tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.comments2024-02-25T19:53:41.477+00:00giallo feverK H Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032330558218087354noreply@blogger.comBlogger1819125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-37488717705696516112016-10-28T23:33:23.117+01:002016-10-28T23:33:23.117+01:00Found your blog on GROOVY AGE, and was glad to rea...Found your blog on GROOVY AGE, and was glad to read here that someone else found Carol Clover's analysis less than satisfying. I'll be looking for BLOOD MONEY.Gene Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11495562795211277146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-23626039347983674942016-10-08T14:39:03.829+01:002016-10-08T14:39:03.829+01:00I thought the duck voice was not funny at all and ...I thought the duck voice was not funny at all and was effectively creepy and unsettling. The sound of screams with a duck quaking like mad is just so unusual that it adds a whole new extreme to the visceral kills. Reminds me of the squealing scene in Deliverance, which is very memorable for the "pig squealing" and it wouldn't be the same without it. Same with this film.Nihil and Voidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-39271841453003830972016-07-09T04:24:46.589+01:002016-07-09T04:24:46.589+01:00I saw the Sonny Chiba Golgo 13. This one is new to...I saw the Sonny Chiba Golgo 13. This one is new to me.Elliot Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17964519903027517480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-63524807641912648682016-05-11T03:27:29.430+01:002016-05-11T03:27:29.430+01:00I couldn't find a list. I wonder if the hard t...I couldn't find a list. I wonder if the hard to find Sexy Cat will be shown. Someone has posted a copy on Youtube.Elliot Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17964519903027517480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-17135947355471651422016-01-01T00:53:20.555+00:002016-01-01T00:53:20.555+00:00This film long deserved a proper DVD release in No...This film long deserved a proper DVD release in North America.Elliot Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17964519903027517480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-90861363558194476152015-12-22T02:46:01.395+00:002015-12-22T02:46:01.395+00:00I am a teacher of English in Romania.I watched ...I am a teacher of English in Romania.I watched your interview entitled "Chuck Norris versus Communism"and I was very happy that someone discussed this aspect of Communist Romania.Unfortunately there are some other very important circumstances of that time that were not told in this fil..I myself used to do dubbing at that time and I could tell you some other hidden truths that I'm still afraid not to be picked up by the SECRET POLICE .<br /> You can write me :iliemuntean425@yahoo.com<br />Yours sincerely Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-832228524222680242015-06-12T19:21:28.312+01:002015-06-12T19:21:28.312+01:00...in regards to Italy / giallo: yes, since nearby......in regards to Italy / giallo: yes, since nearby, they were in a sense our main providers...kinda of our "entry" to the more advanced modern western civilization / aesthetics during 80s. UK (due to students & merchants as well going there etc) would probably be the 2nd one...<br />And a vast majority of giallos / spaghetti westerns etc probably were released in vhs here in a "as is" basis...ie. without any royalties having being paid. Someone got a copy, made anything from say 50 up to 200 (semi-professionally) duped copies, distributed them around the country, and the vast majority of them ended in the trash can as soon as the videostores shut down in mid90s...you would literally find piles and piles of old vhs in the garbage until say late 90s (if only they knew better with ebay's explosion afterwards, heh!)<br />For the by far vast majority of the audience here, 'giallo' itself was an unknown term: there only existed "police stories" (aka poliziotteschi), and just thriller / horror films...<br /><br />Hope that was helpful and shed some light...keep up the good work :-)random-greek-guynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-68743507610865308522015-06-12T19:08:24.816+01:002015-06-12T19:08:24.816+01:00...it was easy, it was cheap - they went and did i......it was easy, it was cheap - they went and did it...<br />As Jarred correctly said / guessed, there was a huge boom of videostores in mid80s in greece, lasting until early 90s roughly...pretty much the cheapest method for the masses to have fun in their spare time.<br /><br />Private television stations only became a reality in...1989, until then, there existed only 3 state-controlled tv channels (which were rather conservative in their content for the most past of it at least...)<br />5-6 satellite channels )eg.TV5 france, RaiDue italy) had started slightly earlier, during summer '88..MTV Europe first started being broadcasted here in December '88 if i recall correctly.<br /><br />All in all, in terms of access in 'cultural' material from abroad, be it films or music, greece was quite a bit behind compared to other western EU countries...things started evolving rapidly by early 90s. In a sense, you could say we were somewhat stucked in the middle of the 2 cold war blocks...no hard / official censorship (like east), yet certainly not 'real' access though (as the west had or at least could had).<br /><br />I do remember myself quite a few of Turkey films on vhs in early 90s in the videostores, in their own separate section always, yet no one ever went close and/or rented them...<br />As it was correctly described above, this had to do with the relationships between the 2 countries not being exactly the friendliest ones...and also, because such films (usually cheapo 3rd grade melodramas) were considered to be totally anachronistic aesthetically (and well, they were, heh...).<br />Especially when people here (since semi-stuck among the 2 blocks as described above), were literally thirsty for the more 'glamorous' aesthetics of more advanced western countries. Ie. turkish films were considered kinda of a view in a country in a much more worse shape than us...and obviously no one wanted to know / be reminded of such in a somewhat developing country (as we felt that greece kinda was at the moment...)random-greek-guynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-14194029481305253852015-05-14T14:20:40.282+01:002015-05-14T14:20:40.282+01:00Anonymous had a good catch. I was wracking my memo...Anonymous had a good catch. I was wracking my memory to ID that shot in a Brit movieElliot Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17964519903027517480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-1018602232796118192015-03-14T15:20:17.321+00:002015-03-14T15:20:17.321+00:00Alfio Nicolosi never work in any other movie but T...Alfio Nicolosi never work in any other movie but Tropico del Cancro. He used to live in Fortaleza and in Sicily and he passed away in december 2014.Olaig100https://www.blogger.com/profile/02150462822900894642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-42865954704322678392015-01-06T11:11:39.842+00:002015-01-06T11:11:39.842+00:00Thanks for sharing!Thanks for sharing!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17292875450208421060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-16906031998358028782014-11-27T06:27:47.548+00:002014-11-27T06:27:47.548+00:00I enjoyed the very different vibes each studio imp...I enjoyed the very different vibes each studio implanted in their film. Amicus had Bloch. Hammer had Sangster and Hinds. Here are two companies with contrasting DNA structures. Amicus' anthology films were a lot of fun to watch, and never dragged due to the brevity of the short stories and their excellent casting choices, often more fun than Hammer which hit the wall in the 70s, making a series of bad content choices (To The Devil A Daughter, Shatter, Satanic Rites of Dracula). <br /><br />As is often the case, the "lower-rent" studios produced more interesting, bolder product than the leading name. That's why a giallo such as Case of the Bloody Iris is more enjoyable than a lot of Argento's increasingly formulaic films, why the minor studio productions Horrors of the Black Museum and Circus of Horrors imparted a greater, more colorful frisson than Hammer's Stop Me Before I Kill and Scream of Fear. I would rather sit through another screening of The House That Dripped Blood or Dr. Terror's House of Horrors than The Gorgon or The Phantom Of The Opera, As good as Herbert Lom was. (Now here are two superb actors, Herbert Lom and Anton Diffring, who didn't get steady roles from Hammer.)Elliot Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17964519903027517480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-25354565117600271582014-11-02T02:19:03.119+00:002014-11-02T02:19:03.119+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.krimi.giallo.casebookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04562124399770512621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-13986030939794495692014-09-24T17:30:32.340+01:002014-09-24T17:30:32.340+01:00I have a copy of this on dvd. It seems to be a co...I have a copy of this on dvd. It seems to be a composite of the really nice clean Italian language print, with the missing scenes in German. I recently updated and synched up the English subs. You can get it from mariobavafan@yahoo.comPaulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06188667473211786250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-14043134659640823342014-08-21T12:14:32.465+01:002014-08-21T12:14:32.465+01:00Personally I'd suggest Pieter Bruegel (the Eld...Personally I'd suggest Pieter Bruegel (the Elder) as being a reference point. The perspective and style of the 'Plumage' painting certainly evokes Bruegel's 'The Hunters in the Snow', 'Census at Bethlehem' and others. <br /><br />Indeed, works like 'The Triumph of Death' and 'Mad Meg' certainly have a decidedly macabre element that one would think might appeal to Argento...<br /><br />His johnny6666https://www.blogger.com/profile/16749738500273163297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-77353587484565887012014-08-02T05:14:43.464+01:002014-08-02T05:14:43.464+01:00this is a very nice review about the film. Saw it ...this is a very nice review about the film. Saw it about a year ago, can't say I was overwhelmed... But I do try to discover the music that plays during the scene of the carribean girl wearing the KKK hood and getting wax dripped on her body. Do you have any info on this? Cheers!bwanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13257161090658214980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-66196181978156413102014-06-18T15:41:26.435+01:002014-06-18T15:41:26.435+01:00I find it curious that a book about British cinema...I find it curious that a book about British cinema uses a still from the German 'Schulmädchen-Report 6' for its cover...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-59320700183639516992014-05-27T01:47:56.615+01:002014-05-27T01:47:56.615+01:00I teach and write on the history of video so thank...I teach and write on the history of video so thanks very much for that, most helpful. Tyson Wilshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10303077773046587260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-41493326000746174572014-04-07T21:23:46.957+01:002014-04-07T21:23:46.957+01:00I too have been fascinated by Lydia since chancing...I too have been fascinated by Lydia since chancing across a few of her records in a charity shop a few years back. I have a Decca 4 track EP and a Ted Heath Album both called "Will Ye No Come Back Again".<br />I can find just about nothing regarding Lydia's work and life on the net. Her voice is astonishing and yet she is almost unknown here in Scotland. <br />Have you heard "East Of The Sun"? This singer is surely standing in the same shoes as Ella? I will join you in the quest to erect a plaque to Lydia.Disorientated Midgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04489107948102792746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-69045527078757748292014-02-20T20:14:48.611+00:002014-02-20T20:14:48.611+00:00GREAT SCORE BY DONAGGIO!GREAT SCORE BY DONAGGIO!eda-88https://www.blogger.com/profile/12998058848192538159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-7176786811190264112013-12-28T20:09:42.447+00:002013-12-28T20:09:42.447+00:00just discovered your blogs. what an amazing amount...just discovered your blogs. what an amazing amount of interesting and substantial thougts about such an obscure and yet fascinating topic. hope you will keep on posting in 2014.<br />greetings from germanyheinzowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13355436519490103012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-10224610078157896102013-12-28T20:07:54.453+00:002013-12-28T20:07:54.453+00:00just discovered your blogs. what an amazing amount...just discovered your blogs. what an amazing amount of interesting and substantial thougts about such an obscure and yet fascinating topic. hope you will keep on posting in 2014. greetings from germanyheinzowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13355436519490103012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-91724536039257310472013-11-09T23:41:15.423+00:002013-11-09T23:41:15.423+00:00As far as Alfio Nicolosi is concerned, I think the...As far as Alfio Nicolosi is concerned, I think there is a misunderstanding. It is absolutely correct that he is a reputable carpet trader and that he lives in Fortaleza with his child Vespasiano. It is also correct that he played a part in the movie. But he is NOT Peacock!! I know Alfio personally and I clearly recognize him in Murtok, the assistant of the business man: he is the young guy with mustache who kicks repeatedly Dr Williams.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-23650492266760286912013-08-18T07:00:58.883+01:002013-08-18T07:00:58.883+01:00The closest realistic depiction of the west may be...The closest realistic depiction of the west may be Deadwood. <br /><br />Some writers have praised Albert Salmi's performance in the Twilight Zone episode Execution.Elliot Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17964519903027517480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1802467913862929609.post-2305154597892531292013-07-07T14:07:24.377+01:002013-07-07T14:07:24.377+01:00"KUNT FILMS".
I'm still laughing an..."KUNT FILMS".<br /><br />I'm still laughing and it hurts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com