{"id":1734,"date":"2009-12-17T14:26:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T14:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2009-12-17T14:30:04","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T14:30:04","slug":"more-mya-on-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/more-mya-on-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"More MYA on DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lots of interesting films coming out on Italian DVD again this week:\u00a0 Giuseppe Capotondi’s well-received thriller La doppia ora<\/strong>, Giuseppe Tornatore’s Baaria<\/strong> and Francesco Gasperoni’s giallo Smile<\/strong>.\u00a0 And, what do you know it, not one <\/em>of them has English subs.\u00a0 Good grief.\u00a0 Well, hopefully at least two of them will get some kind of international distribution soon (I’d guess Baaria <\/strong>and La doppia ora<\/strong> will, who knows with Smile<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

There is one film, though, that does have English audio: Domiziano Cristopharo’s House of Flesh Mannequins <\/span><\/strong>(aka La casa dei manichini di carne).\u00a0 This is a new one to me, but here’s the blurb from the press release:<\/span><\/p>\n

A nostalgic homage that winks at the classic films from the 70’s. The cinematography of Mirco Sgarzi recalls with personality the atmospheres of the best Fulci and Argento movies. This is cinema by one who loves cinema, a movie which evokes the surrealism of Lynch, passing through Cronenberg body horror as well. International porn stars and regular actors working together for the first time with extreme body art used in torture scenes. Everything is real, but at the same time, everything is done for the purpose of creating a movie, which is anything but real. The movie presents a compelling case against the use of gratuitous violence, on TV, as well as the self-righteous, sanctimonious ways that society chooses to confront children’s issues. <\/span><\/p>\n

Which is frankly rather unhelpful… what’s the plot???\u00a0 Anyway, in the cast are Domiziano Arcangeli, who’s been popping up in Italian exploitation films since the early 80s (and who also popped up briefly in Bruno<\/strong>!) and splatter favourite Giovanni Lombardo Radice.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, there’s also another batch of DVDs from US label MYA:\u00a0 Family Scandal<\/a> <\/strong>is Mario Sabatini’s Peccato originale<\/em>, about which I know absolutely nothing, beyond the fact it stars Philippe Leroy.\u00a0 The Lady Medic<\/a><\/strong> is another one of those ‘sexy doctor\/teacher\/policewoman’ type films, with Edwige Fenech and directed by Nando Cicero.\u00a0 The Real Emanuelle<\/a><\/strong> is a retitling of Pier Ludovico Pavoni’s<\/span> Amore libero – Free Love, <\/em>an early Laura Gemser film which didn’t actually have anything to do with the Emanuelle films.\u00a0 The Last Decameron<\/a><\/strong> is a decameroticon from Joe D’Amato. <\/em> Human Cobras<\/a><\/strong> is possibly the most interesting of the bunch, a very rare giallo from Bitto Albertini and starring Giorgio Ardisson – it’s not a great film, but it is interesting. <\/em>As always, none of these will exactly be of jaw-dropping quality, but even seeing the darned things with English options is to be welcomed.\u00a0
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Lots of Italian DVD released this week… without English options. Also, Italian horror film House of the Flesh Mannequins and a bunch of discs from MYA, including Human Cobras and The Last Decameron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}