Big Guns aka Tony Arzenta (aka No Way Out, which is the most fitting title but also the more descriptive one) is a French-Italian crime movie by Duccio Tessari starring legendary French actor Alain Delon. Arzenta (Delon) is a professional assassin with a wife (Nicoletta Machiavelli) and child. He decides […]
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Death Occured Last Night (La Morte risale a ieri sera) is an Italian-German crime darama by Duccio Tessari from 1970. Amanzio Berzaghi’s (Raf Vallone) daughter Donatella (Gill Bray) is suffering from a natal condition: despite her biological age of 25, she has the mind of a three year old. Unable […]
Allsonanfan is a 1974 Italian historical drama written and directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (who passed away February 29, 2024 and April 2018 respectively). The previously hard to obtain title garnered renewed interest among younger audiences due to Quentin Tarantino‘s use of its epic theme music “Rabbia e Tarantella” […]
Midnight Killer (1986) (orig. Morirai a mezzanotte) – Director: Lamberto Bava – 6/10 (good)One could argue Midnight Killer essentially constitutes a budget version of Dario Argento’s Tenebre: though it is nowhere as visually sophisticated as the original, most of its elements ultimately coalesce into a perfectly serviceable and adequate whole. […]
Star Odyssey (1979) (orig. Sette uomini d’oro nello spazio) – Director: Alfonso Brescia – 2/10 (very bad)The movie conceivably could have worked providing that it had moved at a tolerable pace and displayed its psychotronic qualities more imaginatively; predictably enough though, the motion picture begins to stagnate and decompose about […]
Superargo and the Faceless Giants (1968)] (orig. L’invincibile Superman) – Director: Paolo Bianchini – 3/10 (very mediocre/bad)Though Bianchini’s direction is more or less reliable as expected, the outing lacks the psychotronic quality of his antecedent Devilman Story and is evidently at a loss for an element of surprise which could […]
The Case is Closed, Forget it (L’istruttoria e chiusa: dimentichi) is a prison drama from 1971 directed by Damiano Damiani. The architect Vanzi (Franco Nero) is in jail for a traffic incident only. Bad luck for him there seems to be a witness testifying of a hit and run, and […]
How to Kill a Judge (Perche’….. magistrato) is a crime drama by Damiano Damiani released in 1975. Filmmaker Giacomo Solaris (Franco Nero) releases a controversial movie onto theaters that presents a fictionalized account of the assassination of a corrupt official who got a bit too cozy with the mafia. When […]
The Day of the Owl ((Il giorno della civetta), released in the United States by AIP simply as Mafia (because that was the title of the English translation of the novel it was based on) is a 1968 Italian crime drama by Damiano Damiani (Confessions of a Police Captain). The movie […]
The Sunday Woman (La donna della domenica) is a crime comedy from 1975 by Luigi Comencini. The architect Garrone (Claudio Gora), disliked by many for his mannerisms but nevertheless well connected and uninvited fixture at every dinner party, is found brutally murdered. His skull bashed in by a phallic object. […]