This week, we tackle our first Lucio Fulci film! Touch of Death is latter-day, low-budget, low-effort Fulci and it shows. We spend most of the film with Lester, yet another dull, spineless, failure-of-a-male-lead. He makes his living by seducing wealthy, older, disfigured women and killing them for their money. It's a tragi-comedy of truly gory proportions. On this episode: English vs Italian dialogue, luxury cannibalism (i.e. savoring that perfect cut of thigh meat), poetic personals, singing as a way of life, an odd gambling side plot, potential schizophrenia, a rebellious shadow, and - trigger warning - possible misogyny.
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