Spoiler alert This review reveals vital details about the plot or should that be, the device used for the film. A strange series of murders occurs around a bay. This is one of Mario Bava's best known films and also one of his most violent. I first learn of it whilst studying film at university. …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 4- Bay of Blood (1971)
A trio of murderous mobsters take refuge in a farmhouse that houses a young girl, Lisa and her wheelchair-bound grandfather. There must have been something in the water when Axe was made as I see a lot of similarities between it and Wes Craven's Last House on the Left. Both are gritty, low-budget to the …
Continue reading The Video Nasties Reviewed- Section 1- Day 3- Axe (1974)
A leather-gloved serial killer is on the loose in Rome, but David Hemming's pianist and Daria Nicolodi's journalist are on the trail to try and find out who it is. Dario Argento's Deep Red is one of his best and features several signature elements that are now synonymous with his films- the innovative direction, the …
A young couple who are in search of a place to get it on, discover some old ruins. They see what appears to be a woman hanging there. On closer inspection, it is, in fact, a mannequin. Another couple go walking through some sand dunes. They see what appears to be a woman's body lying …
Hooray for Facebook. I was browsing pages devoted to cult cinema as I'm prone to do during my downtime, and I saw a post about the Giallo gem, The Red Queen Kills Seven Times and realised that I had never seen it. And lo and behold, it was on YouTube in both Italian and badly …
Continue reading Giallo in June- Day 28- The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972)
A wealthy man invites nine friends to an abandoned theatre he owns but doesn't use. They quickly discover they are locked in and that a killer is picking them off one by one. This giallo movie feels like part Agatha Christie (particularly And Then There Were None) and a proto-slasher movie. It also features a …
Continue reading Giallo in June- Day 25- The Killer Reserved Nine Seats (1974)
As a young girl, Virginia has a psychic vision of her mother ending her own life. Years later, Virginia is married to a successful socialite, Francesco. He leaves on a business trip and leaves Virginia in the property they are due to start renovating. She starts to feel uneasy, however, as she recognises the building …
A woman who is mute after a train crash that killed her parents, is stalked in the Spanish hills by a man with demonic eyes. This Umberto Lenzi film is excellent. Carroll Baker is fantastic in the lead. Why is it that everything Ms Baker stars in though has a high quotient of camp?! Not …
Continue reading Giallo in June- Day 18- Knife of Ice (1972)
If you don't know the plot for Dawn of the Dead because you haven't seen it, please do me a favour. Stop reading this review, go onto YouTube (it's free!) and watch the film. It's a milestone of not just horror cinema, but cinema in general. I actually researched Dawn as I wrote about it …
Continue reading Giallo in June- Day 15- Zombi (Dario Argento Cut) (1978)
The Crimes of the Black Cat takes place in the world of fashion. A killer is bumping off models in a very original way - he gifts them a shawl doused in catnip that attracts a cat placed at the scene of the crime, whose claws have been poisoned with the noxious substance curare. It's …
Continue reading Giallo in June- Day 14- The Crimes of the Black Cat (1972)
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