From the minds of Luigi Cozzi (CONTAMINATION) and Daria Nicolodi (SUSPIRIA) comes PAGANINI HORROR a slash-tastic piece of cheesy Euro-horror that could only have been made in the 80s! 88 Films are proud to present this bonkers slice of Italian cult cinema, a camp classic in the making, ripe for…
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OPERA (a.k.a. Terror at the Opera) **** Italy 1987 Dir: Dario Argento. 100 mins In Argento’s return to non-supernatural giallo, young, rising opera singer Cristina Marsillach gets the plum role of Lady Macbeth in Verdi’s cursed operatic MACBETH, shortly after the original leading lady is struck by a car. Soon…
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…
In the mid-‘90s, Dario Argento approached a physically and professionally ailing Lucio Fulci to direct one final production, an over-the-top shocker about grisly murders at a Paris wax museum. But when Fulci passed away only weeks before filming began, Argento turned to Sergio Stivaletti – the FX genius on PHENOMENA,…
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,…