- Mon Oct 27, 2014 8:38 am
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The title does not have an offensive meaning against women,, literal is ‘a lizard with the skin of a woman’, and is intended as a sensual, sexy lizard.
After the great success of Argento’s ‘Bird’, ‘Cat’ and ‘Flies’ all Italian producers realized ‘Gialli’ putting some animal in the title, to recall the Argento’s ones. This fact bothered very much Argento who even get angry with Fulci on ‘Lizard’, ‘Duckling’ and then for ‘Zombi 2’ (the Italian title for ‘Dawn of the dead’ as you know was Zombi). Fulci was a great director and certainly did not need these tricks to deceive the public, it was producer’s strategy.
Lately I'm working on several Morricone, (nice surprises are waiting for you from AMS) but I would have liked to write the liner notes for this record, there are so many stories about this film to fill a dozen pages. ‘Lizard’ also had a lot of problems with the censorship (and even in Court!) for the sexy scenes and for Carlo Rambaldi’s too realistic special effects. I remember that my mother, a ‘gialli’ die-hard fan (the DNA is not watery!) when she saw the film in 1971 was very disturbed by the sequence in the lab, believing it was real.
At the time, this score remained unpublished but there is a RCA acetate with five songs, sure a great collector's item!!!
