinematography, and some esoteric imagery. We also get the misfortune of hearing some jarring music. We see some kids playing, and a weird person burying action figures
    That in a nutshell sums up the first half an hour of the film.

    As 'Duckling' progresses at it's tortoise like pace, we get rewarded with an off screen kill! What better way to reward the audience after enduring 30 minutes of chatty photography. The killer targets children and all of the kills take place off screen. Which is very unsettling for an Italian film, which were never know for their great acting. Nonetheless the lame 'Duckling' creeps along introducing us to cardboard characters, that are as bland as a bowl of malt0meal.

    Several murder suspects are thrown in to keep your mind going, sadly none of them are believable. There is one nice gory killing in the film.That is really quite savage in it's brutality. A women, a mob, and a bunch of chains, nice stuff for sure
    That is the apex of this Italian outing. Except of coarse, for the great locations, which I found stunning. The exotic, ethnic looking village was a real treat, until it got overused. I think the film maker like myself realized it was the best aspect of the flick, and began whoring it out.

    The score had some really good music in it, that fit the town perfectly. Also some seriously bad, and out of place music, found it's place in there. So drastically out of place, it made me forget about the great tunes that had been played. Why they used such outrageous music during the lynching scene I will never know. It almost ruined it!!
    I can't really talk about the killer, or the finally, without ruing what little the movie has going for it. I will say the fight scenes are not a not a strength, and execution was incredibly poor.

    The Bottom Line:
    Don't Torture A Duckling is great to look at, but miserable to watch. Fantastic landscapes are largely wasted, by heaps of inane dialogue.Very little gore & only one onscreen kill didn't manage to hold my attention, I doubt it will hold yours either.

    Still the scenery was strong enough to power the this to a 5/10.
    Locations were 'the' only highlight to be found.


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    :mhehe: I'm still looking forward to getting this in the mail. Also you should use spell check :bigthumbup:

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    Quote Originally Posted by King_ov_Hell View Post
    :mhehe: I'm still looking forward to getting this in the mail. Also you should use spell check :bigthumbup:
    I've spell checked every review but this one cause

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    heh, just wanted to get it out of the way eh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by King_ov_Hell View Post
    heh, just wanted to get it out of the way eh.
    I fixed it :stone:

    Quote Originally Posted by Jungle_Julia View Post
    You leave comments on my post and then complain when i leave 1 on yours
    You haven't commented on this review, so i'm not sure what you mean.

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    I apparently give this a 6/10 in my review
    This film is not a 6 :lookarnd:

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    Quote Originally Posted by steelba View Post
    I fixed it :stone:


    You haven't commented on this review, so i'm not sure what you mean.
    Ive been told that you don't like it when i reply to your threads even though you reply to some of mine thats all. As for your review pretty articulate steel didnt know you had it in you

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    Quote Originally Posted by steelba View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by King_ov_Hell View Post
    Also you should use spell check :bigthumbup:
    Surprised you didn't say something similar for my POAK review.

    Good review steelba, I'll probably still watch it though since I've got it.

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    If you have it definatly watch it, becasue it's worth seeing. But only if you already own it

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    Surprised you didn't say something similar for my POAK review.
    Yeah, but there were too many in this to ignore

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