BRUNO MATTEI WEEK: The Tomb (2006)
Remember when there were a whole bunch of Brendan Fraser mummy movies? What if Bruno Mattei made his own version of those movies — using the name David Hunt — and filled it with all of the wonderful things that his movies are known for? Well, he did. He sure did. Over the last few […]
BRUNO MATTEI WEEK: Privè (2002)
At this time in his career, it seemed like all Bruno Mattei was making — sorry, Vincent Dawn — was Cinemax After Dark fodder with interchangeable covers of women turning their backs to the camera. This time, we’re dealing with the dangerous liaisons of the rich and famous. Francesca (Dana Ceci, in her one and […]
BRUNO MATTEI WEEK: Caligula and Messalina (1981)
Vincent Dawn, in case you couldn’t guess, is Bruno Mattei and here, he’s making one of the several Caligulasploitation movies he’d churn out in his career. If you thought, “I liked Tinto Brass’ Caligula but I really wish it wasn’t so highbrow,” then Bruno — or Vincent — is your man. Antonio Passalia, who co-directed this […]
BRUNO MATTEI WEEK: Strike Commando 2 (1988)
Only the genius — or madness — of Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso and Rossella Drudi could take a Rambo ripoff made in the Philippines and decide to add ninjas, the KGB and no small amount of inspiration from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Sgt. Michael Ransom’s (Brent Huff!) owes a debt of honor to his Vietnam squad […]
BRUNO MATTEI WEEK: Strike Commando (1986)
Sgt. Michael Ransom (Reb Brown, who was both Yor Hunter from the Future and Captain America) and his team of Strike Commandos are decimating a Vietnamese base, ready to blow it up real good. But one of the team is killed and alarms go off, scuttling the mission. Instead of allowing the team to come […]
Movies in Outer Space Week Recap
Well, so goes another theme week blow out on movies set in outer space, so let’s round ’em, up, space cowboy. No, we didn’t review that mainstream movie, nor Armageddon or Deep Impact or Geostorm. Don’t you know the B&S About Movies’ jam, by now? And, why yes, we did go overboard, again. See, you […]
BRUNO MATTEI WEEK: Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: When Frederick Burdsall isn’t at work or watching movies while covered in cats, you can find Fred in the front seat of Knoebels’ Phoenix. Way back when in the time of the dinosaurs there were these places called Drive-Ins. You can pretty much count on both hands how many still exist today […]
BRUNO MATTEI WEEK: Libidomania (1979)
Man, when you get Bruno Mattei to make a mondo, you get something that’ll shock even the most jaded of us. Like me. Working under the name Jimmy Matheus and basing his work on German psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis — which had already been made into a film by Albert Zugsmith — you may […]
BRUNO MATTEI WEEK: 99 Women (1969)
This movie is quite literally the Justice League — more like the Legion of Doom — of scumbag film superstars. It was written and produced by Harry Alan Towers, who went from syndicating radio and TV shows to being arrested along with his girlfriend Mariella Novotny — who was played by Britt Eklund in Scandal — for operating […]
GET EXCITED ABOUT RED ROOM!
Pittsburgh-based artist Ed Piskor has made some incredible comics, including issues of American Splendor, Wizzywig, Hip Hop Family Tree and X-Men: Grand Design. Now, he’s unleashing Red Room, a comic that fans of our site will love, because it’s basically an exploitation slasher gore film on paper. Red Room is about a group of killers who use the […]
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