Oedipus orca (1977)
La Orca told the story of Alice (Rena Niehaus, who also was in Angel: Black Angel and Damned In Venice so she had no issues with being in offensive films), who was taken against her will by three men, one of whom she fell in love with. This is the sequel and wow, it’s…something. Alice sits around reading in […]
La morte scende leggera (1972)
Death Falls Lightly begins when Georgio Darica (Stello Candelli) comes home from a crime-related business trip only to find that his wife has been killed. So his lawyer suggests that he grab his girlfriend Liz (Patrizia Viotti, Amuck) and head off to a hotel, but when he gets there, the owner (Antonio Anelli) has also […]
MILL CREEK DVD RELEASE: Through the Decades: 1980s Collection
Mill Creek made its name with box sets, so it makes me really happy that they’ve released several Through the Decades sets — see our 60s and 70s reviews here — and while they don’t have much in the way of extras, they also give you a great line-up of movies all for an affordable price. […]
MILL CREEK DVD RELEASE: Through the Decades: 1980s Collection: Band of the Hand (1986)
For years, Band of the Hand had me fooled with its “From the maker of Miami Vice” poster line. I always thought this was a Michael Mann directed movie and not one by one of the directors of several episodes of that show, Paul Michael Glaser, who also played Starsky. That said, Mann is one of th executive […]
Il fiore dai petali d’acciaio (1973)
Carroll Baker got to be in plenty of giallo films — Knife of Ice, A Quiet Place to Kill, Orgasmo, So Sweet, So Perverse — and it reminds me of a conversation that I had with Mike Justice about how the globalization of mass media has led to a world where out of favor actresses could go to Italy […]
Circle of Fear episode 19: “Graveyard Shift”
Fred Colby (John Astin) used to be a star but now he’s just a security guard at the same studio that he used to perform at, which is set to close in a few weeks. However, he seems pretty happy and he and his wife Linda (Astin’s wife at the time, Patty Duke) are expecting […]
Night Caller (2022)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This movie first appeared on this site as part of the Midwest Weirdfest coverage on February 28, 2022. Director-writer Chad Ferrin’s (The Deep Ones, Exorcism at 60,000 Feet) Night Caller pulls from so many films, feeling like a modern U.S. version of a late in the game giallo, which is not a bad thing. It gets […]
Ondata di calor (1970)
Based on Dana Moseley’s Dead of Summer, this movie fits into one of the many subcatagories of the giallo which I ineloquently refer to as women slowly going insane. Maybe F-giallo is a better term? I thought that the gorgeous and doomed Jean Seberg only made one giallo, The Corruption of Chris Miller. She gives a […]
Mia moglie, un corpo per l’amore (1973)
My Wife, A Body to Love gets at one of the major issues of the May and September romance. Paolo (Silvano Tranquilli, Castle of Blood) is married to the much younger Simona (Antonella Murgia) and when his stamina isn’t enough, she’s cheating on him with Marco (Peter Lee Lawrence, who was mostly in Italian westerns). The […]
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