And Comes the Dawn...But Colored Red 1970  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
aka: Web of the Spider
Dracula in the Castle of Blood
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Cast: Anthony Franciosa, Klaus Kinski, Michele Mercier, Enrico Osterman, Irina Maleeva, Karin Field, Paolo Gozlino, Peter Carsten, Silvano Tranquilli, Raf Baldassarre, Marco Bonetti, Vittorio Fanfoni
Director Margheriti remakes his 1964 film "Castle of Blood" with a new cast. Alan Foster (Anthony Franciosa) accepts a bet from Edgar Allan Poe (Klaus Kinski) and Lord Blackwood (Enrico Osterman) to spend a night in Blackwood's haunted mansion. When the dead return, Alan tries to escape.
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Battle of the Worlds 1961 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Foreign / Sci-Fi
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Cast: Claude Rains, Bill Carter, Umberto Orsini, Maya Brent, Jacqueline Derval, Carlo D'Angelo, Carol Danell, Renzo Palmer, Giuliano Gemma, Joe Pollini
A planet-like object is hurtling toward Earth, and scientists try to figure out how to stop it from colliding with our planet. But wait! Flying Saucers have been launched from the object and engage Earth's forces. It turns out that the object came from a dead planet where a master computer now rules. How can we possibly win?
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Cannibal Apocalypse 1980  R, 91 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Invasion of the Flesh Hunters
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Cast: John Saxon, Elizabeth Turner, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Cinzia De Carolis, Tony King, Wallace Wilkinson, Ramiro Oliveros, John Geroson, May Heatherly, Ronnie Sanders
Green Beret Captain Norman Hopper (John Saxon) rescues two of his men who are POWs in Vietnam and finds them eating human flesh. Years later, Charlie (Giovanni Lombardo Radice), one of the POWs, breaks out of the mental hospital and causes a commotion when he bites a woman. It turns out that he had contracted a virus in Vietnam, and now his cannibalism is spreading throughout the community. Norman, who was bitten when he made the rescue, is also in trouble. Typical of Italian filmmaker Antonio Margheriti's work.
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Castle of Blood 1964  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
aka: Castle of Terror
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Cast: Georges Riviere, Barbara Steele, Henry Kruger, Margarete Robsahm, Silvia Sorrente, Silvano Tranquilli, Umberto Raho, Phil Karson, John Peters, Ben Steffen
Tourist Alan Foster (Georges Riviere) stops at an inn and meets Lord Blackwood and Edgar Allan Poe. The two bet Alan that he cannot spend one night in a haunted mansion where several deaths have occurred. Alan takes the bet. The castle is indeed haunted by those who died there, and they relive their deaths to Alan. Will he get away? I doubt it. Eerie and effective. Remade by the director in 1970 as "Web of the Spider."
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Codename: Wildgeese 1984 PG-13, 101 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Lee Van Cleef, Klaus Kinski, Lewis Collins, Mimsy Farmer, Thomas Danneberg, Manfred Lehmann, Frank Glaubrecht, Luciano Pigozzi, Hartmut Neugebauer
The opium trade is flourishing in Asia, and mercenaries work for the Drug Enforcement Administration to destroy the opium.
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Flesh for Frankenstein 1974 R, 95 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Drama / Sci-Fi
aka: Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Director: Paul Morrissey, Antonio Margheriti
Cast: Joe Dallesandro, Monique Van Vooren, Udo Kier, Srdjan Zelenovic, Dalila di Lazzaro, Arno Juerging, Nicoletta Elmi, Marco Liofredi, Liu Bosisio, Fiorella Masselli, Cristina Gaioni, Rosita Torosh, Imelde Marani, Carla Mancini, Miomir Aleksic
This version of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" comes complete with sex and violence as the mad Dr. Frankenstein (Udo Kier) works to create new life forms. While stableboy Nicholas (Joe Dallesandro) entertains Frankenstein's wife Katrin (Monique Van Vooren) with sexual favors, Frankenstein is assisted by Otto (Arno Juerging) and creates a male and a female zombie in an effort to begin a new race of zombies.
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The Horror Castle 1963 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: The Virgin of Nuremberg
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Cast: Rossana Podesta, Georges Riviere, Christopher Lee, Jim Nolan, Anny Degli Uberti, Luigi Severini, Luciana Milone, Lucile Saint-Simon, Patrick Walton, Consalvo Dell'Arti, Peter Hardy, Rex Vidor
American Mary Hunter (Rossana Podesta) and her new husband, Max (Georges Riviere), move into his family's old castle. After Max departs on business, Mary hears cries from a woman and, after investigating, comes upon a torture chamber–now a museum. And in a statue-like coffin called "The Virgin of Nuremberg," she finds a recently dead, bloody woman. Thus begins a series of murders that she believes are the responsibility of Max or the scarred caretaker, Erich (Christopher Lee). Pure Gothic horror. Dubbed in English.
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Operation Snafu 1970 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: Situation Normal, All Fouled Up
Director: Nanni Loy
Cast: Peter Falk, Martin Landau, Nino Manfredi, Jason Robards, Scott Hylands, Slim Pickens, Frank Latimore, Antonio Margheriti, Milena Vukotic, Corrado Sonni
Peter Falk leads an inept group of men on a special World War II mission.
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The Squeeze 1978 R, 100 min.
Genre: Action
aka: Diamond Thieves
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Cast: Lee Van Cleef, Karen Black, Edward Albert, Lionel Stander, Robert Alda, Angelo Infanti, Antonella Murgia, Peter Carsten, Dan van Husen, Dyane Silverstein, Ron Van Clief, Roy Brocksmith
Chris (Lee Van Cleef) is talked into coming out of retirement for one more heist using his talent to help a German group pull off a million dollar theft. But he gets wind of the fact that his associates intend to kill him after completion of the job, so he beats them to the punch, killing them. However, Chris is wounded in the process. Luckily, he has a perfect nursemaid–Clarisse (Karen Black) to help him recover. One of Lee Van Cleef's weaker films.
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Take a Hard Ride 1975 PG, 109 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Cast: Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson, Catherine Spaak, Jim Kelly, Dana Andrews, Barry Sullivan, Harry Carey Jr., Robert Donner, Charles McGregor
While transporting a large bankroll from Texas to Mexico, Pike (Jim Brown) encounters the unscrupulous bandit, Kiefer (Lee Van Cleef), and the rest of the story is predictable.
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| 1. And Comes the Dawn...But Colored Red (1970)
aka: Web of the Spider
aka: Dracula in the Castle of Blood
2. Battle of the Worlds (1961)
3. Cannibal Apocalypse (1980)
aka: Invasion of the Flesh Hunters
4. Castle of Blood (1964)
aka: Castle of Terror
5. Codename: Wildgeese (1984)
6. Flesh for Frankenstein (1974)
aka: Andy Warhol's Frankenstein
aka: Frankenstein
7. The Horror Castle (1963)
aka: The Virgin of Nuremberg
8. Operation Snafu (1970)
aka: Situation Normal, All Fouled Up
9. The Squeeze (1978)
aka: Diamond Thieves
10. Take a Hard Ride (1975)
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