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L’immoralità (1978)

June 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: L’immoralità
Year: 1978
Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
Country: Language: Italian
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Giallo | Drama | Thriller

Director: Massimo Pirri

Cast:
Lisa Gastoni … Vera
Howard Ross … Federico
Karin Trentephol … Simona
Mel Ferrer … Vera’s husband
Andrea Franchetti … Lieutenant
Angela Luce
Wolfango Soldati … Antonio, the avenger

Plot/Synopsis:
Federico is a child-killer running from the law. Wounded, he is taken in by a 12 year old girl named Simona. Their strange love affair is interrupted by Simona’s depressed, oversexed mother Vera, who concocts a plan with Federico to kill her wheelchair-bound, reclusive husband. Simona does not take kindly to this new relationship between Federico and Vera.

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Puzzle (1974)

June 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: L’uomo senza memoria
Year: 1974
Runtime: 1 hour 28 minutes
Country: Language: English (dubbed)
Subtitles: None
Genre: Giallo | Drama | Crime | Horror

Director: Duccio Tessari

Cast:
Senta Berger … Sara Grimaldi
Luc Merenda … Edward
Umberto Orsini … Daniel
Anita Strindberg … Mary Caine
Bruno Corazzari … George
Rosario Borelli … Policeman
Manfred Freyberger … Philip
Tom Felleghy … Dr. Archibald T. Wildgate
Carla Mancini
Vittorio Fanfoni
Duilio Cruciani … Luca

Plot/Synopsis:
This fine Giallo tells an unusual story in an unusual way, and even though not much happens in the first half of the film, director Tessari manages to grip the viewer’s attention from the beginning through stylish directing and really thrilling and creepy moments. In the second half, as the plot thickens and the parts of the puzzle begin to fit into a whole (i.e. as the main character starts to remember more and more of his past), there are also some fairly violent scenes, e.g. as a villain falls over a cliff or beautiful female lead Senta Berger swings a chainsaw. But, most importantly, even though the plot is a quite complicated net of strings that has to be lead together to the climax, the story remains plausible until the end, which isn’t always the case in films of this genre.
Apart from the convincing performance by Berger, Luc Merenda is also well casted in the title role, as is Umberto Orsini in the main supporting role. Look out for Giallo regular Anita Strindberg in a small but crucial role. The lush sound track is also very cool and adds to the viewing pleasure. The only shame is that, as with too many other Italian films of the 1970s, this memorable Giallo is quite rare and hard to get.

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A Quiet Place to Kill (1970)

June 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Paranoia
Year: 1970
Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes
Country: Language: Italian
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Giallo | Drama | Thriller

Director: Umberto Lenzi

Cast:
Carroll Baker … Helen
Jean Sorel … Maurice Sauvage
Luis Dávila … Albert Duchamps
Alberto Dalbés … Dr. Harry Webb
Marina Coffa … Susan Sauvage
Anna Proclemer … Constance Sauvage
Hugo Blanco
Lisa Halvorsen … Solange
Manuel Díaz Velasco … Miguel
Jacques Stany … James
Rossana Rovere … Nurse
Calisto Calisti … Doctor
Alfonso de la Vega … Chauffeur
Miguel Beltrán
Gaspar Forteza … 1st Cop

Plot/Synopsis:
Baker plays Helen, a racecar driver who recovers from a coma and is summoned to the Majorcan villa of her ex-husband Maurice (Jean Sorel). Constance (Marina Coffa) is Maurice’s new wife and wants Helen to help her kill him. Unfortunately for Constance, Helen double-crosses her and she is killed instead. But there are more surprises ahead when Constance’s daughter Susan (Anna Proclemer) shows up and tries to kill Helen because she wants to help Maurice, who is revealed to be her lover. The story (co-written by cult filmmaker Rafael Romero Marchent) is all quite complicated

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Paranoia (1969)

June 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Orgasmo
Year: 1969
Runtime: 1 hour 28 minutes
Country: Language: English (dubbed)
Subtitles: None
Genre: Giallo | Drama | Thriller

Director: Umberto Lenzi

Cast:
Carroll Baker … Kathryn West
Lou Castel … Peter Donovan
Colette Descombes … Eva
Tino Carraro … Brion Sanders
Lilla Brignone … Teresa
Franco Pesce … Martino
Tina Lattanzi … Kathryn’s Aunt
Jacques Stany … Police Inspector
Sara Simoni
Gaetano Imbró
Calisto Calisti
Alberto Corchi
Maria Rosiello

Plot/Synopsis:
Kathryn West, a glamorous American widow, arrives in Italy several weeks after the death of her older, extremely wealthy husband. With the help of Brian, her lawyer, Kathryn moves into a luxurious villa and proceeds to lead a lonely, uneventful existence until one day, a handsome young man named Peter Donovan shows up at the front gate, looking for tools so he can fix his sports car. Kathryn lets him stay the night, and the next thing she knows, she’s madly making love to him in the shower. Peter eventually moves in, and is soon joined by a free spirit he introduces as Eva, his sister. Kathryn enjoys their company and partying with them – until she begins to suspect that Peter and Eva aren’t what they seem to be.

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Eaters (2010)

June 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Eaters
AKA: Eaters – Rise of the Dead
Year: 2010
Runtime: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English (hard-subbed)
Genre: Horror

Director: Luca Boni | Marco Ristori

Cast:
Rosella Elmi … Alexis
Guglielmo Favilla … Alen
Elisa Ferretti … Cristina
Riccardo Floris … Rudi
Fabiano Lioi … Fuhrer
Alex Lucchesi … Igor
Francesco Malcom … Guard
Roberto Mariotti … Dott. Cangiato
Claudio Marmugi … Gyno
Steve Sylvester … Plague Spreader

Plot/Synopsis:
Eaters sees a world where infection has sterilized and killed off anyone lacking a Y chromosome. The surviving males contend with bloodthirsty zombies, a byproduct of a religious zealot’s act of bio-terrorism, hellbent on doing what zombies do best. Holed up in a small facility, a group of soldiers support Gyno, a radical scientist intent on finding a cure to the zombie outbreak, as well as the fertility problem – and not necessarily in that order. Our two protagonists, Igor and Allen, head out in search of healthy zombie guinea-pigs for the scientist’s experiments, planning on plying zombie-hoarding neo-Nazi scum with their ample supply of beer…but things don’t go quite as planned.

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My Brother Is an Only Child (2007)

June 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Mio fratello è figlio unico
Year: 2007
Runtime: 1hour 39 minutes
Country: Italy | France
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Music

Director: Daniele Luchetti

Cast:
Elio Germano … Accio Benassi
Riccardo Scamarcio … Manrico Benassi
Angela Finocchiaro … Amelia Benassi
Massimo Popolizio … Ettore Benassi
Ascanio Celestini … Padre Cavalli
Diane Fleri … Francesca
Alba Rohrwacher … Violetta Benassi
Vittorio Emanuele Propizio … Accio adolescent
Claudio Botosso … Prof. Montagna
Antonino Bruschetta … Segretario Bombacci
Anna Bonaiuto … Bella Nastri
Luca Zingaretti … Mario Nastri
Pasquale Sammarco … Padre Tosi
Lorenzo Pagani … Bertini
Matteo Sacchi … Ragazzo Biliardino

Plot/Synopsis:
Growing up in small-town Italy during the ’60s and ’70s, brothers Accio and Manrico embody and celebrate opposing political stances, but share an impassioned love of the same woman that threatens to drive them to blows. Director Daniele Luchetti’s political comedy Mio Fratello È Figlio Unico (aka My Brother Is an Only Child, 2007) observes the brothers over the course of 15 years, against the ever-shifting backdrop of tumultuous Italian sociopolitical history. During that time span, the siblings’ loyalties will fluctuate; they will endure arguments and quarrels, and find themselves separated by the ravages of time and circumstance and reunited magnetically by the wisdom of age. In time, they will come to a firmer and clearer understanding of not only the differences but the similarities that they harbor. ~ Rovi.com

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The House of the Yellow Carpet (1983)

June 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: La casa del tappeto giallo
Year: 2010
Runtime: 1 hour 27 minutes
Country: Italy
Language: English (dubbed)
Subtitles: None
Genre: Giallo | Drama | Crime | Mystery | Horror

Director: Carlo Lizzani

Cast:

Erland Josephson … The Professor
Béatrice Romand … Franca
Vittorio Mezzogiorno … Antonio
Milena Vukotic … The Psychiatrist

Plot/Synopsis:
Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca’s stepfather. One day, while Antonio is out, a strange man rings saying he wishes to buy the rug. But the man’s visit becames a nightmare. He kidnaps Franca and says he killed his wife on that same yellow rug. Then Franca kills the man. But is that really all that has happened? And who was that strange man?

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Filed Under: Crime, Drama, Giallo, Horror, Italy, Mystery

The Golden Door (2006)

June 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Nuovomondo
Year: 2006
Runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes
Country: Italy | France
Language: Italian | English | Sicilian
Subtitles: English(.srt)
Genre: Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Romance

Director: Emanuele Crialese

Cast:
Charlotte Gainsbourg … Lucy Reed
Vincenzo Amato … Salvatore Mancuso
Aurora Quattrocchi … Fortunata Mancuso
Francesco Casisa … Angelo Mancuso
Filippo Pucillo … Pietro Mancuso
Federica De Cola … Rita D’Agostini
Isabella Ragonese … Rosa Napolitano
Filippo Luna … Don Ercole
Andrea Prodan … Mister Del Fiore
Ernesto Mahieux … Dottor. Zampino
Marcelo Benassi … Il Gatto
Giuseppe Sangiorgi … Uomo Olive
Alessandra Fazzino … Santa
Giuseppe Culino … Dottore
Massimo Laguardia … Mangiapane

Plot/Synopsis:
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.

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The Last House in the Woods (2006)

June 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Il bosco fuori
Year: 2006
Runtime: 1 hour 25 minutes
Country: Italy
Language: English (dubbed)
Subtitles: English(.srt)
Genre: Horror | Thriller

Director: Gabriele Albanesi

Cast:
Daniela Virgilio … Aurora
Gennaro Diana … Antonio
Santa De Santis … Clara
Daniele Grassetti … Rino
David Pietroni … Cesare
Cristiano Callegaro … Diego
Geremia Longobardo … Ginger
Luigi Campi … Osvaldo
Valter Gilardoni … Emidio
Fabiano Malantrucco … Giulio
Francesco Lopez … Andrea
Elisabetta Rocchetti … Elena
Enrico Silvestrin … Luca

Plot/Synopsis:
A pair of youngsters seeking a little privacy in the woods get more than they bargained for when they are assaulted by a trio of thugs and rescued by a most unusual couple in director Gabrielle Albanesi’s gruesome tribute to the drive-in shockers of yesteryear. All Aurora (Daniela Virgilio) and Rino (Daniele Grassetti) wanted was to find a secluded place where they could make love in nature, but the appearance of three sadistic bullies (David Pietroni, Garemia Longobardo, and Cristiano Callegaro) soon sends a romantic evening alone careening into violence. In the ensuing struggle, Rino is beaten mercilessly and the three intruders prepare to rape Aurora. Mercifully, at the last possible moment, the couple is rescued by tough talking Clara (Santa De Santis) and pistol-packing Antonio (Rino Diana). After chasing the attackers away, Clara and Antonio offer to take Rino and Aurora to their remote cabin in order to recover – an offer which the frightened youngsters appreciatively accept. Upon arriving at the isolated abode, however, Rino and Aurora quickly realize that their troubles may have just begun. Not only does Clara and Antonio have a young boy named Guilio (Fabiano Malantrucco) with some seriously intimidating incisors, but the same sadists who tormented them in the woods soon turn up for an encore performance. By the time the morning sun casts away this grueling night of slaughter, the ones who survived will pray for death to release them from the horrors they have experienced.

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The Possessed (1965)

June 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Original title: La donna del lago
Year: 1965
Runtime: 1 hour 27 minutes
Country: Italy
Language: Italian (original) | Spanish (dubbed) (dual-audio)
Subtitles: English | Spanish (.srt)
Genre: Giallo | Drama | Crime

Director: Luigi Bazzoni, Franco Rossellini

Cast:
Peter Baldwin … Bernard, the writer
Salvo Randone … Enrico
Valentina Cortese … Irma
Pia Lindström … Adriana
Pier Giovanni Anchisi
Ennio Balbo … Journalist
Anna Maria Gherardi … Servant girl
Bruno Scipioni
Mario Laurentini
Vittorio Duse
Philippe Leroy … Mario
Virna Lisi … Tilde

Plot/Synopsis:
When a visitor arrives in a small Italian village, he discovers that the residents are acting like soul-less zombies–and he begins to suspect that they may be under the influence of a mysterious local woman.

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