Stage Fright – The Last Gasp Of Classic Italian Genre Cinema
Michele Soavi’s theatrical slasher film feels like an extravagant end-of-an-era production.
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Going The Full Nick Cage: Blurring Fiction And Reality In The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent
The new fantasy interpretation of Nicholas Cage is part of a strange tradition of actors playing fictional, exaggerated versions of themselves.
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Blecch Glasses: Dario Argento And The Limitations Of Creativity
Occhiali Neri has been hailed as Argento’s great comeback movie – but is it too little, too late from a director whose artistic visions seem long exhausted?
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Banned And Damned: Sex, Violence And Blasphemy On Channel 4 In The 1990s
Provocative documentaries about forbidden culture, from the days when Channel 4 was still a credible and daring broadcaster.
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Cozzilla: Luigi Cozzi’s Godzilla
The mad folly of the psychedelic, spectoramic, Futursound-enhanced 1977 Italian version of the Japanese monster movie classic.
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Paging Dr Freudstein – Lucio Fulci’s The House By The Cemetery Re-Examined
The Italian gore maestro’s gothic spectacular is both grandiosely ambitious and irritatingly flawed.
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The Beyond – Lucio Fulci’s Trip Into Atmospheric Ultraviolence
Lucio Fulci’s collision of Lovecraftian gothic and hardgore splatter is visually and stylistically impressive, but somewhat overrated.
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Video Nasty Icon Ian McCulloch’s Lost Pop Career
The lost mid-Sixties psych-folk career of Britain’s reluctant Italian horror star.
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The Sex And Horror Film Posters Of Enzo Sciotti
The iconic and outrageous illustrations of Italy’s most recognisable movie poster artist.
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