A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (Una Lucertola con la Pelle di Donna, 1971)
A former workaday director who debuted with a comedy starring beloved Italian comic Toto, Lucio Fulci began his journey toward ...
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Zombie (1979) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
aka Zombi 2; Zombie Flesh Eaters Even the title of Italian horror maestro Lucio Fulci’s most famous, and infamous, film ...
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L’Amante del Vampiro (1960) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
aka The Vampire and the Ballerina Riccardo Freda’s I Vampiri (1956) is often credited as the film that kicked off ...
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Youth (La giovinezza, 2015) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Paolo Sorrentino’s follow-up to his much-acclaimed The Great Beauty (2013), Youth revisits that film’s defining terrain, again depicting ageing prodigies ...
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Hercules vs. Moloch (Ercole contra Molock, 1963) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
An eruption of popularity sparked by Pietro Francisi’s Hercules (1959), starring Steve Reeves, helped make the Italian peplum or sword-and-sandal ...
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The Double Hour (La doppia ora, 2009) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
An eerie, engrossing tale of romantic longing, duplicity, and fractured realities, this debut by Giuseppe Capotondi has taken some time ...
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What Are These Strange Drops of Blood Doing on Jennifer’s Body? (Perchéquelle strane gocce di sangue sul corpo di Jennifer?, 1972)
aka The Case of the Bloody Iris An entertaining if not major entry in the early giallo genre stakes, this ...
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Il Divo (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Breakneck-paced exploration of a murk-shrouded subject – contemporary Italian politics, specifically the gnomic eminence gris that is Giulio Andreotti. Andreotti ...
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