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
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
Strike Commando
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,
Opera (aka. Terror At The Opera)
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
Tenebrae
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
Inferno
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
Suspiria
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
The Inglorious Bastards
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
A Classic Horror Story
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
City Of The Living Dead
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
Deep Red
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
Rats: Night Of Terror
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
Zombi 4: After Death (Aka. Zombie Flesh Eaters 3)
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
Zombi 3 (aka. Zombie Flesh Eaters 2)
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
Demons 2
Once scratched by the ridiculously large talons of a demon, your imminent change into one of the drooling, snarling monsters is pretty fast – that
Killer Crocodile
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
Zombie Flesh Eaters (Aka. Zombi 2)
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
The Last Shark
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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