Death Played the Flute (1972)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mark Rochester is a librarian. Mad about movies and books and film soundtracks. His favorite film is The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. This is his first article for our site and I hope it’s not the last. Angelo Pannacciò’s 1972 Death Played the Flute, aka Requiem For a Bounty Killer, […]
They Call Me Hallelujah (1971)
Whether you know it as Guns for Dollars, Deep West, Heads I Kill You, Tails You’re Dead! They Call Me Hallalujah or the title we chose, this Giuliano Carnimeo-directed (The Case of the Bloody Iris, the Sartana films) movie is a comedic take on the Italian Western that is worth a look. Interestingly enough, Giuliano started his […]
Django the Bastard (1969)
Sergio Garrone made plenty of interesting films, like the George Eastman-starring Western Terrible Day of the Big Gundown, some gothic horrors with Kinski like Lover of the Monster and The Hand That Feeds the Dead and three different Django ripoffs, including A Noose for Django, Kill Django… Kill First and this movie. This movie is more supernatural than Western, with this […]
Vengeance Is a Dish Best Served Cold (1971)
Pasquale Squitieri may have started in the Italian Westerns, but he eventually moved into crime dramas and working often with Franco Nero. Probably his best-known films are l prefetto di ferro and Corleone. This movie stars Leonard Mann, who was often cast because he resembled Nero. He’s also in The Humanoid, Night School, Weapons of Death and Death Steps in the […]
Drive-In Friday: Kinski Spaghetti Westerns
March 2022 Announcement: Severin Films has released a Blu-ray of Nosferatu in Venice — scanned in 2k from the original negative — which serves as the unofficial sequel to Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu. In addition to cast and crew interviews, the Blu also features the 80-minute documentary, Creation is Violent – Anecdotes From Kinski’s Final Years. […]
The Hellbenders (1967)
Colonel Jonas (Joseph Cotten) has led the Hellbenders through the Civil War and he refuses to give in at the end of the battles. He takes his sons Ben, Nat and Jeff on a continuing campaign of massacres, killing Union soldiers as they move money and placing their treasure inside a coffin. Even the love […]
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