Director Juan Piquer Simón is mostly remembered as Spain’s answer to Italian schlock-meisters, like Claudio Fragasso and Bruno Mattei. While

In the classic age of the mom & pop video store the horror section beckoned young and impressionable viewers with revolting, terrifying...

Anthony Hickox’ career took a pretty steep swan dive into obscurity as the 1990s came to an end, but, for a time, he was perhaps the most...

Michele Soavi was, for a time, the last hope of a doomed Italian horror/fantasy filmmaking community. Having been brought up through the...

As it flourished in the post-WWII era, the Italian film industry worked in genre cycles, such as peplum (sword & sandal) films, spaghetti...

The late Jesús ‘Jess’ Franco, who passed away on April 2nd of 2013 , was among the most prolific filmmakers of all time. There are wonderful

Pasquale Festa Campanile’s Hitch-Hike (Italian: Autostop rosso sangue; aka: Death Drive and Naked Prey, 1977) was born out of the...

Mario Gariazzo’s Play Motel (1979) was made in response to the popular [I]giallo[/I] thrillers that the Italian film industry pumped out...

Sergio Martino’s Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (Italian: Il Tuo Vizio è Una Stanza Chiusa e Solo Io ne ho la Chiave...

Massimo Dallamano’s modest thriller A Black Veil for Lisa (Italian: La morte non ha sesso, 1968) was made right on the cusp of giallo’s big