The House of Clocks [DVD]

I really believe that people critical of Fulci just don't get it. That's ok, though. People are entitled to opinions, however much they may be inconsistent with mine.This movie is flawed in certain ways, but only if you look at this in a traditional narrative sense or if you like your acting to be proficient. If you want great acting and a narrative storyline, then go to your local multiplex.Fulci's movies are about the visuals, feeling, impulse, hidden desires. Even though this was made for a TV release (secondarily, cinematic), the sense of dread, the fluid feel of emotion and fear, the gore gags, etc., are all present.Rather than being derided for flaws in narrative structure and poor acting, this should be celebrated and studied by filmmakers interested in the what really is possible with small budgets and impossible time constraints.However, with that being said, I bet that most people wouldn't like this. Their loss.

I am a big fan of Lucio Fulci and have most of his films on DVD. I saw this on amazon and bought it. It is not very good. There is not one decent person / charecter in the whole film. In a film, you need at least one person you care about. This film is populated with the most disgusting vile people anyone can come up with. Murders, thieves, people who torture animals. You need at least one hero. There was not one person in this that i cared about. It is about a very sick and demented couple how have a house full of clocks and can some how, thru the clocks, reverse time. When A trio of sick demented crooks/ animal abusers decide to rob the rich elderly couple, they are thrust into strange world where time reveses it's self and the dead come back to life. Once the young trio murder the elderly couple, all the clocks start to go backwards and history repeates it's self, with the elderly couple coming back to life, all fixed up and no sign of thier wounds. Then they go about chasing and killing the three. There is no explaination as to how the couple can control time or why they are even doing it. The pace is slow, the acting only fair and the blood, well this film has alot less blood then other Fulci films. The whole film reminded me if the pacing of the "Blind dead" films.

This was actually one of late director Lucio Fulci's Italian TV movies that he made in 1989 (the other being SWEET HOUSE OF HORRORS). It is definitely one of Fulci's better of his later films and proves that you could get away with a lot more on 1989 Italian TV than you can with most American TV today. I won't give away the plot (but the title does play a major role), but it is an atmospheric supernatural thriller with dollops of gore (it's not his usual gorefest and is better for it). If you like subtle horror, you could do a lot worse than THE HOUSE OF CLOCKS. Just don't go in expecting ZOMBIE or THE BEYOND and you may be surprised how enjoyable this film is.

A lot of fans seem to dislike this film but I think it mixes story along with high levels of gore and violence. Happy to have it in my collection and I watch it often along with The Beyond and New York Ripper. Not really anything bad about this film to me, solid piece of horror from one of the greats. RIP.

Fulci lives

Wonderful!!!

Lucio Fulci made two movies in the Houses of Doom series of TV movies, this one and The Sweet House of Horror, and both of them are totally his vision and we’re all better for that.House of Clocks brings several narratives together: Victor and Sarah are an elderly couple who live in the titular house and are very protective of what they own to the point that they’ve already murdered their money hungry nephew and his wife, as well as the maid who grew suspicious. But hey, Al Cliver still loves them, even if he has one eye, and he protects the grounds.Meanwhile, Diana, Tony and Paul are shoplifting and killing cats — welcome to Italy — when they hear about the old couple and how rich they are. Diana talk her way into the house but things unravel quickly and before you know it, they’ve killed everyone in the house and the clocks start moving backward and the dogs that patrol the grounds have them trapped.So they do what anyone else would: they get high and Diana and Tony make love, leaving Paul all sad and soon dead at the hands of the revived occupants of the house, with Sarah coming back to stab Diana’s hand directly to a table and Tony getting pulled into a grave before the nephew and his wife assert themselves.The trio wakes up in their car and are certain that they must be really high and all of this was in their head, but then that cat comes back from the dead and kills them all. Well done, cat.Everyone in this movie is horrible and they all deserve to die and they all do several times. The best part of all of it is that Fulci made this for TV and it has multiple stabbings, geyser sprays of blood, old women being shot, murdered cats and someone stabbed so deeply through the stomach that you can see sunlight through their body. Suffice to say it never aired and eventually played Japanese theaters.

THIS FILM SURPRISED ME,AS I HAD READ ALL THE TERRIBLE REVIEWS,I WENT INTO WATCHING THIS NOT EXPECTING MUCH.BUT,TO MY SURPRISE THIS FILK WAS QUITE GOOD. SURE IT IS NOT ONE OF FULCI'S BEST FILMS,BUT I DO NOT THINK THAT IT IS HIS WORST, CAT IN THE BRAIN DESERVES THAT TITLE.IF YOU GO INTO WATCHING THIS FILM WITH NO EXPECTATIONS LIKE I DID THEN I AM SURE THAT YOU WILL FIND SOMETHING IN THE MOVIE THAT YOU LIKE. GIVE IT A TRY,YOU NEVER KNOW.YOU MIGHT JUST ENJOY IT.