Contraband, 1980. Directed by Lucio Fulci. Starring Fabio Testi, Marcel Bozzuffi, Ivana Monti, Saverio Marconi, Ferdinand Murolo, Lucio Fulci, and Enrico Maisto. SYNOPSIS: A cigarette smuggler goes out for revenge when his business partner and brother is murdered by a rival drug smuggler. It is amazing that Italian splatter maestro Lucio Fulci found the time […]
The Gruesome Brilliance of 1980s Italian Horror Cinema
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 […]
Exclusive clip from Arrow’s 4K release of Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead
Arrow Video brings Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead to 4K Ultra HD this March with a brand new limited edition release featuring a restoration by Cauldron Films. And, thanks to Arrow, we’ve got an exclusive clip for you below which showcases this shiny restoration of the Godfather of Gore’s 1980 cult classic. Check […]
Underappreciated B-Horror Movies By Great Directors
Marvelous Videos presents under-loved B-horror films from great directors…. Even famous niche directors have underrated gems in their filmography. They’ve created so much wonderful content for audiences (and fans!) to digest that some of their smaller/undermarketed works fly under the radar. Which is a shame because they put just as much effort into them as […]
Godfather of Gore: Five Essential Films of Lucio Fulci
Dominic O’Brien selects his Five Essential Films of Lucio Fulci… Highly regarded the world over by obsessive cult film fans as an often tyrannical filmmaker, as well as the godfather of Italian gore films, Lucio Fulci’s films still hit a nerve with viewers old and new. His nightmarish visuals and dreamlike narrative style still feels […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 16 – Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972)
Don’t Torture a Duckling, 1972. Directed by Lucio Fulci. Starring Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Millian, Irene Papas, Marc Porel and Georges Wilson. SYNOPSIS: In a small Italian town, the local police are struggling to solve a recent spate of child murders that have ravaged the area, with the superstitious residents quickly falling into paranoia […]
October Horrors 2018 Day 10 – The House by the Cemetery (1981)
The House by the Cemetary, 1981. Directed by Lucio Fulci. Starring Catriona MacColl, Paolo Malco, Ania Pieroni, and Giovanni Frezza. SYNOPSIS: Dr Norman Boyle moves his family to Boston to take up the research into the mysterious Freudenstein house being conducted by a colleague who seemingly went mad and murdered his mistress before hanging himself. […]
Video Nasties – The Beyond (1981)
The Beyond, 1981. Directed by Lucio Fulci. Starring Catriona McCall, David Warbeck, Ciniza Monreale and Antoine St John. SYNOPSIS: In New Orleans in the 1920s, an artist is gruesomely killed by an angry mob who believe he is a warlock. Several decades later, a young woman named Liza acquires the hotel where the artist was killed […]
Blu-ray Review – Don’t Torture A Duckling (1972)
Don’t Torture a Duckling, 1972. Directed by Lucio Fulci. Starring Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Irene Papas, and Marc Porel. SYNOPSIS: A rural Italian village is plagued by child murders and the finger of suspicion points to several of its locals. Set in rural Southern Italy, Don’t Torture a Duckling followed in the wake […]
October Horrors Day 16 – City of the Living Dead (1980)
City of the Living Dead, 1980 Directed by Lucio Fulci Starring Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Majo and Antonella Interlenghi SYNOPSIS: In the village of Dunwich Father Thomas hangs himself in the local graveyard causing the gates of hell to open and spew evil into the world. At the same time in New York […]
