When it comes to 1960s Italian gothic horror, Nightmare Castle isn’t exactly in the top tier with Mario Bava’s Black Sunday or Riccardo Freda’s The Horrible Dr. Hichcock, but it holds a special place in the Barbara Steele canon. Directed by Mario Caiano, the film mixes science, sadism, and supernatural revenge in a way that’s…
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The Man with No Name Trilogy (1964-1966) – Review
It is impossible to overstate the impact Sergio Leon’s Spaghetti Westerns had on cinema, by the 1960s the Hollywood Western had become a rather bland affair with most of its content dominating the airwaves with such shows as Gunsmoke, The Rifleman and Have Gun Will Travel but then along came up and coming Italian director…
The Hateful Eight (2015) – Review
“It was Tarantino, in the cabin, with the revolver.” In what is basically a western whodunit Quentin Tarantino collects a group of rather unpleasant characters, plops them in an Agatha Christie And Then There Were None plot line, adds expletives and gore, then stirs occasionally.