NIGHTMARE BEACH (a.k.a. Welcome To Spring Break) *** Italy 1989 Dir: Umberto Lenzi. 90 mins Michael Parks is typically engaging as a hard-drinking Florida doctor in Lenzi’s Fort Laudedale-shot slasher, referring accurately to Spring Break as “the annual migration of the idiot”. It’s a standard 80’s American dead teenager movie…
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THE MAN FROM DEEP RIVER *** Italy 1972 Dir: Umberto Lenzi. 93 mins A trend-setting movie in the Italian cannibal cycle and a career-making picture for Lenzi, this operates as both a cash-in on the American hit A MAN CALLED HORSE and a fictionalised extension of the earlier “Mondo” movies.…
THE PERFECT HUSBAND (a.k.a. What Lies Within) ** Italy 2014 Dir: Lucas Pavetto 85 mins Bret Roberts plays the loving husband Nicola…some may say perfect husband…by caring for his wife Viola (Gabriella Wright) after the loss of their baby. Going to stay at his Uncle’s cabin to spend quality time…
Wild Eye Releasing will make a believer out of skeptics with the first look at MY LITTLE SISTER. Co-directors Maurizio and Roberto del Piccolo lead a group of young friends face to fang with a monstrous urban legend. Astrid Di Bon, Holli Dillon, Antonio Pauletta, Sofia Pauly and Mattia Rosellini…
CREATE & OBLITERATE : Remembering Umberto Lenzi’s Nightmare City As with his (more popular) contemporary Lucio Fulci, the reputation in horror circles of Italian director Umberto Lenzi hinges entirely on a small cluster of graphically gory movies he made very close together in the early 80’s while well into middle-age.…