≡ Category: Drama, Italy, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1969
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I Ragazzi Del Massacro AKA Naked Violence certainly starts out with a bang, no pun intended. Before the credits are even over, a classroom full of teenagers have raped and killed their teacher.
At first, I thought writer/director Fernando Di Leo was making a hamhanded comment […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Poliziotteschi, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Poliziotteschi
Director: Romolo Guerrieri
Year: 1976
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Young, Violent, Dangerous puts me in a bit of a quandary. It’s tightly and logically written by Fernando Di Leo, well acted, and professionally directed by Romolo Guerrieri. And yet, I have a hard time buying the central concept.
Lea (Eleonora Giorgi) shows up at […]
≡ Category: Action, Highly Recommended, Italy, Macaroni Combat | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Macaroni Combat
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Year: 1978
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
The Inglorious Bastards may start out slow, but once the characters are introduced, it’s nonstop action from there on in.
The bastards of the title are a bunch of soldiers who have been sentenced to the brig or the firing squad for various offenses. […]
≡ Category: Essential, Italy, Spaghetti Western | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western
Director: Sergio Sollima
Year: 1966
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
The Big Gundown has the reputation of being one of the very best spaghetti Westerns. It turns out that reputation is well earned.
The story seems simple enough at first. Cuchillo (Tomas Milian) is wanted for raping and murdering an 11 year old girl. Bounty hunter […]
≡ Category: Action, Exploitation, Horror, Italy, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Horror/ Action/ Exploitation
Director: Ruggero Deodato
Year: 1981
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I really wanted to like Cut and Run. It has the Trash Cinema spirit, that’s for sure. Director Ruggero Deodato seldom misses an opportunity to slather on gratuitous layers of sleaze, full frontal nudity and graphic violence for the raincoat brigade.
We get to see such […]
≡ Category: Art, Comedy, Drama, Essential, Italy, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Art/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Michael Radford
Year: 1994
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Fleeing his native Chile to avoid arrest, poet Pablo Neruda (Philippe Noiret) winds up on a remote Italian island. In the area in which he is staying, Neruda is the only person who isn’t illiterate. The local post office hires Mario Ruoppolo (Massimo […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Michele Placido
Year: 2010
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Angel of Evil is a real curiosity.
The acting is fine (although it must be said that lead actor Kim Rossi Stuart doesn’t have a whole lot of charisma) and director Michele Placido directs with style, but cleanly, foregoing the ever-so-fashionable stylistic vomit of latter […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Terence Young
Year: 1972
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
It’s not really fair to compare The Valachi Papers with The Godfather. Very few pictures are as good, let alone gangster flicks. Yet you can’t help yourself.
The Godfather was fiction, but it played like the gospel truth. The Valachi Papers is based on the life […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Poliziotteschi, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action
Director: Ruggero Deodato
Year: 1976
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The first thing you notice with Live Like A Cop, Die Like A Man is that the leads, Marc Porel and Ray Lovelock, are impossibly beautiful men, like Greek gods. Not that they are effeminate in any way. Unlike American leading men, Porel and Lovelock […]
≡ Category: Exploitation, Giallo, Poliziotteschi, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Giallo/ Exploitation
Director: Paolo Cavara
Year: 1976
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Someone is killing off the members of the Flora and Fauna Club, a group of rich people who play decadent erotic games and keep wild animals in cages on the estate of the club’s host (beautifully played by John Steiner). The killer leaves an illustration […]
