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The triumvirate formed by Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso, and Rossella Drudi has been getting a lot of love from Severin over the past couple of years, and the release of\u00a0Robowar<\/strong><\/a> (1988) may be the trio’s most enjoyable nonsense – a blatant rip-off of\u00a0Predator\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Robocop<\/strong> with a dollop of\u00a0Aliens<\/strong> that kind of works.<\/p>\n Its low-budget silliness featuring ludicrous dialogue and exploding huts, houses, shacks, and humans, but there’s a special fromage factor that’s far more aromatic that the trio’s other works, which number an astonishing 21 films over 10 years, many shot two at a time. Sheer madness, but no doubt a rich mine of platinum anecdotes which Fragasso & Drudi could pen into an outrageous and maybe envious autobiography of their long & prolific career in exploitation & sexploitation.<\/p>\n I spent a fair bit of time dissecting & contextualizing\u00a0Robowar<\/strong> and its implications on home video – namely showcasing a wild era in Italian film – as well as Severin’s more than fair attempt to present the husband & wife team as more than filmmakers of schlock. It’s still an uphill quest, but maybe interpolated with further Blu-rays of the duo’s horror & sci-fi efforts, Severin might release the odd \u00a0crime drama or TV production to show another side of the creators of, ahem,\u00a0Troll 2<\/strong> (1990). I’m especially keen on seeing Appuntamento a Trieste<\/strong> (1989),\u00a0a TV mini-series starring Tony Musante (Bird with the Crystal Plumage<\/strong>, The Incident<\/strong><\/a>), Ivan Rassimov (All the Colors of the Dark<\/strong>),<\/strong> Edmund Purdom (The Egyptian<\/strong><\/a>), Christiana Borghi (Nazi Love Camp 27<\/strong>), and directed by Mattei with co-writers Fragasso & Drudi.<\/p>\n Coming next:<\/em>\u00a0two tales of international meddling, disruption, and diplomatic bungling, with Gregory Peck in the zippy\u00a0The Chairman<\/strong> (1969) from Twilight Time, and Marlon Brando in\u00a0The Ugly American<\/strong> (1963) from KINO.<\/p>\n Thanks for reading,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor Review of Bruno Mattei’s PREDATOR-ROBOCOP-ALIENS rip-off ROBOWAR (1988), starring Reb Brown, new on Severin Blu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[5723,5724,1434,2562,2563,6281,6278,5725],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Robowar_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-560","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19598,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19592\/revisions\/19598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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