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Aenigma

Pazuzu Iscariot — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT

Horror film creators often addressed the subject of bullying well before it was trendy to pretend to care in order to market a product. This scenario was often saved for the slasher and as this sub-genre was booming in the eighties many directors saw this formula as a way to pay the bills. Even Lucio Fulci joined the band on their wagon in 1987 wit...

My Dear Killer

Hellbound Heart — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 21:55:30 GMT

I'm never too sure about the giallo genre; if I was being cynical – which of course I'm not, ever – I might suggest that the whole thing was a massive ruse, brought about to link the leather glove-making/ladies negligee-making industry to the film industry at a time of economic instability. Or something. You could furthermore be forgiven, after ev...

Adam Chaplin

Pazuzu Iscariot — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:07:33 GMT

From the outset it is apparent that Adam Chaplin is not going to be a run of the mill Italian independent horror movie. The blood flows in torrents within seconds of the film starting and doesn't really relent for the duration. The style seems very much influenced by the Japanese splatter genre of recent years, seemingly inspired by the works of Ma...

Anthropophagus

Pazuzu Iscariot — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 18:29:34 GMT

Between directing Blue Erotic Climax and Porno Esotic Love, prolific filmmaker Joe D'Amato took a break from his sleazy pornographic exploits and directed his first non-erotic horror Anthropophagus. Also known as Grim Reaper, Man-Eater and The Beast among a multitude of other names (as is quite common for cheap Italian horror), Anthropophagus was d...

Night Train Murders

Hellbound Heart — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT

I have to say that about halfway through this film I was ready dismiss it as rather longwinded and aimless: not only does Night Train Murders (aka Don't Ride on Late Night Trains or L'ultimo treno della notte) manage to claw its way back, but I ended up being rather impressed by this low-key example of exploitation fare which plays its cards very c...

New York Ripper

Hellbound Heart — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Ah, Lucio Fulci. He stopped making sex comedies just in time for his now-legendary forays into horror to get him banned in the UK. Mr. Fulci has the dubious honour of three of his films - The Beyond, The House by the Cemetery and Zombie - appearing on the infamous video nasties list of '84, a list dominated, incidentally, by his countrymen. New Yor...

Macabre (Macabro) AKA Frozen Terror

Pazuzu Iscariot — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:10:00 GMT

Lamberto Bava's directorial debut, Macabre (Macabro) AKA Frozen Terror, is a beautiful romance story about illicit love affairs, unrequited devotion, tragedy, child murder, child murderers, necrophilia, and blind people dropping the soap. It would be impossible to do this work of perverse sinister art justice without giving away the surprise so if ...

The Sweet House of Horrors

Pazuzu Iscariot — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:20:00 GMT

It may well be maybe a possibly well know fact that when Lucio Fulci made non-zombie films he was out of his nut on various psychotropic drugs. A huge chunk of apparent evidence is in The Sweet House of Horrors (La dolce casa degli orrori). As the infamous master of gore, Fulci manages to take potentially no gruesome situations and fill them with b...

SS Hell Camp aka The Beast in Heat

Miss Lipstattoo — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:45:00 GMT

Any sane person with taste really has to start to worry when the epitome of sleaze Ilsa is held up as a cinematic goddess, so much so that she inspired a slew of copycat Nazi exploitation flicks with stern bitches with Swastikas on their arms. I am, however, not a sane person and have no taste so it's hardly surprising that I really enjoyed SS Hell...

SS Experiment Love Camp

Miss Lipstattoo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

"You bastard, what have you done with my balls?"...and that my friends is the kind of high quality dialogue you can expect from the dreadfully dire S.S. Experiment Love Camp.S.S. Experiment Love Camp (Lager SSadis Kastrat Kommandantur) is the everyday story of female prisoners of war who are brought to Von Kleiben's secret camp to partake in unusua...