Spirits of the Dead A.K.A Tales of Mystery
A.K.A. Histoires extraordinaires A.K.A. Tre passi nel delirio
(1968) 121 min
Rated: R (Blood, Nudity)
Country: France | Italy
Director: Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini
Starring: Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Peter Fonda, Terence Stamp
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★☆☆
Three horror stories based on works by Edgar Allen Poe.
Grave (original title)
(2016) 99 min
Rated: R (gore, nudity, sex, animal corpses)
Country: France | Belgium | Italy
Director: Julia Ducournau
Starring: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★★★
A young woman enters veterinary school and develops a taste for flesh.
Cemetery Man AKA Dellamorte Dellamore
(1994) 105 min.
Rated: R (Gore, sex & nudity)
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Director: Michele Soavi
Starring: Rupert Everett, François Hadji-Lazaro, Anna Falchi
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★☆☆
A lonely cemetery man fights off zombies and pines for the one woman who seems to keep reappearing in his life.
Demons A.K.A. “Dèmoni”
(1985) 88 Min.
Rated: Unrated (nudity, gore)
Country: Italy
Director: Lamberto Bava
Starring: Urbano Barberini, Natasha Hovey, Karl Zinny, Fiore Argento, Paola Cozzo, Geretta Geretta
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★☆☆
A group of people are trapped in a movie theater that becomes infected by demons who proceed to kill and posses the humans.
Cannibal Holocaust
(1980) 95 Min.
Rated: Unrated. (nudity, excessive gore, sex, rape, genuine cruelty to animals*)
Country: Italy
Director: Ruggero Deodato
Starring: Robert Kerman, Luca Barbareschi
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★★☆☆
One of the first “found footage” films and also one of the most controversial. Documentary filmmakers set off to explore and antagonize the jungle.
* Real animal deaths on screen: A coatimundi, a turtle, a tarantula, a snake, a monkey, a pig, fish.
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Don’t Torture A Duckling AKA
Non si sevizia un paperino
(1972) 102 Min.
Rated: Unrated (sexulized nudity, adult language, some gore)
Country: Italy
Director: Lucio Fulci
Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★★☆☆☆
Children are getting murdered in a small Italian town.
The Bermuda Triangle AKA Il triangolo delle Bermude AKA El Triángulo diabólico de las Bermudas
(1978) 112 min.
Rated: NR (minor blood, scenes of 2 sharks being killed, several dead birds.)
Country: Italy / Mexico
Director: René Cardona Jr.
Starring: John Huston, Andrés García, Hugo Stiglitz
Links: IMDB | Wikipedia
Rating: ★☆☆☆☆
A family aboard a ship get pulled into the Bermuda Triangle.
