Don’t Torture a Duckling Director: Lucio Fulci Italy| 1972. 102 mins. Book cinema tickets Italian director Lucio Fulci is best know for gory zombie movies, but this 1972 thriller is regarded by many as his finest work. The film paints a very unflattering portrait of small-town Sicily as a reporter and a promiscuous woman investigate a series of child murders and discover a community rife with perversion, ignorance and madness. Director: Lucio Fulci Italy| 1972. 102 mins.