Casey Chong with ten essential Italian horror films of the 1980s… If the 1970s marked the golden era of Italian horror, offering us genre-defining classics from The Bird with the Crystal Plumage to Deep Red, and of course, Suspiria, then the 80s era was best described as the culmination of the country’s distinctive flair for […]
The Top 10 Horror Movies of 1985
Casey Chong takes a trip back 40 years to look at the best horror movies of 1985… 1985 may have been a banner year for hit movies that reached the pop-culture milestones, notably Back to the Future, The Goonies and Rambo: First Blood Part II. But let’s not forget the horror genre, which equally enjoyed […]
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 trailer for Arrow’s Molto Argento: The Dario Argento Collection
Streaming service Arrow is celebrating the works of legendary filmmaker Dario Argento with a collection of the Italian horror maestro’s finest works as part of the Molto Argento: The Dario Argento Collection, and we have an exclusive trailer for the season which includes classics like The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, The Cat o’ Nine […]
Daria Nicolodi: Remembering a Horror Icon
Tom Jolliffe looks back at the iconic career of the late Daria Nicolodi… 2020 hasn’t been very forgiving, and it was sad to hear the news of Daria Nicolodi’s passing. To a corner of horror fandom, particularly those versed in golden era Giallo horror from Dario Argento (to whom she was a long term partner, […]
Blu-ray Review – Phenomena: Limited Edition (1985)
Phenomena, 1985. Directed by Dario Argento. Starring Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Patrick Bauchau, Fiore Argento, Federica Mastroianni, and Michele Soavi. SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl with telepathic abilities moves to a Swiss boarding school and uses her gift to communicate with insects in order to solve a spate of murders. If something is worth […]
