Italian film director Lucio Fulci portrays an Italian film director named Lucio Fulci in this film made up primarily of films made or produced by Lucio Fulci with a wraparound story about Lucio Fulci being affected by the disturbing films he has made and also the one he is currently making.If that summary confuses you, congratulations, because you are sufficiently prepared to enter Nightmare Concert. I really did feel like I was participating in someone else's bad dream. I was never quite sure what was actually happening to the Fulci character, what was an hallucination of his, or what was part of the film-within-a-film that the director is working on. Throw in a crazy subplot about a real killer in Rome trying to frame Fulci and you should end up like me - confused and disoriented, yet entertained.Sure, this isn't up there with Fulci's best, but I get the impression he was trying to have a little fun with his image and career and although it's a bit of cheap ploy to insert gore scenes from other movies, at least they're quality gore scenes and fun to watch. Nightmare Concert is quite a good time if you go into it without trying to compare it to your favorite Fulci film(s).ff

Lucio Fulci is an infamous Italian Horror director, well known for staging extremely violent gore scenes. Lucio begins to question his own sanity when weird visions start to commence. He goes to a nearby shrink for help. Lucio foolishly takes his Shrink's advice, because he doesn't realize The Shrink is much less lucid than Fucli. The Shrink hypnotizes Fulci to commence vicious murders. This was Fulci's swan song. With all due respect to one of my favorite Italian filmmakers, this is one of his weakest movies. It's basically just a compilation of gore scenes, with a bit of plot thrown in for good measure. It's without a doubt, one of the goriest movies I've ever seen. A guy gets run over multitudes of times (Extremely brutal stuff, and very well done) a cat gnaws away at brains, woman is sawed to pieces, and MUCH more. The problem with all the gore is I got bored of it after a while. The movie is nowhere near strong enough to get by on gore alone, because the story is quite weak. When it's not throwing all that gore in your face, its busy boring you by being overly talky, and as I mentioned previously. Even the gore gets tiring after a while, and I'm a big gore hound. I'll give credit where credit is due. Lucio Fulci is a director, so his poor acting skills can be excused, but he is not pretty to watch. He does this inner monologue at times, and relies on confused facial expressions. I didn't buy he was on the brink of being a madman. Not sure why he felt the need to do this film, but it doesn't work. Despite the somewhat abrupt ending, it has a clever little twist at the end, and reeled me in, I'll admit that, but to be honest? I didn't care about it, because I was underwhelmed by this movie. Final Thoughts: Die hard Fulci fans ought to seek this out to watch at it at least once. The rest needn't bother. Fulci has done worse in his career, but he's also done way better. Check out The Beyond, House by The Cemetery Zombi, or City of The Living Dead if you haven't already4/10

It is Dr. Lucio Fulci's party and we are all invited! In approximately 90 minutes, we are bombed with extremely gory and violent situations involving mutilations, brutal beatings, beheadings, slashed throats, exposed guts, vulgar language, etc. There is even a very weird moment from a musical film where a woman is bitch slapped without mercy while she sings!Fulci's psychiatrist's smile is one of the most frightening things I've seen in a while!This is a bizarre movie. It is brutal, filled with blood, and misogynistic. It is a tribute from Fulci to himself. Hey, even at the ending he drives a boat while accompanied by a very sexy Italian chick in a bikini.Sadly, it is a very flawed film. The plot is absurd but in my opinion it inspired Wes Craven's "New Nightmare" (however, Ze do Caixao A.K.A. Coffin Joe used it on "O Exorcism Negro" from 1974). The editing is horrible. The music is lousy. The acting sucks! Fulci may be the best actor in the whole film.But it is very entertaining for gorehounds. It's extremely violent content should please those who hail Fulci like me.

If you are a Lucio Fulci fan you will love this movie, like i did because I'm a die hard Fulci fan. This movie predates Wes Creven Final nightmare, the plot of the director making the movie and movie inside the movie is very similar, and this one was made first. Fulci plays himself, shooting a new horror movie (its Quando Alice Ruppe lo specchio according to the footage we see) and going mad, losing his head with all the violence and blood. The biggest part of the movie consist in previous movies footage (bassically blood and gore) but the movie is great even if you realize that all the gore is taken from previous Fulci directed or produced movies.