What do you get when you mix a psychic teen’s ability to control insects with that of a serial killer stalking the students of an all-girls boarding school, a straight-razor-wielding chimp and Donald Pleasence? If you’ve come up with the answer “A Dario Argento film” then you are clearly a student of Italian Giallo and…
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The Visitor (1979) – Review
There is something truly fascinating about a movie that starts out making very little sense and then proceeds to get even more messed up and nonsensical as it goes. That is the case with Giulio Paradisi’s 1979 new age meets Star Wars flick called The Visitor, but what is truly astounding is the calibre of people…
The Fury (1978) – Review
People wielding supernatural powers in the movies is certainly nothing new but in the late 70s and early 80s it wasn’t quite old hat yet, and we got some great and some not-so-great films; Carrie (1976) Scanners (1981) Firestarter (1984), which leads to today’s entry The Fury, which not only was helmed by Carrie director Brian…