Plot: terrorist cell threatens biochemical attack. One agent intervenes. Make of it what you will but Jing Wong has had a big hand in shaping contemporary Mainland China cinema at large. It is then not suprising that Mainland China has risen to the occassion and on the regular delivers what
Plot: aging socialite discovers a terrible secret in a prestigious health clinic. 1973 was not only an exceptionally good year for rock with genre-defining albums from progressive titans Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Yes, Le Orme, and Gentle Giant as well as ur-heavy metallers Black Sabbath;
Plot: Claudia wants to move to London, and she’ll stop at nothing to get it… Gloria Guida found herself in something of a rough patch for a few years following the success of The High School Girl (1975). In that time she frequently was employed with director Silvio Amadio
Plot: babysitter is besieged by an unseen assailant in a remote mansion. The 1970s were a brave new day for horror at large as gritty and grimy suspense and terror instantly made the more classical horrors redundant. The age of the gothic had largely passed (although various regional revivals artificially
Plot: newly-wed brides keep disappearing in a rural village in north India. No other Hindi horror feature has garnered the reputation that Jaani Dushman (or Sworn Enemy in most Indian sources we could find, IMDb insists on Beloved Enemy, and Google Translate puts it as Bitter Enemy - you decide
Plot: woman is stalked and assailed by deranged blade-wielding lunatic. Le Couteau sous la gorge (or Knife Under the Throat, pour ceux qui ne parlent pas français) is perhaps not the ultimate nanar français. That illustrious distinction is held in infamy by either Norbert Georges Moutier’s mindnumbingly hypnotic
Plot: only one man can overthrow the evil caliph and rescue the young princess. In the gothic horror revival banner year that was 1973 and amidst the giallo boom the master of pulp peplum Pietro Francisci took on the Arabian Nights with Simbad e il califfo di Bagdad (or Sinbad
Plot: Etruscan burial site is disturbed by a spate of murders. Who’s doing the killing? The Etruscan Kills Again (or L'etrusco uccide ancora back at home, and The Dead Are Alive! in North America) is an Italian giallo that in the grand scheme of things was of
Plot: Balkan village is haunted by strange disappearances and power outages. Der Fluch der grünen Augen (or Curse of the Green Eyes, für diejenigen, die kein Deutsch sprechen - released in the English-speaking world as Cave Of the Living Dead) is a minor entry in the canon of German krimi
Plot: corporate assassin is targeted for extermination Over the years Hawaiian pulp director Albert Pyun has dabbled in realistic, non-cyberpunk scenarios to often varying results. Hong Kong 97 wasn’t the first of such ventures, but has become memorable for all the wrong reasons. With two name stars, an
Plot: pregnant woman is brutally murdered… and comes to haunt her wrongdoers. Suzzanna: Malam Jumat Kliwon (or Suzzanna: Kliwon Friday Night) is the second chapter in the ongoing Suzzanna New Generation franchise celebrating the life and work of Suzzanna, the queen of Indonesian Horror. This follow-up to Suzzanna: Buried
Plot: libertine innkeeper is looking for a few good men…. Two years after The Key (1983) bombarded Stefania Sandrelli to a sex symbol and boosted her lengthy and storied career the master of erotic arts Tinto Brass returned. Once again produced by Giovanni Bertolucci, written by Brass, photographed by Silvano