The House by the Cemetery 1981  R, 78 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror / Mystery
aka: Zombie Hell House
Director: Lucio Fulci
Cast: Catriona MacColl, Paolo Malco, Ania Pieroni, Giovanni Frezza, Silvia Collatina, Dagmar Lassander, Giovanni De Nava, Daniela Doria, Gianpaolo Saccarola, Carlo De Mejo, Kenneth A. Olsen, Elmer Johnsson, Ranieri Ferrara, Teresa Rossi Passante
OK, we're talking cult classic here. The Boyle family (Catriona Macoll, Paolo Malco, and Giovanni Frezza) moves into a house near Boston and finds out quickly that there is an old man (Giovanni De Nava) in the basement who has kept himself alive for over 100 years–but he needs body parts to stay alive. A supreme helping of gore, as body parts fly.
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Manhattan Baby 1982  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
aka: Eye of the Evil Dead
Director: Lucio Fulci
Cast: Christopher Connelly, Martha Taylor, Birgitta Boccoli, Giovanni Frezza, Cinzia De Ponti, Lucio Fulci, Cosimo Cinieri, Laura Lenzi, Andrea Bosic, Carlo De Mejo
Professor Hacker (Christopher Connelly) and his family head to Egypt where he finds a blue stone in a pyramid and becomes blind. Meanwhile, his daughter Susie (Birgitta Boccoli) is in town where an old woman gives her an amulet that has great powers. Things get ugly when they get back to NYC. Speaking of ugly... Not as high on the gore scale as most of Fulci's other films.
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Stateline Motel 1975  R, 86 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Last Chance for a Born Loser
Last Chance
Director: Maurizio Lucidi
Cast: Eli Wallach, Ursula Andress, Fabio Testi, Massimo Girotti, Barbara Bach, Renato Rossini, Carlo De Mejo, Howard Ross, Celine Lomez, Susanna Onofri, Luigi Antonio Guerra
Joe (Eli Wallach) and Floyd (Fabio Testi) team up and steal $1,000,000 in diamonds. After the heist, they split up and arrange a meeting near the Canadian border. On his way to the meeting, Floyd, who has the diamonds in his possession, experiences car trouble and ends up in a motel run by Fred Norton (Massimo Girotti). It doesn't take long for Floyd to fall for Fred's wife, Michelle (Ursula Andress), and ends up in bed with her. But, now the diamonds are missing and matters take even more of a turn for the worse when Joe, suspecting a double-cross, arrives on the scene.
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Teorema 1968  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Theorem
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti, Anne Wiazemsky, Laura Betti, Andres Jose Cruz Soublette, Ninetto Davoli, Alfonso Gatto, Carlo De Mejo, Luigi Barbini, Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia, Susanna Pasolini
This highly symbolic film tries to combine Marxism and Christ into one philosophical sphere. A stranger visits a wealthy Italian family and makes love with every man and woman at the estate. He then leaves, and the family is faced with voids. Who was the stranger? Was he Christ, or was he the Devil?
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| 1. Contamination (1980)
aka: Alien Contamination
2. The Gates of Hell (1980)
aka: City of the Living Dead
3. The House by the Cemetery (1981)
aka: Zombie Hell House
4. Manhattan Baby (1982)
aka: Eye of the Evil Dead
5. Stateline Motel (1975)
aka: Last Chance for a Born Loser
aka: Last Chance
6. Teorema (1968)
aka: Theorem
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