Touch of Death (1988) on Netflix
Lester Parson, a cannibal who abducts and mutilates women, owes a loan shark money from bad gambling bets. He invites the hard-drinking Maggie MacDonald to his house for dinner.
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Plot summary
Lester Parson abducts women, eats certain cuts of them and leaves the rest in his backyard for his pigs. He holds conversations with himself through tape recordings of his own voice, and the loan shark Randy presses him for money lost gambling. Parson picks up Maggie MacDonald, an alcoholic, and asks her to his house for dinner. She arrives already drunk and spills her wine, so the poison he prepared does nothing. A second time she swaps the two glasses by mistake. On the third attempt she drinks the poisoned wine but throws it up before it works. She steps into the bathroom to wash up, leaving Parson to reach for a wooden stick.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Touch of Death (1988)
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- Cinematographer Silvano Tessicini got Lucio Fulci into the series as a supervisor, but Fulci, who had just returned from shooting Zombi 3 in the Philippines and was ill, submitted his own story, Touch of Death, instead.
- Fulci said Touch of Death was padded with so many shots just to get the films' minimum running time complete, and argued with the producers on set, who were unhappy that he was continuously behind schedule.
- Alfieri, who owned the home video rights to the series, sued Formula Home Video over its "Lucio Fulci presenta" releases. Formula went bankrupt, and Avo Film bought the rights and put the series out on VHS and DVD.
