BRUNO MATTEI WEEK: Un Grande Amore (1995)
Along with Gatta Alla Pari and Innamorata, Bruno Mattei made three uncredited films for producer Nini Grassia, who claimed himself as the director. This was a mainstream — well, softcore — vehicle for Ileana Carusio, an adult actress who went by the stage names of Malù and Ramba, which was given to her because she constantly […]
BRUNO MATTEI WEEK: Ljuba – Corpo e anima (1997)
Body and Soul is a little-seen Bruno Mattei film in which has a model named Ljuba (Christine Dowell, who only made this movie) getting horizontally involved with a uranium thief. By 1997, Mattei had realized what most horror directors have learned today about Christmas movies. If a genre sells, make every movie you can within […]
BRUNO MATTEI WEEK: In the Land of the Cannibals (2004)
Bruno Mattei uses the name Martin Miller here, but come on. The moment we see that this movie is pretty much Cannibal Holocaust with soldiers, we know who is behind this movie. To make sure that we’re completely certain that Bruno is in directing, the fact that footage from Predator is completely stolen and placed within this […]
BRUNO MATTEI WEEK: Island of the Living Dead (2007)
When the rest of the world makes zombie movies that are either boring or sub-Troma winks at the camera filled with humor that breaks the tension, Bruno Mattei remains single-mindedly devoted to making the kind of undead movies that made me love the genre. In short, in the sad world we find ourselves in where […]
BRUNO MATTEI WEEK: Nerone e Poppea (1982)
Nero and Poppea – An Orgy of Power comes from a genre of film that doesn’t exist much anymore. I guess you could call it Romanspolitation or Nerospolitation or Caligulaploitation, films that came in the wake of Tinto Brass’ 1979 Caligula. Movies that took that piece of exploitation and said, “I can do it better.” Those folks […]
BRUNO MATTEI WEEK: The True Story of the Nun of Monza (1980)
Marianna de Leyva y Marino was born on December 4, 1575 in Milan. While she was from a noble family, there were numerous disputes over money after the death of her mother. At the age of 13, her father forced her to become a nun in the Monastery of Saint Margaret and despite claims that […]
BRUNO MATTEI WEEK: Women’s Camp 119 (1977)
After The Night Porter and Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS opened the sewer gates of sleaze, the rest of the world’s exploitation auteurs rushed to get their own German ladies of sin pictures into the grubby eyeballs of reprobates brave enough to find a grindhouse of drive-in willing to show these pictures. Well, Bruno Mattei made […]
BRUNO MATTEI WEEK: Zombies: The Beginning (2007)
You have to give Bruno Mattei credit for sheer force of will. At a time when most filmmakers retire — he was 76 when making it and died the very same year — he was hitting. the Philippines and making a zombie movie on digital video when the rest of his Italian exploitation filmmaking contemporaries […]
DOUBLE THE D’AMATO ON THE DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE!
Holy shit, it’s two Joe D’Amato movies in one night! I couldn’t be more excited and I’ll be going all out to explain my love of these movies. Join us on the Groovy Doom Facebook page starting at 8 PM East Coast Time. Up first — it’s Zombi 5: Killing Birds, which you can watch on […]
BRUNO MATTEI WEEK: Double Target (1987)
You know, if John Rambo hadn’t gone back to Vietnam and gotten the chance to win that time, we wouldn’t be blessed with an entire video store section of films from around the world. Rambosploitation? My mother told me that after he came home from working late in the mill, my grandfather would watch war […]
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