What the Waters Left Behind (2017)
We’ve been covering the films of Luciano and Nicolas Onetti, two brothers who are seemingly obsessed with Italian giallo circa 1973, despite coming from Argentina. Otherwise known as Los Olvidados (The Forgotten), which is also a title of a Bunuel film, this movie finds them moving away from Argento worship and creating their own version of The […]
Tango 2001 (1973)
As I started watching this movie, I thought, “This is the exact kind of movie Mondo Macabro would put out.” Which makes sense, because it was volume one in their Greek Collection. The Tango Club is where the swinging characters of this movie spend their tome. There’s Rosita (Dorothy Moore, who is one other movie, another […]
Driven (2019)
Emerson Graham (Casey Dillard, who also wrote the film) has lost her lover, her friends and even her motivation to be a stand-up comedienne. Now, she spends her nights as a cab driver, but on this fateful night, a mysterious passenger named Roger (a welcomed Richard Speight Jr., Gabriel from TV’s Supernatural) gets her involved […]
Dumplings/Gau ji (2004)
Fruit Chan’s Dumplings is a masterpiece. It is also a film not for the faint of heart. If you cringed when you watched Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film, 1975’s Salo, the 120 Days of Sodom . . . if you experienced a case of vomit reflux at Tom Six’s The Human Centipede . . . […]
Symptoms (1974)
Here’s another film that, like Antonio Margheriti 1971’s Web of the Spider, is open for the giallo vs. British horror debate. It’s a U.K. production, with some assistance from Belgium and Spain, shot at Britain’s famed Pinewood Studios—with nary a Spaniard or Italian in the British cast headed by Donald Pleasence’s (Phenomena) daughter, Angela. But […]
An Ideal Place to Kill (1971)
Dick Butler (Ray Lovelock, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue) and Ingrid Sjorman (Ornella Muti, Flash Gordon) are trying to enjoy their own summer of love, travelling through Italy and paying for it with porn magazines and nudes of Ingrid. Then they get busted by the cops. Then they get robbed by a biker gang. […]
The next Drive-In Asylum Double Feature!
Honestly, I don’t think I can get more excited about two movies. This Saturday at 8 PM on the Groovy Doom Facebook page, we’re going to be watching The Dark and The Visitor! Bring all your alcohol and drugs. They won’t be enough to make sense out of either of these films!
Blue Steel (1990)
So this isn’t really a giallo. But then again, Near Dark really isn’t a gothic horror movie, but it does a damn good job of updating that genre too. That’s due to Kathryn Bigelow, the only woman to ever win a Best Director Academy Award. From Point Break to Strange Days and the film that won her that […]
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