There are certain conventions in the Bigfoot mini-genre, and Creature from Black Lake is quick to fulfill them all.
An Operation Designed to Discover Some Unknown Truth
Atomic Terror and Cold War Trauma in Rocketship X-M and The Quatermass Xperiment
Barbarians at the Gate: The Complete Incomplete Epic
Research rabbit holes, Steve Reeves movies, and a brief history of the Gothic War
Ghost Story of Wanderer at Honjo
A murderous samurai finds himself on the wrong end of a host of mythological creatures and ghosts in this yokai tale from Shintoho Studio
Mumbai Spy
Farz, Aankhen, and the Influence of James Bond on Indian Cinema
Web of Death
Chor Yuen delivers another phantasmagorical, confusing, delirious martial arts fantasy-mystery full of secret clans with secret kungfu.
Strip Nude for Your Killer
1975 | ItalyAKA: Nude per l'assassinoDirector: Andrea Bianchi By Keith Allison Strip Nude for Your Killer (Nude per l’assassino) may be scummy, but it wastes no time letting you know exactly where you stand. The first shot is a full-frontal nude shot of a woman in a doctor’s office, legs spread in medical stirrups, with … Continue reading Strip Nude for Your Killer
The Case of the Bloody Iris
When it comes to truly loathsome giallo characters , few can match Giuliano Carnimeo’s The Case of the Bloody Iris, a film in which pretty much everyone is hateful or stupid; or more often, hateful and stupid.
Who Saw Her Die?
Who Saw Her Die? is the rare giallo that attempts an emotional connection, and it succeeds thanks primarily to a committed performance from former James Bond, George Lazenby.
The Bloodstained Butterfly
The Bloodstained Butterfly, while certainly part of the giallo genre, also integrates aspects of the emerging poliziotteschi crime films.