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3 Sisters 2015
Recent attempts of making gialli seem to go one out of two ways; they’re either great-looking, super stylized affairs that make little or no narrative sense or they end up feeling like poor pastiches of the great films of the 70’s. The latter ones usually tick the boxes of the Blood and Black Lace lookalike killer, J&B, scantily clad women and poor acting.
In The Three Sisters director Dáire McNab tries to bring the giallo formula to modern day Ireland…
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The Conjuring 2013
What a nice surprise - a modern horror movie which seems to be a little bit old-fashioned (in a positive way), not only because the story takes place in the 1970ies.
It works quite well with it's similarities to "The Sixth Sense" or "Poltergeist" and other classic genre movies.
Nontheless I have to admit: a little bit less would have been more.
I've you have seen it, you will probably understand what I mean...
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The Night Child 1975
One of the best films by Dallamano. Beautifully shot and with a spooky atmosphere. Nicoletta Elmi still is the scariest little girl I ever watched on screen . I'm also happy because I had the opportunity to visit Spoleto last summer.It's an amazing and beautiful Italian town in Umbria .
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Night of the Devils 1972
Ferroni's Masterpiece!
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Black Sunday 1960
There is no reason any horror fan should pass on “Black Sunday.” The film is a masterpiece that deserves all of the attention it receives. Having Kino Lorber snap up the rights is a dream come true. They have delivered fantastic audio and video that cleans up the 1960 classic while remaining faithful to the roots of the film. The commentary track is not filled with ‘mile a minute’ dialogue, but Tim Lucas does give some quality insight to a…
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Torso 1973
A few days ago, I visited Perugia. So I had to watch this film, which plays in this beautiful Italian town :) Sergio Martino was one of the best italian directors of his time and Torso definitly must have inspired other directors. (Even John Carpenter for Halloween?!)
The way Martino worked with colours and the suspense shows his talent. Although the story is - like the most stories in the giallo-genre- a little bit thin, it's thrilling and the beautiful set compensates a lot. -
Mark of the Devil 1970
Always nice to see Udo Kier when he was young and beautiful.
The SFX are very realistic (more than the CGI nowadays). Perhaps too realistic, because the movie is confiscated in Germany since a few years.
I always wonder if the composer was drugged when he wrote the main score, because it's very unusual for a fairly hard exploitation movie.
Later the music became more famous through "Cannibal Holocaust" by Ruggero Deodato. This thievish Italians :)