It is absolutely fair to say that celebrated shock maker, Lucio Fulci's majestically mental, murder-mystical 'Manhattan Baby' rarely receives the plaudits it manifestly deserves! Frequently denied the universal acclaim of 'Zombie Flesheaters' or 'New York Ripper', unfairly disparaged as being a lesser work in the inspirational canon of the visionary gore-father, but it 'aint! I sincerely believe that maestro, Fulci's ominous, inventively grisly, supernaturally sinister, eerily eccentric offering has enough rewardingly off-beat, pan-dimensional splatter-slathered strangeness to beguile any true Fulci fan!
Maestro, Fulci and his frequent literary collaborator, Dardano Sacchetti unleashed a memorably macabre protagonist in their mythical murder fest 'Manhattan Baby'. This ancient, diabolically distempered Djinn resides in the pretty, ornately fashioned Egyptian amulet worn around young, Susie's (Brigitta Boccoli) delicate neck. After her cavalier archaeologist father, George (Christopher Connelly) violates the long-buried tomb, this vengeful entity renders him temporarily blind! Back in metropolitan Manhattan this antediluvian horror evilly manifests a nightmarish torrent of portal-spawned slaughter! Those in close proximity to the possessed poppet are despatched in a most gruesome fashion! Spirited away to an arid desert, metaphysically mangled in far-flung mythic realms, set upon by poisonous serpents or horrifically gored to death by eye-ball piercing stuffed birds, their profane facsimile of life another manifestation of the foul curse haunting the Hacker family!
Maestro, Fulci and his frequent literary collaborator, Dardano Sacchetti unleashed a memorably macabre protagonist in their mythical murder fest 'Manhattan Baby'. This ancient, diabolically distempered Djinn resides in the pretty, ornately fashioned Egyptian amulet worn around young, Susie's (Brigitta Boccoli) delicate neck. After her cavalier archaeologist father, George (Christopher Connelly) violates the long-buried tomb, this vengeful entity renders him temporarily blind! Back in metropolitan Manhattan this antediluvian horror evilly manifests a nightmarish torrent of portal-spawned slaughter! Those in close proximity to the possessed poppet are despatched in a most gruesome fashion! Spirited away to an arid desert, metaphysically mangled in far-flung mythic realms, set upon by poisonous serpents or horrifically gored to death by eye-ball piercing stuffed birds, their profane facsimile of life another manifestation of the foul curse haunting the Hacker family!