Roberta discovers the corpse of a young woman while driving down a remote country road late at night. Roberta reports the incident to the police, but the corpse disappears from the crime scene. Is Roberta insane? Or is someone trying to drive her crazy?Read More »
Horror
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Roberto Pariante – La porta sul buio: Testimone oculare AKA Door Into Darkness: Eyewitness [+ Extras] (1973)
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Mario Foglietti – La porta sul buio: La bambola AKA Door Into Darkness: The Doll [+ Extras] (1973)
Mario Foglietti1971-1980GialloHorrorItalyA mental patient escapes from an asylum. The police try to find said patient before anyone in the outside world gets hurt or killed.Read More »
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Dario Argento – La porta sul buio: Il tram AKA Door Into Darkness: The Tram [+ Extras] (1973)
1971-1980Dario ArgentoGialloHorrorItalyA young woman gets murdered on a crowded tram without anyone else noticing the crime. Inspector Giordani decides to recreate the incident in order to find out the killer’s identity.Read More »
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Luigi Cozzi – La porta sul buio: Il vicino di casa AKA Door Into Darkness: The Neighbor [+ Extras] (1973)
1971-1980GialloHorrorItalyLuigi CozziLuca and Stefania are a young couple with a baby who move into a remote seaside apartment late at night. Unbeknownst to the couple, the neighbor who lives upstairs has just murdered his wife.Read More »
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Jan Svankmajer – Sílení AKA Lunacy (2005)
2001-2010ArthouseCzech RepublicHorrorJan SvankmajerA horror movie testing two approaches to running an insane asylum – absolute freedom versus control and punishment – within the context of a world that combines the worst of both. Jean Berlot, a young man subject to a nightmare of being forced into a straitjacket by two orderlies, is befriended by a marquis. At the marquis’s estate, Jean witnesses a black Mass, buries someone alive, and is invited to try preventive therapy. He’s willing to enter a sanatorium because he believes he can rescue a young woman from there who has told him that the real director and staff of the clinic are locked in the basement. Jean conspires with her to set them free: the horrors have only begun.Read More »
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Jesús Franco – Miss Muerte AKA The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966)
1961-1970FranceHorrorJesus FrancoSci-FiThe film stars Mabel Karr as Irma Zimmer, a surgeon who creates a machine that turns people into zombified slaves. Ms. Zimmer is the daughter of a Professor Zimmer (a disciple of Dr. Orloff), who was hounded to his death several years earlier by four of his scientific associates. Zimmer uses the machine to control an erotic dancer named Miss Muerte (Estella Blain) who uses her long poison-tipped fingernails to murder the people Ms. Zimmer holds responsible for her father’s death.Read More »
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Jesús Franco – La esclava blanca (1985)
1981-1990AdventureHorrorJesus FrancoSpainRobert Monell wrote:
Of the eight other films Franco made in 1985 (half of them hardcore porno features), this very low budget adventure stands out because of an absorbing, multi-layered script by ace Spanish screenwriter Santiago Moncada. Beside writing Mario Bava’s HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON, Claudio Guerin Hill’s THE BELL FROM HELL and Juan Antonio Bardem’s THE CORRUPTION OF CHRIS MILLER, Moncada has written and produced screenplays for a variety of European genre directors. Manuel Cano’s SWAMP OF THE RAVENS, TARZAN’S GREATEST CHALLENGE and VOODOO BLACK EXORCIST were all based on Moncada screenplays, not to mention the ultra-violent Spanish western CUTTHROATS NINE. This film was co-produced by Moncada and Franco’s Manacoa company.Read More » -
Wallace Fox – The Corpse Vanishes (1942)
Wallace Fox1941-1950HorrorSci-FiUSADr. Lorenz, a mad scientist, wants to keep his elderly wife young. He does this by kidnapping young females and extracting fluid from them. He then injects this fluid into his wife. What a diabolical guy!Read More »
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Wallace Fox – Bowery at Midnight (1942)
1941-1950ClassicsHorrorUSAWallace FoxBowery at Midnight casts Bela Lugosi as Professor Brenner, a psychology instructor at New York University (which looks a lot like Berkeley in the exterior shots!). When not enlightening his students — most of them buxom Monogram starlets — Brenner is engaged in charitable work, running a mission in the Bowery. In truth, however, the kindly professor is a fiend in human form, who uses his mission as a front for a vast criminal empire. When Judy (Wanda McKay), one of Brenner’s students, stumbles onto the truth, she’s targeted for extermination by the Dr. Jekyll-and-Mr. Hyde prof.Read More »