Before Italian director/writer Lucio Fulci made a name for himself in low-budget (but compelling) early-80s zombie sleaze, he reinvented the giallo genre with his influential and surprisingly well-made LIZARD IN A WOMAN’S SKIN.
This week at the House of Shame we watched TROLL 2 (1990), that legendary train wreck of a movie from Italian exploitation potentate Joe D’Amato. In true Italian spirit, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the original TROLL. But the defiance doesn’t end there …
When rapper Snoop Dogg sang about seeing demons in his 1993 song “Murder Was the Case” he might have been paying homage to the 1986 Italian classic, DEMONI.
Occasionally I watch a film so bad that I feel like it’s my duty to warn others about it. BAD INCLINATION (2003) is one such film.
The 1988 Italian made-for-TV flick DEMONS 3: THE OGRE, offers surprisingly jittery, edge-of-your-seat suspense for about 80 minutes — then it falls apart faster than the plot of the latest SAW movie.
Ennio Morricone’s audacious score to the Italian western NAVAJO JOE (1966) is one of the composer’s kitschiest, most inspired accomplishments, and it finally comes to CD from the prolific vintage soundtrack label, Film Score Monthly.
BLACK DEMONS was released in 1991, but looks like a movie made in 1981, with a plot from about 1971, containing racist overtones from 1961.
The first two acts of MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD are occassionally violent, but more or less, benign. However it’s the grisly and often explicit third act that will leave you slack-jawed and wondering “What the hell am I watching.”