EDITOR’S NOTE: Cinematic Void will be playing this American giallo on Wednesday, January 4 and Friday, January 7 at 7:00 PM at the Central Cinema in Knoxville, TN along with Dressed to Kill. It also is playing on January 21 at 9:30 PM at Sie Film Center, Denver, CO (tickets here) and January 30 at 7:00 […]
19. DRIPS: Blood, sweat, goop, tears, slime, or questionable muck is a must here. Known in Japan as Ganmā Daisan Gō: Uchū Daisakusen or Gamma 3: The Great Space War, this was directed by Kinji Fukasaku (Battles Without Honor or Humanity, Battle Royale, Message from Space) and written by American screenwriters Tom Rowe, Charles Sinclair and Bill Finger, the uncredited […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Jungle Raiders was not produced by Cannon but was theatrically distributed by Cannon Releasing Corporation. Cannon released several Italian films that they didn’t have a hand in making, like this one, directed by Antonio Margheriti (Cannibal Apocalypse, And God Said to Cain, Yor Hunter from the Future) and written by Giovanni Simonelli (John Travolto da un […]
Rick Dalton was born in the midwest and moved to Los Angeles where he found his initial fame on the TV series Bounty Law before moving on to a Universal contract that saw him make four movies for the studio before returning to TV to play the villain of the week on shows like The Green Hornet, Mission […]
Naked…You Die (AKA The Young, the Evil and the Savage) is a pretty fun early giallo with good direction by Antonio Margheriti. Yet it was very nearly was a Mario Bava movie. According to Tim Lucas’ Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark, Bava was hired by Lawrence Woolner — the distributor of Hercules in the Haunted […]
Antonio Margheriti — the man who directed And God Said to Cain and Yor: Hunter from the Future — also made a Dean Jones Invisible Man movie, which blows what’s left of my mind. Want me to go even further? This was released in U.S. theaters by K-Tel. Yes, it’s a Disney superhero movie, basically, but made […]
Whether you call it Apocalypse domani, Cannibals In the Streets, Invasion of the Fleshhunters or another of the many titles this movie has been given, you have to respect the vision of Antonio Margheriti who continually brings something amazing to each of his movie, no matter if they’re in science fiction (Assignment: Outer Space, The War of the […]
When people discuss the greats of Italian genre film, Antonio Margheriti usually doesn’t get mentioned. But man, he made some great movies, like And God Said to Cain, Cannibal Apocalypse, Code Name: Wild Geese and, of course, Yor Hunter from the Future. Giancarlo Prete (Escape from the Bronx) is your hero, Sgt. Sal Maggio, and he’s been […]
Editor’s Note: Welcome to the first review of our second — and final, ever — “Philippine War Week” blow out. Clicking that hyperlink will populate all of the reviews from our first week back in August. And we mean it: there ain’t gonna be no rematch rematch, aka a Part III. We just can’t. It’s […]
Ray LiottaDecember 18, 1954 – May 26, 2022 No one mobbed-up better than you, Ray.We’ll see you on that field of dreams. . . . What began as one of our “Top 10” lists, which turned into a “Top Ten Best and Worst Mafia Flicks,” ultimately transformed into one of our “Exploring” features examining all […]
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