giallo fever

Well, I had my viva yesterday and passed it. While I have the inevitable corrections and amendments to make to the PhD thesis, I should have...

1. Angel Eyes Sentenza -- Lee Van Cleef -- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly "That your family? Nice Family" [Sneers] 2. Frank -- Hen...

The title makes sense, to those who know... http://7doorshotel.blogspot.com/

The British comic Hotspur featured a story 'Red Circle School'. There is an Edgar Wallace krimi Der Rote Kries - i.e. The Red Circ...

Under the Two Magnificent Rogues title, but note that the faces shown are not those of the two rogues - i.e. Eastwood's Good and Tuco...

Research questionnaire on "Asian Extreme" cinema: http://www.asianextremecinemaresearch.co.uk/q.html If you've got five-ten mi...

I've been watching a lot of episodes of the British TV series The Sweeney from the mid-late 1970s. It was a Thames Television production...

Mario Bava used the English pseudonym 'John M Old' because he was asked to choose an 'old English' name. In the Dr Who story...

I am feeling burnt out at the moment; unable to write. So I will just direct you towards Italian Film Review for now / ever.

This may be a somewhat obscure post but... In his preface to The Making of the English Working Class , E. P.Thompson famously stated: "...

Specifically Emma Cohen and Victor Israel: Why did they use these pseudonyms? Did either have a Jewish mother, such that it was a matrilinea...

"There seems to be a family resemblance" - Monco to the Colonel, For a Few Dollars More . But has anyone ever done an over-determi...

This Fritz Lang film sees three newspaper men battle for control of the Kyne media empire, with the spoils agreed to go to whoever discovers...

Despite living in Edinburgh almost all my life and knowing a bit about Thomas De Quincey on account of his Suspiria / Inferno connection, I...

Another intertextual reference / allusion: Both Dario Argento's Trauma and Tourneur's Cat People feature a Dr Judd.

Being from Edinburgh, Scotland, being a regular attendee of the EIFF whose patron has long been Sean Connery and living approximately half a...

Inferno has a female American poet Rose Elliot. Is it possible to have this character without thinking about her namesake T S Eliot? Particu...

So I am working my way through various vintage Dr Who stories from the John Pertwee and Tom Baker eras (none of this modern rubbish for me)....

A Fulci Zombie garage kit: http://www.modelmansion.com/models/detail/Kitkong-ModelMansion-Fulci-Zombie-prepainted.php And bust: http://www.w...

The metal band Cathedral have a new song entitled Edwige's Eyes, inspired by Edwige Fenech and her appearances in 1970s gialli; it's...