≡ 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: 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 […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Poliziotteschi/ Action/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Year: 1975
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Henry Silva has one of the least reassuring smiles in cinema, like a grinning shark, even when he’s supposed to be a happy family man, as in Manhunt In The City.
When the eight year old daughter of David Vannucchi (Henry Silva) is killed […]
≡ Category: Drama, Exploitation, Giallo, Italy, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Giallo/ Suspense/ Drama/ Exploitation
Director: Renato Polselli
Year: 1972
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Delirium AKA Delirio Caldo is staggeringly incompetent. It barely rises to the level of a bad student film.
The minute we meet Herbert (Mickey Hargitay), we know he’s a psycho perv. He’s burning a hole through the dress of a young girl in a […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Suspense/ Drama/ Exploitation
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1980
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Well, Trash Cinema readers, I took a hit for the team today. I hope you appreciate it.
Vacation Massacre AKA Vacanze Per Un Massacro is one of the stupidest, most incompetent movies I’ve ever seen. It didn’t necessarily have to be this way.
Joe Brezzi […]
≡ Category: Drama, Exploitation, Italy, Satire, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Satire/ Drama/ Exploitation
Director: Ruggero Deodato
Year: 1975
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
For modern audiences, Waves of Lust AKA Una Ondata Di Piacere won’t seem to make a whole lot of sense. Irem (Al Cliver) and Barbara (Silvia Dionisio) know perfectly well that Giorgio (John Steiner) is a scumbag industrialist who enjoys abusing his girlfriend Silvia (Elizabeth […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Italy, Poliziotteschi, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Poliziotteschi/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Fernando Di Leo
Year: 1975
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Back when Kidnap Syndicate was made, there was an epidemic of kidnappings of all kinds in Italy: kidnapping for ransom, as well as political kidnappings of all different political persuasions. Although Kidnap Syndicate is structured as a suspense thriller, the clear impetus […]
≡ Category: Art, Drama, Essential, Italy | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
I can count on my fingers the number of films that make me sob uncontrollably — that’s a good thing, by the way. A great film can engender empathy to an extraordinary degree, and Cinema Paradiso fits the bill.
Toto (played by three of the most […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Spaghetti Western
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Year: 1976
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
When the first images of Keoma appeared on the TV, I got excited. A door in the right corner of the frame creaks back and forth, driven by the wind. In the far background, through the door, we see a lone rider. […]
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Country: Italy
Genre: Drama
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana
Year: 2000
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
100 Steps drops you right in the middle of a complex network of Italian families with no explanation. We know it’s the 60s by the cars and the music. There’s a celebration outside at a farmhouse. We hear from the conversation that these men used […]
