Juan Piquer Simón’s Pieces (Spanish: Mil gritos tiene la noche, 1982) is the ne plus ultra of trashy Spanish slasher cash-ins, that much is

Like most Italian cinematic fads, the spaghetti western movement burned itself out. What began as a direct imitation of classic Hollywood...

While it may be impossible to link a given film genre to its absolute inception, every cinematic fad has its watershed moment. There were...

Robert Hossein’s Cemetery without Crosses (Italian: Une Corde, un Colt; aka: The Rope and the Colt, 1969) is a particularly unusual entry...

Sergio Corbucci was, along with Sergio Leone, one of the major instigators of Italy’s ‘spaghetti western’ boom in the 1960s. He failed to...

Sergio Corbucci’s Compañeros (Italian: Vamos a Matar Compañeros, 1970) is not the best of the Italian westerns, nor is it even the best of

Like most genres, spaghetti westerns can be broken down into a number of subcategories. There are revenge stories, spoof westerns, leftist..

Following the genre-defining success of A Fistful of Dollars (Italian: Per un pugno di dollari, 1964), Sergio Leone’s second spaghetti...

Like many Italian filmmakers that found success during the 1960s, Franco Giraldi’s career began on the set of Sergio Leone’s Fistful of...

Gianfranco Parolini’s Sabata was released towards the end of the spaghetti western cycle, in 1969, just as the genre was being supplanted by