THE TWILIGHT SAGA 15th Anniversary SteelBook Collection 4K Ultra HD: Twilight (2008)
Stephanie Morgan attended Brigham Young University — her Mormon faith informs her writing — before marrying at the age of twenty-one and graduating with a degree in English. Having no prior experience as an author, she got the idea for the Twilight books in a dream. Despite it being her first book, there were multiple companies vying […]
The House By the Edge of the Lake (1979)
Enzo G. Castellari wasn’t too happy with how this movie was made or how it ended up. According to Robert Curti’s Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970-1979, he had become friends with a young writer named Jose Sanchez, who he was mentoring and had hired as an assistant. The script for this film was being produced in […]
The Virgin of Nuremberg (1963)
The Virgin of Nuremberg — released in the U.S. as Horror Castle — was based on the Italian paperback La vergine di Normberga by Maddalena Gui. They were published by G.U.I., who sold these Gothic erotic horror slices of sleaze as British books translated into Italian, claiming that their real writers were just the translators. Produced […]
The Playgirls and the Vampire (1960)
Count Gabor Kernassy (Walter Brandi) lives in a castle surrounded by darkness and a forest, so when an entire group of exotic dancers, their piano player and their manager ends up on his doorstep, it all seems like a buffet. Yet one of those dancers, Vera (Lyla Rocco), is the reincarnation of his long lost […]
Slaughter of the Vampires (1962)
Roberto Mauri isn’t talked about as often as he should be. There’s his oddball King of Kong Island, his Westerns like He Was Called Holy Ghost and his masterful Madeleine: Anatomy of a Nightmare. Now, after this, I need to look up more of his movies. Released in America on TV as Slaughter of the Vampires and then […]
The Seventh Grave (1965)
The only movie directed by Garibaldi Serra Caracciolo, who used the name Finney Cliff, The Seventh Grave is one wild movie. Written by Caracciolo, Antonio Casale (who plays Jenkins in this movie as the Americanized name John Anderson; he was also assistant director using the name Paul Sciamann) and Alessandro Santini (using the name Edmond W. Carloff; […]
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