≡ 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 […]
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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 […]
≡ 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 […]
≡ Category: Action, Italy, Not Worth Your Time, Spaghetti Western | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Italy
Genre: Spaghetti Western/ Action
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Year: 1968
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I don’t know about you, but the title of Kill Them All And Come Back Alone conjures up the ultimate nihilistic spaghetti western. It pretty much writes itself. My fantasy of such a movie goes something like this: a group of hyper-competent cutthroats […]
≡ 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 […]