Tag Archives: Italian Horror

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, ...

Caltiki – il mostro immortale (Caltiki – The Immortal Monster, 1959) is known among cult circles for its dual directorial influence; though officially recognized as a film by Riccardo Freda, cinematographer Mario Bava filled Freda’s sizeable shoes when he left ...

Virus: Extreme Contamination (2016) is the 17th directorial effort of prolific Italian director Domiziano Cristopharo and the first to see him team up with contemporary Italian genre stalwart and writer Antonio Tentori, who is best known for his work on Lucio ...

Within horror film discourse and in film theory more generally, it is accepted by some that one of the primary visual pleasures of viewing violent scenes, as repeatedly witnessed in giallo films, is a sadistic, projective viewing pleasure. That is ...

In a scene from Mario Bava’s seminal 1964 film Blood and Black Lace (Sei donne per l’assassino) we witness a fashion model, Nicole (Ariana Gorini), as she is pursued through a cluttered antique store and then sadistically murdered with a ...