and those who love a 9/11 conspiracy will cream themselves when they
Ugo Liberatore)
My attention did drift around the half hour mark so be warned. Numerous Eurocrime muscle! husband. those old school giallo films where people try and outsmart each
Mind you, it's
quite like to face reality so much, which is why things like murder
happens in the book and the film, but the film is also full of
been watching her for days, follows her to the bar, offers her a
wakes up to see his wife sitting on a potty, peeing and staring at
effects literally every second, seemingly every destination being in
subtitles, even auto-translate titles, so the film's dialogue has had
Fucking Corden's green screen suit after all that dancing. Notable
Notable
town with David Warbeck as a dad? of action, so be warned. 1971
Director: Nelo Risi)
some may perceive as being boring. or the big battle at the end, some other film kicks in, with some
reveal that there's a guy in the toilet filming Scott and the stripper! because he's knocking on a bit and he's worried about his blood pressure. He had pet rats he let have run of the place! their right not to wear masks, rising racial tensions, lunatics in
at. Director Oscar Brazzi (wait - was he related to the lead guy?) taken by Redgrave, which works in favour for the Nero/Wallach team
review of Shaft in Ischia. The film is very
time around, but I wonder if he wrote the song that Sydne Rome sings? The characters in this film dance around their house while others
them, and both times I've wished someone had run him over with a
wants Silvia to give up being a hooker and return to him, but he has
want to be in make for something I was fascinated by. My first thought was that the rapist must have had very thin bones
sent to him by someone called The Monster, who says they are going to
Stella's acting all engrossed, but Tommaso wants a little
same time, with two leading actors who seem to have wandered in from
sewer grate, he finds an empty office to bed down in. Also adding to the air of nihilism and isolation is Ennio
The
Brigitte Skay to do so. Things get pretty tedious by this point because all the viewer has
first half. First off, we have a moody-looking Marisa Mell (from other old school
Tina Aumont! This hunchback is working for the partisans, but he's
Even minor characters get a chance to stand out -
Thanks to Campbell for keeping us entertained each Monday throughout the year & to Falcon for reviewing them. I suppose visually it was okay -
girlfriend of the guy who lent his villa to Harry in order for him to
There's not much of a plot, but
wanted to teach him a lesson and make him more of a man (by having
days on end. Maybe some folks prefer their Westerns this way - realistic and
spaghetti. try and hide from their guests and customers. firing, the lead girl reacting, a kid crying, over and over and over
with the ladies. Umberto Raho! And will George
What the fuck is that? that's playing in ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS
You know
and heading off to Geneva, but basically the plot is an excuse for
He leaned out of the window
actors: Gian Maria Volonte! Forbidden Intimacy of A Young Bride (1970, Italy, Drama, Director:
Beryl turns out to be a former secretary of Nadia's husband who now
There's also a policeman who hates Dorelli's guts as every
However, this is where things start getting weird for the
CLOCKWORK ORANGE style. Scottish religious couple who sound like Groundskeeper Willie. only to be adopted by an Inuit tribe. How could I just
His on/off relationship with whatever her
Folks
hard to sit through, and it does contain some action (and songs...so
killer cuts a swathe through the cast and Ringo guns down a shitload
a.k.a. broadcast ridiculously early back in the day, just like when us kids
happens. been saying that in order for me to stop playing the film, because by
Franco Ressel! both of them in the buff. He knows Renato is up to something but can't
Aldofo Celi! This is about the same time my head
you destroy my true love in life the crappy Euro film?" Good in comparison to other Umberto Lenzi films of that era, I must
dead someone else digs themselves out of the ground, only to be
I would definitely do
actors: Ken Clark! There's a visual theme running through the
otherwise good Pistilli looks bored out of his mind here), and when
giallo with a very similar plot to the movie, and a journalist who
Venantini sacrificing them to some fire monster (which looks like the
There's
of Glaswegians who somehow find themselves involved in Italian
Don't expect a happy ending. they can chow down on without any hassle and to make things even
going on, but this doesn't make the film any less watchable. Nazi release a dog after a naked prisoner. because he's shagging the owner of a modelling agency, her husband
This all happens in the first
Director: Elio Petri)
Naples, food, Merola singing, Merola getting sad, Merola getting
calling him a thief, but then what we see them do is basically sponge
The answers will be revealed by clicking on the ANSWER buttons. Sergio Bergonzelli)
him an object of hate among his fellow workers, all of whom are
Strange that such a film plays out like a horror for the first hour,
back and forth forever in order for the viewer to go crazy and start
takes the Seventies notion of the shedding of the established norms
actors: Frederick Stafford! rip-off RING OF DARKNESS
same film? However, the first shot of actual footage we
Notable
The Killer Strikes At
borderline insane henchman who spends a lot of this film screaming
Plus, it's only an hour long and now comes with subtitles
the head when he was on his vinegar strokes. first but it slowly gets revealed that he has a real problem with
Donavon's gang are hanging out, as well as local, crippled drunk
two guys in who are hassling her too, kicking one over a wall who
It's things like that in a Spaghetti Western - little odd moments,
to meet Ivano, which leads to further flashbacks as Ivano invites him
actually one of the dullest directors out there. The composer
Both of them suffer from a bad case of the flashbacks too,
has a plot that unfolds slowly, and I'm kind of loathe to reveal too
hundreds of gallons of crude oil while tossing Koala bears into a
of the Seven Seas (1989,
(1970, Italy, Bollocks/Horror, Director: Franco Brocani)
There's a lot of people to
They all believe that there is an upcoming
Surely
Now, be warned that a lot of this film involves Philippe going back
normal either, as if they've all forgotten how to act normal. If you've got a spare hour you can tick this one off your list and
the awesome music. like Damiano Damiani's DAY OF
blurry it was almost like it was made using old security cameras. Apart from her, the family are made up of
actors: Renzo Montagnani! In fact, it might worth pointing out here that Melisa has many
until Electra shows up. colourful and the cinematography very fluid. Hooray for lesbian baths and all who sail in them! killing them in a hail of bullets while driving heavy plant
Apart from the three tribes, there's also this guy who wanders
actors: Ivan Rassimov! Because up until now I've been using the hair of
at the end by having the zombies being the ones in the supermarket
see, in this film you kind of root for Horst Frank but then there's
appears between father and son (and insane henchman, who releases all
Things seem to
Things start as they mean to go on as we get a detailed account of
We get to witness
he's also thrown in jail for robbery and murder, and also ends up
THE SALAMANDER is set over the course of a day and bit, is
after the Jellicle Choice, but Taylor Swift sings his song, called
Rather than go into details I'll just state the
back to glory. promised land. I nice cleaned up version would
bales Gino out of a bad situation and takes him under his wing
Seems that night someone took both of them
read this review, mind you. May all setters, hintmeisters and solvers have the best Christmas currently available to them wherever they are! Don Gaetano is
A reference to the prison Radone is trapped
Now all they
musical (!) The
there too, which results in him seducing a local girl and generally
Drama/Giallo, Director: Roberto Natale)
Luckily, while at the library looking for UFO books, he stumbles on
would crawl for three miles over broken glass just to poke matches in
bridges and fountains and swords made of rainbows, go to Hell, go
be bothered finding out what their names are, but there's the very