Malabimba (1979)
Andrea Bianchi, you lunatic. You made Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror and for some directors, that would be enough. But you also made Cry of a Prostitute and Strip Nude for Your Killer, so I know that you aren’t kidding. You really have your heart in the wrong place. And I love you for it. A seance […]
My Friend, Dr. Jekyll (1960)
Marino Girolami is also the Frank Martin who directed Zombie Holocaust and the Franco Martinelli who directed Special Cop in Action and Violent Rome. He’s also the Dario Silvestri who made God Was in the West, Too, at One Time. In this film, Professor Fabius (Raimondo Vianello) has learned how to possess other people. He takes over a […]
THE TWILIGHT SAGA 15th Anniversary SteelBook Collection 4K Ultra HD: Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)
Bill Condon — the guy who made Chicago and started his career with Strange Invaders — was the new director for the last two movies in The Twilight Saga. Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) are getting married. Jacob (Taylor Lautner, the inspiration for Taylor Swift’s “Back to December” and I have lost all of […]
Un gioco per Eveline (1971)
A Game For Eveline has Nathalie (Erna Schurer, Scream of the Demon Lover) and Pierre (Wolfgang Hillinger) arguing over having children when they nearly drive off a cliff. They find their way to the home of Phillipe (Marco Guglielmi) and Minou Giraud (Adriana Bogdan), another couple who are mourning the loss of their daughter Eveline. That […]
Il medium (1980)
This film was made due to director Silvio Amadio (Il Sorriso Della Iena, Amuck!) and his interest in the occult. He had learned of it through his friendship with Demofilo Fidani, the director of four different Sartana ripoffs (One Damned Day at Dawn… Django Meets Sartana!, Passa Sartana… è l’ombra della tua morte, Four Came to Kill […]
Challenge the Devil (1963)
The first twenty minutes of this movie explain how Peo (Piero Vida) became Father Renigio after his younger years of vice. As a criminal who goes by Carlo hides in his church, Peo goes to speak to the man’s exotic dancer girlfriend Alma Del Rio and tell her how he once hid in a castle […]
Anima persa (1977)
Based on Un’anima persa by Giovanni Arpino, The Forbidden Room has Tino (Danilo Mattei) come to Venice to study painting and stay with his Uncle Fabio (Vittorio Gassman) and Aunt Elisa Stolz (Catherine Deneuve). Yet the house just seems off; Fabio is abusive to Elisa. She just takes it. He also starts to hear sounds from […]
Il bacio (1974)
The Kiss or The Kiss of Death was directed by Mario Lanfranchi (Death Sentence), who also wrote the script with Pupi Avati. It’s based on Il bacio di una morta by Carolina Invernizio, which was already adapted by Guido Brignone in 1949 and Carlo Infascelli just a year earlier in 1973. Countess Elena Rambaldi (Eleonora Giorgi) […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Last Resort (2023)
Directed and written by Jean-Marc Minéo, a former six-time kung fu champion of France, Europe and finally the world champion, Last Resort reminds me of the films released by Cannon-like labels after it went out of business, 1990s direct to video efforts that were all about action, that got the story out of the way as […]
A Disturbance In the Force (2023)
How did the Star Wars Holiday Special ever happen? George Lucas was trying to keep Star Wars on peoples’ minds by producing a holiday variety TV special. As the filmmakers ask, what could possibly go wrong? Everything. Directors Jeremy Koon (Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made) and Steve Kozak have assembled the […]
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