ITALIAN HORROR

ITALIAN HORROR

Auteur : Jim Harper

Année : 2005

Editeur : Luminary Press

Nombre de pages : 252

Couleur : N/B

Langue : Anglais

Quatrième de couverture : Italian Horror covers Italian horror films released between 1979 and 1994. Why those years ? Well, primarily for convenience. They mark the release dates of Lucio Fulci's Zombie, the film that instigated the last great wave of Italian horror, and Michele Soavi's Dellamorte Dellamore, the last great Italian horror film. After the release of Soavi's film, relatively few new Italian horror movies were made; the trend had run its course, and such films were no longer seen as commercially viable.

This period has attracted relatively little serious study, with the exception of the works of certain high-profile directors - Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and Ruggero Deodato. More often than not, the 1980s are passed over as a time when Italian horror was bogged down in derivative sequels or toothless made-for-television efforts, before fizzling out in the early 1990s.

The aim of this work then is to guide the unfamiliar viewer to the best films of the period while hopefully steering him or her away from the dross.

Sommaire : 

- Acknowledgements

- Author's Introduction

- Introduction to Italian Horror

- Absurd

- Aenigma

- After Death

- Alien from the deep

- Amazonia

- Anthropophagous

- The Beyond

- Beyond Darkness

- Beyond the Darkness

- Black Angel

- The Black Cat (1981)

- The Black Cat (1989)

- Black Demons

- A Blade in the Dark

- Blood Delirium

- Blood Link

- Bloody Psycho

- Body Puzzle

- Bodycount

- Burial Ground

- Cannibal Apocalypse

- Cannibal Ferox

- Cannibal Holocaust

- Cannibals

- La Casa del Buon Ritorno

- The Church

- The City of the Living Dead

- Contamination

- Curse 2 : The Bite

- Cut and Run

- Dagger Eyes

- Dangerous Obsession

- Dawn of the Mummy

- Dead Waters

- Delirium

- Dellamorte Dellamore

- Demonia

- Demons

- Demons 2

- The Devil's Veil

- Dial : Help

- Dinner with a Vampire

- The Door to Silence

- Eaten Alive !

- The Erotic Nights of the Living Dead

- Evil Clutch

- Eyewitness

- Fear

- Formula for a Murder

- Ghosthouse

- The Ghosts of Sodom

- Giallo a Venezia

- Graveyard Disturbance

- The Great Alligator

- Hansel e Gretel

- Hell of the Living Dead

- Hell's Gates

- Hitcher in the Dark

- The House by the Cemetary

- The House of Clocks

- The House of Lost Souls

- The House of the Yellow Carpet

- The House of Witchcraft

- The House on the Edge of the Park

- Inferno

- The Island of the Fishmen

- Killer Fish

- The Killer is still Among Us

- Killing Birds

- The Last Shark

- Luna di Sangue

- Macabre

- Madhouse

- Malabimba

- The Man who didn't Want to Die

- Manhattan Baby

- Massacre

- Massacre in Dinosaur Valley

- Maya

- Monster Dog

- Monster Shark

- Murderock

- The Murder Secret

- The New-York Ripper

- Nightmare City

- Nightmare Concert

- Nothing Underneath

- The Ogre

- Opera

- The Other Hell

- Paganini Horror

- Patrick Still Lives

- Phantom of Death

- Phenomena

- Piranha 2

- Porno Holocaust

- The Prince of Terror

- The Ratman

- Rats : Night of Terror

- The Red Monks

- The School of Fear

- The Scorpion with Two Tails

- The Sect

- Specters

- Spider Labyrinth

- Stagefright

- The Sweet House of Horrors

- Tenebrae

- Touch of Death

- Trauma

- Troll 2

- Two Evil Eyes

- Until Death

- Vampire in Venice

- The Visitor

- Voices from Beyond

- Washing Machine

- Welcome to Spring Break

- Witch Story

- Witchcraft

- You'll Die at Midnight

- Zeder

- Zombie (1979)

- Zombie 3

- Zombie Holocaust

- Essential Italian Horror Film Directors, Screenwriters, Special Effects Technicians and Makeup Artists

- Bibliography

- Index of Alternative Titles

- Index of Pseudonyms

- Footnotes

- Index