Beyond The Black Rainbow (2010)

Beyond The Black Rainbow (2010) was made before Stranger Things, and is like one plot strand of that show slowed down by fifty times into an arty music video perfect for projecting at a music show. A drugged patient/prisoner (Eva Allan) displays psychic abilities even as she is being interviewed/taunted by a smarmy, smirking doctor […]

All The Colors Of The Dark (1972)

Further exploring the giallo thriller genre and loving the Bruno Nicolai soundtrack, I watched Lindsay Hallam’s recommendation, All The Colors Of The Dark (1972; Tutti i colori del buio). Edwige Fenech plays a woman, Jane, plagued by nightmares based on traumatic incidents in her past – her hunk husband (George Hinton) is unsure about her […]

A Lizard In A Woman’s Skin (1971)

Exploring further the world of giallo – 1970s-era Italian thrillers with plenty of eroticism, style and violence – I watched Lucio Fulci’s A Lizard In A Woman’s Skin (1971; Una lucertola con la pelle di donna), a title that is more of a metaphor than a creature feature thing. Bored glamorous Carol (Florinda Bolkan) is […]

Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key (1972)

Further exploring the giallo genre of Italian mystery thrillers, I watched Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key (1972). What a title! This is set in a countryside mansion and follows the crumbling marriage of a drunk, cheating author (Luigi Pistilli) and his harried, abused wife (Anita Strindberg). As people […]

The Endless (2017)

Missed it in the brief window it was at cinemas, The Endless (2017) is a low budget, independent sci-fi mystery focused on two brothers (played by the directors, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead). They’ve spent ten years living together working dead end jobs after escaping from a religious cult in the woods – one of […]