BR: Deep Blood / Sangue negli abissi (1990)
The lineage linking three specific Jaws rip-offs from Italy goes beyond merely riffing Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film about a beach community threatened by a great white shark…
Tag: Bruno Mattei
Sharksploitation: Oh, the Cruel Jaws of Death
Reviews of Severin’s neon-bright Blu-ray edition of Bruno Mattei’s ridiculous CRUEL JAWS / JAWS 5 (1995) + William Grefé’s peculiar & underrated MAKO: THE JAWS OF DEATH (1976) on Retro Media DVD.
BR: Cruel Jaws / Jaws 5 (1995)
After producing and directing a slew of sexploitation, exploitation, and assorted rip-off films since 1970, by 1995 one can argue Bruno Mattei’s reign as Italy’s Ed Wood, Jr. was coming to a close…
The Magic of Robowar (1988)
Review of Bruno Mattei’s PREDATOR-ROBOCOP-ALIENS rip-off ROBOWAR (1988), starring Reb Brown, new on Severin Blu.
BR: Robowar / Robot da Guerra (1988)
Alongside Strike Commando (1987) and Shocking Dark (1989), Robowar is an important entry in Bruno Mattei’s tropical rip-off series in which the plot, scenes, dialogue, and characters of an American hit film(s) are slightly reworked, as done by the husband & wife team of Rossella Drudi and Claudio Fragasso…
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