The last time we laid eyes on the notoriously tricksy, gadget laden Sartana, he was going through some sort of identity crisis. Not only had
Tag: 1970s
The Concorde… Airport ’79 (1979) – Review
As something of a forgotten staple of the disaster film, the Airport franchise went out of its way for a decade to disprove the fact
The Wild Geese (1978) – Review
As the seventies rolled on, one sub-genre of the war movie that seemed to be getting ever more dated was the man-on-a-mission movie that often
Sartana’s Here… Trade Your Pistol For A Coffin (1970) – Review
During his second movie, the extravagantly titled I Am Sartana, Your Angel Of Death, the titular gunslinger enigmatically announced that “Anyone could be Sartana”; but
Return Of Sabata (1971) – Review
As the Western began to enter the decade of its eventual and ultimate decline, there was still plenty of time for the returning scoundrels of
The Beast Must Die (1974) – Review
There must have been some primo, top quality hallucinogenics flying around the sets of British set horror flicks during the 70s as such studios such
Airport ’77 (1977) – Review
Flying may be the safest way to travel statistically speaking, but the Airport franchise pretty much did everything it could to disprove that theory over
Force 10 From Navarone (1978) – Review
There’s nothing more gripping than a good old Second World War set, men on a mission movie from the classic years that saw a scattering
Airport 1975 (1974) – Review
Even before the team of Zucker Abrahams Zucker took down the entirety of a genre with a single movie with Airplane!, there was always something
Adiós, Sabata (1970) – Review
If you needed an example of the random craziness of the chaotic, virtually lawless world of the Italian film industry, a perfect microcosm might actually
The Mechanic (1972) – Review
When you pair up the names Charles Bronson and Michael Winner, your brain should instantly drift towards conflicting memories – not unlike an unsettling ‘Nam
Dr Phibes Rises Again (1972) – Review
There aren’t too many movie like Robert Fuest’s The Abominable Dr Phibes and anyone who has sampled its psychotropic delights will probably agree with me
Airport (1970) – Review
While The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno are rightly considered the mack daddies of the disaster movie genre, essentially creating the building blocks of
Nosferatu The Vampyre (1979) – Review
What makes a serious filmmaker want to remake a stone cold classic? Is it hubris; the assumption that they can better something that was just
Baron Blood (1972) – Review
When it comes to delivering the atmospheric goods to a horror film, Mario Bava stands as a true pioneer. Whether he was beating the likes
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) – Review
It helps to have rather a loose grasp of sanity when it comes to crafting a horror oddity, but when it comes to the kind
The Last House On The Left (1972) – Review
For those who solely know Wes Craven for his work on the Scream franchise, be warned, back in his days as a fledgling filmmaker, the
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) – Review
You know that feeling when you sit down to watch a movie that you’ve taken for granted since forever and you suddenly say to yourself
From Beyond The Grave (1974) – Review
Since 1965, the anthology movies of Amicus Productions had been providing us with movie after movie of grim karma and numerous things returning from the
The Vault Of Horror (1973) – Review
When you think of comic book adaptations, your brain can’t help but zip to the modern, gargantuan complexities of connected superhero universes or even the