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Movie: City of the Living Dead

[TRAILER] A psychic participates in a séance where she sees a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church cemetery, causing her to die of fright. New York City reporter Peter Bell investigates the séance and learns that the priest’s suicide has somehow opened a portal to Hell and must be sealed by All Saints Day, or else the dead will overtake humanity. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 11, 2024 - 5 comments

Movie: The Church

[TRAILER] In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence and demonic vengeance. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 11, 2024 - 3 comments

Movie: Demons 2

[TRAILER] A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 11, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Demons

[TRAILER] A group of people invited to a movie screening in West Berlin find themselves facing off against ravenous zombie-like demons, determined to kill them and then take over their bodies one-by-one. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Mar 11, 2024 - 4 comments

Movie: Cemetery Man

[TRAILER] Original title: DellaMorte DellAmore. Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett) is the beleaguered caretaker of a small Italian cemetery, who searches for love while defending himself from dead people who keep rising again. Everything is going well until “She” (Anna Falchi) comes along and stirs things up a bit. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 16, 2024 - 19 comments

Movie: Dario Argento Panico

Dario Argento, 84, visits a quaint Italian countryside hotel to finish writing his next film. A camera crew comes along and interviews him about his life and career as one of horror's greatest filmmakers. Also featuring interviews with admirers like Guillermo del Toro and Gaspar Noe, as well as Argento's family, including daughter Asia Argento..
posted by kittens for breakfast on Feb 2, 2024 - 1 comment

Movie: The Police Are Blundering in the Dark

During an outbreak of violent murders in the area targeting young women, a journalist searching for a female friend gone missing ends up in a villa owned by an eccentric photographer. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 16, 2022 - 0 comments

Movie: Inferno

A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 24, 2022 - 2 comments

Movie: Maciste in Hell

Guido Brignone transfigured Dante’s vision of Hell into a grandiose cinematic spectacle of fantasy and imagination. Legendary actor Bartolomeo Pagano plays a strongman, who descends into the inferno in order to restore order, a role he reprised 27 times in this long-running film series. The enthralling contrasts between the realistic scenes on Earth and the surrealist ones in Hell, huge cast of demons, decapitations, (and an un-decapitation!), and a terrifying dragon, fashioned from the most state of the art special effects of the day, all inspired Fellini to get into the movies. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 22, 2022 - 4 comments

Movie: Suspiria

Suzy (Jessica Harper) travels to Germany to attend ballet school. When she arrives, late on a stormy night, no one lets her in, and she sees Pat (Eva Axén), another student, fleeing from the school. When Pat reaches her apartment, she is murdered. The next day, Suzy is admitted to her new school, but has a difficult time settling in. She hears noises, and often feels ill. As more people die, Suzy uncovers the terrifying secret history of the place. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jul 26, 2022 - 11 comments

Movie: Blood and Black Lace

A masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome. Mario Bava's giallo classic. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Feb 5, 2022 - 2 comments

Movie: Life Is Beautiful

An Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life comes to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up, he goes to great lengths to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Oct 13, 2019 - 11 comments

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