Four of the Italian western’s hardest, cruelest, bloodiest classics are released to Blu-ray this week in Arrow’s ongoing limited edition series of Spaghetti Western boxsets. Under the umbrella title Savage Guns, this third volume brings four unsung classics of the genre aficionados of heavily dubbed, violent and sun-baked horse operas: Paolo […]
Lucio Fulci
The House by the Cemetery (1981) The Odd Duck of the Gates of Hell Trilogy (Review)
Demonia (1990) One for the true Lucio Fulci completionist (Review)
Vengeance Trails (1966-70) Four Classic Westerns (Review)
The Psychic (1977) Style, legacy, and Lucio Fulci’s Halloween 3 (Review)
Curling: grips in ways a standard Hollywood thriller can’t manage (Review)
So do Second Run have some kind of insider knowledge, or…? Their first all-new release of 2020 (after a welcome Blu-Ray upgrade for Valerie and Her Week of Wonders) is Denis Côté’s Curling, a spare, paranoid film about self-isolation, home-schooling and precarious minimum-wage jobs. A rare chance for British audiences […]
City of the Living Dead (1980) Gratuitously cruel and inappropriately violent fun (Review)
Phenomena (1985) Dario Argento side steps the Giallo to bring the wildest and most fun horror of his career (Review)
Cinema Eclectica 129 – Underworld Duck and a Lizard Sandwich
Inspired by the late Harry Dean Stanton, whether it’s fearlessly wading into the debates over controversial new releases or creating singularly unappetising food metaphors, we don’t give a duck. In Off the Shelf, Rob and Graham review a double-bill of Italian horror from Arrow with Mario Bava’s “Kill Baby, Kill” […]