≡ Category: Giallo, Italy, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Giallo/ Suspense
Director: Emilio Miraglia
Year: 1972
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Is The Red Queen Kills 7 Times scary? No. Suspenseful? Nah. Horrifying? Nope. Funny? You bet.
The Red Queen Kills 7 Times starts out like a straight Gothic horror tale. After young girls Kitty and Evelyn Wildenbrück come to blows over a doll, Grandpa Wildenbrück tells […]
≡ Category: Art, Drama, Italy, Recommended, Romance, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Suspense/ Art/ Romance
Director: Elio Petri
Year: 1967
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Dr. Antonio Roscio (Franco Tranchina) has been receiving anonymous death threats, which surprises no one because he’s an incorrigible skirt chaser in Sicily, where such things are not happily tolerated. Suspicion quickly falls on the brother and father of a fifteen year old […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Spaghetti Western, Suspense, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Year: 1970
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WORTH A LOOK
A few days ago, I complained about Death Rides A Horse, saying “…revenge is all there is to Death Rides A Horse. There are no deeper issues involved.” God Said To Cain makes Death Rides A Horse seem like a multilayered wallow in philosophy.
And […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Drama, Highly Recommended, Italy, Spaghetti Western, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action/ Suspense/ Drama/ Comedy
Director: Sergio Corbucci
Year: 1970
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
For the most part, Compañeros is a solidly directed, well written piece, with a sturdy structure and a killer ending, but what really makes it work are the wonderful characters created by writer/director Sergio Corbucci and fleshed out by the […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Essential, Italy, Spaghetti Western, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action/ Suspense/ Drama
Director: Sergio Sollima
Year: 1967
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Face To Face has gunfights in it to be sure, but it’s not an action picture. It’s really a character study, and at it’s heart, a philosophical inquiry, like Sergio Corbucci’s masterpiece, The Great Silence.
When Professor Brett Fletcher (Gian Maria Volonté) takes […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Spaghetti Western, Suspense, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action/ Suspense
Director: Giorgio Capitani
Year: 1968
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Pity aging prospector Sam Cooper (Van Heflin). He’s been looking for gold all his life and when he finally gets a decent strike, his partner tries to dry gulch him. Cooper barely makes it back to town alive, but he’s determined to return to […]
≡ Category: Drama, Italy, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Damiano Damiani
Year: 1976
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Giacomo Solaris (Franco Nero), a civic minded filmmaker, creates a film that is a thinly veiled expose of Judge Traini (Marco Guglielmi) who he considers to be crooked. To Solaris’ horror, life imitates art as the third act of his script becomes reality.
Immediately, politicians, […]
≡ Category: Drama, Italy, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Francesco Rosi
Year: 1976
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Despite it’s title, Illustrious Corpses AKA Cadaveri eccellenti is not a Poliziotteschi flick. It’s a serious movie. There are some heavy hitters in the cast: Max Von Sydow, Marcel Bozzuffi, Fernando Rey, and Charles Vanel among them.
Director Francesco Rosi lets you know his intentions right […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Poliziotteschi, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Suspense/ Poliziotteschi
Director: Romolo Guerrieri
Year: 1976
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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, Drama, Poliziotteschi, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
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 […]
