The Tenth Victim (1965)
Jan 18, 2000Killing as a Future Sport
Satiric film set in a future where contestants hunt and kill one another on a tv show. The first film on the theme of human bloodsports later popularised by The Hunger Games and others
Massimo Serato
The Wild, Wild Planet (1965)
Aug 17, 1999Italian Space Opera
One of the cheap Italian space operas of the 1960s from Antonio Margheriti. This has a certain colourful absurdity amid the mostly dull happenings and B-budget effects
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Mar 27, 2001Precognition
Nicolas Roeg's masterwork. Ostensibly a film about grief and precognition, this is a film that exists as a series of taunting visual clues that constantly map over onto each other with a hidden geometry
Autopsy (1975)
May 3, 2022Italian Thriller
Italian thriller that attained some censorship controversy when it came out. Minsy Farmer is an assistant coroner haunted and obsessed by the corpses she tends
The Killer Nun (1979)
Dec 9, 2021Psychopathic Nun
Notorious Video Nasty, a key work in the Nunsploitation genre with Anita Ekberg as a drug addicted nun who kills her patients. Apparently based on real life