Following a flurry of activity in the early-to-mid ’Eighties, Lucio Fulci continued to endure—at least, to some extent—even as the once-prosperous, by-then-financially-floundering Italian film industry began to implode on itself, with ever-dwindling budgets and fewer and fewer productions being made. ...

Highly underrated almost to the point of complete obscurity—Ivan Passer’s footloose-and-fancy-free New York City-based crime comedy Law and Disorder (1974) stars Carroll O’Connor and Ernest Borgnine as Willie and Cy, a couple of lifelong friends who decide to take a ...

Poisoned milk, corporate espionage, naked girls, and the living dead are the principal elements that attempt to coalesce themselves into a cohesive, coherent narrative in Pierre B. Reinhard’s Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (1986), which, despite the subject matter, ...

Poisoned milk, corporate espionage, naked girls, and the living dead are the principal elements that attempt to coalesce themselves into a cohesive, coherent narrative in Pierre B. Reinhard’s Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (1986), which, despite the subject matter, ...

Whenever the name of director John Ford is discussed or even mentioned, it immediately conjures up images in one’s mind of expansive, majestic vistas of Utah’s Monument Valley with legendary actor John “Duke” Wayne striking iconic poses thereon. Ford had ...

Although commonly referred to as a ‘nasty nun’ or nunsploitation film (which has become the more accepted nomenclature for this longstanding subgenre of Italian film), Giulio Berruti’s Suor Omicidi (Killer Nun,1978) or The Killer Nun, as it’s referred to on ...

Commencing in an amiable, almost playful style indicative of the other films in the Black Emanuelle series, Aristide Massaccesi’s Emanuelle in America (1976)—which he directs under his usual pseudonym of Joe D’Amato—on the other hand possesses a distinctly different attitude ...

Although never given the accolades he deserved, director Frank Perry was one of the many unsung iconoclasts working in Hollywood from the early ’60s up until his death in 1995. He is perhaps best-remembered today for his haunting film, The ...