Giallo Week recap 1: Sunday to Tuesday
Thanks for being with us all week as we cover some of our favorite giallo films. I’d like to give a shout-out to Giallo of the Month Club, which you can find on Twitter and Instagram, with the episodes available on Spotify (and anywhere else you listen to podcasts). The last show about The Red Queen Kills […]
Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema (2020)
Author’s Note: Due to the controversial subject matter of this film, please note this is a film review that addresses the creative art of filmmaking only. This review is not a political dissertation in support of or in contradiction of any sociopolitical belief system and is not intended to incense any reader regarding social or […]
Battle in Space: The Armada Attacks (2021)
In 2420, after aliens and powerful space wizards enslave humans, rebels organize a rebellion* in this effects-heavy film that comes from six directors — Andrew Jaksch, Lukas Kendall, Toby Rawal, Scott Robson, Sanjay F. Sharma and Luis Tinoco — and five writers — Josh Guttman, Jaksch, Kendall, Sharma and Tinoco. That’s because this is really […]
La Orca (1976)
After Patty Hearst — and The Last House on the Left — movies where young women were kidnapped kind of became a thing. This adjacent giallo tells the story of one such girl named Alice (Rena Niehaus, who could really pick them, between this movie, its sequel, Angel: Black Angel and Damned In Venice) who is taken against her […]
The Man with the Glass Eye (1969)
One of Rialto Film’s long-running series of Edgar Wallace films — one of the fathers of the giallo — this Alfred Vohrer (Dead Eyes of London, Creature with the Blue Hand) film predates Argento reimagining the form and instead feels very visually like Bava’s Blood and Black Lace without Bava’s camera gymnastics. In the English dubbed version, […]
Marta (1971)
Marisa Mell is the female George Eastman. No, she doesn’t act like a wide eyed gigantic maniac in every movie. It’s just that no matter what movie she appears in, just her name being in the credits guarantees that I will watch the film. Also known as …dopo di che, uccide il maschio e lo divora […]
WE’RE HEADING TO ITALY AND THE SWAMPS ON THIS WEEK’S DIA DOUBLE FEATURE!
We’re back this Saturday on the Groovy Doom Facebook page at 8 PM East Coast Time! Make sure to “like” the page so you get an alert when we go live throughout the night. You can join us in between the films for chat and discussion on the two films we’re showing, ask questions, request […]
Non Aver Paura Della zia Marta (1989)
Don’t Be Afraid of Aunt Martha is the translation of this title, which makes me wonder, in a week where I also watched Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things and Marta, is the name cursed? Also known as Murder Secret, this Mario Bianchi written and directed movie had one of those presented by Lucio Fulci* titles on it. […]
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