I love Lenzi's gialli offerings, or at least the one's I have experiences! I still need to see KNIFE OF ICE and A QUIET PLACE TO KILL. SPASMO and EYEBALL are some of my more favorite gialli viewings. Two very stylish yet, odd in nature but still very effective in the payoff!
It's been a long time since I first seen his SO SWEET... SO PERVERSE (1969), was that not just recently issued on DVD again??
I absolutely loved Freda's brilliant I VAMPRI! Now, what was the deal with Bava being uncredited for with this again? I know he had something to do with the overall direction, but what's the full story on that again?
Any opinions about this more recent giallo? I've heard some bad things but when I found it dirt cheap on eBay, I couldn't resist the temptation of picking it up. Figured I need to give some of the more recent horrer/thriller stuff a chance too. Still waiting for it to arrive and I'm not quite sure what to expect of it but at least it has a pretty good cast that includes famous transsexual Eva Robins from TENEBRAE (1982) and the good-looking Elisabetta Rocchietti, who has been cropping up in a lot of horror stuff like THE THREE FACES OF TERROR (2004), DO YOU LIKE HITCHCOCK? (2005) and THE LAST HOUSE IN THE WOODS (2006). Not to mention supporting roles by Florinda Bolkan and Franco Nero! Anyone here seen it?
Interesting looking film out of Italy with Irish/Spanish co-financiers. Directed by Italian SFX man Stefano Bessoni.
In the 1600s, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Girolamo Fumagalli was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing the victim's eyeballs, it was possible to reproduce on paper the last image imprinted on that person's retinas. He named this technique 'thanatography'. Today, the same kind of gruesome ritual and abominable crime recurs within the walls of an international school of cinema. -imdb.com
Also stars the daughter of Charlie Chapman, Geraldine Chaplin as well as her daughter Oona.
Well, it seems this is yet another Argento flick that is taking a beating in the review department. Even die hard fans are not too pleased with this outing. Anyhow, the PAL R2 DVD is now out via a Polish company that found it important to force the Polish subs!
Looks like this will be getting a UK release first via Arrow Films! I still haven't seen this, it was on my radar during last year's Midnight Madness during the Toronto Film Fest. The disc will be released March 15th..
I'd love to grab this, but for now I'm holding off on the Blu-Ray player for now, too unstable industry right now. Plus, the multi-region player are way too expensive!
(1969/Italy)Review By-Paul Cooke/Director: Anthony Ascott aka Giuliano Carnimeo/Starring: Gianni Garko, Frank Wolff, Gordon Mitchell, Sal Borgese,Ettore Manni & Klaus Kinski/Source : Franco Cleef Reconstruction DVD-r / Wide Screen 2:35:1 /Digital Soun
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(1969/Italy) Review By-Paul Cooke Director: Anthony Ascott aka Giuliano Carnimeo Starring: Gianni Garko, Frank Wolff, Gordon Mitchell, Sal Borgese,Ettore Manni & Klaus Kinski Source : Franco Cleef Reconstruction DVD-r / Wide Screen 2:35:1 / Digital Sound / English Dubbed Soundtrack
‘‘If I didn’t know that you were Sartana I’d swear that Sartana was on your trail !’’
The scourge of the West are no match for the best, and Sartana is the best !. The bounty hunter returns in the second of three official sequels, starring Gianni Garko, to the original 1968 classic ‘If You Meet Sartana Pray For Your Death’. Giuliano Carnimeo, under the pseudonym Anthony Ascott, takes over the Directors chair from Gianfranco Parolini and actually pairs up with star Garko for the rest of the series. Carnimeo also Directs the fourth episode in the official Sartana series of five movies, which as a one off features George Hilton as the titular hero in, ‘I Am Sartana Trade Your Guns For A Coffin’. Both Director and star are in harmonious accord with ‘I Am Sartana Your Angel Of Death’, which arguably is actually the best entry in the highly enjoyable series.
Billed here as John Garko, Gianni Garko is the black garbed bounty hunter Sartana. This time, however, he is the one with a price on his head !. Following an amazingly well played out opening sequence, that shows a well organised gang successfully holding up the North Western Bank, a Sartana doppelganger fools everyone into believing that the revered real Sartana has gone bad. Escaping with hundreds of thousands of dollars the bogus Sartana and his cohorts disappear, leaving Sartana a wanted man who soon has a $10 thousand bounty Alive or Dead !.
Sartana has to piece together who is responsible whilst eluding the law, bounty hunters and regular town folk punters looking to get rich quick, and become infamous for bettering the unbeatable Sartana. There is a gun pointed and waiting around every corner for Sartana, but so also are leads to him clearing his name. The gun play comes thick and fast and at one point Sartana has to run the town gauntlet, dodging bullets and shooting those that shoot at him whilst riding in the back of a speeding horse pulled covered wagon. Sartana’s skill with a gun is matched by his ability to improvise, and deploying a spoke wagon wheel with a deftly placed stick of dynamite gains the advantage of surprise against the hordes pursuing him. Dynamite and deftly dealt throwing knives are all part of his arsenal as he kills all who threaten him. Sartana pulls more tricks than David Copperfield in a old west whore house !.
The fast moving pace of this well plotted script is further injected by the guest starring appearance of Klaus Kinski. He plays the wonderfully named Hot Dead, a fellow skilled gunslinger who is also a compulsive gambler, who takes pleasure in losing. The more he gambles the more he takes up a bounty to equate, a synergy of obsessive compulsive disorder that fuels his very purpose of existing. He has a code of honour though and takes offence at losing to anyone that cheats to beat him, imploring those that do that they need not as they will doubtlessly win regardless. Clearly Hot Dead and Sartana’s paths have crossed before along the trails, but Hot Dead is purposefully drawn to seek out Sartana now that he has something that he needs, a bounty on his head !.Kinski turns in yet another consummate performance to revel in and his repertoire with Garko is a highlight of the movie. His character is neither completely evil nor particularly saintly but his sardonic disposition is heartfelt, and non more so than when he resign-fully bemuses ‘‘You only won because I’m persecuted by misfortune !’’.
It is befitting that the final showdowns and unveiling of the truth play out in the town of Poker Falls. When the bad guys chips are down Sartana spins the roulette wheel of consequence, and all those falling into the guilty slots are taken out of the game as the true man in black prepares to throw the winning dice.
This is pure Spaghetti Western Brilliance. They don’t make ‘em like this anymore sadly, so do yourselves a big favour and grab some Sartana goodness, or end up being a Dead Head if you don’t !.
I AM SARTANA, YOUR ANGEL OF DEATH
The scourge of the West are no match for the best, and Sartana is the best !. The bounty hunter returns in the second of three official sequels, starring Gianni Garko, to the original 1968 classic ‘If You Meet Sartana Pray For Your Death’. Giuliano Carnimeo, under the pseudonym Anthony Ascott, takes over the Directors chair from Gianfranco Parolini and actually pairs up with star Garko for the rest of the series. Carnimeo also Directs the fourth episode in the official Sartana series of five movies, which as a one off features George Hilton as the titular hero in, ‘I Am Sartana Trade Your Guns For A Coffin’. Both Director and star are in harmonious accord with ‘I Am Sartana Your Angel Of Death’, which arguably is actually the best entry in the highly enjoyable series.
There is a gun pointed and waiting around every corner for Sartana, but so also are leads to him clearing his name. The gun play comes thick and fast and at one point Sartana has to run the town gauntlet, dodging bullets and shooting those that shoot at him whilst riding in the back of a speeding horse pulled covered wagon. Sartana’s skill with a gun is matched by his ability to improvise, and deploying a spoke wagon wheel with a deftly placed stick of dynamite gains the advantage of surprise against the hordes pursuing him. Dynamite and deftly dealt throwing knives are all part of his arsenal as he kills all who threaten him. Sartana pulls more tricks than David Copperfield in a old west whore house !.
bemuses ‘‘You only won because I’m persecuted by misfortune !’’.
