Tom Jolliffe goes back to the 80s to look at a crazy, gore-filled period in Italian horror cinema… There’s a great legacy in Italian Horror. Most famously, the giallo films which rose to prominence through the 60’s and 70’s (led first by Mario Bava, and taken to new heights via Dario Argento), put Italian horror […]
October Horrors 2021 – Demons (1985)
Demons, 1985. Directed by Lamberto Bava. Starring Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, Paola Cozzo and Nicoletta Elmi. SYNOPSIS: A group of random people are invited to a screening of a mysterious movie, only to find themselves trapped in the theatre with ravenous demons. After a tough year (to put it mildly), it’s nice to […]
Marvelous Italian Horrors That Are Exceptionally Good!
Marvelous Videos presents Italian horror movies for the ages… It seems that many countries contribute to the proliferation of the horror genre. Korean and Japanese horror focuses on spirits and ghosts, American horror is more about tangible threats, and German expressionism lays the baseline for everything scary. And then there’s Italian horror. Also known as […]
Second Generation Directors: The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree
Tom Jolliffe takes a look at directors following in their parents’ footsteps… Undoubtedly the influence of your parents plays a big part in shaping you as a person. In the almost surreal world of cinema and movie-making, there will be a kind of magical allure at the power a film director can wield. Offspring of […]
Blu-ray Review – Demons 1 & 2 Limited Edition Set
Demons 1 & 2 Limited Edition set Directed by Lamberto Bava. Starring Bobby Rhodes, Geretta Geretta, Urbano Barberini, Karl Zinny, Natasha Hovey, Michele Soavi, Asia Argento, David Knight, Nicoletta Elmi, Lino Salemme, Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni. SYNOPSIS: Lamberto Bava’s Bonsoir heavy metal classic splat-fests get a 4K re-issue from Arrow Video in what is possibly the greatest […]
Arrow Video releasing new 4K restorations of Demons and Demons 2
Arrow Video has announced the upcoming February 22nd release of Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento’s classic 80s horror films Demons and Demons 2 in a limited edition box set featuring brand new 4K restorations of both movies from the original camera negatives, as well as a host of special features. In the early 1980s, Dario […]
Poster and trailer for psychological horror Demons
Ahead of its release this October, a poster and trailer have arrived online for the upcoming psychological horror Demons. The film is written and directed by Miles Doleac who also stars alongside Andrew Divoff, John Schneider, Lindsay Anne Williams, Steven Brand, Kristina Emerson, and Gary Grubbs; check them out below… Eight years ago, Father Colin Hampstead […]