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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Eibon Press announces a series of comics based on Lucio Fulci movies
Fans of Lucio Fulci rejoice! It looks like the films of the ‘Godfather of Gore’ will be providing inspiration for an exclusive set of comic books, courtesy of Eibon Press – a collaboration between acclaimed Shock Festival writer Stephen Romano and Black Devil Doll creator Shawn Lewis. Per Dread Central, their aim is “to make owning and collecting […]
This Week in Blu-ray: US Edition – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Unbroken, Into the Woods and more
Senior Staff Writer Scott Davis looks at this week’s big Blu-ray releases in the US… The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies All roads have led to this point, as they say. The final film in both The Hobbit Trilogy and J.R.R. Tolkien adaptations (at least for now), director Peter Jackson bids a fond […]