Lucio Fulcis Contraband (1980) shifts from horror to Eurocrime, starring Fabio Testi as a Naples smuggler who becomes entangled in a brutal war between rival gangs and international drug traffickers. Known for its raw violence, it mixes mafia intrigue with Fulcis signature exploitation edge.

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Renowned as the Godfather of Gore for legendary cult horror films like The Beyond , Lucio Fulci delivers the suspense of noir with the punch of a horror film in his unapologetically brutal crime masterpiece, CONTRABAND  creating a raw, uncompromisingly visceral vision of organised crime with horror-style set-pieces  including one of the most notorious scenes in Italian crime cinema, the melting face torture sequence.

 Fulci lays bare the raw and completely unromanticised brutality of the Camorra in one of his most hard-hitting and unrelenting films, merging crime thriller with Horrors shocking aesthetics. It got so real that the local underworld got involved in the actual making of the film, explains star Fabio Testi in an exclusive interview for this release.

CONTRABAND stars the ever-charismatic tough-guy Fabio Testi (Revolver) who delivers a powerful, career-defining performance as Luca a tough-as-nails cigarette smuggler whose world explodes when his brother is murdered and his wife abducted. This ignites a ferocious mob war, with a ruthless newcomer hell-bent on replacing the old cigarette contraband with deadly narcotics. What follows isnt just revenge its a one-man war against a ruthless drug lord portrayed with unhinged intensity by Marcel Bozzuffi. His performance is so disturbingly sadistic, it makes his assassin role in The French Connection look tame. Here, Bozzuffis cool menace curdles into something purely psychopathic.

Fulci spares no one in the ensuing bloodbath,