LURID SCREAMS of DEATH: The Giallo Goblin Blog

Paul Kenner’s lugubrious, contemplative and vastly entertaining exploration of terror and the murderous quixotic nature of man within the American badlands.

Solid Fernando Di Leo outing with cult French actor Maurice Ronet.

Terse action with an equally terse Jason Miller being pursued by one mean mother of a dog!

Vintage spookshow with a sterling score by Dave Grusin and tip top performances by Vera Miles and Barbara Eden.

Classy melodrama with a fine performance from the strikingly beautiful Simmons and an especially cruel and manipulative turn by David Farrar.

Obscure chiller from W. Lee Wilder starring a youthful Ingrid Pitt. Something wicked lurks in the murky Filipino waters which means Ingrid some considerable ill.

Quality and atmospheric occult thriller from French director Julien Duvivier.

Offbeat and somewhat bizarre occult thriller with a young Jorge Rivero and euro cult regular Anthony Steffen. Rivero’s carefree playboy character finds himself the unwilling pawn in a dastardly occult plot of murder and mind control and only our stoic copper Anthony Steffen has the investigative chops to unearth the sordid truth! Good stiff with yet another useful Cipriani score.

An obscure heft of Italian last House sleaze from unknown director Raimondo Del Bazo. (Score is by the legendary Stelvio Cipriani)

Lamberto Bava pays homage to his father’s immortal classic in Demons 5 which turns out to be a serviceable horror offering from the not unskilled Bava Jnr. (The soundtrack is by the reliable Simon Boswell who scored many of his lesser-known 80’s genre offerings)