9/7/2023 0 Comments Contraband 1980![]() ![]() ![]() And if you’re looking for his trademark tics, as you’ve read above, this film is full of them. It’s his only crime movie, but it’s not a bad effort. They take out most of his men and Luca guns him down in a garbage-strewn alley in a scene packed with blood spraying everywhere.Īdele and rescued and Morrone, the leader of the old school mob guys, tells the police that he has no idea who Luca is.Ĭontraband was made as Fulci was starting to claim his gore crown. Luca unites all of the retired mob bosses and old guard bosses, who are sick of hearing about the Frenchman taking over. Scherino is mortally wounded, but not before shooting Perlante in the neck, killing him.Īgain, in case you wonder who directed this film, The Marsigliese kidnaps Adele and demands Luca turn over his smuggling operation over the phone…and then plays him the sounds of our hero’s wife being beaten and gang-raped. That’s when gunmen bust in and shoot everyone but Luca, who escapes by crashing through a window. They meet at Perlante’s house, but Luca smells The Marsigliese’s cologne. The police are using all of the intercine battling to round up smugglers, but Scherino saves Luca and suggests they work together. After a meeting between Luca, Perlante and The Marsigliese, where they discuss working together, Luca warns his fellow smugglers that if the French boss has his way, there will be more drugs, more overdoses and more problems - with less money for all of them. Even Perlante is nearly killed, only being saved by the fact that his chief capo was having sex with his mistress and triggered a bomb under the bed. The Marsigliese starts killing all of the Mafia leaders so that he can become the sole boss of Naples. If you haven’t realized that you are watching a Lucio Fulci movie, this would be the point in the film where you realize that fact. We meet this criminal during a drug deal, where he responds to a bad batch of heroin by burning a woman’s face with a blowtorch. ![]() But he’s in deep after discovering that a vicious French criminal named The Marsigliese is responsible. He gets his ass kicked, but his life is spared after the boss tells him he had no part in the death of his brother.Īdele, Luca’s wife, wants him to forget this life. Breaking into Scherino’s house, he almost kills the man before running into his henchmen. Despite warnings that he should leave town, he has a speedboat funeral for his brother and vows revenge. Luca escapes death while his brother is not so lucky. After sharing their concerns with their boss Perlante, one of Mickey’s prize horses is killed and a fake police roadblock leads to Fulci paying homage (or straight up ripping off, depending on your perspective) to the scene where Sonny dies in The Godfather. They have a close call with the police and suspect a rival gangster, Scherino, of turning them in. Luca Di Angelo smuggles near Naples with his brother Mickey. All of these things are wonderfully true and make Contraband such a weird addition to your Fulci collection. Imagine that real mobsters paid for the film, asking for a title change and for more violence (like Fulci was going to say no). Imagine that the budget ran out two weeks in. ![]()
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