Author: VHS Tracking
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Day Of Anger (1967)
Riz Ortolani’s jazzy, bombastic, memorable score to Day Of Anger (1967; I giorni dell’ira) was used in a key sequence of Tarantino’s Django Unchained and is known from the soundtrack. Sitting down to watch this Lee Van Cleef spaghetti western, there’s also a similar plot to Django with an older, experienced gun fighter Talby (Van… Read.
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The Devil Rides Out (1968)
Exploring the world of Hammer Horror, which I only know through the doco compilation series that was on SBS growing up, I haven’t seen many of the British studio’s horror films. The Devil Rides Out (1968) was a good place to start (and shout out to Joe Kapiteyn’s band whose name I presume is taken… Read.
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Lifeforce (1985)
I owned the BluRay for a year before finally having a player to watch it on. After hearing about it for so long, I finally watched Lifeforce (1985), director Tobe Hooper’s infamous flop for Cannon Pictures about nude space vampires plunging London into zombie apocalypse, a sci-fi throwback to Hammer Horror movies. This has quite… Read.
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The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (1970)
The Bird With The Crystal Plumage (1970; L’uccello dalle piume di cristallo) is Dario Argento’s first film as a director and one of the first examples of the giallo genre (if the info on the back of the Blu-Ray box is correct). This was an entertaining mystery thriller with Hitchcock and Blow Up as clear… Read.
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Battletruck (1982)
While the original poster looks like an epic sci-fi novel painting, the actual movie Battletruck (1982) is a bit more low budget and muted in colours and dimension. It’s another Mad Max knock-off from the Eighties but shot in New Zealand, using that scenery well before LOTR ever did and also featuring a lot of… Read.
