Although regarded as the second part in Massimo Dallamano’s schoolgirl-in-peril trilogy, this entry moves farther from the giallo roots in What Have You Done to Solange? (1972), emphasizing elements of the poliziotteschi genre in which corruption runs deep, victims and their families rarely achieve any justice, and the serial killer’s motivation…
Planned as the third installment of writer-director Massimo Dallamano’s schoolgirls-in-peril trilogy, things were put on pause when the director died in a car accident, but two years later a shooting script by committee (seven writers, including a German scribe) was put in production with TV director Alberto Negrin at the helm…
Review of Nathan Silver’s Stinking Heaven (2015), recently screened via MDFF at the Royal Cinema, plus some thoughts on the filmmakers’ use of a vintage ENG tube camera.
Stinking Heaven’s premise involves a suburban commune in 1990 New Jersey that’s upset by the arrival of a newcomer and the gradual disintegration of the order that’s kept the group together, but that’s really a flexible premise, because as it becomes rapidly clear, there’s much pre-existing discontent…
From the Terrace, The ultra-slick 1960 adaptable of John O’Hara’s melodrama comes to Blu via Twilight Time, plus some sniping about all those expanded TV versions that deserve to be on Blu once and for all.
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