Blu-ray Review: THE IRON PREFECT

 by Anthony King

Director Pasquale Squitieri's biopic of Italian prefect Cesare Mori, The Iron Prefect (1977), is a plodding albeit semi-interesting (in the academic sense) crime movie about the takedown of the Sicilian Mafia in 1925.

Apocalypse, Italian Style!

by Patrick Bromley

A pair of Italian rip-offs throw so much early '80s sci-fi action into a blender and the results are glorious.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Italian Horror

by Patrick Bromley

Mi sbagliavo horror italiano e mi dispiace e bello!

Junesploitation Day 21: Italian Horror!

Pray it will never happen!

The Overlook: Four of the Apocalypse

by JB

According to the bonus materials on the Blue Underground release of Lucio Fulci's Four of the Apocalypse, this was one of the last "Spaghetti Westerns" ever made. I call it a "Spaghetti Squash Western" because it pretty much looks like the thing you like, but in actuality it's more like gross, hot garbage.

It Came from the '80s: Exterminators of the Year 3000

by Patrick Bromley

Anything we can do, Italians can do better.

Junesploitation Day 27: Italian Horror!

When the lights go out, the knife goes in!

Junesploitation Day 3: Italian Horror!

Quando i morti usciranno dalla tomba, i vivi saranno il loro sangue!

Sh!#ting on the Classics: L'Avventura

Today we look at one of the most critically lauded films in motion picture history, Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura (1960). I cannot believe that all the people who claim to love it really do. They say they can see the emperor’s cool new threads.  I say he is naked.