| Of all the films Dario Argento has directed, none is as elusive as his third and final fauna-titled FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET. The reasons for this are unclear as Argento was a hot property at the time he shot the film in the summer of 1971. Released theatrically by... | | As a twenty-three-year devotee of Dario Argento, I have only seen a small fraction of the films directed by Lucio Fulci. I first became aware of his work on June 6, 1982 when I saw the trailer for THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY before a theatrical double dose of POLTERGEIST.... | | George A. Romero recently celebrated his 4th decade in the film business. Originally attempting to make an Ingmar Berman-inspired coming-of-age film in the Middle Ages (SUMMER WITH MONIKA meets THE SEVENTH SEAL?), funding was (fortunately) not forthcoming due to investor insouciance and he ended up making the watershed NIGHT OF... | | HATCHET, which made its long-awaited debut on December 18 in the de rigueur “unrated” form on DVD, is a valentine for horror fans who grew up on the shenanigans of Leatherface, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and Fred Kruger. Adam Green, a self-professed horror fanatic since he... | | Although it was released on DVD on June 26th, 2007, winter is the best time of the year to watch Bryan Norton’s terrific short film PENNY DREADFUL which has snagged many awards from Shriekfest, the First Run Festival, New York VisionFest, the Phoenix International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival, and... | |
Can it really be 14 years since Michele Soavi’s DELLAMORTE, DELLAMORE (known Stateside as CEMETERY MAN) was released?! I remember seeing it in New York at a really nice theater on West 57th Street which was first called the Lincoln Art Theater, the Biograph, and last of all the Angelika 57 among others and is now a (ugh) supermarket. Soavi is no stranger to horror. He began his career as an actor in bit parts in Italian films by Umberto Lenzi, Lucio Fulci, and Dario Argento while also working behind the scenes as an assistant director, personal assistant and screenwriter. His directorial debut came in 1986 in the form of DELIRIA (better known as STAGE FRIGHT), one of the best Italian horror films ever made. He followed it up with the atmospheric THE CHURCH and the silly THE SECT before making what is widely considered to be his best film, DELLAMORTE, DELLAMORE, based upon Tiziano Sclavi’s “Dylan Dog” comic. Since then, Soavi has worked almost exclusively in Italian television. Those of you who follow the genre diligently have all wondered the same thing I have – will Michele Soavi ever return to making horror films? Fangoria has reported that this appears to be the case as Soavi is due to be in London and Romania this summer shooting a new film called CATACOMBS CLUB. 
