Blaxploitation Pride

Nice Blaxploitation blog:

http://www.blaxploitationpride.org/

'Can you dig it?!'

Italian Film Review

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

Invisible Bullets

A short film, "heavily influenced by the spaghetti westerns, particularly For A Few Dollars More."

http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/films/entry/346076/invisible-bullets-3

Further information, including press kit and stills, can be found here:

http://www.invisiblebullets.co.uk

I'm sure they'd appreciate your comments

Giallo music mix

Here's some giallo related ear-candy

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zygkjd2zgm2/Theez+Boyz+R+Athletes+Giallo+Mix.mp3

Track listing:

1. Legowelt - Rain Season (Strange Life Records)
2. Antoni Maiovvi - Nightmoves (Seed Records)
3. I-F - Assault On Radical Radio (Disko B)
4. Francesco - Clemente - Suoni Dalle Ombre Oltre (Crème Organization)
5. Motiivi:Tuntematon - Mankind Failed (Kompakt Extra)
6. gatekeeper - Optimus Maximus (Fright Records)
7. The Hasbeens - Fall To Pieces (Frustrated Funk)
8. John Carpenter - The President Is Gone (That's Entertainment Records)
9. Tin Man - Riders (Cheap)
10. Zerkalo - Last Meeting (Frustrated Funk)

The terror trap

Nice horror blog: www.terrortrap.com

Italian Film Review

http://www.italianfilmreview.com/

These guys are 'friends of ours' ;-)

They've also just revamped the look of the site.

Enjoy

The Hands of Orlac

My review of the 1960 version here, as part of Cinefantastique Online's project of looking at that year's horror releases 50 years on:

http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2010/07/hands-of-orlac-a-celebration-of-1960-review/

Profondo Rosso - Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIENqOezqic

A new blog and some upcoming screenings in London

www.explosiveaction.com - dedicated to bad action movies.

And if you're in London, some upcoming Filmbar 70 screenings; click on the flyer graphic for more details.

Nice British sleaze blog

Posters, profiles, reviews, photos, clips etc:

http://gavcrimson.blogspot.com/

A friend's Bava/Argento influenced short film

http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p0069bpf

By Ben Soper at (Case of the Bloody?) Blue Iris films

More stuff to spend your money on ;-)

A Fulci Zombie garage kit:



http://www.modelmansion.com/models/detail/Kitkong-ModelMansion-Fulci-Zombie-prepainted.php

And bust:



http://www.whitworthsculpturestudio.com/Fulci.htm

Piero Umiliani website

Website for one of my favourite Italian composers, who scored many filone films in the 1960s and 1970s and penned The Muppet Show theme.

http://www.umiliani.com/index.html

Open Giallo Movie

Crowdsourced giallo film project: http://opengiallomovie.blogspot.com/

Paranomal Activity and panic in Italian cinemas...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8508675.stm

This from a country whose film industry once brought us the likes of Salo and Cannibal Holocaust?

Varied Celluloid

A nice site, that 'does what it says on the tin' in covering a range of films:

The science of the gunfight

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8493092.stm

Further research: Applying this to the three-way duel or truel in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly and bringing in differences in knowledge over which guns are actually loaded...

Also speed and accuracy?

Some Glasgow Film Festival screenings

Amer:
http://www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/films/507

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (also upcoming UK DVD release from Optimum?):
http://www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/films/1165

[Rec] 2:
http://www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/films/1340

Another local PSA

Cult Fiction movies:

http://www.cultfictionmovies.com/

http://www.list.co.uk/article/19443-cult-fiction-movies-shop-opens-in-edinburgh/

Wish you were there?

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/spanport/news/talking_dirty_abstracts.doc