Newly restored from its original negative and presented in its original uncut form, Mario Bava’s classic 1964 giallo Blood and Black Lace has recently been released by the good people at Arrow Films. Starring Cameron Mitchell and Eva Bartok, this stylish slasher concerns a series of murders centring around Rome’s […]
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Shock (1977) Italian Horror without the gorgeous flamboyance (Review)
Final films of legendary directors is a fascinating topic. For every Kenji Mizoguchi who bowed out with a genuine masterwork like 1956’s Street of Shame, there are stories of directors who couldn’t finish their final works or an untimely passing that required someone else to pick up the baton. Looking […]
The Case Of The Scorpion’s Tail (1971) Sergio Martino’s Giallo Detours (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” […]
Erik the Conqueror (1961) One of Cinema’s best visual artists turns to the Viking movie (Review)
In “Gli Imatori”, a visual essay featured in an uncharacteristically spartan selection of arrow video features, Michael Mackenzie comments on Italian cinema’s propensity to copy (Escape from New York becomes 2019: After the Fall of New York, for example) as this latest Mario Bava title released under the now transatlantic […]
Cinema Eclectica 59 – Hard-Boiled Teletubbies
Cinema Eclectica 42 – A Slightly Messed-Up Italian H-H-H-Halloween
This week the news devolves into Rob making noises. Off the Shelf is a Halloween-themed affair as we go all-Italian with Dario Argento’s “Phenomena”, Mario Bava’s “Black Sunday” and a notorious double-bill of “Zombie Flesh Eaters” and “Cannibal Holocaust”. Our Film of the Week is the latest offering from the […]