1960s
Plot: colonial prospectors discover feral white girl in the Congolese jungle. What do you do when the jungle adventures you had been making no longer are profitable? You look to what other countries are doing. That must have been what Romano Ferrara did when he helmed Gungala, Virgin Of the
1960s
Plot: Praetorian plans to overthrow increasingly despotic Caesar. Alfonso Brescia may never be remembered as one of the great Italian exploitation directors but his reputation as a director of competent, albeit seldomly inspired, genre pieces made him a worthy footnote in the country’s cinematic history. That reputation had to
1960s
Plot: scientific expedition is stalked by unseen monster in cave. Sound Of Horror (released domestically as El sonido de la muerte, and El sonido prehistórico, or Sound Of Death or The Prehistoric Sound, respectively) would probably be just another Iberian horror obscurity if it weren’t for the presence of
1960s
Plot: who’s the mysterious woman in Anna’s dreams? Is she dead or alive? As with all things in life, timing is everything. Metempsyco (or Metempsychosis, released in France as Le manoir maudit or The Cursed Mansion, in Germany as Die Bestie von Schloß Monte Christo or The Beast
1960s
Plot: how far will a woman go to save her dying husband? Every country does its own regional spin on an established formula. Madame Death (La señora Muerte back at home in Mexico) offered a Latin American spin on a familiar and well-known plot. Armed with enough mad science, hysterical
1960s
Plot: a police inspector, his wife, her lover. Who’s the criminal? There’s something of a connection between the German krimi and the earlier antecedents of the Italian giallo despite both evolving independent but parallell from each other. Whereas Mario Bava’s legendary monochrome shocker The Girl Who Knew
1960s
Plot: philandering historian is beguiled by a woman who might, or might not, be a witch. La strega in amore (or The Witch In Love, released in the Anglo-Saxon world as simply The Witch) is something of a minor entry in the Italian gothic horror canon that marks an interesting
1960s
Plot: mysterious femme fatale plots to take over the world. Debonair playboy intervenes. Leave it to the Italians to produce a spoof of a spoof. Argoman, the Fantastic Superman spoofs the Superargo movies with Giovanni Cianfriglia, themselves sendups of the more popular Eurospy exercises of the day. In Italy it
1960s
Plot: aristocratic vampire and his aides terrorize sleepy Filipino village. Kulay dugo ang gabi (The Night Is the Color of Blood or Blood Is the Color of Night, Google Translate insists on the former, the cult blogosphere at large on the latter. Regardless, it was released internationally as The Blood
1960s
Plot: who or what is causing the dead to rise in a sleepy Cornish hamlet? The house of Hammer could never be accused of not pouring their everything into whatever they were producing. If it has attained any kind of longevity these days it’s because The Plague Of the
1960s
Plot: the night Muriel (and her lover) came out of the grave. The crown jewel in Barbara Steele’s conquest of Mediterranean horror cinema is in all likelihood this, Nightmare Castle, Mario Caiano’s epitome of gothic horror perfection. In Nightmare Castle (released back at home as Amanti d'
1960s
Plot: secret agent investigates disappearances in Scotland. Hilarity ensues! Hailed as the ultimate in 60s kitsch and camp Zeta One had disaster written all over it. Produced by Tigon on an estimated budget of £60,000 Zeta One was a genre hybrid that could only have materialized in the late