Italian Horror: How CatBusRuss Entered the World of Horror
CatBusRuss was raised in a family that followed the MPAA’s rating system. Thankfully, the letter ratings were enough for his parents, so he could at least watch “Flash Gordon” or “Pretty in Pink” regardless of the innuendo. His folks were less puritanical in that sense when compared to his little sister who is a career teacher. It hurts him that his nephew and niece do not know how to respond to me shouting “Flash” at them. Trust the PG.
Still, parents actually following censorship guidelines resulted in Russ not understanding the love for slasher villains presented by his classmates. It came to the point where he kind of just wrote it off as junk cinema. If it is scary, why are kids into it?
And then Russ saw a documentary about Italian horror deity Dario Argento. Gore as a means of beauty. Italian minds just created a horror fan. You cannot go wrong with pizza. For the most part, giallo and George A. Romero knock offs hit the spot.
Horror Pictures (Sinful Cinema)
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Demons 2 (1986)
Everyone in a Berlin apartment complex seems to be entranced by a movie being broadcast about teens exploring a demon-infested wasteland. Little do they know, the watching are watching them as well. And then “The Ring” and “Videodrome” influences appear.
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Dark Glasses (2022)
Dario Argento’s first film since “Dracula 3D”. Does this tale about a recently blinded woman and immigrant orphan evading a serial killer demonstrate that the master still has it?
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"The New York Ripper" (1982) & "Out of the Dark" (2014)
A brutal Lucio Fulci classic and Julia Stiles in a dull, environmental-themed ghost story.
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Torso (1973)
A serial killer has started murdering women at an Italian university. Surely, the safest thing is to run off to the countryside where the killer would not follow. Obviously, our cavalcade of lasses do not understand how stalkers operate.