Italian Horror
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010(aka Absurd, Anthropophagus 2, Rosso Sangue)
Director: Aristide Massaccesi
Starring: George Eastman, Annie Belle, Charles Borromel
Aristide Massaccesi, or Joe D’Amato as he is more widely known, died in 1999 leaving behind a legacy in horror and exploitation cinema that has to be seen to be believed. D’Amato’s work was often not very well executed - it is [...]
Burial Ground - The Nights Of Terror (1980)
Monday, July 6th, 2009Director: Andrea Bianchi
Starring: Mariangela Giordano, Karen Well, Peter Bark
Burial Ground is a film that lives in infamy among horror fans, not for the skill of direction or the strength of the story, not even for an excess of gore scenes - if that was the case it would be a sorry state, for Burial Ground [...]
Oasis of Fear (1971)
Thursday, April 9th, 2009(aka Dirty Pictures)
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Starring: Ornella Muti, Ray Lovelock, Irene Papas
Umberto Lenzi is mostly widely known for starting one of the most vial and controversial genre’s of them all, the cannibal epic. The genre started with Lenzi’s rather tame Man From Deep River (1972), although it wasn’t until Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust (1980) that things [...]
Door Into Darkness (1973)
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Director: Dario Argento, Luigi Cozzi, Roberto Pariante, Mario Foglietti
Starring: Aldo Reggiani, Laura Belli, Mimmo Palmara, Enzo Cerusico, Paola Tedesco, Pierluigi Apra, Marilu Tolo, Riccardo Salvino, Glauco Onorato, Marcella Elsberger, Mario Foglinetti, Erika Blanc.
This long awaited release of Dario Argento’s Door Into Darkness was originally planned for it’s US DVD premiere by No Shame last year, [...]
Zombie Holocaust (1980)
Monday, October 6th, 2008(aka Dr. Butcher M.D.; Dr. Butcher, Medical Deviate;La Regina dei cannibali)
Director: Marino Girolami
Producer: Ron Harvey, Terry Levene
Writer: Fabrizio De Angelis, Romano Scandariato
Starring: Ian McCulloch, Alexandra Delli Colli, Sherry Buchanan, Peter O’Neal, Donald O’Brian, Dakkar
Although Zombie Holocaust is directed by Marino Girolami, better known for directing sex comedies, the film obviously bares evidence of more than [...]
Delirium (1972)
Thursday, March 13th, 2008(aka Delirio caldo, Death at the Villa)
Writer and director: Renato Polselli
Music: Gianfranco Reverberi
Starring: Mickey Hargitay, Rita Calderoni, Tano Cimarosa, Christa Barrymore, William Darni, Raoul, Steffy Steffen, Cristina Perrier, Katia Corsorich
Young girls are being viciously killed and Dr. Herbert Lyutak (Mickey Hargitay) is helping the police track down the savage killer. But little do the police [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Nude For Satan (1974)
Thursday, January 31st, 2008(aka Nuda per Satana)
Director: Luigi Batzella (as Paolo Solvay)
Starring: Rita Calderoni, James Harris (Guiseppe Pino Mattei), Renato Lupi, Iolanda Mascitti, Luigi Antonia Guerra, Barbara Lay, Augusto Boscardini, Alfredo Pasti, Stelio Candelli
Dr. William Benson is urgently traveling to a farm when he runs off the side of the road attempting to avoid hitting a figure in [...]
Cat O’ Nine Tails (1971)
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Director: Dario Argento
Producer: Salvatore Argento
Music: Ennio Morricone
Screenplay: Dario Argento
Starring: James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Pier Paolo Capponi, Horst Frank, Rada Rassimov, Aldo Reggiani, Cinzia De Carolis, and Wener Pochath
The Cat O’ Nine Tails (Il Gatto A Nove Code) is the second feature film from cult director Dario Argento. Release in 1971 it came hot [...]