News just filtering through that Paolo Solvay, one of the iconic directors of Italian z-grade films of the sixties and seventies, had died.<\/p>\n
Solvay had been an actor, appearing in several low budget features (such as Roberto Mauri’s Slaughter of the Vampires <\/strong>(62)) before moving behind the cameras with the obscure 1966 film Tre franchi di piet\u00e0<\/strong>. His heyday, though, was the seventies, when he churned out films in a variety of genres: spaghetti westerns (Even Django Has His Price <\/strong>(71)), war films (When the Bell Tolls <\/strong>(70)), nunsploitation (Confessioni segrete di un convento di clausura, 72) and crime (Blackmail<\/strong> (74)). As the decade progressed, his work became increasingly sleazy, culminating in the notorious The Beast in Heat<\/strong>, in which a depraved doctor in a Nazi death camp creates a sex-addicted, dwarf monster with a tatse for pubic hair. After that particular pinnacle, though, he only made a couple more films, two of which – Proibito erotico <\/strong>and Gymkata Killer <\/strong>– there is some doubt as to his actual level of involvement.<\/p>\n Solvay was one of a group of filmmakers – along with the aforementioned Roberto Mauri and Alfredo Rizzo – who often appeared in each others productions. The films may not have been any good, but they have a kind of compulsive fascination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" News just filtering through that Paolo Solvay, one of the iconic directors of Italian z-grade films of the sixties and seventies, had died. Solvay…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[293,502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"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=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}