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Tag: Italy

Strike Commando 2

June 10, 2022 greigzilla

We’ve encountered Bruno Mattei on this page before, but for those unfamiliar with possibly Italian cinema’s most blatant rip off artist, here’s a quick run

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Burial Ground

June 3, 2022 greigzilla

By the time that 1981 rolled around, the Italian zombie movie was already succumbing to advanced rot despite only hitting its heyday a couple of

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Strike Commando

May 30, 2022 greigzilla

Many, many years ago, back in the age of the reassuring clunkiness of the VCR, I owned an ex-rental copy of Michele Soavi’s poetically camp,

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Opera (aka. Terror At The Opera)

April 28, 2022 greigzilla

If there’s anything that Giallo pioneer and black murder-glove enthusiast, Dario Argento is famous for is overwhelmingly vicious violence and stunningly beautiful visuals, so could

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Tenebrae

March 15, 2022 greigzilla

Maestro or misogynist? Those are the two labels that have continously clung to Italian horror master Dario Argento ever since he first started plying his

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Inferno

March 7, 2022 greigzilla

Not to be confused with the Dan Brown adaptation that saw Tom Hanks scurrying around Europe with amnesia, Inferno is Dario Argento’s batshit follow up

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Suspiria

February 23, 2022 greigzilla

From the beginning of his career in 1970 with the stunning and stylish The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, to 1975’s seminal Profondo Rosso (Deep

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The Inglorious Bastards

January 4, 2022 greigzilla

Not to be confused with Quentin Tarantino’s masterful slice of wartime lunacy (although he did steal and misspell the title as a tribute to this

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A Classic Horror Story

November 23, 2021 greigzilla

Original concepts in the horror genre are few and far between these days and the only way filmmakers can seemingly plough into new territory is

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City Of The Living Dead

October 31, 2021 greigzilla

I’ve often found it a little frustrating that the old school maestros of Italian horror such as Argento, Bava and Soavi are hailed for their

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Deep Red

October 27, 2021 greigzilla

Known in its native Italy by the equally impressive sounding Profondo Rosso, Dario Argento’s Deep Red is arguably the pinnacle of the sub-genre known collectively

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Rats: Night Of Terror

May 1, 2021 greigzilla

When he wasn’t ripping of Romero (Zombie Creeping Flesh), Rambo (Strike Commando) and Cameron (Shocking Dark), Italian schlock artist Bruno Mattei is probably also famous

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Zombi 4: After Death (Aka. Zombie Flesh Eaters 3)

April 28, 2021 greigzilla

Described by it’s own director as the last gasp for Italian zombie gore film, 1989’s After Death doesn’t even warrant that much. Gifted more aliases

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Zombi 3 (aka. Zombie Flesh Eaters 2)

April 25, 2021 greigzilla

Upon reviewing Lucio Fulci’s video nasty classic Zombie Flesh Eaters, I feel like I’ve inadvertently written myself into a corner involving titles. You see, thanks

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Demons 2

February 24, 2021 greigzilla

Once scratched by the ridiculously large talons of a demon, your imminent change into one of the drooling, snarling monsters is pretty fast – that

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Killer Crocodile

December 17, 2020 greigzilla

Two fishermen sit in a boat in the pitch black doing a spot of night fishing chatting to keep their spirits up. As their pointless

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Zombie Flesh Eaters (Aka. Zombi 2)

October 30, 2020 greigzilla

Let us mull over the career of Italian horror maestro Lucio Fulci for a second, shall we?The undisputed king of trashy spaghetti splatter, the man

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The Last Shark

July 15, 2018 greigzilla

Anyone familiar with the genre cinema of Italy during the 70’s and 80’s know that the filmmakers of that time and place wouldn’t let pesky

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