Browsing: Italian Horror

MICHELE SOAVI’S ‘THE SECT’ SET FOR RELEASE BY SHAMELESS Shameless Screen Entertainment are back with another Italian horror release for the year and it is another from director Michele Soavi. Having recently released Soavi’s THE CHURCH on Blu-Ray and DVD, they are now doing the same for THE SECT (a.k.a.…

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HITCHER IN THE DARK *** Italy / USA 1989 Dir: Umberto Lenzi. 95 mins Young, handsome Joe Balogh has a sensible 80’s haircut, sports stylish Ray-Bans, is dependent on Vodka and routinely picks up, drugs and torments girls in his Daddy’s camper van, usually intoning “You’re a whore, just like…

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THE NIGHT CHILD *** Italy / UK 1975 Dir: Massimo Dallamano. 90 mins A modest but haunting picture from the highly talented director of WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLANGE? set to a typically beautiful, bewitching score by Stelvio Cipriani. Documentary filmmaker Richard Johnson, working on a project about “diabolical…

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BEYOND THE DOOR *** Italy 1974 Dir: Ovidio Assonitis. 109 mins One of the fastest movies out of the gate to capitalise on the worldwide phenomenon of THE EXORCIST (while still nodding overtly to that film’s own precursor, ROSEMARY’S BABY), this divertingly odd Italian rip-off has a marvellously droll opening…

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