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: Umberto Lenzi
The late great Umberto Lenzi gave audiences some of the most notorious video nasties including his legendary gut-crunchers THE MAN FROM DEEP RIVER (1972) and CANNIBAL FEROX (1981). However, the maestro of macabre, nightmare-making images was rightly most proud of his giallo classics – most famously represented by the colourful…
Fans of horror..especially Italian horror, will be excited to learn that the soundtrack to CANNIBAL FEROX will get a very limited release on vinyl courtesy of One Way Static Records. Umberto Lenzi’s ‘CANNIBAL FEROX (a.k.a. Make Them Die Slowly) (Original 1981 Motion Picture Soundtrack by Roberto Donati). Available as a…
Dustin Ferguson, Director of “Nemesis 5” and Editor of SLEEPAWAY CAMP IV recently launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise initial funds for production on GHOSTHOUSE. Ferguson’s company SoCal Cinema Studios is Producing, based on a script by Mike Reeb (Nemesis 5) and Jason Harlow (Another Evil Night). The film is…
CANNIBAL FEROX *** Italy / USA 1981 Dir: Umberto Lenzi. 92 mins In a come-on typical of its sub-genre, the opening title card of Lenzi’s most notorious movie warns of at least two dozen scenes of torture and sadistic violence about to unfold before our very eyes. Does anybody actually…