After helping steal a trunkful of Wells Fargo gold, half-breed Django (Tomas Milian, Traffic) and his fellow minorities are not only denied their share by Oaks (Piero Lulli, My Name Is Nobody) and his evil white bandits, but gunned down and dumped in a mass grave they were forced to dig. Being the hero of […]
Blue Underground
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The Killer Nun
After having a brain tumor removed, Sister Gertrude hasn’t been the same. She thinks she still has cancer and cries out for a shot filled with sweet, sweet morphine. The doctors at the psych ward where she works assure her that her thoughts are simply stress-induced and psychosomatic, but Gertrude’s much-younger roomie, Sister Mathieu (Paola […]
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Night Train Murders
It’s not, but the comparison to Wes Craven’s 1972 debut is hardly unwarranted, because director Aldo Lado’s Italian film is practically a remake, right down to the lead ugly-mugged thug, but with an added mode of transportation. Heck, a poster in the disc’s advertising gallery even reveals an alternate title of “Last House — Part […]
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Torso
First of all, once the disc loaded, it offered the choice between the uncensored English version or the Italian-language director’s cut, both making their home-vid debut. I chose the latter. Then it offered the choice of watching it introduced by Eli Roth. “Hell, yes,” I said to absolutely no one, and was greeted with a […]
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The Nesting
According to the trailers and TV spots in the extras, “it’s the terror that hides inside your mind” — oh, OK, that clears it up. It matters not, because it’s a good movie, dangerously low IMDb rating be damned. The Gothic ghost story with then-newfangled slasher elements looks great on Blu-ray, which is more than […]
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The Cat o’ Nine Tails
It has nothing to do with a cat, other than being supremely sly and getting out its claws when it needs to. Really more thriller than horror, the Rome-homed “Cat” purrs along like a good, pulpy mystery should. When a late-night break-in at a genetic research firm appears to have resulted in no theft, the […]
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Deep Red
Really, it was like I didn’t see it at all, because watching an Argento work in anything but a crisp-as-chips format is like eating pizza with no cheese or tomato sauce. Now, thanks to Blue Underground, “Deep Red” not only makes its Blu-ray debut, but is presented in both an uncensored English version and Argento’s […]