Showing posts with label 1970. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1970. Show all posts

Friday, 5 February 2016

Five Dolls For An August Moon (Mario Bava, 1970) Blu-Ray/DVD Review


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“It looks like we'll all wind up in this damn freezer.” Heavily indebted to Agatha Christie's 'Ten Little Indians', Five Dolls For An August Moon – scripted by Mario di Nardo – is a project, with director Mario Bava's own confession, that he made 'under protest'. Denied extra time to rework the script, and never fully investing in its making as a result, the Black Sunday filmmaker nevertheless crafted a lush vision of privileged degenerates on an island retreat allowing their greed and blood lust get the better of them...


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Tuesday, 29 October 2013

The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (Luciano Ercoli, 1970) DVD Review


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Typically, giallo films centre around a crazed killer dispatching beautiful women, or anyone who blocks their path for vengeance, but there are occasions where the genre strays further afield, and the lines of definition begin to blur. Step forth Luciano Ercoli's elaborately-named The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion, a mysterious psycho-sexual tale of bourgeois blackmail.


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