VISUAL VENGEANCE BLU RAY RELEASE: Repligator (1998)
When I spoke to Bret McCormick (who made The Abomination, one of my favorite movies) about Repligator, he said “I was trying to match Roger Corman’s record of five films in one year: in my case it was Takedown, Time Tracers, Bio-Tech Warrior, Repligator and (finally) Rumble In the Streets. I had challenged Keith Kjornes to write […]
THE FILMS OF RENATO POLSELLI: Io Ti Amo (1968)
The musicarello is an Italian subgenre which I haven’t explored yet. It features young singers in the main roles — like Gianni Morandi, Al Bano, Mal Ryder, Tony Renis, Adriano Celentano, Bobby Solo, Orietta Berti, Little Tony, and more — performing songs from their latest albums. They’re inspired by Elvis’ Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. Usually, […]
VISUAL VENGEANCE BLU RAY RELEASE: The Abomination (1986)
There is every other movie in the world and then there’s The Abomination. No hype. This movie is absolutely brain destroying junk transmitted from some terrifying alternate timeline that I hope and pray never reaches our own. It’s a world where televangelist Brother Fogg can pray a tumor out of a woman, who vomits it out, […]
THE FILMS OF RENATO POLSELLI: Giochi erotici di una famiglia per bene (1975)
Erotic Games of a Good Family was directed by Francesco Degli Espinosa and this is the only movie he ever directed. His credits include writing the Laura Gemser movie Emmanuelle On Taboo Island, Vengeance Is My Forgiveness and C’era una volta questo pazzo, pazzo, pazzo West. Strangely, he’s listed as the assistant director on his own film on IMDB […]
THE FILMS OF RENATO POLSELLI: Psychout for Murder (1969)
Salvare la faccia (Saving Face) is a giallo directed by Rossano Brazzi, who was once the actor who played Emile De Becque in South Pacific. His career started all the way back in the late 30s and saw him work back and forth between America and Italy. He was also in Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks, Omen III: […]
THE FILMS OF RENATO POLSELLI: Django Kills Softly (1967)
Bill il taciturn (Silent Bill) was directed by Max Hunter AKA Massimo Pupillo (Lady Morgan’s Vengeance, Bloody Pit of Horror, Terror-Creatures from the Grave) and had the traditional big team of Italian writers, including Lina Caterini (the editor of The Girl Who Knew Too Much and Blood and Black Lace), Paul Farjon, Marcello Malvestito (the editor of The Last […]
WELL GO USA BLU RAY RELEASE: Bad City (2022)
Kaiko City is plagued with poverty and crime. When a mass murder at a bathhouse occurs and yet local businessman Wataru Gojo (Lily Franky) is acquitted, the cops realize that traditional methods no longer apply. Three members of the Violent Crimes Unit join a disgraced former police captain in jail for murder named Torada (Hitoshi Ozawa), […]
SYNAPSE 4K UHD RELEASE: Tenebrae (1982)
By 1982, Dario Argento had moved beyond the constraints of the giallo genre he had helped popularize and started to explore the supernatural with Suspiria and Inferno. According to the documentary Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo — which is on the Synapse 4K — the failure of Inferno led to Argento being kindly asked — […]
CALUDRON FILMS 4K UHD RELEASE: City of the Living Dead (1980)
If you ever meet me in person, there’s a 90% chance I’ll be wearing a t-shirt of this movie. Therefore, I find it near impossible to be objective about this film. I love it too much. I can only share my adoration with you, dear reader. Alternatively known as Paura Nella Città dei Morti Viventi (Fear in […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: The Siege (2023)
After being compromised during a mission gone wrong, an international assassin named Walker (Daniel Stisen) is sent to Reassignment Center 42. There, he’ll get a new identity and be able to erase any trace of his last job and even his past. However, a ruthless team of operatives led by Keates (Samantha Schnitzler) storms the […]
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