Tag: Damiano Damiani

A Man On His Knees [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Review

What would you do if you suddenly and inexplicably found yourself the potential target of a hitman? This is the precise situation that Nino Peralta (Giuliano Gemma), simple husband and father who works at a coffee stand, finds himself in when he is told that he is one of eight targets for elimination by one…


Goodbye & Amen [Radiance Films] Blu-ray Review

Tony Musante is CIA operative John Dannahay and has been tasked with working to overthrow an African government while also trying to track down a mole on his team. John Steiner is the double-crossing Agent Grayson who has been working against him. Before Dannahay can confront him, Grayson seeimingly flips out and snipes some folks…


Director Spotlight: Damiano Damiani

Damiano Damiani isn’t probably as well known outside Italy as many other Italian genre filmmakers of the ‘60s and ‘70s, but he was quite successful in his home country, particularly in the ‘60s, and became known for his highly politicized genre pictures like the well-regarded spaghetti western A Bullet for the General and the mafia…


The Amityville Trilogy (Scream Factory) Blu-ray review

The Amityville series has been one of horror cinema’s most persistent and questionably enduring franchises. It all began with the 1977 novel by Jay Anson that was supposedly based on a true story, though it has long been debunked. Nevertheless, the original Amityville Horror has spawned sequels, unofficial spin-offs, pale imitations, countless parodies, and the…