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Camera filter frenzy... The Strange Color of Your Bodies Tears
March 15, 2018

The Strange Color of Your Bodies Tears

The Strange Color of Your Bodies Tears is Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s 2013 follow up to the critically acclaimed Amer, their visually sumptuous 2009 love-letter to the giallo genre.

A bit of a puzzler: Cryptic, starring Ed Stoppard (centre) and Vas Blackwood (right)
December 28, 2017

Cryptic

Taking two prominent strands of low budget British cinema – gangsters and vampires – and combining them seems like a logical enough step. After all, many would argue that crime is a kind of vampirism, that criminals and vampires share an innately parasitic nature…

The Walking Dea... oh, no, it's Age of the Dead
December 18, 2017

Age of the Dead

Marco Ristori and Luca Boni appear to consider themselves modern day successors to Lucio Fulci, the Italian maestro behind zombie classics such as The Beyond, City of the Living Dead and The House By the Cemetary.

The woods are alive with the sound of... Howl.
November 15, 2017

Howl

Director: Paul Hyett Writers: Mark Huckerby, Nick Ostler Stars: Ed Speleers, Holly Weston, Shauna Macdonald It’s not meant as an insult by any means,…

A close shave for George Hilton in Dead for a Dollar
November 10, 2017

Dead for a Dollar

Roy (Gordon Mitchell) fakes his own death in order to bamboozle his old partners by burying their stolen booty in his coffin. He enlists Glenn (George Hilton) to help him. The Colonel (John Ireland) and Portugese (Piero Vida) are not so easily fooled.

Gabriele Spinelli contemplates the evidence of visitors in The Last Man on Earth
November 6, 2017

The Last Man on Earth

2011 was a decent year for Italian science fiction, what with the release of the superior The Arrival of Wang and Gian Alfonso Pacinotti’s distinctly odd but rather engrossing The Last Man on Earth (L’ultimo terrestre).

We've all had mornings like that... Joanna Ignaczewska in The Scopia Effect
October 29, 2017

The Scopia Effect

If there’s one thing that the makers of The Scopia Effect can’t be accused of it’s a lack of ambition. Whereas most low budget science fiction films try to make the most of their limited resources by reducing their scope – relying on a small number of characters and settings – this does something rather different

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