September 12, 2012 Vampire’s Night Orgy – Review Vampire’s Night Orgy is one of those films that starts – like The Island of Death and A Candle for the Devil – with a busload of strangers arriving in the depths of the countryside.
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).
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.
June 25, 2012 One Man Against the Organisation – Review One Man Against the Organisation is a thoroughly mediocre crime film from the mid-1970s; a Spanish-Italian co-production which plays more like one of the eurospy films which had been so popular a decade earlier
June 13, 2012 Witch Without a Broom – Review Witch Without a Broom was one of several films made in Spain by the charismatic producer Sidney Pink.
May 9, 2012 X312 Flight to Hell – Review A kind of unofficial partner piece to The Devil Came from Akasava, X312 Flight to Hell was one of a quartet of films made by Jesus Franco for the German producer Artur Brauner’s CCC Film
May 3, 2012 Two Spanish thrillers: The Heat of the Flame and The Great Swindle The Heat of the Flame and The Great Swindle are two obscure Spanish thrillers from the 1970s.
