Director: Walerian Borowczyk Year: 1981 Cast: Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Patrick Magee, Howard Vernon Themes: Classic Gothic, Avant Garde, Art Horror, Erotica, Rape and Pillage, Dark Fantasy With well over one hundred (and counting) adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic… Read More ›
Year: 1975 Director: Aldo Lado Cast: Irene Miracle, Laura D’Angelo, Flavio Bucci, Gianfranco De Grassi , Macha Meril Themes: Rape/Revenge, Italian Remakes, Thriller, Young Girls in Peril, Sexual Assault and Murder When it comes to remakes, you can’t beat a… Read More ›
Year: 1973 Alternate Titles: Black Magic Rites,Riti, magie nere e segrete orge nel trecento Director: Renato Polselli Cast: Rita Calderoni, Mickey Hargitay, Raul Lovecchio Themes: Satanist Vampires, Ancient Rites, Satanic Rituals, Sacrificing Virgins, Witch Burning The Story The Reincarnation of… Read More ›
Year: 1970 Alternate Title: Le regine, Il delitto del diavolo Director: Tonino Cervi Cast: Ray Lovelock, Haydee Politoff, Silvia Monti, Ida Galli Themes: Witchcraft, Erotic, Surreal Horror, Psychedelic, Satire, Eurocult Story Another entry in our Witchy Wonder and Demonic Delight… Read More ›
Year: 1970 Director: Michael Armstrong Cast: Herbert Lom, Udo Kier, Olivera Katarina, Reggie Nalder Themes: Witchfinder General, Witch Trials, Torture, Period Horror DPP Section 3 title Mark of the Devil (1970) is the latest controversial film to see its long… Read More ›
Year: 1976 Alternate title: Inquisición Director: Paul Naschy ( as Jacinto Molina) Cast: Paul Naschy, Daniela Giordano, Mónica Randall, Ricardo Merino Themes: Witchfinder General, Witchcraft, Occult, Torture, Period Horror The Story. Kicking off our season Witchy Wonder and Demonic Delight… Read More ›
Year: 1987 Alternate Title: Stage Fright: Aquarius, Deliria, Bloody Bird Director: Michele Soavi Cast: Barbara Cupisti , Giovanni Lombardo Radice, David Brandon, Mary Sellers, Robert Gligorov Themes: Slasher, Giallo, Murder, Masked Killer, Murderous Owls To be fair late eighties genre… Read More ›
Year: 1973 Alternate Title: Il prato macchiato di rosso Director: Riccardo Ghione Cast: Enzo Tarascio, Marina Malfatti ,Claudio Biava, George Willing, Daniela Caroli, Lucio Dalla, Dominque Boschero Themes: Euro-trash, Euro-thriller, Giallo, Weirdness, Hippies, Bloodletting, Mystery Going by the title alone,… Read More ›
Year: 1961 aka: The Ladykiller of Rome Director: Elio Petri Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Salvo Randone, Cristina Gaioni Themes: Thriller, Noir, Dark, Murder, Mystery Disc Specification: Video: 1.85:1 , 1080p, Audio Uncompressed Mono 2.0 PCM Italian director, the late… Read More ›
Year: (1980) Aka: Sexy Nights of the Living Dead; Le notti erotiche dei morti viventi; Nite of the Zombies, Le Notte Erotiche; Le Notte Degli Zombies Director: Joe D’Amato (aka Aristide Massaccesi) Cast: Mark Shannon, George Eastman, Laura Gemser, Dirce… Read More ›
There are precious few landmark filmmakers still working in horror. Wes Craven, a major force behind the explosion of the slasher during the Eighties and its renaissance during the Nineties, is all but retired these days; William Friedkin is hardly… Read More ›
Fist of Jesus is one of the best short films I had seen in years, perhaps since Zombies and Cigarettes, a 2009 Spanish zombie short. And not only is this potentially the best short since then but it is also… Read More ›
Ah, ‘The Evil Dead’. Everyone loves ‘The Evil Dead’. An example of shoestring horror at its finest, it was endlessly creative, funny, and scary; despite initially, and stupidly, falling foul of the whole ‘video nasties’ thing, we can all now… Read More ›
‘All of my films, maybe you have seen any, come out from pain- that’s the source, that is where they come from, not from pleasure’- Werner Herzog (Documentary on the making of Nosferatu- 1979). Out this week, in stunning high… Read More ›
The story. Everyone loves a good story about a serial killer, right? In fact, even my Nan loves watching those ‘true crime’ type programmes. There is something about mass murder that cries out to our inherent morbid nature, and this… Read More ›
The story. Elisa is a sophisticated woman; affluent, beautiful and very much in control of her own life. She lives in a trendy Madrid apartment and as well as having a much younger lover, Tony, she visits London once a… Read More ›
Lina Romay is a name synonymous with exploitation and low-budget horror, the Spanish beauty who became prolific auteur Jess Franco’s main muse for over 30 years, his constant companion, and later wife; one look at her dark brooding beauty and… Read More ›
Demons (1985) By Gravedigger Glen Ah, Italy. It’s one of the greatest countries in the world for horror movies. And today, as I have the honor of being a guest reviewer here at Stigmatophilia, I decided to take… Read More ›
Plot. Kurt Menliff, the son of a Count, has been ostracised from his family after casting shame on the Menliff name. When he returns to the family home he learns his brother Christian has married his former lover Nevenka, but… Read More ›
Plot. As Valerie enters womanhood, with the coming of her first period, there also comes the arrival of some strange new characters in town, a thief breaks into her house at night to steal her earrings which sparks off a… Read More ›
Citadel has provided a bit of a challenge in preparing for my review mainly because it is completely not how I expected it to be from the trailer, and so I have been trying to collect my thoughts on it… Read More ›
Les Diaboliques by H G Clouzot has often been referred to as the ‘greatest film that Hitchcock never made’, which more fittingly should be ‘almost made’ had he not been pipped to the post by this French director for the… Read More ›
Todays offering another movie which got the BBFC’s knickers in a twist Jess Franco’s take on an American Slasher ‘Bloody Moon’, also known as The Bloody Moon Murders, and under its German title Die Säge des Todes, which translates to… Read More ›
Year: 1981 Director: Joe D’Amato Cast: George Eastman, Annie Belle, Edmund Purdom, Charles Borromel Themes: Video Nasty, Slasher, Crazed Killers, Italian Gore, Obscene Publications Act, Trash Cinema BY GAV ELLINGER. Absurd (1981) is prolific Italian director Joe D’Amato’s (real name… Read More ›
By Gav Ellinger. I’d always had an affection for horror since my early teens, having seen movies such as The Exorcist and The Thing at friends parties around the age of 14, both these movies stuck in my mind and… Read More ›
