Tag Archives: Italian Horror

Listen. I don’t know if you’re ready for this, but Alberto De Martino’s L’assassino… è al telefono aka The Killer is on the Phone (1972) is one of the single most batshit giallo films in the history of the genre. ...

In Luigi Cozzi’s The Killer Must Kill Again (1975) aka L’assassino è costretto ad uccidere ancora, Giorgio (George Hilton) and his wife Nora (Tere Velazquez) don’t get along. Giorgio is more interested in his mistress, but he’s utterly dependant on ...

While I love the early days of the genre, I find myself perhaps most excited by the later years of giallo films, after the boom from 1971-1975 had passed. These later films fascinate me, not in terms of how they ...

Mario Landi’s long unavailable Giallo a Venezia (1979) is a truly nasty piece of work, so it won’t surprise anyone who knows of my endless love for Fulci’s New York Ripper (1982) that this puts a similar sort of twinkle ...

One of Italian cult cinema’s most prolific directors, the wonderful Umberto Lenzi dabbled in many horror and exploitation genres, and is generally remembered for gory cannibal films like Eaten Alive! (1980) and Cannibal Ferox (1981), or poliziotteschi classics like Almost ...

While mid-20th century Italian horror cinema is linked most commonly to figures like Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda, Paolo Heusch’s Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory (1961) – aka Lycanthropus – is a significant yet commonly overlooked entry in both Italian ...

Garagehouse Pictures to bring WEB OF THE SPIDER, the classic Italian gothic horror ghost story directed by Antonio Margheriti to Blu-ray in October! Edgar Allan Poe invites you to spend one night in the WEB OF THE SPIDER! An intrepid ...

United States/Italian coproduction Voice from the Stone (2017) is absolutely dazzling to the eye, with exterior scenes drenched in vibrant fall colors, and interior set designs of a weathered mansion meticulously adorned. This Gothic, psychological, supernatural tale is not as strong ...

Episode V “THE TRICK IS TO STAY ALIVE!” We look at the world of the slasher movie, and how the genre was influenced by the cinema of Italy. If you liked this podcast, please consider donating to us and becoming ...

Emilio Miraglia was not a prolific filmmaker, having directed just six titles despite working on a number of films as an assistant or second unit director. La notte che Evelyn uscì dalla tomba (The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, ...