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giallo fever: June 2013
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Taking 'eurotrash' seriously – but not too seriously. Monday, 24 June 2013. Abducted by the Daleks. Well, if you are familiar with any of other ‘films’ by director Don Skaro under his other pseudonym Roman Nowicki, you’ll anticipate that is is minimal. Of the Fantom Kiler. Series is not exactly known for complex plotting. Rather it is about stringing together a few scenes with the same basic slasher/porno dynamic. Woman gets naked, then woman gets killed (in the former) or fucked (in the latter). Followi...
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giallo fever: Remake, Remix, Rip-Off
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Taking 'eurotrash' seriously – but not too seriously. Thursday, 18 June 2015. Remake, Remix, Rip-Off. What does it mean to watch a Turkish version of The Exorcist, Seytan, for instance, when the religious context is that of Islam rather than Christianity? Or Dracula in Istanbul, when there is the historical context of the Ottoman Empire and the Romanian Vlad Dracul? Or a superhero romp in which Spiderman, albeit in a green and purple costume, is a sadistic killer? In sum, improvisation was the name of th...
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giallo fever: November 2013
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Taking 'eurotrash' seriously – but not too seriously. Saturday, 30 November 2013. Olney begins by this academic study by demonstrating that European horror cinema of the 60s through 80s has a surprisingly high profile amongst contemporary horror audiences. As evidence of this he cites the successful re-releases of Eurohorror by Grindhouse Releasing along with lavish DVD releases of both acknowledged genre classics such as Lucio Fulci's The Beyond. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage. The New York Ripper.
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giallo fever: Makeup Room
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Taking 'eurotrash' seriously – but not too seriously. Wednesday, 24 June 2015. Makeup Room presents a classical unity of time, space and action, of one day behind the scenes on the shooting of a Japanese adult video (JAV). Most of the comedy is based around the premise that anything which can go wrong will. If it is necessarily exaggerated it also comes across as having groundings in the experiences of the filmmakers. The performers and, through this, the director’s handling impress. Even if the film is ...
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giallo fever: July 2015
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Taking 'eurotrash' seriously – but not too seriously. Sunday, 5 July 2015. Chuck Norris versus Communism. This HBO documentary, presented via Brett Ratner, presents an account of the distinctive video culture that emerged in Romania in the final years of the Ceacescu regime via a combination of interviews and reconstructions with both ordinary people and key figures in the samizdat video scene. These things said, Chuck Norris versus Communism is worth watching for anyone with an interest in global video ...
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giallo fever: Hammer's Film Legacy
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Taking 'eurotrash' seriously – but not too seriously. Friday, 2 January 2015. This 408 page book by Wayne Kinsey covers every Hammer production made between The Quatermass Xperiment. In 1955 and To the Devil a Daughter. In 1976 (including the is-it-or-isn’t-it Hammer The Shadow of the Cat. There’s thus next to nothing on Exclusive/Hammer in the periods immediately before and after the Second World War, nor on the likes of Terence Fisher’s Three Sided Triangle. Overall, however, well worth getting. Prevue...
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giallo fever: June 2015
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Taking 'eurotrash' seriously – but not too seriously. Wednesday, 24 June 2015. It’s impossible to watch That Sugar Film and not think of Supersize Me as an obvious progenitor and reference point. Both are documentaries that see their director subject himself to a different diet for a period in order to chart the effects this has on his physical and emotional well being. The science aspects are presented, like the rest of the film, in a light, breezy and undeniably slick way. This all keeps the film a...
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giallo fever: Future Shock! The Story of 2000 AD
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Taking 'eurotrash' seriously – but not too seriously. Friday, 19 June 2015. The Story of 2000 AD. No film or book should ever be described as the story or history of its subject, whether as a title or a subtitle. There is not The Story of Film, nor The Story of 2000 AD. Rather there are stories, histories, accounts, necessarily incomplete and intentionally or unintentionally biased. The critical theme, and self-criticism, re-emerge. (In the spirit of self-criticism I don’t know if there is a ch...Overall...
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giallo fever: May 2013
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Taking 'eurotrash' seriously – but not too seriously. Friday, 31 May 2013. Little Shoppe of Horrors #29 - The Abominable Dr Phibes. Although it has been out for the last six months or so I had not got around to reading this issue of Richard Klemensen’s long running British horror magazine until now – a few days before the next issue, focusing on Hammer’s Vampire Circus. In reading this issue on the Dr Phibes films I had an epiphany of exactly what it is that I so like about Little Shoppe of Horrors.
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giallo fever: July 2013
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Taking 'eurotrash' seriously – but not too seriously. Friday, 26 July 2013. The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein. When discussing El Topo. Alejandro Jodorowsky was fond of remarking that what audiences would get out out of the film was dependent upon what they would put into it. If the spectator was limited then the film was limited. Allusion-wise the film comes across as one of Franco’s tributes to 1930s and 1940s horrors, notably The Mask of Fu Manchu. The idea of mating the monster arguably gives an added...
