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Italo-Western, Italy 1966
Original Title: Un Fiume di dollari
(a.k.a. River of Dollars / Eine Flut von Dollars)
Directed by Carlo Lizzani (as Lee W. Beaver)
Produced by Luigi Carpentieri & Ermanno Donati
Music by Ennio Morricone (as Leo Nichols)
Starring: Thomas Hunter & other unknown
The most beautiful girls in the world…
Some are for loving…
Some are for killing!
A reedy man wearing saddle shoes and an ill-fitting suit drags the nude body of a young woman- her throat slit– along an otherwise empty beach. Soon a number of other beautiful women turn up dead, their throats also cut open. Nurses, students, [...]
Deadlier than Dracula…
Wilder than Werewolf…
More frightening than Frankenstein!
A small town in 18th century Transylvania is being terrorized by an evil witch. When a child is brutally attacked, the villagers capture the fiend and sentence her to death by dunking chair, but not before she casts a curse on them and their descendants. Two hundred years [...]
When I walked into work today, I couldn’t believe what I saw sitting on my desk: a copy of “Return to Sleepaway Camp.” (Out on DVD by Magnolia Pictures Nov. 4) I’d known for awhile they were making another sequel to the 1983 slasher flick, but to see it in the flesh with the names [...]
Halloween is right around the corner, and while the theaters are crammed with new horror films and Wal-Mart shelves are stocked with direct-to-video releases, one cannot ignore some of the benchmarks in classic horror cinema.
“The Haunting” (1963)
A lot of horror movies make an attempt to show the audience either some computer-generated monstrous beast or an [...]
THE EXORCIST was named the greatest horror film in a poll out today. The 1973 supernatural thriller came out on top in retailer HMV’s annual survey of more than 6,000 customers, published as Halloween approaches.
Directed by William Friedkin, the movie (pictured), which also scooped the most votes last year, features performances by Linda Blair, Ellen [...]
What kinds of movies come to mind when you think of classic horror films? Nosferatu, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Night of the Living Dead…? Yes, you would think that… well let me ask you this: when considering “classic horror,” do you lump She’s the Man (that Amanda-Bynes-starring abomination of Shakespeare’s master comedy Twelfth Night) or [...]
The second film from Basket Case director, Frank Henenlotter returns with the funny and moderately gory Brain Damage. I bought both movies years ago after a friend suggested them to me and though they are far from perfect, they are both enjoyable. But, this is a review about Brain Damage, so let’s get to it.
A [...]
Perhaps one of the most disturbing and misunderstood movies of all time, I Spit On Your Grave (a.k.a. Day of the Woman & The Rape and Revenge of Jessica Hills, among other titles) is, in few words, a timeless classic in my honest opinion. Hills Have Eyes, Last House on the Left are but a [...]
