10 films that trace the evolution of the cinematic zombie first published by BFI in October 2022 Includes capsules of: White Zombie, I Walked With A Zombie, Night of the Living Dead, Nightmare City, The Return of the Living Dead, Braindead, Fido, Colin, Pontypool, One Cut of the Dead Zombies are often unhurried in pace,…
Free Hand For A Tough Cop (Il trucido e lo sbirro) first published by Little White Lies, as entry 142 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column Umberto Lenzi (d.2017) was a man of all genres, chasing whatever area of exploitation cinema happened to be popular at the time in Italy. He is probably most famous (and…
Cannibal Ferox first published by Little White Lies, as the 63rd entry in my Cinema Psychotronicum column Once upon a time, in the Seventies and Eighties, there was a boom in cannibal films. These were mostly cheap Italian productions, although they sometimes boasted international casts, and were often shot in Asia or South America. Born…