AMERICAN GIALLO starts Sunday!
If you’ve been reading this site for awhile, you know how much we love giallo. Well, next week, we’ll be covering American versions of the genre. I’ve been obsessed for awhile with how these films take what we expect from giallo — fashion, music, colors, murder, strangeness — and looks at them with Western eyes. […]
Demon Wind (1990)
Until Vinegar Syndrome released this film on DVD in October of this year, Demon Wind was one of the very few horror films that had been huge on VHS that had never made the jump in format. The best description I can find in my head for this film is a mix of Fulci and the Evil […]
Mat Monsters: Robots!
Whew! It’s been awhile, but we’re back with plenty of new about the monstrous side of pro wrestling. And that brings us to…robots. You can’t discuss mechanical grapplers without Shockwave the Robot. He’s wrestled all over the world, feuded with Mecha Mummy (you can even get a set of figures of the two of them […]
Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (1970)
Minou (Dagmar Lassander, The House by the Cemetery) loves her husband, Peter. But Peter is cold and only really seems to care about work. All she does all day is pine for her husband and take care of a turtle. Yep. You just read that correctly. One night, a mysterious stranger attacks her, cuts open her clothes and then […]
Magdalena, Possessed by the Devil (1974)
What would a German ripoff of The Exorcist look like? That’s an important question to ask. And when I describe ripoffs of said film, I always say, “You know how in The Exorcist, it’s still somewhat of a classy movie. What if it wasn’t? Wouldn’t that be awesome?” Most people, sane people, at that point say, “No. […]
Faceless (1988)
Sure, Jess Franco is just making a new version of The Awful Dr. Orloff with this film, but with bigger stars and plenty of gore. And when you’re looking for a movie to watch at 4 AM — and I often am — it certainly does the trick. Dr. Frank Flamand (Helmut Berger, The Damned) is a plastic […]
Adam and Eve vs. The Cannibals (1983)
For the first film of 2018, the only appropriate movie I can find is this 1983 Italian history of how the first two people on Earth created all of us. People have been making movies about The Bible for as long as people have been making movies. But nobody — and I mean nobody — […]
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