1980s
Plot: scientists investigate occurrences at cursed manor. Hilarity ensues! Bloodbath at the House Of Death has gotten a bad rep over the years, or ever since it came out in 1984. Margaret Thatcher had come out victorious in a landslide re-election and during the second term faced the National Union
1980s
Plot: struggling British model is haunted by malefic spirits of the dead. By the late 1980s the Italian exploitation industry was on the verge of extinction. What little still sold internationally was anything coasting on the dying embers of genres previously profitable, mainly daft action, soft erotic dross and horror.
1980s
Plot: feisty columnist challenges her editor-in-chief to a bet. Hilarity ensues! In the Edwige Fenech 80s comedy canon Sballato, gasato, completamente fuso (or High, Gassed, Completely Melted, released in the English-speaking world as simply An Ideal Adventure) is probably the least talked about. Directed by master satirist and genre specialist
1980s
Plot: vacationers face mercenaries, zombies, and cannibalistic monks. The eighties was the last great hurrah for classic Filipino exploitation. As the 90s dawned Hollywood reinforced its grip on the international market with big budget, special effects-driven event movies that no little independent could ever begin to compete with. The decline
1980s
Plot: journalist and mercenary take down corrupt South American dictator. Of all the talentless hacks working the Italian exploitation circuit from the 60s to 80s shlockmeister Alfonso Brescia by far was the most seasoned and mercenary. Over a three-decade career Brescia built a reputation on doing it quicker and cheaper
1980s
Plot: cyborg flees into the desert after ignoring his programming. Hands Of Steel (released domestically as Vendetta dal Futuro, and in France as Atomic Cyborg) answers the question that nobody asked: what if The Terminator (1984) ignored his programming, fled into the Arizona desert and took up armwrestling in some
1980s
Plot: high-class escort Sarah Asproon moonlights as a novelist researching a new book. Let it be known that Joe D’Amato can never be accused of not completely milking an idea while it was still profitable. A year after Eleven Days, Eleven Nights (1987) old Joe returned to New Orleans
1980s
Plot: what happens on Savage Beach? LETHAL Ladies are on the case. The LETHAL Ladies franchise closed the door on the exuberant eighties with Savage Beach, the least typical of the early era. Savage Beach not only spends inordinate amount of time on what amounts to a B-plot but also
1980s
Plot: druglord avenges his associate’s death. The LETHAL ladies are on the case. For Picasso Trigger Hawaiian action mogul Andy Sidaris went big. The guns are bigger, the explosions are bigger and the breasts were pretty big to begin with. Not deterred in the slightest by trivial things such
1980s
Plot: various factions wage war over the Twin Swords of Earth and Sky After his New Wave period – encompassing the three features The Butterfly Murders (1979), We’re Going to Eat You (1980), and Dangerous Encounter of the First Kind (1980) – director/producer Tsui Hark started working for Cinema City
1980s
Plot: novelist Sarah Asproon moonlights as a high-class escort researching a new book. Ten years after after Eva Nera (1977) Italian exploitation guru Aristide Massaccesi (under his English nom de plume Joe D'Amato) started a new soft erotica franchise with a bright young star in the form of
1980s
Plot: scientists and mercenaries battle the advance legions of ancient Atlantis. The Raiders Of Atlantis is one of the great patchworks of Italian exploitation. After a fairly standard action opening in the next 85 or so minutes it rips off all the great American properties of the day and a