As a follow-up to my previous marathon of Italian genre films of the ’70s, I thought I’d step back in time and do the same for the swinging ’60s. While the blood and gore might not be as generous in this decade, the Italians still hopped from genre to genre with shameless aplomb, latching onto…
Confuso e nervoso in una stanza buia: A ’70s Italian Genre Marathon
So I got the notion in my head to watch a genre film every year from 1920 to 2021 this month. While I probably won’t post about all of them, I thought I’d at least publish a couple of decades of my watches for shits ‘n’ giggles. To start it all off, I chose that…
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…
Director Spotlight: Lamberto Bava
This profile marks the first in what will most likely be a series of Director Spotlight write-ups I’m planning to post here. They are structurally composed of an overview of the director describing his/her aesthetics and style followed by capsule reviews of some of their films, usually less well-known titles in their filmographies that may…
Blu-ray Review – An Ideal Place to Kill (Mondo Macabro)
An Ideal Place to Kill aka Oasis of Fear stars Ray Lovelock and Ornella Muti as Dick and Ingrid. A young hippie couple from Denmark who smuggle porn to Italy to pay for their lifestyle. When they overspend on their latest trip they sell Polaroids of Ingrid to finance their trip home. This runs them…
Eyeball (88 Films) Blu-ray Review
A group of tourists in Barcelona are menaced by a red raincoat wearing maniac. The killer could be any one of them, but all eyes are on Mark (John Richardson) who suddenly joins the group. Speaking of eyes, it seems the killer has a thing for them as it removes the victim’s left eye. The…
Forgotten Gialli Vol. 1 (Vinegar Syndrome)
If there is one type of film that I find myself obsessing over, and going back to year in, and year out, it is the giallo. Send me a giallo that I haven’t seen, and I guarantee it will be in my Blu-ray player that night. So needless to say when Vinegar Syndrome’s Blu-ray release…