A Blade in the Dark (1983)
Known in Italy as La Casa con la Scala nel Buio (The House with the Dark Staircase), Lamberto Bava’s A Blade in the Dark was originally intended to be a four-part TV mini-series, with each segment ending with a murder. However, it was too gory for regular audiences, so it was released as a film. It was written by the husband and […]
Ten Sergio Martino films
After the Bava and Fulci retrospectives we featured, I felt like Sergio Martino was the next logical choice. Please keep in mind that I don’t feel that I’m an expert, like Kat Ellinger who wrote the all-encompassing All the Colors of Sergio Martino. Martino is an Italian film director and sometime producer, mainly known for his […]
Seven Blood Stained Orchids (1972)
Umberto Lenzi made the first Italian cannibal film, The Man from Deep River and followed that up with Eaten Alive! and Cannibal Ferox. When he followed a trend, his movies always stand out. Zombies? Lenzi’s Nightmare City outgrosses and out-insanes them all. Horror? He made the utterly bizarre Ghosthouse, which was shot in the same house as The House by the Cemetery. Sword […]
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