Tag Archives: Italian Genre Cinema

The late 1960s were a tumultuous time. Worldwide protests were ignited in the wake of the May of ’68 protests; students and workers were calling for an end to capitalism and an end to tyranny. In the US, these protests ...

The 13th of March marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Italian film maker Lucio Fulci. While Fulci dipped his toes into many genres (including Westerns and Musicals) throughout the years it is his horror films that he is ...

The first time I saw Nightmare City aka The City of the Walking Dead, I just wasn’t ready for it. I was 14 (maybe 15) and was obsessed Romero’s trilogy but had really only seen a handful of Italian genre ...

By and large, Lucio Fulci is one of horror cinema’s most notable and beloved directors. However, that love is often applied loosely to his catalog. Sure, everyone knows his gory, zombie films, but these are only a small fraction of the ...

The folks at Severin Films seem to be on a roll. A few months back, they released Jess Franco’s long-awaited Vampyros Lesbos and She Killed in Ecstasy, in mostly excellent HD restorations. Now, they turn to Nightmare Castle, one of Barbara ...

While many have reduced it to a response to vigilante-style thrillers produced in America, such as Dirty Harry and Death Wish, the Eurocrime subgenre nonetheless thrived in Italy for years and produced nearly as many classics as the more renowned, ...

When thinking about the history of 80s Italian genre cinema, no three films seem as influential and important to its formation than do 1979’s Mad Max and The Warriors and 1981’s Escape from New York. Each film — albeit through ...

Sometime between the 1960s and 1990s the so-called “death of vinyl” was supposed to have occurred. With the 8-track, Compact-Cassette, and the CD all being introduced as cheaper and more accessible alternatives to the large and expensive vinyl record, sales ...

When I sat down to do our normal style review, I realized that it wasn’t really fair for this particular release. First of all, the release was originally intended to play as one half of a double-feature, backed with the ...