Notturno con grida (1981)
The only copy I can find of Screams In the Night is, as nicely as I can put it, beat to shit. Whole sections of it turn into static and digital noise, the quality is at least fifth generation and the sound is barely listenable. There are no subtitles, either. And yet, in a world of […]
Sex of the Devil (1971)
The marriage between Andrea (Rossano Brazzi) and Barbara (Maitena Galli) is near the end, beyond the saving that a vacation to Istanbul can provide. Yet they go anyway, along with his assistant Sylvia (Sylva Koscina), to a villa whose last tenant, a sculptor named Claudine, hung herself. The housekeeper Fatma (Güzin Özipek) keeps secrets, like […]
La Strelle nel Fosso (1979)
According to Roberto Curti in his book Italian Gothic Horror Films 1970-1979, director and writer Pupi Avati refused to “oblige to the rules of commercial film-making” and this movie — thought of as improvisational film jazz, mostly written and shot on the spot — was him trying yet again to create his own vision. While his […]
Luna di Sangue (1989)
Ignore the Lucio Fulci Presents, as he had nothing to do with this other than to sign over his name. It was directed by Enzo Milioni, who also made Quello strano desiderio and The Sister of Ursula, and was written by Millioni and Giovanni Simonelli, who directed Hansel e Gretel. A dying man tells the story of Ann […]
Fantasma d’amore (1981)
Nino (Marcello Mastroianni) is a married man who does taxes. His life is, well, quiet and somewhat boring. And then one day he sees Anna (Romy Schneider), a woman he was in love with decades ago. Time has not been kind to her. He pays for her busfare and she disappears, only to call him […]
Mia moglie e una strege (1980)
The idea of marrying a witch is a strong one. Generally in most cinema, it is treated as a positive, as seen in I Married a Witch, which was later stolen by television to become Bewitched. Only in Italy would such the start of this story feel as if it were closer to Black Sabbath than the […]
Il Bacio Di Una Morta (1973)
The Kiss of a Dead Woman was directed by Carlo Infascelli (Forbidden Decameron) and would be his last film. It was written by Infascelli, Adriano Bolzoni, Tatiana Pavoni and Gastone Ramazzotti and was based on the same novel, Carolina Invernizio’s Il Bacio Di Una Morta, as the better-known film of the next year, Il Bacio. It was […]
Lover of the Monster (1974)
Filmed at the same time as The Hand That Feeds the Dead, this was also directed and written by Sergio Garrone. It uses a similar cast and crew which is why so many confuse these films for each other. They also share some footage, so that is an easy mistake to make. Anna (Katia Christine) […]
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