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Here is yet another actress who is really working over her next project. Sonam Kapoor has got into the skin of the character. So much that she is having problems in sleeping. She desperately wants to come out of the problem and sleep peacefully.
She revealed, “Maybe it’s just Jane Austen’s novels. In ‘Ayesha’, my role is based on Jane Austen’s Emma. I’ve been reading her novels ever since... and can’t stop thinking about them. Maybe that’s why I’m losing sleep…”
The Delhi-6 lass is playing the main role in the Hindi adaptation of Jane Austen’s popular novel ‘Emma’, opposite the dimpled hero, Abhay Deol. The movie will be directed by Rajshree Ojha and will be produced by none other than Sonam’s dad and actor, Anil Kapoor.
Sonam, better take it easy, yaar! Else you will turn into Emma Kapoor!

Saif Ali Khan is really excited for his next action movie, ‘Agent Vinod’. No, not because his girlfriend, Karena, is acting with him. And, not because it is his second production venture. But because the subject of the movie is really appealing to him.
It seems the movie reminds him of his boyhood days when he used to enjoy watching classic action movies. He said, “With ‘Agent Vinod’, I got a sense of cinema which I’ve grown up with. To me there is something outstanding about that title, because it is almost ... almost a little tacky today. But, if it’s made in a particular way and is written in a particular way, it could be the coolest thing ever. It has a bit of a retro element. Just to give you an example: take the title ‘Mission: Impossible’. It is tacky. It’s cheesy. But when Brian de Palma directs it and Tom Cruise acts in it, and you see the poster, then you say Mission Impossible is a pulp title. So ‘Agent Vinod’ has also got a pulp element to it.” So does that mean that we can expect the movie to be a Hollywood styled detective flick played by a slick character? Saif revealed, “He’s not camp and no one is drinking vodka martinis or sleeping with lots of girls or wearing a tux. There are some machine guns, fast driving, glass breaking on people’s head, lots of stuff blowing up. And I love that.” The actor further added that the movie will take one back to seventies and it has infused the essence of Vinod Khanna and Mithun Chakraborty which was inculcated in those days.
Hope this movie goes on to become a trend setter, as the actor projects it.He melted people’s hearts in his first movie, ‘Taare Zamin Par’. With the movie, Dyslexia too got enough credits. People were made aware of the disorder faced by the kids that is usually ignored. Now, child actor Darsheel will bring another child problem into limelight.
Titled ‘Padduram’, Darsheel will act as a boy who is troubled with gastric problem and how he feels when he unintentionally farts in public. As the title denotes, the movie is expected to generate lot of laughter and…thinking as well.
Popular comedian Suresh Menon will play Darsheel’s father in the movie while serial actress Juhi Parmar will be the mother. Suresh Menon said, “Child is the protagonist of the film and as parents we are part of his life. We try to help him cope with this ‘paddu’ problem. I am playing a very protective father just like in real life.” On the other hand the actress commented that this movie will convey a message across to the audience that such problems have to be dealt with immense sensitivity especially when it’s concerning a child. She further added, “It’s a feel-good film; you will experience extreme emotions while watching the film. At times you will be rolling around laughing and then, the very next moment you feel your eyes well up with tears.”
Now, this is something which will be really interesting for the kiddies, where the storyline looks quite funny, yet something sensible and serious to consider.

Hundreds of Chinese workers were kept in virtual slavery for years as part of a multimillion-pound pirate DVD industry uncovered in the UK.

It may have been the visit to the swingers' party that did it. Or perhaps it was the scene where Brüno drops in to see a medium and simulates oral and anal sex with a ghost.
Either way, the antics of Sacha Baron Cohen's latest comic antihero – the prancing gay Austrian journalist Brüno – all appear to be too much for Ukraine. According to reports, Ukraine's culture and tourism ministry is set to ban the film Brüno, which was due for release in the post-Soviet country next week.
The ministry has so far not explained its decision. But it appears to have taken the view that several of the scenes – among them a mock gay parade, and one in which Brüno shows off his penis – were likely to offend conservative and religious opinion. Ukraine's Catholic west and orthodox east take a dim view of gay rights, and hold highly traditional social views. And despite efforts by Ukraine's western-leaning political elite to integrate with Europe, there is little sign of a more liberal view taking hold.
"Ukrainian society is a conservative one. The topic is not discussed, but in reality public attitudes are exactly the same as in Russia," one Ukrainian diplomat said last night. "The west of Ukraine, especially, is very conservative on family issues. They are devoted Catholics, and Greek Catholics."
In Russia, and much of eastern Europe, homophobia remains widespread. Last month, Moscow's mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who has denounced gay parades as "satanic", sent in riot police to break up a small demonstration of gay rights activists protesting during the Eurovision song contest.
Baron Cohen's last film – Borat, or Cultural Learnings of America to Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan – was also banned in Ukraine. Other post-Soviet countries, including Russia, similarly outlawed the film, unwilling to offend Kazakhstan's touchy leader, Nursultan Nazarbayev. Needless to say, Kazakhstan banned Borat, too.
Another factor is Ukraine's presidential election: the country's president, Viktor Yushchenko, is staging an uphill struggle for re-election in January. In 2004, he received the support of Ukraine's powerful Catholic church. His officials may calculate that the anti-Brüno factor could just revive his flagging appeal among elderly voters.
Yesterday, however, some sources in Ukraine's cinema industry suggested that the controversy may simply be an elaborate publicity stunt, dreamed up by distributors Sinergia to boost the film ahead of its release.
The Ukrainian website korrespondent.net, however, today reported the ban was genuine.
Since its release last Friday, the 18-certificate Brüno has gone to the top of the US box office, and earned £35m in the UK. Amid reports of queues of teenagers being turned away from cinemas, its makers are now preparing a second, more teen-friendly version, to be released in Britain on 24 July.
Universal Pictures has trimmed the original film by 1 minute and 50 seconds. And it has excised some of the more lurid scenes, including the one with the ghost.It's official: kung-fu pictures can be bad for your health. The latest casualty is the leading Hong Kong actor Tony Leung, who had his arm broken by a martial arts instructor while rehearsing his latest role. Production on the film – a kung-fu biopic by Wong Kar-Wai – may now be delayed.
The Grand Master stars Leung as Ip Man, a venerable teacher best known for training the teenaged Bruce Lee. The film is due to begin shooting in September.
Leung was in training on Monday when the accident occurred. The actor was kicked by his instructor, breaking a bone in his left forearm, a spokesman for the director's production company, Jet Tone Films, told the Associated Press.
Leung has collaborated with Wong Kar-Wai on six previous movies: Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, Ashes of Time, Happy Together, In the Mood for Love and 2046. More recently, he has starred in Ang Lee's controversial Lust, Caution and John Woo's action epic Red Cliff. The Grand Master will be Wong's first feature since his ill-starred American drama My Blueberry Nights, which opened to a raspberry of bad reviews
Hundreds of Chinese workers were kept in virtual slavery for years as part of a multimillion-pound pirate DVD industry uncovered in the UK.
The men and women, many of whom lived 11 to a room, were the labour behind an organised crime syndicate that began on a market stall in Hackney, east London, and grew into a £5m illegal industry.
The syndicate produced thousands of DVDs in houses and a shop in east London before expanding into a large factory in Walthamstow, east London, which investigators said was the first rogue DVD plant in western Europe to be identified. Mass-production factories on this scale are usually found in the far east and Russia, police said.
The family that ran the cartel were convicted last week of conspiracy to launder the proceeds of film piracy and conspiracy to produce pirate DVDs after a £1.5m police surveillance operation.
Detective Constable Evelyn Steeples, who was part of the team involved, said the case revealed the huge profits that could be made from organised crime. She said the manufacture of pirate DVDs, most of which are sold on street corners and in pubs across the UK, was not a victimless crime.
"Over the three years hundreds of Chinese people worked for them. They don't speak English, they live in poor communities, and they are extremely vulnerable," Steeples said. "The year before last there were three murders of DVD sellers. These are the invisible people, they pay around £20,000 to be brought over here, they are in debt bondage, they get abused, they get kidnapped off the street and they live in slave-like conditions."
Brothers Sami and Rafi Asghar Sheikh, 28 and 26, and their father, Khalid, 51, of north Chingford, will be sentenced this month along with Xin Li, 34, from east London, who was convicted of concealing the proceeds of crime.
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Box-office magic … Ian McKellen as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings films, which earned upwards of $6bn in theatrical and DVD sales
Guillermo del Toro's film version of The Hobbit could be killed off in a pending battle between a Hollywood giant and the family of the book's author, JRR Tolkien. The heirs to the Tolkien estate are suing New Line Cinema, the studio behind the Lord of the Rings adaptations, claiming $220m (£133m) in compensation for undistributed profits from the films. For good measure, they are also demanding the option to terminate further film rights to Tolkien's work, citing breach of contract.
"Should the case go all the way to trial, we are confident that New Line will lose its rights to The Hobbit," said Bonnie Eskenazi, the lawyer working for the author's son, Christopher, and the family's charity, the Tolkien Trust. The case – officially billed as Christopher Reuel Tolkien v New Line Cinema Corp – is due to be heard at Los Angeles superior court in October.
JRR Tolkien sold the film rights to the trilogy in 1969 for an upfront fee of £250,000 and a reported 7.5% of future profits. Released between 2001 and 2003, the Lord of the Rings trilogy went on to earn upwards of $6bn in theatrical and DVD sales. However, the Tolkien estate claims it has yet to receive any payment from New Line or its parent company, Time Warner. For their part, lawyers acting for New Line argue that terms of the original contract are "ambiguous".
The studio has grown accustomed to fighting legal battles in the wake of The Lord of the Rings' success. In 2005 director Peter Jackson sued New Line for a share of the profits, eventually settling for an undisclosed sum in 2007. The film-maker Saul Zaentz, previous owner of the rights to Tolkien's work, settled for a reported $168m in 2005.
The Hobbit is currently in pre-production in New Zealand, with a release date set for 2011. Tolkien's tale of an intrepid hobbit who sets off in search of dragon treasure will be divided into two pictures, directed by Del Toro and executive produced by Jackson.The witching hour belonged to the wizards, at least so far as the US box office was concerned. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opened in American cinemas at the ungodly time of 12.01am Wednesday morning. By sunrise it had earned an unprecedented $22.2m (£13.5m) from 3,033 screenings. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Release: 2009 Country: Rest of the world Cert (UK): 12A muntime: 153 mins
Directors: David Yates Cast: Alan Rickman, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Jim Broadbent, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton More on this film
The figure breaks the previous $18m record for midnight screenings, set last year by The Dark Knight. It also eclipses the $12m midnight-run haul for the previous Potter outing, 2007's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Variety claims that the bumper takings may be largely thanks to an older teenaged audience. The children who grew up on the JK Rowling source novels, it suggests, are now old enough to attend late-night film screenings.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince follows the adventures of our trio of adolescent wizards as their lengthy battle with the Dark Lord Voldemort enters the final straight. The last Rowling novel, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be broken into two films which will be released separately in 2010 and 2011.
Emboldened by those midnight figures, industry experts now predict the latest instalment could earn as much as $150m during its five-day opening weekend in the US. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix took $139.7 during the same period and went on to gross $938.2m at the global box office.With his bright eyes, excitable demeanour and enormous appetite for sexual conquests, it looks like the perfect role: Russell Brand, court jester of British comedy and Hollywood ingenue, has been cast as the Easter Bunny.
Brand will provide the voice of the chocolate egg-bearing rabbit in a new family comedy based on a mix of live-action and CGI, titled I Hop. The story centres on a jobless slacker who runs over the Easter Bunny while driving home late, Variety reports. With the creature unable to fulfil his usual duties due to a broken leg, the man is forced into action to help save Easter. As they get to know each other while going about their work, it turns out the new comrades are both running from adulthood.
Tim Hill, who shot similar fare with last year's hugely successful Alvin and the Chipmunks, will direct for Universal and Illumination Entertainment.
Producer Chris Meledandri said: "Russell showed me that he's got a wonderful ability not only to be funny in his own body, but he can create humour vocally, which is the distinction we need for these movies," Meledandri said. "This gives us an opportunity to re-mythologise the holiday around an Easter Bunny character that is as dynamic and irreverent as Russell is."
The script is by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, who worked on another Illumination project, Despicable Me, which is in cinemas on 9 July in the US. Brand is part of a voice cast which includes Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Kristen Wiig and Julie Andrews.
The former TV presenter is currently lining up a number of Hollywood projects, including Judd Apatow's Get Him to the Greek, in which he reprises his role as British rocker Aldous Snow from last year's Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and remakes of Drop Dead Fred, and Oscar-winning comedy Arthur.She's still vacillating between Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver, but now she's replaced calorie-counting with a new obsession: having a baby before it's too late. Yes, Bridget Jones is returning to the multiplexes in a new film from Working Title, with Renee Zellweger set to reprise her role as the chardonnay-quaffing, big-underpants-wearing British singleton.
Variety reports the new movie – the third in the series following 2001's Bridget Jones and 2004 sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason – will be based on writer Helen Fielding's series of columns in the Independent in 2005. The storyline sees Bridget trying to have a baby in her 40s, despite still not being able to decide between handsome but untrustworthy publisher Cleaver, played by Hugh Grant in the films, and steady but boring Darcy, played by Colin Firth.
The film version, which is unlikely to go into production before the end of the year, comes at a troubled time for Working Title, which has just axed six of its 45 staff members due to the economic downturn.
The company's most recent film, Richard Curtis's pirate-radio tale The Boat That Rocked, was a box-office flop, taking just $9.1m (£5.5m) in the UK despite a budget of $50m. It is currently being recut for the US market, where its release date has been pushed back from August to November.
Variety reports that the staff cuts will not affect its core production, development, finance and legal departments, and the company will still make its average of four features a year. Its inhouse development fund, backed by Universal Pictures and said to be the largest in the UK film industry, remains intact.
Meanwhile, after early speculation, Cate Blanchett is now confirmed to play Lady Edwina Mountbatten in a separate Working Title venture, the period tale Indian Summer. Based on the book of the same name by guardian.co.uk columnist Alex von Tunzelmann, the film chronicles the handover of power in the last days of British colonial rule in India in 1947. Printable versionSend to a friend Share Clip contact us larger smaller mailClose Recipient's email address Your first name Your surname Add a note (optional) Your IP address will be logged ShareClose Digg reddit Google Bookmarks Twitterdel.icio.uStumbleUponNewsvinelivejourna Facebook Mixx it!

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A teenager mimicking Brad Pitt's Fight Club character, who plans attacks on corporate America, was arrested for masterminding a pre-dawn blast outside a Starbucks Coffee shop in New York, police said yesterday. Kyle Shaw, 17, was arrested on charges of arson, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal mischief. The explosion near the Guggenheim museum, on the Upper East Side, in May shattered windows but caused no injuries. Police said Shaw was trying to emulate the character Tyler Durden from the 1999 film about a secret club where men beat each other up to try to feel more alive.Comedian Noel Fielding is to take part in an attempt to break the world record for the largest gathering of zombies. The Mighty Boosh star is to play the role of the Zombie King in the film I Spit On Your Rave, it was announced yesterday. Shooting for a key scene will take place at this year's Big Chill festival at Eastnor Castle deer park in Herefordshire. Organisers have appealed to revellers to turn up "zombiefied" to the festival on 6 August so they can be used as extras. A spokesman for the Big Chill has said the biggest official gathering of this kind was by 1,227 people in Nottingham on Halloween last year.
The scene: a shop selling musical instruments. The characters: An electric guitar called Riff; Vanessa, a classical violin; a drum kit called Sticks and keyboards, Keys. The storyline: Riff falls in love with Vanessa, the "violin of his dreams" in a rock version of Romeo and Juliet.
The basic storyboard of Live Music, a five-minute short animated film, is the kind of fare that might comfortably emerge from the big studios such as Pixar or Dreamworks. But in the manner of its creation the film, which it has just been given the green light for a cinema release in November, is highly unusual.
It represents the most ambitious attempt yet to apply the interactive model of Wikipedia, otherwise known as "crowd-sourcing" to the animated film world.
The film has been created by a team of 51 people from around the world who responded to an invitation through the social networking site Facebook.
They have participated in a group experiment that is being billed as the largest global collaboration in animation.
Live Music was the brainchild of Yair Landau, who as a former head of Sony's digital pictures division steered into being such mainstream films as Surf's Up and Monster House. He wanted to see whether innovations pioneered in the gaming world, such as the ability of players to modify their own games, could be applied to the production of films.
He conceived the Romeo and Juliet-as-musical-instruments storyline, worked it up into a storyboard and enlisted the help of Intel and the online animation group Aniboom to develop software that participants could download and use to create their own 3D computer drawings. The movie was split up into 107 shots which individuals could create themselves, working through Landau's page on Facebook which he calls Mass Animation.
More than 50,000 people signed up to the project from 101 countries. They voted for their favourite drawings, whittling the pool of artists down to the successful 51 who each won $500 (£304).
Landau said the resulting short film is "a clearly less professional product than you would get from animators who have been in the industry for years. But it's a start and an indication of what can be done."
He said the participants had enriched the story. For instance, an animator from the UK added her own touch of having two cymbals kiss each other in mockery of the guitar and violin's love.
The film will be rolled out at the Los Angeles shorts film festival next week and the Siggraph's computer animation festival in New Orleans in August. In November it will appear in cinemas as a preview to Sony's animated feature Planet 51.
Landau said that his company is already working on a storyboard for a full-length feature film created similarly through the Wiki model.
But not everybody is enamoured of the idea. Opponents of the collaborative concept have set up their own Facebook page called Anti Mass Animation in which professional animators denounce Landau's innovation as a disguised sweat shop.
The 21 members of this group say Live Music is a "cheapskate" film produced through a "degrading, exploitative, manipulative and downright insulting new method".
To which Landau replies: "There are a lot of people who have entrenched positions and are threatened by all sorts of technology."
The British film industry has bucked the trend during the economic downturn with a year of steady growth in revenue and attendances at the cinema, figures show.
In 2008 – the year of The Dark Knight, Mamma Mia! and Quantum of Solace – British films accounted for 15% of box office takings worldwide, banking $4.2bn (£2.6bn) – up nearly $1bn on the previous year.
Attendances also rose steadily, adding weight to research by the UK Film Council on past recessions that suggested going to the movies was generally unaffected by the economic climate.
The trend is expected to continue this year with the production of major UK/US productions, such as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One. In the first half of 2009, £535m was spent on film production in Britain, compared with £363m over the same period last year.
Nonetheless, only one in 20 purely domestic films made a profit last year, and there were a number of star-studded flops, including Three And Out, starring Mackenzie Crook, which took only £189,454 when it opened in April 2008.
According to David Steele, head of research and statistics at the UK Film Council, said: "The film industry is a hit-dependent industry, and there are very few hits. If you want to score goals you have to make many attempts; and the difference between hits and misses is vast."
US/UK productions have a far higher profit rate of 27%, based on their box-office takings over the first two years of release. "Studio films have much larger budgets; and the hit rate goes up as the budget goes up when you can employ stars and tap into global marketing and distribution," said Steele, who today launched the 2009 UK Film Council Statistical Yearbook..
The British film industry has in recent years been propped up considerably by franchises such as Harry Potter, and by blockbusters such as Mamma Mia!. The latter has become the biggest-selling DVD of all time.
The effect on the British film industry when the Harry Potter films come to an end is uncertain.
"I don't think we can assume that others won't come up with great ideas in the future," said Steele. "The talent base in Britain is so rich and deep."
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Rosalba Neri, Curd Jurgens
In Italian only. Rosalba Neri marries Curt Jurgens for his money while maintaining her young
stud lover on the side. When Jurgens discovers what's going on, he devises an elaborate
scheme to implicate them as his murderer while he actually commits suicide (that seems a little
extreme to me!!). At the same time he traps them in his escape proof mansion so they'll
slowly go crazy. And yes folks, Rosalba gets naked in this one.
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Mimsy Farmer, Bud Spencer, Michael Brandon
Jeez, how long have we been waiting for ths Argento film in its proper ratio? A letterboxed
version, fully scoped and from a film print. This is not the crummy looking, partially letterboxed
version from France with an english soundtrack dubbed on top of it. Mimsy Farmer give's one
of her great performances and it's fun watching Michael Brandon getting tormented at every
turn. Comes with a nice color jacket, the only down side is that the print used is a little on the
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In Italian only. A viscious Giallo starring British actor Francis Matthews as a widower who
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Leon Klimovsky 1975 Paul Naschy, Erika Blanc
Paul Naschy is a (wait for it!) tough cop fighting with his department over the fact that he beats
the shit out of his suspects. Meanwhile, a serial killer is wiping out the degenerates he finds on
the streets of his town. Erika Blanc co-stars as Naschy's wife (she has nude scenes) in this
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Letterboxed print. Umberto Lenzi directed this thriller that stars Carroll Baker and Jean Sorel.
She's the older woman who's married to a younger man and is convinced he's trying to kill her
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aka TERROR IN THE DARK. For years I have had a 85 minute version of this film, here is a
longer version (11 minutes) in english and letterboxed. Sylva Koscina and Marissa Mell are alesbian couple who plot ways to kill male lovers they accumulate for their money. Stephen Boyd enters the picture and Mell's lust for him might screw everything up. Please note a small logo appears in the lower corner as this version has never been released! pacer tex rabella The Black AngeAdd to Shopping Cart elvio Massi 1989 Tini Cansino
)- It personifies the very essence of Eurotrash. Previous English versions of this violent and sexy thriller suffered from optical censoring of all below the waist nudity (and in this film, that's
almost half its running time!) since the source was Japan. Well, I have an Italian pre-record
and everytime there is below the waist nudity, I edited in this version (since there's no dialogue
during these scenes anyway!). So now you have the best of both worlds. Tini Cansino (the
niece of Rita Hayworth) is married to a crippled writer so she goes to sex clubs and screws with
any willing participant. Meanwhile, the scissor killer is mutilating the genitals of both male and
female victims. Is Tini, her husband or someone else close to them the killer? Wait till you see
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In Italian with English subtitles, letterboxed print. It's been awhile since we had a new Giallo
from the seventies appear on video, but this one, by director Filippo Walter Ratti was worth the
wait! A group of family members assemble at a mansion where they soon are stalked by an
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people close to the dysfunctional couple begin to be murdered in brutal ways. Is he hallucinating because of his head injuries or is someone really trying to kill him. Tonnino Ricci directs and Giorgio Gaslini contributes a classic Giallo score.
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1971 Femi Benussi, Femi Benussi stars as one of the heirs of a local drunk but very rich industrialist. When he's hit
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Letterboxed print. For fans of Erika Blanc (who recently died), the beautiful red haired sex iren, here is one of her best thrillers. She is tired of her husband and together with her lover they conspire to kill him. However, things go horribly wrong and it soon becomes a game of
live or dies amongst the three. nice nudity by Blanc and one scene that's a genuine shock. Highly recommended! Spacer textDeath Knocks Twice Add to Shopping Cart Harald Phillip 1972 Fabio testi, Anita Ekberg, Dean Reed
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Letterboxed print. If Alain Robbe-Grillet had gone to Italy to make a horror film, it might look
something like this! The film is the debut feature of future sleazemeister, Joe D'Amato, and boy
is it good. The storyline is very complex and plays with concept of time throughout. Ewa Aulin
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Leonard Mann, Robert Webber Excellent thriller with Leonard Mann and Robert Webber as a woman is killed on a train and all the people who were in the same cabin are now becoming victims themselves. SEX and
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long metal prongs which is used to plop out the eyes of his victims!!VoluptuousMonica Sellars (LABYRINTH OF SEX) stars in this terrific horror thriller! Spacer text Fashion Crimes Add to Shopping Cart Bruno Gaburro 1987
Miles O'Keefe, Anthony Franciosa Driving home from work, Gloria, a beautiful fashion model, ends up at an isolated villa where
her car has broken down. She witnesses a murder and then passes out. Awakening at a
hospital, she tells the police what she saw but upon their investigation, they can find nothing. In fact, the villa has been empty for 10 years. She's not crazy as soon after, someone is determined to try and kill her. Is it her creepy psychiatrist (Miles O'Keefe) or has the past and present mixed and resulted in a bleak future for Gloria. Anthony Franciosa co-stars Spacer text Fashion Crimes Add to Shopping Cart 1982 Miles O'Keefe, Anthony Franciosa, Teresa Leopardi
Italian giallo/thriller starring Miles O'Keefe and Tony Franciosa., TeresaLeopardi, and Marina
Giulia Cavalli. This thriller mixes in a supernatural element to go along with themurders. A young couple witness a murder in an old chateau only to learn that no one has lived there for a long time. Is someone going to a lot of trouble tostage this or did they some how take a brief
trip back in time? Franciosa has a lot of fun as the Columbo-like cop.
Lili Palmer, John Moulder-Brown, Christina Galbo, Maribel Martin
Here's a pristine copy of the uncut (104 minutes) Spanish horror film, THE HOUSE THAT
SCREAMED. Lili Palmer stars as the headmistress at a school for bad girls. Her son (John
Moulder Brown) takes every opportunity to ogle the girls but something serious is going on
behind the scenes. One by one, the students are disappearing. Are they sneaking out or
meeting a more grisly fate?
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Game Of Crime
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Romano Ferrara
1965
John Drew Barrymore, Lisa Gastoni
Excellent Black and White Italian thriller starring John Drew Barrymore and Lisa Gastoni. A
family gathers at their country Villa where the patriarch dies suspiciously. Everyone has a
motive to kill the old fart so who really did it? Romano ferrara directs.
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Giallo A Venezia
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Mario Landi
1979
Leonora Fanni, Maria Angela Giordan, Gianni Dei
In Italian with English subtitles. Just in case you haven't yet seen one of the goriest Gialli everproduced, here's your chance. Beautiful Leonora (KIRA) Fanni stars as a woman married to a sex pervert. He forces her to have group sex with strangers while he watches. Meanwhile, an insane killer is gutting prostitutes and any other woman he considers of loose morals (one of
his victims is Maria Angela Giordan, who had her breast bitten off in BURIAL GROUND). Needless to say, director Mario Landi uses this setup to crank out an all-time Eurotrash classic!
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Aldaberto Albertini
1973
Giorgio Ardisson, Erika Blanc, Alberto De Mendoza
In Spanish with English subtitles. This Giallo has a rather unique setting, KENYA! A woman's
(Erika Blanc) husband is found dead and she enlists her brother in law (Giorgio Ardisson) to
help find the murderer. The husband's business partner (Alberto De Mendoza) is the most likely
suspect so a safari is arranged to trap the killer. It's successful but the results are a surprise.
Stelvio Cipriani contributes the music and it was directed by Aldaberti Albertino
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In The Eye Of A Hurricane
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Jose Maria Forque
1976
Jean Sorel, Tony Kendall, Rosanna Yanni,
has filed for a divorce from Michel (Tony Kendall) and taken up with boyfriend Paul (Jean
Sorel). The two of them head off to an island villa for an extended vacation. Soon after they
arrive, strange accidents start happening to Ruth and Paul reveals a sadistic, cruel streak, new
to Ruth. It turns out Paul and Michel are planning on killing Ruth for the money. What they don't
know is that she overhears their plan and decides to set them up for an even bigger fall. Lots
of twists and turns in this well-plotted thriller. Rosanna Yanni co-stars
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In The Folds Of The Flesh
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Sergio Bergonzelli
1971
Eleonora Drago Rossi, Fernando Sancho
Letterboxed print. If you haven't already, now's your chance to see one of the more outlandish
thrillers from the seventies, full of sex and violence. Eleonora Drago Rossi stars as the Matron
of a really screwed up family. Brother and sister want to do the dirty deed while another
daughter just wants to kill someone. Meanwhile, Mom decapitated her husband years earlier, or
did she as he seems to have returned from the dead! There's even some Nazi exploitation
thrown for good measure. Directed by Sergio (BLOOD DELIRIUM) Bergonzelli
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Internal Darkness Of Monica
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1974
Jean Sorel, Karen Schubert, Barbara Rey, Nadiuska
In Italian only, letterboxed print. Jean Sorel, Karin Schubert, Barbara Rey and Nadiuska star in
this rare and extremely sleazy (nudity is plentiful by all the women in the cast!) Italian Giallo.
Monica (Naduiska) kills an intruder and faints. She doesn't realize the victim was a man who
was going to blackmail her. The crime was staged but by whom? More killings occur that
implicate she's going nuts.
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Killer On The Telephone
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Bruno Mattei
1994
In Italian Only. This 1994 sex-n-horror flick is the newest from Bruno Mattei and Nini Grassia
(LA PURITANA). Women who work at a phone sex company are being attacked and killed by a
psycho wearing a clown mask. Two female cops go undercover in an attempt to trap the killer.
This film features lots of beautiful women and every male asshole in Rome with a ponytail
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Killer With A 1000 Eyes
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1976
Anthony Steffen, Maria Kosti, Britt Nichols
Anthony Steffen,Maria Kosti, and Britt Nichols star in this excellent Spanish made thriller with
Crime film overtones. Steffen plays a cop who has a murder contract put out on him. Someone
in his own department may be the guilty party
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Knife Of Ice
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Umberto Lenzi
1972
Carroll Baker, Alan Scott, Evelyne Stewart
Excellent Giallo by Umberto Lenzi starring Carol Baker, Alan Scot, Evelyn Stewart, and Eduardo
Fajardo. Baker is a mute who is terrorized by a killer with weird eyes. Too bad she can't tell
anyone about it! As all those around her are knifed to death, one wonders if she will survive to
the end credits. Low on sleaze, this is more a Hitchcockian thriller and is a definite change of
pace. Lenzi proves here he is not the hack most associate with his career. Stylish and
recommended.
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Libido
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Ernesto Gastaldi
1966
Giancarlo Giannini, Alan Collins, Dominique Boschero, Mara Maryl
In Italian with English subtitles!. Now that you have read the groundbreaking interview with
Ernesto Gastaldi in the new Video Watchdog, check out his work in this seminal B&W Giallo.
Giancarlo Giannini invites his girlfriend (Dominique Boschero), lawyer and his girlfriend for a
weekend at his country home. Soon after arriving, he starts flashing back to Mom and Dad's
old S&M sessions in their bedroom that he witnessed as a child and is slowly driven mad as all
those around him are being bumped off.
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Liz And Helen
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Riccardo Freda
1969
Klaus Kinski, Margaret Lee
aka DOUBLE FACE-This remarkable Riccardo Freda Giallo was released here in a poor quality,
pan and scan print that was missing several nude sequences. Well not anymore as this is the
French version with the English track laid on top (a few scenes are still in French). Kinski plays
a rich slug whose wife enjoys the company of women more than his (ain't that a kick in the
balls!). She dies in a car crash but Klaus becomes paranoid when he sees her double in a porno
film made after the crash. Is she alive or is someone trying to drive him mad? A classic now
restored.
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Love And Death In The Garden Of The Gods
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Sauro Scavolini
1972
Erika Blanc, Peter Lee Lawrence, Orchidea De Santis
In Italian only, letterboxed print. A sleazy Giallo that involves incest and bloody murders.
Manfredi (Peter Lee Lawrence) and his sister (the luscious Erika Blanc who has nude scenes!)
keep failing in relationships with others as they always return to their own illicit affair. Blanc
tries to commit suicide and is saved by a nurse (Orchidea de Santis) wherein they develop a
lesbian relationship that causes Manfredi to go mad and start a killing spree that is as bloody as
it is senseless. Sauro Scavolini directs.
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Masquerade
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Silvio Bandinelli
1995
Nellie Vickers, Terry Weigel, Joey Silvera
This recent Giallo features lots of nudity, violence and 2 American Porn (Nellie Vickers and
Teresa Weigel) stars trying to act seriously without someone poking them in an orifice. Vickers
plays an LA cop sent to Florence to try and figure out who is killing the local art dealers. She
has a body like a brick shithouse and her local Italian partner (Joey Silvera, another porn star
refugee) decides to investigate it too. Meanwhile more people are being knocked off and
Vickers is the next target. Directed by Silvio Bandinelli
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Murder in A Blue Light
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Al Brescia
1987
Florence Guerin, David Hess
n Italian with English subtitles, letterboxed print some below the waist nudity is digitally
censored. David Hess and Florence Guerin star in this excellent Giallo by Al Brescia. Guerin is a
hooker and Hess a cop. They have to team up together because there is a serial killer who is
mutilating and killing hookers. Stylish with nudity and violence, this one's highly recommended
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Murder To The Tune Of 7 Black Notes
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Lucio Fulci
1977
Jennifer O'Neill, Gianni Garko
This Fulci film was released here in a shortened and poorly panned and scannned version under
the title THE PSYCHIC. This is the letterboxed version from Japan. Often overlooked by Fulci
fanatics, this complex thriller features Jennifer O'Neill as the young bride to a successful
businessman (Gianni Garko). She begins having visions and leads police to a body buried in
her husband's villa. He's hauled off to jail when O'Neill discovers her visions are not what they
appeared to be. Letterboxed trailers for THE NY RIPPER, ZOMBIE 2 and Aldo Lado's SCIROCCO
follow the film
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Mystere
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Carlo Vanzini
1993
Carole Bouquet, Janet Agren, John Steiner, Gabriele Tinti
An assassination takes place and a sleazy photographer just so happens to catch it with his
camera. Carole Bouquet, John Steiner, Gabriele Tinti, and Janet Agren star in this stylish
Giallo/thriller from Italy. Bouquet (who never looked better than here) and Agren are two high
priced call girls who end up getting involved with the killer and before 2 long, Agren is brutally
murdered and Bouquet is on the run from the psychopath. One of the best scores ever was
composed by Armando Trovaioli for this film; it could give John Barry's BODY HEAT a run for its
money
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Naked Girl Found Dead Near Park
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Al Brescia
1972
Robert Hoffmann, Irina Demick, Pilar Velasquez
Robert Hoffman stars as an undercover insurance agent sent to investigate a rich man's death.
He cozies up to the man's daughter (Irina Demik), follows her home and discovers she has a
weird family (Pilar Velasquez plays her nympho sister) all of whom were capable of knocking
the old man off. One of director Al Brescia's best film.
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Nothing Underneath
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Carlo Vanzini
1985
Donald Pleasance
If you haven't seen this Italian thriller than now's the time. Donald Pleasence stars in this Giallo
centered around a modelling agency (plenty of excuses to show nudity) whose top models are
being killed by a black gloved killer. The brother of one of the victims arrives in Milan to find
out who the killer is. Many more women die before he stumbles across the bizarre motive
behind the slashings.
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