Fun With Fulci: Sodoma's Ghost

I've already given you a little background of the Godfather of Gore in the last segment, so let's jump right into the review of...

Way back in the 1940s, a bunch of Nazis have camped out in a French farmhouse for a nice night of sex and drugs. See, those guys were not all bad. In the midst of their orgy,- which was being filmed with a giant, awkward camera- the whole place is bombed into the stone age. End of movie? No, it is only the beginning...

A bunch of young students go out in the French countryside for a day of fun. You know what I mean. After a bit of bickering, they end up at the same farmhouse. Conveniently, the key is still under the mat and they go inside. When they discover food and booze, they decide to stay the night. Meanwhile, they continue to not get along all that well.

They attempt to leave in the morning, but find that their car doesn't work. The group ends up staying the day, beginning to see some weird stuff in the meantime. Oh yeah, they still don't get a long. One of the guys likes to drink in excess, one girl likes the idiot and another girl likes the girl who likes the idiot. How will they resolve this? When will someone just die already?!? Oh, there we go.

The majority of the scares and frights in the movie come from generally-weird imagery alone. One of the girls has bloody sex with a Nazi and a guy goes off and plays Russian Roulette in exchange for a chance at some German poon-tang. Smart guy. The amount of nudity in this portion almost makes up for nothing freaking happening! We finally get the dissolving man shown earlier around the hour plus mark. None of this matters because, wait for it, it was all a dream. Or was it? All I know is that the house disappears and all the group survives...even the guy who already died. Thanks for wasting my time, Lucio.

I wanted this movie to be good; I really did. The movie has major promise and simply fails to deliver on it. Much like the Dolph Lundgren film Detention, the film refuses to kill any of its tiny cast. There is good atmosphere at times, but it is ruined by cutting back to the bickering 'teens.' The ending pretty much takes all of the steam out of it as well. If you want real sultry Nazis, check out the Ilsa series or the film with an iconic title S.S. Love Camp. You did better Lucio and I'll show it...eventually.

Next we get another zombie film. Italy made Zombie films?  Stay tuned...