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DINNER WITH A VAMPIRE
(Lamberto Bava, 1988)A foolish camera crew discover a crypt, and within it the withered corpse of an ancient vampire of Mesopotamian origins. One of the crew scratches himself (of course), the blood...
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BLUE EYES OF THE BROKEN DOLL
(Carlos Aured, 1973)Ok, Ok, so this giallo is actually Spanish, but it deserves a review of it's own as it's one of the few decent Spanish thrillers made in the wake of the genre's popularity, and it...
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YOUR VICE IS A LOCKED ROOM AND ONLY I HAVE THE KEY
(Sergio Martino, 1972)Titled after a quote from one of his own thrillers, YVIALRAOIHTK is Sergio Martino's giallo take on Poe's "The Black Cat". Abused housewife Irene Ruvigni(Anita Strindberg) is...
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ZOMBIE 5 / KILLING BIRDS
(Claudio Latanzi/ Joe D'Amato, 1987)Wow. With those two titles, one would expect to see either zombie hordes or hordes of zombies killing birds, or at very least zombie-killing birds. We don't get any...
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BLOODY MOON aka Luna Di Sangue
(Enzo Milioni, 1989)Ahh, another ultra low-budget Lucio Fulci Presents film. This is one of the least-interesting titles in the series, and a giallo to boot. It's one saving grace is the violent, gory...
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PERVERSION STORY aka One On Top Of The Other
(Lucio Fulci, 1969)Dr George Dumurrier's (Jean Sorel) asthmatic wife Susan (Marisa Mell) is found dead, and to complicate matters, he's been named sole beneficiary of her will. Having a mistress and...
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THE BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA
(Paolo Cavara,1971)Here's another title that helped define the genre. It has not one, not two, but THREE Bond girls (Barbara Bach, Barbara Bouchet, Claudine Auger), a sometimes dreamy, sometimes...
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OPERA
(Dario Argento, 1987)Things aren't looking up for opera singer Betty (Christina Marsillach), an understudy who has just been given the lead role in MacBeth after the original diva had an unfortunate...
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THE WAX MASK
(Sergio Stivaletti, 1997)This turn of the century period horror opens with the brutal murder of an Italian couple, living in Paris, by a metal-clawed madman who tears out their hearts. Unknown to the...
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ZEDER aka Revenge of the Dead
(Pupi Avati, 1983)A writer named Stefano (Gabriele Lavia) receives a used typewriter from his girlfriend as a birthday present. He discovers that it formerly belonged to a priest who had used it to...
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HITCHER IN THE DARK
(Umberto Lenzi, 1989)Mark Glazer (Joe Balogh), a serial killer with unresolved mommy issues, passes the summer by cruising the Virginia Beach coastline, offering lady hitchhikers a ride in his...
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KILL, BABY...KILL! (Mario Bava, 1966)
Dr Paul Eswai (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) is summoned to a shadowy, secretive village, after the residents begin to die under mysterious circumstances, and coins are found embedded in their hearts. Paul...
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PSYCHOPHOBIA (Stefano D'Arbo, 1985)
When Eva's husband dies in a radioactive plane crash (mmHmmm... hate it when that happens), she is left alone to care for their children, and to continue paying the monthly installments on their...
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MY DEAR KILLER (Tonino Valerii, 1972)
George Hilton heads this 1972 giallo by director Tonino Valerii, in the role of Luca Paretti, an inspector drawn into a series of murders that begin with the decapitation of an insurance investigator...
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THE WASHING MACHINE (Ruggero Deodato, 1993)
Three deranged, morally-bankrupt sisters share a home in Budapest. First, there's Vida; dance instructor by day, call girl by night. Then there's bisexual Sissy, who works with the blind. Ludmilla, the...
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SHORT NIGHT OF GLASS DOLLS (Aldo Lado, 1971)
When American reporter Gregory Moore's (Jean Sorel) body is found near a park in Prague, it's taken to the morgue where he is pronounced dead. Unknown to the attendants is that Gregory is still alive,...
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Mini Bio : Daria Nicolodi
Born June 19, 1950, in Florence, Italy, actress Daria Nicolodi started performing at an early age. She dabbled in theatre and underground film before making her bigscreen debut in 1970's "Men Against"....
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IL GIOKO aka SCHOOL OF FEAR (Lamberto Bava, 1989)
Italian language teacher Diana Berti is hired by a prestigious private school halfway through the school year. On her first day as the new teacher, she learns that:A) The previous teacher died.B) A...
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RAT MAN (Giuliano Carnimeo, 1988)
Dr Olman has, for God knows what reason, created an extremely deadly humanoid rat-monkey hybrid in his Caribbean laboratory. The night before he is to transport the Rat Man to a genetics conference, it...
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THE PYJAMA GIRL CASE (Flavio Mogherini,1977)
A little girl stumbles across a woman's charred, mutilated corpse in an abandoned vehicle on an Australian beach. Because the remains have been burnt beyond recognition, the only clue as to the her...
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