Tag: Exploitation Cinema
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Devil Story (1986)
What drew me to Devil Story (1986) was the poster art: a bald Gollum-like mutant wearing a SS uniform and toting a shotgun. As a low budget French horror flick, its first scenes grab you with a lone camping tent in an open forest field rustling with something happening inside. Then out pops the monster… Read.
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Nothing Underneath (1985)
Nothing Underneath (1985) is a 1980s-era late-period giallo thriller that fully knocks off the Brian De Palma style. Even composer Pino Donaggio reuses a variation of the ‘Telescope’ theme from Body Double a few times. An American model, Jessica Crane (Nicola Perring), in Milan is in danger (also she has the same blonde punkish cut… Read.
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Raiders Of Atlantis (1983)
Italian exploitation cinema is supreme in knocking off successful genre films or particular scenes, and assembling the elements into a something… well, it’s not new… more like a mutant, the type of hybrid beast you might find one of these flicks. Raiders Of Atlantis (1983) – aka Atlantis Interceptors aka Atlantis Inferno on SBS –… Read.
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Fascination (1979)
There’s something prototypical about a Jean Rollin film, in that it can be classified as what people would think of when it comes to ‘Euro-horror’ (nude women, vampires, castles). And yet, there’s something distinct, which probably helps when you’ve seen a few other 1970s exploitation movies. That there’s something slow and atmospheric, which feels very… Read.
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Endgame (1983)
Directed by Joe D’mato, Endgame (1983) is another Italian rip-off post-apocalypse movie and much like Lucio Fulci’s Warriors of the Year 2072, it’s about televised death sports, preempting The Running Man movie, though more than likely copying Rollerball. While not as stylish or gory as Fulci’s film, I enjoyed Endgame more. It spends 30 minutes in the world of ‘Endgame’, where three hunters… Read.
