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Vortice Mortale : Paula-Paula (2010)

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Monday, December 29, 2014. Shot almost entirely in Franco and Lina Romay’s own apartment, Paula-Paula. Is easily Franco’s most experimental, inaccessible and alienating film and its also a film that would eventually mark the end of an era as it sadly features the final screen appearance of Lina Romay. There seems to be two schools of though when it comes to Paula-Paula. And again, its inspiring just to listen to his excitement over the film. Franco praises the cast especially Carmen Montes and rightf...

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Vortice Mortale : August 2016

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Monday, August 22, 2016. Maps to the Stars (2014). One of David Cronenberg’s biggest strengths as a filmmaker has always been the ability to contort reality by introducing slightly futuristic concepts into what were otherwise fairly real world situations. In early films like Shivers. 1977), a man made parasite and surgical advances caused an outbreak of sexual mania and a unique form of vampyrism of sorts. With Videodrome. 2002) and A History of Violence. Is a logical continuation of films like Spider.

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Vortice Mortale : Killer Barbys (1996)

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Monday, December 12, 2016. AKA Vampire Killer Barbys. Along with Lina Romay and the cinema, music, and particularly jazz, was the other great love of Jess Franco’s life with a good number of his films defined by their soundtracks. Franco’s fruitful collaborations with Bruno Nicolai immediately spring to mind, from the lush classical compositions of Justine. 1968) to the exotic Velvet Underground inspired soundscapes of Eugenie… the Story of Her Journey into Perversion. 1969) Venus in Furs. Somewhat of a ...

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Vortice Mortale : Dangerous Game (1993)

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Monday, January 9, 2017. 1993 was a strange year for Abel Ferrara with the maverick New Yorker helming two very worthwhile films that were unceremoniously thrown under the bus upon their respective releases. Coming off of the grimy and fiercely independent Bad Lieutenant. 1992), Ferrara did something interesting and unexpected by taking on the most ambitious project of his career, Body Snatchers. The third adaptation of Jack Finney’s book. Body Snatchers. For what it truly is, a misunderstood masterpiece.

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Vortice Mortale : June 2016

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Monday, June 27, 2016. Door into Silence (1991). Popular consensus seems to dictate that the 90’s were a down time for horror following the massive boom of the 70’s and 80’s. Italian horror found itself in a particularly interesting place at the dawn of the 90’s with many fans feeling that as the 80’s drew to a close, the Italian horror industry began to decline, despite the emergence of new blood like Michele Soavi and films like Stage Fright. 1987) and The Church. Although they’re quite effective...

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Vortice Mortale : September 2016

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Monday, September 19, 2016. Mannaja: A Man Called Blade (1977). 1964) and from then on until the mid to late 70’s it seems as if virtually every Italian director tried they're hand at the western genre. This included many who would go onto to become horror maestro’s such as Giulio Questi, Lucio Fulci and Umberto Lenzi. Dario Argento even received a writing credit on Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West. 1969) and Naked and Violent. 1970), Martino made his narrative film debut with Arizona Colt Returns.

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Vortice Mortale : Body Snatchers (1993)

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Monday, February 8, 2016. Although it hasn’t been adapted to the screen nearly as much as say Frankenstein. Jack Finney’s 1955 novel The Body Snatchers. Has nonetheless gone on to become one of the most iconic stories in science fiction and horror. To date there have been four film adaptations of the novel, each with their own individual flavors, although the flavor of the fourth version, The Invasion. 2007) left a bitter taste in the mouths of many. Invasion of the Body Snatchers. 1979), Ms. 45.

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Vortice Mortale : Waves of Lust (1975)

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Monday, November 28, 2016. Waves of Lust (1975). Was a sun baked Polanski-esque potboiler that really set in motion the types confrontational and pessimistic films Deodato would eventually become notorious for. Although nowhere near the savagery of Cannibal Holocaust. 1980) or The House on the Edge of the Park. 1980), Waves of Lust. Is still a nasty piece of business with Deodato’s nihilistic worldview in plain sight. It would be easy to describe Waves of Lust. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Vortice Mortale : Lulu (1980)

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Monday, December 26, 2016. It makes complete sense that Walerian Borowczyk would adapt Frank Wedekind's “Lulu” plays for the screen. The plays, Earth Spirit. First performed in 1895 and Pandora’s Box. In 1904, attracted a considerable amount of controversy upon their premiers due to their treatment of topics considered at the time to be taboo, namely female sexuality, not unlike the controversy that would later surround Borowczyk and several of his films, for instance Immoral Tales. 1974) and The Beast.

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Vortice Mortale : January 2017

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Monday, January 23, 2017. In March 2015, Abel Ferrara issued a cease and desist letter to IFC Films, the American distributor for his Dominique Strauss-Kahn inspired Welcome to New York. 1996) has found itself is one form of distribution hell or another with films like Mary. 2005) and Go-Go Tales. 2007) playing the festival circuit only to disappear after the fact, or in the case of a film like ’R Xmas. By sneaking the film into a minuscule amount of theaters. The Blackout. However, Ferrara succeeds in c...