Bright Hill Road (2020)
After a workplace shooting puts alcoholic Marcy (Siobhan Williams, Welcome to Marwen) on leave, she travels to see her sister in California. Yet halfway there, she decides to stop for a couple of days at the Bright Hill Road Boarding House, where she loses touch with reality and confronts her past. Marcy may be clinging to sobrietry, […]
Il Sorriso Della Iena (1972)
Smile Before Death* was a revelation to me. I came in expecting nothing and was rewarded with a film that has multiple antagonists and a continually twisting close, a near race to the finish to see who will end up on top. Marco (Silvano Tranquilli, Black Belly of the Tarantula; So Sweet, So Dead) and Dorothy are trapped in […]
Circle of Fear (1992)
Aldo Lado made some pretty dark-themed giallo, like Short Night of Glass Dolls and Who Saw Her Die?, as well as a slicker version of Last House on the Left with Last Stop on the Night Train and one of the stranger Stars Wars cover movies, The Humanoid. This may not be a full-on giallo — it’s closer to a poliziotteschi […]
A.A.A. Masseuse, Good-Looking, Offers Her Services (1972)
Cristina (Paola Senatore*, Emanuelle in America, Ricco the Mean Machine) is a call girl and for that, every man that has ever partaken of her services must pay, in some sort of role reversal for every other giallo and slasher. Much like how his leading lady was known for westerns, so was director Demofilo Fidani, who made movies […]
Night of Violence (1965)
Roberto Mauri started as an actor before directing became his main calling card. You may have seen some of his Italian Westerns, like Sartana in the Valley of Death and He Was Called Holy Ghost or his oddball jungle film King of Kong Island or Slaughter of the Vampires. Oh yeah — he also wrote the giallo Clap, You’re Dead and […]
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