Istantanea per un delitto (1975)
Luca (Luis La Torre) and Mirna (Erna Schurer, Deported Women of the S.S. Special Section) have broken up and he leaves for the island of Ostuni to recover. But he’s sure she’ll follow him, but he’s wrong, as she’s already moved on. But he soon forgets, as two gorgeous young women, Claudia (Monica Strebel) and […]
Delitto in Via Teulada (1980)
Crime in via Teulada was originally broadcast in 1979 on television as 15 segments of 5-minutes each. It was called Striped Mystery and the show aired before RAI’s Variety. It was an attempt to mix reality and the world of the movie, as it was also shot at RAI’s studios in Rome. The original version was […]
Ordine firmato in bianco (1974)
Director and co-writer Gianni Manera only directed two other movies — 1974’s La lunga ombra del lupo and 1981’s Il cappotto di legno — and acted in 17 films, including this movie. He wrote the screenplay with his brother Enrico and Ivano Gobbo. Luca Albanese (Manera) comes back to Italy from the United States to mastermind a […]
Qualcuno in ascolto (1988)
The title of this movie translates as someone is listening but it was released in English-speaking places as High Frequency. Peter (Vincent Spano) is a satellite television communications technician who works in a control station in the Swiss Alps. His life is pretty boring, as other than watching monitors, he just plays chess over the ham […]
El calor de la llama (1975)
Heat of the Flame follows Gabriela (Christine McClure) who probably shouldn’t have married bank manager and mayoral hopeful Javier (Antonio Ferrandis). He’s kind of like Neil Wardh, an older man than his wife and someone who only cares about work. She has time on her hands, so she day drinks with a writer who goes by […]
Die Hölle (2017)
Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky and written by Martin Ambrosch and Claudia Kolland, Cold Hell is about a cab driver named Özge Dogruol (Violetta Schurawlow), who deals with the worst in humanity as she drives the of Vienna every day. She comes across a crime scene and thinks that she’s been spotted by the killer but the […]
Squillo (1996)
Several years ago, Eva (Bianca Koedam) left Poland to become an interpreter, which has paid off well. But when her sister Maria (Jennifer Driver, who shows up in the Guns N’ Roses video for “Since I Don’t Have You” as she was dating Axl Rose at the time; she’s also in the movies Apri gli occhi […]
DARE YOU ENTER THE MILL OF THE STONE WOMEN ON THE DIA LATE MOVIE?
This Saturday at 11 PM ET, join Bill and me on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages. We’ll be watching the 1960 Italian gothic masterwork, Mill of the Stone Women. You can watch it on YouTube or get the great Arrow Video blu ray from MVD or Diabolik DVD. Every week, we talk movies with our […]
Necrophobia 3D (2014)
After the death of his twin brother, Dante (Luis Machín) starts to become fearful of death, unable to deal with the thought of it, which comes up quite often, seeing as how his wife Beatriz (Julieta Cardinali) also dies. That’s when he starts having hallucinations and starts to experience multiple versions of himself. As Dante […]
Una vita lunga un giorno (1973)
I read a great article, “A Genealogy of Italian Popular Cinema: the Filone,” on Offscreen in which Donato Totaro explained that the filone is not easily categorized. We can see the term to mean not just a genre, but if you will, a body of water that flows into other streams. To quote the article, “…the […]
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