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DVD Releases: Dec. 1, 2009: Wield a Knife of Ice by the Deadline Set by the Little Red Devil

30 November 2009 6:16 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

A new month; a new batch of DVDs and Blu-rays to consider. We've used the phrase "mixed bag" a few times before this year, but never has it been more apropos than with regard to those discs that are being released on December 1st, 2009!

A new Evil Dead is on its way -- not that anyone can figure out why. Gremlins is hitting Blu-ray as is the new Terminator flick. And the Brittany Murphy-starrer Deadline, which is better than it has any business being, drops along with a few other indies like Deader Country, Poker Run, and Sins of the Father.

Little Red Devil with Daniel Baldwin and Dee Wallace definitely sounds intriguing, but for my money, the hand's down pick of the week is 1972's Knife of Ice, a rare Italian giallo from Umberto Lenzi starring the gorgeous and glamorous Carroll Baker.

Happy shopping!

- Debi Moore

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- The Woman In Black

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Featured Article: Classic Italian Film

9 November 2009 4:45 PM, PST | Screenrush | See recent Screenrush news »

With its silent superspectacles, postwar neo-realism and 1960s new wave, the Italian film industry has enjoyed three major periods of international influence. In between times, it has assimilated the technological advances and dramatic styles of foreign competitors and used them to shape such local trends as the `white telephone' film, calligraphism, giallo, the `sword and sandal' epic, the `spaghetti' Western and the dialect comedy.

Over the years, the unexpected has become commonplace. Therefore, it's no surprise to see Gianni di Gregorio, the screenwriter of the uncompromising crime saga Gomorrah, making his directorial debut with Mid-August Lunch, a charming comedy of bourgeois manners, whose unforced naturalism, social insight and deceptive wit hark back to a golden age that is recalled here by MovieMail - the best place to buy classic movies and world cinema on DVD.

After two decades of propaganda and pictorialism, Italian film went back to basics after the Second World War. »

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MattFini's Halloween Top 10 Lists: Top 10 Gialli

30 October 2009 5:36 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

Yesterday’s list of overlooked slasher flicks got me thinking about their European cousin, the giallo. Sure, most gialli were cranked out before the slasher craze was under way, but it’s hard to ignore the similarities: knife-wielding, black-gloved lunatics, tragic prologues often used establish our killer’s motivations and, of course, excessive female exploitation. In short: total bliss!

I’ve limited this list to one film per director so to prevent my own personal bias from creeping into it. But, really, there’s so many of these damn things I didn’t think it’d be fair to turn this into a showcase for just two or three directors. Next to the slasher, the giallo is my favorite subgenre. Outlandish plot twists, a staggering amount of degenerate red herrings, sinister animals and lots and lots of J & B Scotch, if you’ve got just a few of these elements »

- Masked Slasher

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Review of Serbia's Zone Of The Dead

29 August 2009 12:37 AM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

Year: 2009

Directors: Milan Konjevic & Milan Todorovic

Writers: Vukota Brajovic & Milan Konjevic & Milan Todorovic

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: Dejan Ognjanovic

Rating: 3 out of 10

[Cross-posted on cultofghoul]

Zone Of The Dead is a disappointing film about zombies. Yes, another one of those cheap knock-offs too preoccupied with their obvious homages to actually deliver something original.

This is one of those flicks in which characters have names after genre greats; here we have agents Savini and Bottin, while the female lead is called Mina Millius. Pity that neither the make-up effects nor direction in this film are anywhere near the works of the invoked masters.

This is one of those flicks in which they just put make-up on a bunch of friends and family members who are too happy to clown around, each playing their own version of a zombie, but with no real coordination or training that real stuntmen and extras would have. »

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Drive-In Super Monster-Rama and “Brew & View” fright shows

31 July 2009 3:39 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

If you’re in Pennsylvania or nearby and want to relive the vintage experience of watching fright flicks in your car under the night sky, head over to Vandergrift, Pa Friday-Saturday, September 11-12 for the Drive-In Super Monster-Rama. This event, sponsored by DVD Drive-In and taking place at the Riverside Drive In Theatre (Route 66 N), opens its doors at 7 p.m. each night and starts the big-screen at dusk.

British terror is the theme for both quadruple features; Friday night offers Witchfinder General (a.k.a. The Conqueror Worm), Scream And Scream Again, The Crimson Cult and Terror Creatures From The Grave. Saturday is an all-Hammer Horror presentation including The Vampire Lovers, The 7 Brothers Meet Dracula, The Satanic Rites Of Dracula and Vampire Circus. All the flicks will be presented in 35mm prints, accompanied by trailers, cartoons and short subjects, with all sorts of food and drink available at the concession stand. »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)

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Brain Hammer’s Picks From The Crypt Vol. 44: The John Morghen Massacre!

22 July 2009 4:55 AM, PDT | HorrorYearbook | See recent HorrorYearbook news »

Gory greetings horroryearbook alumni! Your old pal Brain Hammer is proud to present a tribute to the one and only Giovanni Lombardo Radice (aka John Morghen).Regardless of what name appears on the title credits, Giovanni should be a familiar face to all fans of classic Italian horror. He has worked with such legendary Italian horror directors as Lucio Fulci, Ruggerio Deodato, Antonio Margheriti, Umberto Lenzi, and Michelle Soavi. Giovanni is a true horror icon, and his death scenes are some of the most spectacular in splatter flick history. This edition of Picks From The Crypt features a fearsome foursome of classic Italian horror epics starring Giovanni Lombardo Radice. Let The Bloodshed Begin!!! »

- Brain Hammer

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Weekly Body Count by Bryan White

27 May 2009 1:31 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Spirits Captured On Film [1] I have this story that I like to tell after I’ve been drinking about the night that I was alone in our house and thought someone had broken in. I was scared shitless. There was very clearly someone wandering around the first floor of my house, turning lights on and making a big racket on [...] Tags: [Bryan White [2], Film [3], Ghostwatch [4], Horror [5], The Amityville Horror [6], The Entity [7], The Sentinel [8], weekly body count [9]] Trap Them and Eat Them [10] [11]One of the many disadvantages of living in a place like New Hamsphire is that you have to live on the edge vicariously through the lives of people who live closer to the action through correspondence so it was a while before I got into the depths of crazy horror movies. Though I’d been watching [...] Tags: [Black Emanuelle [12], Bodycount [13], Bryan White [2], Cannibal Holocaust [15], Cannibals [16], Eaten Alive [17], Female Vampire Killer [18], Horror [5], Jess Franco »

- Ricky

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Weekly Body Count: Trap Them and Eat Them

20 May 2009 9:02 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

One of the many disadvantages of living in a place like New Hamsphire is that you have to live on the edge vicariously through the lives of people who live closer to the action through correspondence so it was a while before I got into the depths of crazy horror movies. Though I'd been watching horror for years, we never had the convenience of one of those video stores that bought one of everything from their distributors and the horror sections around these parts were woefully understocked. If you wanted to watch A Nightmare on Elm Street 6, you could find it just about anywhere but if you wanted to go out on a limb and see something wildly exotic, you were screwed. Getting your hands on stuff bearing names like Lenzi, D'Amato and Deodato you had to drive into Boston and pay premium prices on factory pre-records and overpriced bootlegs. »

- Bryan White

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In Search Of Sean Flynn's "Temple Of The White Elephant"

29 January 2009 6:04 PM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

Dear Staff of Cinema Retro: 

Your magazine is the best of its type and along with FilmFax is one of my favorite reads! Your most recent issue was especially interesting. What caught my eye was the ad for "The Crimson Blade". I have been doing research re: the forgotten films of Sean Flynn, son of Errol Flynn. (I did notice when "the Italian offerings" were mentioned, there was no mention of 1962's "Il Figlio del Capitano Blood"!) The interesting coincidence is that when "The Son of Captain Blood" premiered in the U.K. in 1963, released by Warner-Pathe, in some regions it was shown on a double bill with Hammer's "The Scarlet Blade", which as I am sure your staff knows is the original title of the film released in the U.S.A. as "The Crimson Blade"!  Also according to articles I have been reading re: the release of Sean Flynn »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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