Originally titled El Sueño del Mono Loco (The Dream of the Mad Monkey), this is based on the Christopher Frank book. While it has the 90’s genre of erotic thriller attached to it, this is very much in the world of the giallo.

To wit: Jeff Goldblum’s Dan Gillis is a stranger in a strange land, one of the key tropes of the yellow-tinged thriller, a writer in Paris who has been left behind by his wife and suddenly a…

Zombi 2 has nothing to do with Dawn of the Dead, which was re-edited by co-producer Dario Argento, rescored by Goblin and released in Italy as Zombi. It was a huge success and nothing succeeds like more, more and more. As Italian copyright law allows any film to be marketed as a sequel to another work, producer Fabrizio De Angelis quickly decided that it was time to make that sequel.

Originally, Enzo G. Castellari (1990: The Bronx Warriors, Warriors of the…

The first film of director, co-writer and editor (he also is in the movie) James Watts, Death Trip is the story of four friends — including co-writer Kelly Kay — has pretensions of art and feels improvised, but the most planned scenes strike the hardest. There’s a great slasher here, but sadly, it takes forever to get through some of this to see what could be.

Getting out of the city, Kelly and her friends soon learn some dark things…