Not unlike Steven Spielberg, during the 1980s Dario Argento lent his ideas, resources, and producing arm to present movies to audiences interested in the genres in which he specialized, and while Lamberto Bava wasn’t a protégé…
If Demons (1985) could be viewed as a zombie riff in which normal citizens are overwhelmed by plague-like demons, transforming all of Europe into an apocalyptic world, than its sequel is part pastiche of other genres, goosed with a bit of Gremlins (1985) humour, and the plot nonsense of a 1990s Amityville TV movie…
Blu-ray review of Ed Hunt’s Bloody Birthday (Severin) + from the archives Adam Rockoff’s doc Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006), and more review updates.
American film school grad Ed Hunt found a career making B-movies when he ventured north of the 49th parallel and found private and government funds to produce an assortment of genre films, and while Hunt may be best remembered for one of the worst CanCon tax shelter films of the era, he nevertheless managed to show he could assemble material into a fluid narrative…
Based on Adam Rockoff’s book, Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006), this feature-length documentary is a fairly entertaining chronicle of a genre that was largely reviled (if not held in contempt) by seventies and eighties critics for the nasty, violent, sometimes misogynistic content…
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