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…
Browsing: Italian Horror
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,…
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…
HOUSE OF EVIL *** Italy 2017 Dir: Marco Ristori, Luca Boni 83 mins HOUSE OF EVIL is set in the early 1970’s and follows a young couple, John a keen photographer and Kate a budding artist. Wanting to breath some freshness into their life they move from the bright lights…