Archive for February, 2008
Four Flies On Grey Velvet (1971)
Friday, February 22nd, 2008(aka 4 Mosche Di Velluto Grigio / Vier Fliegen Auf Grauem Samt / 4 Flies On Grey Velvet)
Director: Dario Argento
Producer: Salvatore Argento
Writer: Dario Argento, Luigi Cozzi, Mario Foglietti
Music: Ennio Morricone
Starring: Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Aldo Bufi Landi, Calisto Calisti, Marisa Fabbri, Oreste Lionello, Fabrizio Moroni, Corrado Olmi, Stefano Satta, Bud Spencer
Dario Argento’s [...]
Don’t Answer the Phone! (1980)
Friday, February 15th, 2008Director: Robert Hammer
Writer: Robert Hammer, Michael Castle
Producer: Robert Hammer, Michael Castle
Music: Brian Allred
Starring: Nicholas Worth, James Westmoreland, Flo Garrish, Ben Frank.
There is a killer on the prowl in Los Angeles who sexually assaults and kills women by strangling them with a Vietnamese coin buried inside a stocking. Kirk Smith (Nicholas Worth) is a photographer and [...]
The Loreley’s Grasp (1974)
Monday, February 11th, 2008(aka The Night the Screaming Stopped, When the Screaming Stops, Grasp of the Lorelei, The Lorelei’s Grasp)
Director: Amando De Ossorio
Writer: Amando De Ossorio
Starring: Tony Kendall, Helga Line, Silvia Tortosa.
Amando De Ossorio is better known for the Blind Dead series, but in The Loreley’s Grasp he directs this fairly interesting potboiler based on German mythology. The [...]
Upcoming DVD Releases
Sunday, February 10th, 2008Dario Argento’s 1973 Italian TV series Door Into Darkness is finally getting a stateside release later this month (February 26th), via NoShame. This 2-disc special edition is now instantly at the top of the to purchase list, and it should be on yours too!
February 26th also sees the re-release of Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, under [...]
Cannibal Holocaust (1979)
Monday, February 4th, 2008Director: Ruggero Deodato
Starring: Robert Kerman-Francesca, Ciardi-Perry Pirkanen
The whole cannibal genre started with Umberto Lenzi’s rather tame Man from Deep River, in 1972. From there it either progressed or digressed, depending on your point of view, to what would become the ultimate cannibal genre classic, Cannibal Holocaust. After the film made its mark on the genre, [...]