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Joe D’Amato (aka Aristide Massacessi, filmmaker)
“Sometimes I make movies which don’t interest me too much and after, with the money, I make the movies I want to make.” Joe D’Amato Italy’s king of trash sinema, Joe D’Amato spent most of his career...
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Opera (aka Terror at the Opera)
Opera (also known as Terror at the Opera) is a 1987 Italian giallo horror film written and directed by Dario Argento. It stars Cristina Marsillach, Urbano Barberini, Ian Charleson, Daria Nicolodi,...
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The Last House on the Beach (aka Terror)
The Last House on the Beach (Italian: La settima donna, also known as Terror and The Seventh Woman, the literal translation from the original Italian) is a 1978 Italian rape and revenge-thriller film...
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House on the Edge of the Park
House on the Edge of the Park (Italian: La casa sperduta nel parco) is a 1980 Italian exploitation film from the Italian director Ruggero Deodato. It stars David Hess, Giovanni Lombardo Radice and...
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Assignment Terror (aka Dracula vs. Frankenstein)
Los Monstruos del Terror, also known as Assignment Terror and Dracula vs. Frankenstein is a 1969 (released 1970) Spanish-German-Italian horror film directed by Tulio Demicheli, Hugo Fregonese and...
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Fabio Frizzi (musician and composer)
Fabio Frizzi (born July 2, 1951) is an Italian musician and composer. Born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Frizzi is best known for his film scores and work for television. A frequent collaborator with...
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Horror (aka The Blancheville Monster)
Horror (aka The Blancheville Monster) is a 1963 Italian/Spanish horror film directed by Alberto De Martino from a screenplay by Bruno and Sergio Corbucci, Giovanni Grimaldi based upon an (uncredited)...
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Jungle Holocaust: Cannibal Tribes in Exploitation Cinema
The 1970s saw old taboos falling away in the cinema, and few horror film sub-genres benefited from the relaxation in censorship more than the cannibal film. In fact, this is a genre that scarcely...
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Queens of Evil
Queens of Evil (aka Le Regine, Il Delitto del Diavolo) is a 1970 Italian erotic horror film directed by Tonino Cervi and starring Ray Lovelock (The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue), Haidee...
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The Book (film, 2014)
The Book is a 2014 Italian anthology film that pulls together twelve legendary names from the worlds of spaghetti horror, exploitation, crime and western cinema to showcase their own personal vision...
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Nightmare City
Nightmare City (aka City of the Walking Dead, Italian title: Incubo Sulla Cittá Contaminata) is a 1980 Italian-Spanish zombie film directed by Umberto Lenzi. The film stars Hugo Stiglitz, Laura...
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Zora la Vampira (comic book)
Zora, the vampire, better known as Zora la Vampira is an Italian comic book erotic character. The first comic book was published in 1972. Her physical appearance is partly inspired by Catherine...
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Opera (aka Terror at the Opera)
Opera (also known as Terror at the Opera) is a 1987 Italian giallo horror film written and directed by Dario Argento. It stars Cristina Marsillach, Urbano Barberini, Ian Charleson, Daria Nicolodi,...
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Jungle Holocaust: Cannibal Tribes in Exploitation Cinema
The 1970s saw old taboos falling away in the cinema, and few horror film sub-genres benefited from the relaxation in censorship more than the cannibal film. In fact, this is a genre that scarcely...
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Flavia the Heretic [updated]
Flavia the Heretic (Italian: Flavia, la monaca musulmana, also released Flavia, Priestess of Violence! in the USA and in the UK as The Rebel Nun in the UK) is a 1974 French co-produced Italian...
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Demons
Demons (Italian: Dèmoni) is a 1985 Italian horror film directed by Lamberto Bava and produced by Dario Argento, starring Urbano Barberini and Natasha Hovey. The screenplay was written by Bava,...
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Riz Ortolani (composer)
Riziero “Riz” Ortolani was an Italian film composer. Born on 25 March 1926, he recently died in Rome, aged 87. In the early 1950s Ortolani began his musical career as a founder and member of a...
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Attack of the Rats! Rodents in the Cinema
Some animals are guaranteed to inspire feelings of disgust and fear in cinema audiences, and not more so than the humble rat. While many people keep rats as pets, even they will see a difference...
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Orror (comic)
Orror (Italian: ‘horror’) was an Italian ‘adults only’ fumetti comic book published in two different series in the late 1970s. For the first series, publishers Edifumetto issued 21 issues from June...
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Trauma
Trauma is a 1993 Italian giallo horror film directed by Dario Argento, starring Asia Argento, Piper Laurie, Christopher Rydell and Brad Dourif. Shot in and around Minneapolis, United States in August...
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