SPASMO **** Italy 1974 Dir: Umberto Lenzi 94 mins One of Lenzi’s most disciplined and classy movies, this opens in an eerie low key, as a couple’s make-out session is disturbed by a hanging dummy – establishing the film’s fixation on unnervingly life-like female mannequins, and accompanied by one of…
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More than a decade after the Spielberg blockbuster, a dream team of shock maestros – including producer-turned-director Fabrizio De Angelis (DR. BUTCHER M.D., EMANUELLE AND THE LAST CANNIBALS), screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti (BAY OF BLOOD, DEMONS), gore guru Giannetto De Rossi (ZOMBIE, THE BEYOND) and Oscar®-nominated composer Riz Ortolani (MONDO CANE,…
THE SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A MINOR (a.k.a. Too Young To Die) *** Italy 1975 Dir: Sergio Martino. 100 mins An oddity from genre veteran Martino, this opens as a standard giallo (a teenage girl has her throat slashed at a seedy motel by a mystery killer in dark shades) before…
Severin Films presents a trio of Italian shockers on 25th June that will electrify your senses and penetrate your brain. Lacking in good taste, but overflowing with cheap thrills and titillation, ROBOWAR, NIGHT KILLER, and THE BEAST IN HEAT are all guaranteed to weed out the weakest viewers at your…
From the producer of the Italian horror THE PYRAMID (2013) comes another independent nightmare full of blood and horror, STOMACH. STOMACH is a dark atmospheric horror movie, with a lot of violence and sexual content. A desperate journey into a world of madness and perdition. STOMACH is the story of…