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Spirits of Death / A White Dress for Marialé (1972)
With Spirits of Death, I’m reminded of how pleasing it is to keep discovering new worthwhile Eurocult movies of the vintage variety. Years ago I thought that I might have been coming close to...
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Female Vampire / La comtesse noire (1973)
If you haven’t noticed, Female vampires in movies have been a long-running theme I’ve enjoyed exploring with this blog. It’s an appealing aspect of fiction to me, and I just can’t get away from the...
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City of the Living Dead / The Gates of Hell (1980)
City of the Living Deadis part of a high point in Lucio Fulci’s career that would make him synonymous with gore, zombies, and splatter and also cause him to be more generally regarded as a horror...
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Venomous Vixens: Aurora de Alba
At present, little is known about the European actress and dancer Aurora de Alba. Her film career is varied, although consisting mostly of rare, hard-to-find movies, with a handful of Spanish horror...
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The Mummy’s Revenge / La venganza de la Momia (1973)
When looking over the lengthy cycle of mummy movies, one in particular often goes heavily unmentioned, and that’s Spanish actor, filmmaker Paul Naschy’s take on the mummy myth, The Mummy’s Revenge / La...
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Shock / Beyond the Door II (1977)
Mario Bava’s final, full-length film as director Shock (AKA Beyond the Door II) is like TheAmityville Horror (1979), Repulsion (1965), and The Shining (1980) combined into a progressive-rock tinged...
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Night of the Walking Dead / El extraño amor de los vampiros (1975)
"The sun shining in my dreams The light is getting hot Saved by eternity I have seen death so close Away, awhile the angels crossed the sky But I'm condemned to stay here." -- Heavenly In his...
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Simona / Passion (1974)
You might not know it from looking at the playful erotic movie posters and DVD covers, but Simona is no sex comedy. Though still playful and sexy in certain parts, Patrick Longchamps’Fellini-inspired...
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The Man with Icy Eyes (1971)
Although commonly referred to as a giallo, Alberto De Martino’sThe Man with Icy Eyes would have to be a rather atypical example of the genre, if not an ostensible one. It is set and filmed in a...
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Maniac Mansion (1972)
The Italian-Spanish co-production La mansión de la niebla / Maniac Mansion was the directorial debut of Spanish filmmaker Francisco Lara Polop, who had been previously working as a unit production...
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News Update: Lord of Tears
The astounding gothic chiller Lord of Tears is an official selection for the 32nd Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival(BIFFF), one of the biggest genre film events in Europe. Lord of Tears...
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Love and Death in the Garden of the Gods (1972)
Being a conversation heavy drama mystery with a bit of a dreamy languor about it, Love and Death in the Garden of the Gods may require a little focus from viewers if they hope to get absorbed in its...
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Interrabang (1969)
Considering movies like Barbarella (1968), Top Sensation (1969), and Russ Meyer’sVixen! (1968), it would seem that the late ‘60s, the peak of the sexual revolution in the western world, was a turning...
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Morgiana (1972)
Morgiana, by Slovak director Juraj Herz,is a seldom spoken of curio from the Czechoslovak New Wave that’s heavily stylized with regards to its visuals and mood but is straightforward with its story and...
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Succubus / Necronomicon (1968)
During an interview included on the 2006 Blue Underground release of Succubus, Jess Franco spoke of a sixteenth century book he had come across on a bookshelf entitled Necronomicon that had belonged to...
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The Other Side of the Mirror / Al otro lado del espejo (1973)
Jess Franco could film movies faster than I can write reviews for them. His films can sometimes have an overwhelming low quality feel to them, making them difficult to digest for the majority. The...
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5 Dolls for an August Moon (1970)
It’s amazing what Mario Bava could accomplish when he had free creative reign considering films like Lisa and the Devil (1973) and Twitch of the Death Nerve (1971), but with 5 Dolls for an August Moon...
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The Vampire and the Ballerina (1960)
I’ll admit that about three years after seeing The Vampire and the Ballerina (L’amante del vampire) the only thing I could seem to remember about it was the dance numbers. The movie had left a good...
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Death Smiles on a Murderer (1973)
Beyond the Darkness (1979) was my first Joe D’Amato experience and one of my earlier Italian horror revelations, and it quickly ramped up my respect for D’Amato, who, for me, at the time was like the...
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Zombie / Zombi 2 (1979)
I used to not be able to stomach gory zombie films very well. Despite being excited and thoroughly fascinated after watching zombie films in my youth, I suffered from a loss of appetite for a while....
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