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Some of Fulci's fans have retroactively argued that at his peak, Fulci's fame and popularity were on a par with that of [[Dario Argento]], another famous Italian horror film director with whom Fulci had avoided working and whom Fulci had openly badmouthed from time to time. Fulci was most likely resentful of Argento, since Argento had always received critical acclaim and recognition in (and outside of) Italy, and Fulci had been regarded there as something of a "horror film hack". (Fulci told friends that when he died, he predicted that the Italian newspapers would all misspell his name, if they even mentioned him at all).
Fulci and Argento met in 1995 and finally agreed to collaborate on a horror film called ''[[Wax Mask]]'' (a remake of the 1953 horror classic "House of Wax"), based on a story by Gaston Leroux. Argento claimed he had heard about Fulci's miserable circumstances at the time and wanted to offer him a chance for a comeback. Fulci wrote a plot synopsis and a screenplay for Argento and thought that he was going to direct the film as well, but he died before filming could begin (due to a series of delays caused by Argento's involvement with his ''[[The
Fulci died alone in his home in Rome on the afternoon of March 13, 1996 of complications from diabetes at age 68. There was some controversy regarding his death since Fulci had been so sickly and despondent in his later years, it was thought perhaps that he had intentionally allowed himself to die by not taking his medications, but no one really knows as he was alone at the time of his death.
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