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Month: July 2012

More dollars for the MacGregors is
July 27, 2012

More Dollars for the MacGregors – Review

Despite the cheeky title, Jose Luis Merino’s Spaghetti Western More Dollars for the MacGregors wasn’t really an attempt to rip off Franco Giraldi’s box office smashes Seven Guns for the MacGregors (66) and Up the MacGregors (67).

Sergio Corbucci on The Specialists
July 18, 2012

Sergio Corbucci on The Specialists

Here’s a little article I found in L’unita from March 20th 1970.

Death Steps in the Dark
July 11, 2012

Nuns, giallos and comedy mix ups…

Here’s a fun article I found in L’unita from February 1977 regarding Maurizio Pradeaux’s middling giallo Death Steps in the Dark. Smacks of being publicity buff, but it’s quite fun anyway…

Silvana Pampanini, Irene Papas and Massimo Girotti in Vortice
July 10, 2012

Vortice – Review

Vortice has just about all the melodramatic check boxes ticked off: true love interrupted, a dark secret from the past pushing its way into the present, a vulnerable child, a murder and some kind of debilitating illness or disability.

July 6, 2012

Paura, by Antonio Manetti, Marco Manetti

The Manetti brothers have been busy recently: only a few months after The Arrival of Wang they have a new release, a horror film called Paura.

July 3, 2012

Interview with Mario Gariazzo from La Stampa

Here’s a cool interview with Mario Gariazzo that I stumbled across on a Ufology site (and which seems to have originated from La Stampa).

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  • Cinematografo Italian language database of all Italian Films
  • European Trash Cinema Craig Ledbetter’s excellent magazine ETC has now made it online…
  • Giallo Fever Superb website about giallos and other Italian films
  • M.E.C.D. Database A great database with information about Spansih cinema (and other films shot in Spain)
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