Mar
13
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 […]
Jul
12
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 […]
May
30
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 […]
May
8
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 […]
Apr
12
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 […]
Dec
5
Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Satire
Director: Giovanni Fago
Year: 1970
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
O’Cangaceiro isn’t quite a spaghetti western — for one thing, it takes place in Brazil — but it has a lot in common with the politically satiric westerns coming out of Italy in the late 60s and early 70s.
When a colonel in Brazil massacres the […]
May
10
Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Poliziotteschi/ Drama/ Suspense
Director: Mario Bava
Year: 1974
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
In it’s heart, Rabid Dogs is essentially a road movie. There isn’t a whole lot of action, and most of that is kind of blah by modern standards. Mario Bava’s direction is never more than workmanlike. Yet Rabid Dogs still manages to entertain.
After […]
Apr
16
Country: Italy
Genre: Horror/ Suspense
Director: Umberto Lenzi
Year: 1981
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s hard to know what to make of Cannibal Ferox. At first glance, it resembles one of those Roger Corman produced cheapies lensed in the Phillipines. Shoddy scriptwriting, amateurish acting, cheesy music score — you know the drill. At first, the only difference is that […]
Jan
3
Country: Italy
Genre: Action/ Suspense
Director: Carlo Carlei
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Director Carlo Carlei has a poet’s eye. Practically every image in his film could be the basis of a painting, even though the content is frequently horrific.
There is also a bit of the poet in Vito (Manuel Colao), the beautiful little boy at the […]