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This giallo will have the most value to the gialloholic. It has some fine distinctions:

- A natural visual style that's different from the average giallo. It's earthen and toned down.
- A score that's heavily influenced by Miles Davis's experimental period that began in the late 1960s. It sounds like one of his double albums from the early '70s.
- A plot that builds toward a revelation, choosing the slow burn over murder set pieces.
- Incredibly over-mixed sound…

A weak Peckinpah film. It's a higher-budget borderline-exploitation riff on movies like "Smokey and the Bandit" and "Vanishing Point."

It starts off as a fun though clunky run-from-the-cops film, then becomes a contrived commentary on folk hero populism and political opportunism. The ethos is one of individualism, but poorly done and unconvincing. Characters make declarative statements that are obvious and thus risible.

There is a story here, but it's too overtly predicated on prior films and feels like a mishmash…

Apart from a well-delivered penis joke, "Demon Wind" is mostly tropey and illogical, though representative of a style that low-tier horror productions had circa 1990 (e.g., "The Curse," especially that brooding electronic score mixed with bluesy guitars, and gross make-up fx). I grew up with this style, so I enjoyed seeing it again, but not enough to buy the new blu-ray (which looks great, go Vinegar Syndrome). At least the characters are distinct and relatively mature compared to the usual…

What’s stopping you from watching a “samurai slasher?” Nothing should. It’s the most aesthetically pleasing phrase in human history. So what’s the story?

In rural Wisconsin, USA, siblings Ted and Dolly, plus Ted’s new girlfriend Sarah, visit their mother, Cathy, and her boyfriend Gary. Cathy and Gary are an odd couple: He’s a good ol’ boy with a love for hunting, like the kids, but she’s a spiritual artist with a flair for expressionist painting. Upon meeting Sarah, Cathy senses…