italian exploitation movies

Overview of films

• L’aldilà

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  Lucio Fulci | 94' | Italy | -

  A diabolical tempo, sadism and a chunk of irony characterise this film, that Quentin Tarrantino described as one of the finest portrayals of hell.

• Antropophagus

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  Joe D’Amato | 90' | Italy | -

  On a deserted Greek island, a group of tourists is thinned down by a cadaver-consuming monster. No one is spared… Regarded by aficionados as the…

• Beatrice Cenci

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  Riccardo Freda | 93' | Italy | -

  Famous costume melodrama, in which a tyrannical count is held prisoner, while his second wife plots against his life with her stepson.

• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage

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  Dario Argento | 96' | Italy | -

  Feature debut was a great box-office success at the time. Argento embroidered forth on the archetypes of the Italian horror-genre, but also added all

• Endgame

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  Joe D’Amato | 92' | Italy | -

  English-language sci-fi/action film set after World War III; a gladiator-like ‘end game’ is broadcast on TV to keep the people down. ‘Live’ murders, w

• Non si sevizia un paperino

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  Lucio Fulci | 110' | Italy | -

  South Italian village is hit by a series of murders of little boys. Exciting plot in obsessive, stylishly photographed blood-filled film.

• La notte americana del Dr. Lucio Fulci

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  Antonietta De Lillo | 30' | Italy | -

  Video portrait of Italian B-master Fulci.

• Profondo rosso

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  Dario Argento | 130' | Italy | -

  In this stylish psycho-thriller the visual shock-effects are backed and introduced by electronic rock by the band Goblin.

• Ritratti d’autore: Cristiano Bortone vs Joe D’Amato

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  Cristiano Bortone | 15' | Italy | -

  Video portrait of Italian B-master D’Amato.

• Ritratti d’autore: Giuseppe Tornatore vs Riccardo Freda

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  Cristiano Bortone | 15' | Italy | -

  Video portrait of Italian B-master Freda.

• Ritratti d’autore: Pappi Corsicato vs Dario Argento

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  Cristiano Bortone | 15' | Italy | -

  Video portrait of Italian B-master Argento.

• Lo spettro

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  Riccardo Freda | 97' | Italy | -

  Super-low-budget film about vengeful ghost set at the turn of the 20th century in Scotland, it may be the Italian horror film par excellence.