DVD Release
Wanted smugglers Stella Star (Caroline Munro) and her navigator Akton (Marjoe Gortner) are caught unawares during an unscheduled pit stop and finally taken into custody by the dedicated law-bot Elle (Judd Hamilton) after a long space chase. Convicted of their crimes, both are found guilty and sentenced to hard labor on separate planets.
Unwilling to be a slave to the system that incarcerated her, Stella attempts to make plans for an escape with her fellow inmates, subsequently attracting the attention of a guard and setting off a riot. The raucous battle gives her the perfect opportunity to slip away unnoticed and make a break for it but her freedom is cut short when Elle’s ship Continue reading »
UK Theatrical Poster
I must confess that although I am a fan of cannibal movies in general, I had been putting off watching Slave of the Cannibal God for quite a while now. Why? Well there were two reason really and they are Ursula Andress and Stacy Keach. I just couldn’t imagine that a cannibal movie would work with two big(ish) names involved. I mean let’s face it, when I think of Ursula Andress the first thing that springs to mind is James Bond, or to be more precise Ursula in a swimsuit in Dr Continue reading »
U.S. DVD Release
I’ll admit it, the thought of reviewing another Umberto Lenzi movie filled me with a certain amount of trepidation. This is one seriously inconsistent film maker that you just never know what to expect from. Some of his movies are a joy to watch, others are just plain painful, yes I’m looking at you Black Demons.
Man From Deep River though did have a couple of good selling points that filled me with a little hope. Firstly, the lead is played by Ivan Rassimov, that stalwart of Italian exploitation, secondly, he is joined on screen by Me Me Lai, who is one fine looking lady, and finally it is a cannibal movie. Well, the first too are true, but the third is slightly misleading, more on that later though Continue reading »
Original Poster
Thunder is back in town and he’s come to claim his wife but before he can do anything he’s got to stop the desecration of his tribe’s cemetery, fight off a roughneck construction crew, wage guerrilla warfare against the local police department and pretty much level half a town.
The white man isn’t dealing with just any redskin, Thunder was bred to be a warrior and the only way to diffuse this ticking time bomb is for construction to stop in the cemetery and for the police to call in Trautman before Rambo does any more damage. Wait…which film was this again?
Thunder Warrior may be just another Italian Continue reading »
R2 UK DVD
Mario Bianchi (Son of Roberto Bianchi Montero) is no stranger to sleaze. His career in the Italian smut industry lasted over twenty years and saw him collaborate with one of this films leading cast members on a regular basis; the oh-so-obscene Marina Hedman. Under his Andrew W. Cools pseudonym he gives us Satan’s Baby Doll – a “re-imagining” of Andrea Bianchi’s (no, they’re not brothers) superior Malabimba: The Malicious Whore from 1979. Infamous producer Gabriele Crisanti (once husband of Mariangela Giordano) was responsible for both films, along with other trash classicks like Giallo a Venezia, Patrick Still Lives and Burial Ground; so it gives you an idea of what to expect from the brisk 75 minute runtime Continue reading »
U.S. DVD Release
“Macho, macho man! I want to be a macho man!”
The ‘Poliziottesco’ genre couldn’t have asked for a more fitting song. With big tough men, often sporting gloriously oversized mustaches and even bigger guns, strut around most major Italian cities making their own laws and following their own rules. It’s a genre that contains more immorality than a whorehouse in Mexico, and that’s just the Police force!
Tough guys like Franco Nero, Maurizio Merli and Fabio Testi made a killing off of these types of characters. It’s not hard to see why this genre was so big in Italy in the 70’s: what with all the Red Brigades blowing shit up and political corruption causing many a headache. The ‘every-day man Continue reading »
U.S. DVD Release
More Euro crime-slime from those lovely folks overt at NoShame, it’s a rather odd release. It’s not exactly a classic, or even a cult item, but they have felt fit to unleash it onto the market for fans of Italian B-cinema too lap up! The fact that it also features the awesome talents of Luc Merenda (Sergio Martino’s Torso) pretty much guarantees there’ll be a few interested fans out there eager to catch a film with him on leading man duty.
Inspector Dario Mauri (Merenda) is a top Milanese cop who is sent down to the dirty-south of Naples to help lower the ever growing mob activity. Too bad then, that two rival gangs are about to go to war over a stolen shipment of Continue reading »
U.S. DVD Release
Here’s a novel idea. Update Sergio Leone’s classic spaghetti western A Fistful of Dollars for the politioztechi crowd, so it will feel like the Wild, Wild West… with flares. What’s not to love about that, right? And the answer is nothing what so ever. No Shame has saved this title from obscurity and there are going to be many, many fans rejoicing once they pop this beauty into their DVD player.
Arriving in Milan from an unspecified southern city, Marco Russo (Carlos Monzon) looks like he has a score to settle. Arriving with a rucksack and music box, containing the picture of two women, he sets out to complete his mission. Meeting two hermits Wis (short for wisdom) and a blind girl Continue reading »
R2 DVD Release
When faced with a Sergio Martino film, you can usually rely on it being a very well produced exploitation movie. Be it The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh or Mountain of the Cannibal God, you’re going to be entertained! That is what Martino does best, and he knows it. During the early 70s he was producing some of the best Gialli of the era, in fact it could be said that he brought the sleaze and OTT violence to the genre. Before he got his grubby hands on it, it was still respected (critically) as a genre. When he released Torso on the unsuspecting Giallo fans, you can just imagine their reaction. He had finally taken the plunge and made the violence on screen overly sexual. The genre was never the same again Continue reading »
Theatrical Poster
A demented psychopath dubbed “Yellow” is torturing, disfiguring and murdering beautiful women in Rome and it’s up to an emotionally damaged American police detective and an Italian flight attendant to follow the clues that lead to the identity of the killer and, hopefully, to the whereabouts of the flight attendant’s sister.
There was a time when the mere mention of Dario Argento’s name brought gasps from film geeks worldwide. The amazing impact his films have made on the horror genre cannot be underestimated, the man is legendary, his cinematic contributions are legendary. Thankfully the best of his films, like The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, Deep Red and Suspiria, will remain with us long after he tarnishes Continue reading »
