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The release is judged a bit too harshly, it's not that bad
I was very nervous about buying this film, having read all the negative reviews about the quality of the discs, especially the uncut italian version. But it wasn't so bad, really. Yes, the uncut release is fullscreen and only in mono, but it's very watchable and there are only a handful of scenes that aren't featured in the english version. As for the english version, which is cut, the quality there is good, with a good sound mix and decent enough picture quality. I honestly think some people here are judging this release a bit too harshly. <
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>As for the film itself; A lizard in a Woman's skin is one of Fulci's better films. His venture into giallo territory is much more interesting than his full blown gore-drenched gothic horrors. Lizard is fairly well written and quite suspenseful at times, with good setpieces such as the bat attack but it's fairly slow moving. His other giallo's Don't torture a duckling and Seven notes in black are better, but Lizard is well deserving of a viewing, especially for giallo fans.

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great giallo
Since I'm a big fan of Dario Argento and the giallo, Mario Bava seemed like the next logical step, after seeing all of Argento's movies. After seeing a couple of Bava films, Fulci seemed the next logical step to know more about the giallo. <
>This movie is surprising and doesn't disappoint. The story is great, very complicated at times, and I didn't guess who the killer was, like the inspector of Tenebrae. The London setting is just great, and the chase in the Alexandria Palace is awesome. Like other reviewers said, the dream sequences are good too. The actors: Penny Brown as the hippie knife thrower is my favourite but Stanley Baker is also great. <
>Direction wise, Fulci knew what he was doing, although at times his camera work is a bit sloppy. But I liked the photography (from the same director of photography of Deep Red). The overuse of the zoom doesn't bother me as it does some picky reviewers out there. <
>This dvd received horrible reviews when it was released, and it's not hard to understand why. It contains 2 versions of the movie. The uncut looks like a vhs release from 10 years ago, but I found it quite watchable. The other one, with the original aspect ratio, is better but it is cut, and the print is damaged here and there. The sound is also better. Nevertheless, I don't think media blasters should receive so many attacks. This was the best they could do, for now, at least. It's a fair version of a great film; though it could be much better. <
>The music is also great but unfortunately it isn't used properly. There's some great pieces on the soundtrack which don't appear at all in the film. The mono in the uncut version doesn't help either. <
>The featurette is nice and the packaging is cool! <
>5 stars for the movie, 3 for the dvd = 4. <
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Well intentioned misfire from Media Blasters
Can one call Fulci a great director and still deserve to be taken seriously? Certainly the guy had some real talent, of a sort. But, let's be honest, he made some real bad movies - I mean unwatchable stinkers of the first order. But he also made a a number of movies that were of the so-bad-they're-good variety. Then there were the ones that weren't good by conventional standards, but were a lot more watchable and entertaining than any number of more conventionally "good" movies - too many of these to just be a fluke. And then, every once in a while, he made a movie that was actually good. <
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>'Lizard' is actually pretty good, even by normal movie standards. The English dubbing is a lot better than what you're probably used to, for one thing. It's definitely got its charms. So it's a real pity about this disc. <
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>Obviously the problem here was finding acceptable elements. So we have this unwieldy two disc set that accentuates the downside a bit more than a patchwork composite of the available versions might have. (Examination of the differences between the English and Italian versions reveals some ways in which this might have been even more problematic, however.) <
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>The cropped Italian home video version is NOT, by the way complete. Both of the versions here have been shorn of sexy moments - different ones in each case! So there's a good chance that there might even be footage that doesn't appear in either of the versions here! Some deleted scenes from a (very poor) fourth source are included on the second disc as an easter egg - but this is not nearly all of the footage that was cut (rather sloppily) out of the Italian version presented here. <
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>If I ever find my old bootleg I'll do a comparison and update this review if I see anything new. Just know that this is a less than satisfying presentation - not for lack of trying, though. I'm sure the folks at MB were at least as frustrated trying to put this together as I was watching it. <
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>Note: While I can't really tell if my bootleg is a composite or not, there doesn't seem to be any extra footage. There is, however, a dialogue scene presented in English that only appears in the Italian version of MB's set - indicating that there was a complete English language version at some time. <
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>Also, the English language credits on my disc aren't the same as the ones presented on disc one - instead they reproduce the graphic style and effects of the more visually interesting Italian credits on disc 2 (except that they are yellow instead of white). <
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>One last thing I forgot to mention: In at least one scene the Italian version has some interesting background dialogue (in English!) that you won't hear in the English version. Why, I don't know. It enhances the tripped-out nature of the film as a whole.