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Manhattan Baby (1982)
Manhattan Babymarks the end of an era, which was Lucio Fulci’s most prolific filmmaking period that included classics such as Zombie(1979), The Gates of Hell (1980), The Beyond (1981), and The House by...
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Help for a Friend in Need
A dear friend of mine has fallen on to hard times and is in danger of losing her job now that her car has broken down. It’s looking to be a costly clutch repair. I’ve never asked for any money in the...
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The Devil’s Wedding Night / Il plenilunio delle vergini (1973)
For me, The Devil’s Wedding Night is kind of like a Dracula movie but with Rosalba Neri playing Dracula, which is just a prepossessing idea. However, that’s not quite what it is, as it plays more like...
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Byleth – Il demone dell’incesto (1972)
I’m not much in to demonology; I only remember a couple names of demonic entities off the top of my head, like Beelzebub, Belial, and Astaroth, but I had only heard about the demon Byleth in reference...
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Mania (1974)
When it comes to the unique definitive Renato Polselli experience of histrionics, eroticism, violence, and sadomasochism, movies like Delirium(1972), TheReincarnation of Isabel (1972), and even The...
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Fruit of Paradise / Ovoce stromů rajských jíme (1970)
After realizing film was her true calling, the first lady of Czech cinema Věra Chytilová enrolled in the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in 1957. At the time, she...
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Terror Creatures from the Grave / 5 tombe per un medium (1965)
The onset of the Halloween season this year has really put me on a black-and-white horror kick for some reason. I’m looking forward to checking out some classics I haven’t seen yet, such as City of the...
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Lips of Blood / Lèvres de sang (1975)
With his first four full length films, between 1968 to 1971, Jean Rollin forged his own brand of erotic and poetic vampirism. The one of a kind auteur painted over the ‘in vogue’ gothic horror tropes,...
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Count Dracula's Great Love / El gran amor del Conde Dracula (1973)
Paul Naschy had a lot of success in a wide range of film genres, playing an even wider range of characters, but he is mostly remembered for his brand of gritty and beautiful Spanish gothic horror...
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School of Fear / Il gioko (1989)
‘80s Italian horror TV movies aren’t always the most memorable and have a tendency to be a little underwhelming in comparison to the classic gialli and Eurohorror films from the ‘60s and ‘70s golden...
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Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein / Dracula contra Frankenstein (1972)
Jess Franco had already covered Dracula by directing a movie adaption of Bram Stoker’s seminal Gothic horror vampire novel from 1897 a couple years prior. So, what does Jess do next when returning to...
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Daughter of Dracula / La fille de Dracula (1972)
Jess Franco filmed Daughter of Dracula back to back with the preceding film Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972). These two films seem similar and for me were sometimes easy to confuse with one...
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A Whisper in the Dark / Un sussurro nel buio (1976)
A Whisper in the Dark is a personal favorite of mine. It has been referred to as the Italian The Turn of the Screw (1898) and is a a subtle take on the haunted family category of storytelling, focusing...
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Sex of the Devil / Il sesso del diavolo - Trittico (1971)
How could any Eurocult horror fan resist being attracted to a movie with a poster like this and a title like Sex of the Devil? Whether or not the movie delivers what it promises on the cover is another...
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The Dunwich Horror (1970)
Before AIP’s The Dunwich Horror, a 1970 film adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s horror novella of the same name, not a whole lot had been done yet to try and bring Lovecraftto the screen. The Haunted...
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House of the Damned / La loba y la Paloma (1974)
House of the Damned is that generically titled, sort of misleading, pleasant delight that reminds me of why I still enjoy exploring near-forgotten Eurocult films from decades past with the word “House”...
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Alice or the Last Escapade / Alice ou la dernière fugue (1977)
I’ve been a fan of Alice in Wonderland since I was a kid, although I didn’t read Lewis Carroll’s Alice books until I was an adult, which was prompted by my first viewing of Jan Svankmajer’sAlice(1988),...
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The Sex of Angels / Il sesso degli angeli (1968)
This wicked looking poster for the nominally X-rated Italian/German drama The Sex of Angelsand the Google plot synopsis, which reads “young women steal a yacht and kidnap a young man and spend a...
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Evil Eye / Malocchio (1975)
Evil Eye is that kind of movie that gracefully tries to do it all but ends up not really knowing what to do with itself afterwards. When looking at the film as a whole, it feels like a nice recap of...
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Macumba Sexual (1983)
For me, going back to Macumba Sexual is going back to my Jess Franco origins, as it was the second Jess Franco film I ever saw, the first being Mansion of the Living Dead (1982). I came across both...
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