Le orme
Alice (Florinda Bolkan), a translator, awakes in her apartment from a dream of a half forgotten old movie about a sinister scientist (Klaus Kinski) who strands an astronaut on the… Read more »
Tag: 1970s
Identikit
Elizabeth Taylor arrived on the set of director Giuseppe Patroni Griffi’s Identikit (1974) the day after her first divorce from Richard Burton was finalized. Taylor’s portrayal of Lise is an… Read more »
La polizia brancola nel buio
La polizia brancola nel buio (1975) opens like any second-rate giallo with a woman fleeing some unknown killer across the Italian countryside as her clothes fall off of her body…. Read more »
The Molly Maguires
When I was in middle school and the curriculum turned towards our local Rust Belt history then it would be likely that the teacher would show The Molly Maguires (1970)…. Read more »
Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal
Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal (1971) is loosely based on the murder of Honorah Parker by her daughter Pauline and her daughter’s friend Anne Perry in 1954. While… Read more »
Glissements progressifs du plaisir
Glissements progressifs du plaisir (1974) opens with a police lieutenant (Jean-Louis Trintignant) arriving at a crime scene to interview a young woman (Anicée Alvina) suspected of murder. When the policeman… Read more »
Demons Of The Mind
Demons Of The Mind (1972) was the first of two films that Australian director Peter Sykes made for Hammer Productions (the second being To The Devil A Daughter). Demons Of… Read more »
Let’s Scare Jessica To Death
Let’s Scare Jessica To Death (1971) is one of the masterpieces of horror filmmaking to have come out of the seventies. This small, independent feature is a slow burning, tension… Read more »
Tutti i colori del buio
Sergio Martino’s classic Tutti i colori del buio (1972) is a highly expressionistic thriller marked by psychedelic flourishes that combines the psycho-drama of Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie (1964) with the Gothic… Read more »
Satan’s Slave
On the eve of her twentieth birthday Catherine Yorke (Candace Glendenning) is drawn by the sinister machinations of a satanic cult to her uncle Alexander’s (Michael Gough) estate in a… Read more »
