Art house, meets funhouse? Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood is a no-budget 70s exploitation film with Gothic and other aspirations, which, even if frequently unmet are nonetheless well worthy of your time. The brainchild of director Christopher Speeth, for whom this is a singular achievement – literally, as he never made another film – this oneContinue reading “Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood”
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Knife in Ice
Having a character be mute is a clever, albeit annoying way to propel a narrative. In the horror genre, it’s a conceit that’s typically a response to trauma, as in Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, or in Umberto Lenzi’s giallo Knife in Ice, whose lead witnessed her parents’ death in a train crashContinue reading “Knife in Ice”
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