Italian and Italian-language Films
At the Mountains of Madness: ambitious adaptation of the famous H P Lovecraft story of the Cthulhu mythos
Michele Botticelli, “At the Mountains of Madness” (2011) With the release of Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus”
Tag: Horror
Unearthed: a good-looking pastiche of different Hollywood movie story-lines and plot elements
Lindsay Harris and Stuart Leach, “Unearthed” (2011) On the edge of the known universe, a
The Wild, Wild West (Season 2, Episode 17: Night of the Feathered Fury): well balanced between serious drama and tongue-in-cheek fantasy
Robert Sparr, “The Wild, Wild West (Season 2, Episode 17: Night of the Feathered Fury)”
The Wild Wild West (Season 4, Episode 4: The Night of the Sedgewick Curse): clever and intelligent combination of horror and science fiction
Marvin Chomsky, “The Wild Wild West (Season 4, Episode 4: The Night of the Sedgewick
The Avengers (Season 5, Episode 17: The Return of the Cybernauts): mind control is the dominant theme
Robert Day, “The Avengers (Season 5, Episode 17: The Return of the Cybernauts)” (1967) One
The Ghoul: upper class comedy masquerading as horror
T Hayes Hunter, “The Ghoul” (1933) I had never heard of this film before and
Gibel’ Sensatsii / Loss of Feeling: good-looking film about robots and workers versus capitalists
Aleksandr Andriyevsky, “Gibel’ Sensatsii / Loss of Feeling” (1935) A very handsome-looking film made in
Little Black Riding Hood / The Walls: two very different early shorts by Piotr Dumala
Piotr Dumala, “Little Black Riding Hood / Czarny Kapturek” (1983) Piotr Dumala, “The Walls /
Two comedy horror shorts by Martin Scorsese about self-destructive compulsions and obsessions
Martin Scorsese, “What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?” (1963)
Põrgu (Hell): good versus evil in homage to a 20th century Estonian surrealist artist
Rein Raamat, “Põrgu (Hell)” (1983) While watching “Wax or the Discovery of Television among the